Life isn't that hard for a professional footballer, but some make it harder than it should be.

Denmark international, Nicklas Bendtner, has just been effectively sacked by Wolfsburg after a series of ridiculous misdemeanours that truly could have been avoided.

His contract was terminated 15 months early after the striker was asked to train alone for the two weeks prior to his departure from the Bundesliga club.

Bendtner never really shone at Wolfsburg, with the 28-year-old Dane scoring just nine goals in 47 league appearances since he moved on a free transfer in the summer of 2014. The striker was involved in a number of controversies while with the Bundesliga side, including being fined for posting a picture showing him getting into a Mercedes car, the manufacturing rival of Volkswagen - Wolfsburg's owners - on Instagram, and also for arriving 50 minutes late for a training session.

He also has not played for his country since November of last year.

It was the same case in Bendtner’s final years at Arsenal, where Arsene Wenger grew increasingly exasperated by the talented youngster’s tendency to become embroiled in controversy.

Bendtner, surprisingly, is something of a cult hero at Arsenal though. He promised much in the early stages of his career, scoring 41 goals during his time in England, which included loan spells at Birmingham and Sunderland.

He also attracted unwanted attention off the field, most notably being pictured leaving a nightclub with his trousers undone in 2009 and being fined £100,000 by Arsenal for drunkenly threatening a Copenhagen taxi driver in 2012.

Bizarrely, Arsenal fans immediately went to social media and started suggesting that Wenger should bring Bendtner back in place of the much maligned Olivier Giroud. Gosh, Giroud must be bad! Although they are only joking... surely?

Despite his abundant opportunities, it's always been to getting into trouble at which he excels. He doesn't seem to want to make the most of what could be a seriously good career -  he'll waste it away and look back with regret in years to come. Or maybe not.

Seeing talent just frittered away makes you wonder just how much all of this means to the player. With his troubled past in the spotlight, it will be tough for the Dane to find yet another club willing to take him on. Undoubtedly, someone, somewhere will take a chance, but ultimately, that club will come to the same conclusions drawn by Wolfsburg.

Bendtner obviously never learns his lessons, and so at this award driven time of the year, the Dane takes the prize as the world's most stupid footballer.

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