Things haven’t gone too well for Nicklas Bendtner on loan at Sunderland.

Generally speaking, he’s proved himself to be a bit of an eejit, getting arrested, smashing up cars, being banned for speeding, posting pictures of himself in the mirror and his use of Twitter confusing fans of both Arsenal and Sunderland who don’t quite know which team he’s talking about when he spews forth on the football world in which he lives (alone, as King).

And today he finds himself linked everywhere you look with a move to Russian football. He’s quoted as saying:

“There are a lot of very strong players going to Russia, players who previously wouldn’t have done so.

“They play great football there. I am fine for the moment and I will look at the options available to me when the time comes.

“You can never say never in football.”

Clearly Nicklas, like any player, would be tempted by the high quality football and not at all by the kind of five hundredy and sixty billion dollar salary that tempted Christopher Samba from Blackburn to Anzhi Mik … Milosko … Milakaka … that team Eto’o plays for.

However, it should be pointed out that Denmark play Russia in a friendly tonight and he was probably just being polite and diplomatic when asked a question about the Russian league. It was hardly a proclomation to the masses that he, Nicklas Bendtner, TGSTEL, was going to venture east in search of power and triumph, like a bacon loving Napoleon.

Meanwhile, a different Arsenal player who is thus far making the most of his loan spell is Ryo Miyaichi. The Japanese flyer has just been voted Bolton’s player of the month by Bolton fans.

He gained over 50% of the vote on Bolton’s official Facebook page, a quite remarkable feat when it appears most people on Facebook hate everything.

Well done to him and although he was called up the Japan squad for their (insignificant) 1-0 defeat to Uzbekistan in their World Cup qualifying game today, he failed to get a run out.