sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Yeah, from what I remember there were no issues prior to Arsenal, as he was only 17 when he joined. The bad behaviour definitely started at Arsenal though, I remember the "Le Sulk" newspaper headline and David Mellor calling him a tw@t live on air, which was very amusing.Yeah I remember him going on strike at Real Madrid and I'm pretty sure he fell out with people at PSG quite quickly. Maybe it was the fact it happened in a summer rather than during the season, my recollection of Anelka to Real was that they made a huge bid which couldn't really be turned down.
I'd be surprised given his age if he had a reputation of being difficult before he went to Arsenal.
At the time I was really devastated that he left, but if he hadn't Arsenal probably wouldn't have ended up signing Henry, so all's well that ends well.