http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/s...-he-left-arsenal-for-a-better-team-man-city/? Nasri Also, on a side note, if he was available in the summer, for say around £10 Mil, would anyone on here want him back?
Im afraid not, I would not want him back purely on the principle of the matter, he has made some derogatory comments about arsenal since he left, I'm not sure I believe him with the comment you quoted, I think him and his agent saw a good opportunity to make a fortune and took it, and ****ed us over in the process.
I'd have him back, quality player, wasted at City. He'd have to eat some humble pie with the fans, but **** it - if he gave 100% for Arsenal then it would all be forgiven.
I think he was prepared to run down his contract at Arsenal and leave on a free. Because that way he would have got even more money. Wenger though wanted to keep him, and by the sounds of it was overruled.
With Nasri, I always felt the one thing that has held him back was the fact that he is just too god damn slow on the ball. He dithers too much and slows the play down. But other than that, I think he is a very talented player and if he had stayed, then Wenger would have helped develop his game.
Wenger was just starting to turn him into a quality player, but he's gone backwards at City. Serves him right imo.
True. Think Wenger was planning to use him in that 'Cesc role', but Nasri ****ed off. He probably would have developed more as a player had he stayed, but since leaving he has also been part of a team that has actually won something.
He's won the league, earned a lot of money but regressed as a player. If that's what he wanted then fair enough. And getting £25m for him was a really good bit of business.
Nasri was a a very good player before he got to arsenal and is was a very good player for you. He's still a very good player at city...he just don't play very often. If he'd stayed or gone to a team where he actually got to play he could well have become a great player. I'm sure the extra millions keep him happy though
There is only one thing he said here that really stands out for me. Wenger told me that if Cesc [Fabregas] left, I would stay, but [Stan] Kroenke wanted the money. If that is true I want Kronke out NOW.
It just seems ridiculous though. Why would Kroenke tell anyone this? It's just another attack on the club, and it isn't his first.
I'd have him back, he'd be a quality player to have for us on the wings, we've lacked quality from that area for large parts of this season.
Nasri gave it his all until the last game he played for Arsenal. He's the type of player you are crying out for.
Finally, someone who agrees with me. I say much the same about many of our current crop. On the wider point, would I have him back? Don't know. As for the stuff NAsri said about Arsenal when he left, as far as I recall he said that a lot of players there were too comfortable, happy to just get paid, and that he could quite easily have stay kept collecting his pay and achieved nothing. I reckon there is a lot of truth in this. Wenger told me that if Cesc [Fabregas] left, I would stay, but [Stan] Kroenke wanted the money. I had one year left & decided to go. Does this mean that Wenger told him that Stan wanted the money, or that Nasri thought that STan wanted the money, or that Stan said this to Nasri himself? Isn't the English language wonderful?
considering kroenke hasn't taken out any money from the club, i don't really see how he would have benefited from wanting the money...
The accounts are fairly well disguised with money paid to the board and Kronke hidden with other expenses which are not published individually so no-one knows what he takes out, even a 29.9% shareholder - Usmanov. It was reported that Arsenal asked for and got a change to the rules so they would not have to show Usmanov the full accounts even if he reaches the 30% threshold that used to mean they would have to. So the facts that are in the public domain do not back up the claim that Kronke has not taken any money out as no one knows.
Nasri went for 25m with one year remaining. Had Cazorla come in that summer everyone would have been saying what great business it was. Nasri wasn't, and isn't, that good. Moments of brilliance but lacking the vision to play the AM role he seems to really want. Had he stayed, he would have remained as a wing-forward, a position he wasn't really cut out for as he isn't really the striker type. Overall, 25m with one year remaining was fantastic business to my mind. The issue was not selling Nasri, it was failing to replace him.
