How do you plan on improving your strikeforce if you can't offer more than a paltry £70,000 p/w. Strikers like big contracts apparently. Good ones at least.
Players will always come and go, and we the fans can't tell them which club they can and cannot go to. If Nasri wants to go to City their is nothing that you the Arsenal fans can do about it. The same applies to us City fans, do I want him at City not sure, but if he decides to go to the rags, their is nothing us fans can do about that as well. The same also applies to Fabregas if he wants to go just let him go, put to put a price on him that looks like it is forcing him to stay, that could lead to more trouble then its worth. Keeping an unhappy player at the club does the club no good at all, it just can cause players to take sides in the arguement beteewn club and player, which may lead to the team geting off to a very bad start and could end up costing the club a place in a European comp and maybe even cost the club a place in the prem.
I like nasri but he is acting like a complete dick, why does he want so much money? If you are getting paid 50,000 per week isn't that good enough? What would you actually do with 100,000 per week?
He doesn't need a ****ing yacht though, it just shows a lack of respect when you ask for amounts like that knowing full well that they don't want to lose you.
Saying it's greedy of him to want 100k is ******ed, players who are as good as him get that much and if clubs attempt to sign him then it's obvious they are willing to pay that much too.
I think the Nasri situation highlights the absurdity of our wages situation. I understand that Van Persie and Fabregas had to prove themselves over longer timeframes than Nasri has, and I agree in general with what you're saying. But Van Persie received his bumper new contract after finishing yet another season where he was mostly on the physio table rather than the pitch. But, we offered him a bumper new contract because we realised his innate class. That's how I feel about Nasri and that's where we differ I guess. I don't think a "proven class timeframe" should enter considerations though. A player can prove his class in a very short space of time and with that in mind I fully endorse Wilshere's latest contract. And as for the absurdity of our wages policy, how can Nasri be greeted with such outrage for asking for £100,000 a week when the likes of Arshavin, Bendtner, Diaby, Rosicky and Denilson are on such healthy contracts themselves? In my opinion he's contributed more to us this season than those five put together and is merely looking to have that contribution acknowledged financially. Can you blame Nasri? Can you imagine having to carry the likes of those whilst they earn almost as much as you do? I know I'd be resentful. The insanity of our wages policy has come to the fore with this Nasri business and it's high time. There are players who are earning multiple times what they deserve and yet it's the players who play their heart out for us and who eventually become exasperated who we choose to burn at the stake. It's the players who are all too content to remain on the same wages that we should be more worried about.
Nasri is quite capable of turning it on in the small games but seems to go missing in the big ones Arshavin is a big game player, he tends to show up when we're playing Barca, United etc.
Got my niggaz in the pen, eatin octopus Wishin they was on the blocks with us to watch me and P do it (uh) put the heat to it (uh) Put it out, first day, the whole street knew it Bitches, hold they pussies and bop to the music and think deep to it, now who the truest?
Uh, you know I still run with that, that blood of a slave Boiling in my veins It's just hot until a nigga can't take it no more Blood of a slave, Heart of a King Turn my voice up
il the day I die THUG LIFE! Still ballin.. motherfuc.k.ers still ballin Straight motherfu.ck.in ballin
nasri is a tricky one. he has proved he has ability, and will get better over the next few years. if he had another year for us to make up our minds, i don't think anyone would have a problem with a big contract for him. the problem is, his contract has run down just as he's showing signs of coming good, so it's unproven still. he needs another season to show his ability to prove it's not just a one-off. sadly he doesn't have this time!! shame his contract wasn't negotiated at the start of last summer when he had 2 years left really.
That's where we differ I guess although I appreciate where you're coming from. In my opinion, Nasri has elevated himself to a new level this season but for the entire season imo. Even if he wasn't knocking in the goals in the second half of the season, he was still working tirelessly for the team and creating what he could despite being doubled and trebled up on by opposition markers. His work ethic lies in stark contrast with several players who he might make less than now and will only make slightly more than with our offered terms. Again, I can totally see where he's coming from. Nasri's form certainly dipped in the second half of the season, but he's being judged too harshly for four reasons, two of which I've touched upon. First off, his form in the first half of the season was so outstanding, it would have been near impossible to replicate. Secondly, he was eventually singled out by opposition teams and heavily marked later on in the season. Thirdly, he had a stopstart end to the season because of injuries and never really got a proper run at things. Fourthly, our sterile tactics and passing game was asking an awful lot of him. Basically he was one of the few players with the audacity to try to go past a player now and again even despite being man-marked so tightly and usually had to do it from a standing position. Like I said, he's elevated himself to a new level this season that the majority of the rest of our squad are incapable of. We need to be supplementing the squad with more players of his quality, not punishing them for asking for what they'd easily receive elsewhere. Most of our squad are overpaid, not underpaid. Hence the difficulty we'll have selling Denilson, etc. Basically, we need to separate the wheat from the chaff this summer and Nasri is definitely the wheat. But Nasri wasn't the player not displaying passion and loyalty on the football side, whereas others were blatantly not. When I think of Arshavin's complete carefree attitude on the pitch I actually get annoyed. It's not really a case that some players aren't just good enough, although they're not. It's that we have several freeloaders on overly generous contracts who put nothing into games for us and who are indifferent to how we fare on the pitch. Nasri was not one of those people. Sure it's frustrating that he hasn't publicly committed to us yet. Sure it's annoying that he has flirted with the idea of joining United. But like Flamini, I'm sure he'd rather stay but just wants to earn what he feels he deserves. Truthfully I fear that we have already lost him. People can say "forget him" and "we don't need him", but if we lose him, Fabregas or the both then we're keeping the chaff and losing the wheat. At best, we'll be able to replace them with equally good players but who knows because most likely we won't really know how good the replacements are until we see them. The only silver lining on this cloud is that some of the chaff want out too and we can only pray that that happens. Sure we'll see how it unfolds anyway.
First off, I'm shocked that you, the great Wenger critic, is using the "you must know more than Wenger card". In any case, that card is always the last resort of the man who isn't thinking for himself. Second off, you're full of ****. In your post to me before this one you said that Arshavin was stereotyped as being lazy but that you'd seen him on several occasions tracking back and tackling. In this post you've backtracked by claiming that "not every player in the team can run around madly trying to tackle people". Are we a little unsure of ourselves? Arshavin may occasionally have success with a clever through ball, but far more times than not it doesn't come off for him. At times his misplaced passes have been so woeful, i.e. there isn't an Arsenal player anywhere near where he's played the ball, that it has bordered on the inexplicable. He brings a devil-may-care attitude onto the pitch with him that could destroy a dressing room. Don't get me wrong, I'd love him at Arsenal for 11/12 if he was a reformed man who gave it all to the team. If the same, overweight, unfit, indifferent Arshavin of last season turns up then he needs to be shipped out smartly. His disgraceful attitude goes to the very heart of what's wrong in the Arsenal dressing room. Next to him, Nasri's a godsend.
