The chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), Gordon Taylor, says that Arsenal have taught Nicolas Anelka to put money first.

Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger provoked outrage in France when he snatched Anelka, then 17, away from Paris Saint-Germain for £500,000 in February 1997. Taylor now claims that Arsenal's current transfer problems with Anelka may be in part self-inflicted.

"He was taken away from [PSG] by Arsenal, offered a great deal of money and given a great deal of money. His brothers are his agents and suddenly they see a world where they can make more money. They've been taught that that is the way of the world," Taylor said to the Independent.