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Steve Bruce is ready to make a fresh swoop for Nicklas Bendtner - if he can ditch Hull City flop Nick Proschwitz.

Tigers boss Bruce planned a £3million move for misfit Arsenal striker Bendtner earlier this month, but was priced out of a deal because of his £50,000-a-week pay packet.

But now he will fight Premier League rivals West Brom and Crystal Palace for the Gunners' 25-year-old outcast - once he gets Proschwitz off the wage bill.

Bendtner, who Bruce has previously signed on loan for Birmingham and Sunderland, would still have to accept a pay-cut to clinch a switch to East Yorkshire.

But the Dane is prepared to do that in a World Cup year, after being warned his international future hinges on him playing regular first-team football.

Bendtner, who last kicked a ball in anger for Arsenal in August 2011 and had an ineffective loan spell with Juventus last season, would jump at the chance to work with Bruce again.

But the move depends on finding a taker for Proschwitz, who has failed to make an impact since sealing a £2.6million switch to the Tigers from German second tier outfit Paderborn 13 months ago.

He has scored only five goals in 32 outings, and Bruce has run out of patience following another poor performance by the 26-year-old in his side's Capital One Cup win at Leyton Orient on Tuesday.

Bruce, who still wants another goalscorer on board despite boosting his attacking options this summer with the capture of £1.6million Yannick Sagbo from Evian, and Sunderland's Danny Graham on a season-long loan.

The City boss said of Proschwitz: "Nick's problem is that he has not been able to adapt to the English game. He hasn't quite grasped it.

"The physicality is something he finds difficult. That's a struggle for him.

"We shall see what the options are for him going forward but he is like anyone, he needs to play, and he is not getting that here.

"There might be an opportunity to move, but we shall see."