Does Nasri realise by now that he should have stayed at Arsenal?
After 224 seconds into his Arsenal debut, Samir Nasri had already opened his Arsenal account with a simple tap in from a pass from Denilson. One of the best talents ever to be discovered by Arsene Wenger from France, Nasri was playing the football of his life. In his first season, he won over the Arsenal fans after netting a brace against Man United, earning a victory for the team. He continued his good run of form for the team, covering up for Cesc Fabregas in the 2008/2009 season when Cesc was out injured. In his final season with the club, Nasri managed to find the net 15 times, notching up 5 assists for the team.
Everyone thought that Nasri’s future would be at Arsenal as he slowly earned the trust and respect of his fans, teammates and Arsene Wenger. However, Nasri was entering the last moments in his contract. Arsenal had a lot of interest in renewing Nasri’s contract and to prolong his stay at Arsenal, continuing the honeymoon period.
However, Nasri wanted a higher pay. Arsenal though were not very willing to splash the cash on keeping him. We were going to give him a higher pay but not his desired amount. Thus, Nasri was unhappy and this led to his move to Manchester City.
Honestly, I would have preferred Nasri to stay as his skills and ability would definitely be essential to the team’s push to end our dreaded trophy drought. However, his performances at Man City are below par anyway. No point keeping a player when his heart is not going to be at the club just like Hleb and Flamini, and we all know what happened (or didn’t happen!) to them.
A player like Nasri refused to work together with the team and put in effort to reach the top by his own willpower. Instead, he would rather jump ship to another club where he is assured “cash and glory.”
If I was Samir Nasri, I would not have left. At Arsenal, he was a top player earning respect. At City, is just another squad player…….
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I think he regrets leaving arsenal as he is not in as good form and people are starting to forget about him. Most players that leave arsenal for the money dont suceed at their club just look at flamini and hleb. I dont want nasri, flamini or hleb back at arsenal EVER.
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what a shame these players left….. Nasri cheated arsenal by leaving . Wenger and the club had put so much time and effort in making him the player he is. Nasri made the worst decision in his life by joining man city. They have no class or history and will replace nasri as soon as someone better comes along. Just look at adebayor. Karma is a bitch .. And ade ane nasri got what they deserve. RVP WE LOVE YOU!!
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some players dont realise how much they have got.what more he could have asked for ??? he should have stayed surely as he had been there only for a mere 3yrs.not only he will get more playing time and champions league last 16,but respect from fans and personally as well was in gr8 form.hate players who give up so easily,look at vermaelen and rvp.no doubt it was d ‘money factor’.atleast he should have gone abroad and not threaten to join a rival.
i swear that he and players like ronaldo are having their ‘moments of regret’……. ( remember el-clasico ?how many titles hes won ? not even one )
moral:”too much ambition is a dangerous thing”
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NASRI:”We cannot win the Champions League now, but our objective at the start of the season was the [Premier] League.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
everyone predicted newcastle will come down in the table once they play the big guns and yes they have.
now city are to play chelsea followed by arsenal.so we have to wait and see …………..
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Its his own fault! There is no way that he is comming back to us.
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Why are we even bringing up Nasri, Fabregas, Clichy or any other ex Arsenal player for that matter?
Get over it guys, frankly I don’t give a shit about anyone apart from Arsenal. So if they’re not wearing the red and white of 125 yrs, why bother!
Yeah sure, they were good players and after losing them and seeing some fail, is just karma. But we need to worry about our title hopes, not the fallen hopes of others!!!
Please give me something NEW!!!!
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Nasri.To him football is just a trade.He doesn’t give to fiddlers who his employer is provided the money is right.Winning trophies is a load of bull,a smoke screen.
Now tell me which one of you wouldn’t leave your job if you were offered a 200% pay rise from another firm.
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha europa.
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Who cares if he regrets it or doesnt. He made a choice for whatever reason and that’s it. We have coped well and progressed without him. He is doing well at City and come this weekend I hope our boys can come up trumps against City. Then he can kiss our ass.
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In “blogs” on this and other sites before the start of the season and during our pre-season, I begged the Arsenal board, not to let Nasri go. Though he hadn’t shown his previous form, I still felt that he was essential to our push for honours, in this and coming seasons. I was certain that once the new contract was sorted out, he would “knuckle down” and become a leader in our team. This of course didn’t happen and he went for the money and potential glory that the Trillions of $$$’s that Manchester, could offer him. Of course it’s early day’s in the Manshity story but one thing is for sure, he’ll not win the Champions League, this time round. Already he is being used as a “bit player” playing the other day against Arsenal 2nd team. If that was the “glory” he was looking for, that’s up to him but as we have seen before, those who leave the comfort zone of Arsene’s advice and guidance usually end up in a backwater, playing for the equivalent of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy. In essence,they forget who made them what they were, dreaming that they can go it alone and become the next Messi or RVP.
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Boooo..NAsri shame on you,arsenal is a blecd team an any one who leave the club lyk u nasri,wil be perished from the map.plz Prof Wenger bring podoski 4me
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TOWIE – The Only Way Is Europa. Eh nasri
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Glad Nasri is gone, don’t miss him at all. Like Hleb, Flamini, even Henry moving to a club that is loaded with “stars”, which always means egos. The bigger the paycheck the bigger the ego. They get there and ride the bench, come on as a sub and don’t play with the emotion and chemistry they had being part of a real team instead of a collection of trophy paycheck players. I wouldn’t want to win a trophy with a team when it wasn’t evident to everyone that I was a major part of the team and the reason they won the trophy.
Good riddance and well see where he is playing 2 years from now when he’s tired of not getting enough first team play. I hope it’s a good lesson for Song, RVP and anyone else thinking about these glamour moves to a big spending club.
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50percent is because we didn’t pay him what he was “worth” (in the football world) and the other 50percent is we are not showing enough commitment or investment to be title competitors. He went for the fact he will get trophies at City.
No one can blame him. But at the end of it he will realise he will miss being at a proper club where fans sing his name.
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Na$sri…. the face of him makes me laugh
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because he means he didnt sign for shitty because of the money^^
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No coach manages players like wengar.that is why they fail when they leave arsenal.samir cashri left bcos of money and a chance 2 win trophies.today we are stil in d champions league,he amd his bigger club are not.this is just d begining. His departure wil turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
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Although he had skill, he was powder puff. Between him and Cesc we had no real fight in the midfield. At least now we have players with balls who can take a knock and fight for the ball. Enjoy chasing Silva’s shadow for the rest of your Shity career, also have fun in Europa.
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Man City and Na$ri have already achieved what Arsenal has consistently failed to do! EUROPA!!!!!! I guess he was longing for Thursday games!
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With the mention of adebayor, does anyone else feel its a bit unfair that a striker from a top four club can be loaned to another (potential) top four club. How many points are city effectively taking off other teams. Does’nt seem right to me that a club can send out an asassians of death out like this! How do others feel about this?
Opinions divided. What do you think?
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he is just a piece of shit right now.
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A very talented player who didn’t have good advisers to educate him how to make it to the top or probably he neva listened to his advisers cos his best time in Arsenal was suppose to be now seeing that Fab was leaving but he jumped ship for MONETARY reasons but maybe he forgot NOBODY LEFT ARSENAL FOR £€$¥ REASONS AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER…….I SEE ARSENAL WINNING THE EPL COME MAY AND THEN NA$RI WOULD REALISE HIS MISTAKE
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Nasri is just another Judas Ascariot and look what happend to him in the end.
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The new Man City perfume to be launched in the new year …….Channel No Five.
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@Willie G.City top in the league not because of Nasri.Nasri only a fringe player there.If Nasri said he go there for glory,he can feel that there is no glory for him.Glory for the club yes, but for him no,because he contributes nothing.(Lol).If he go there for money,he get the money for 2-3 years only to be dump by City to the mediocre club that will only pay him a peanut.So at the end,no money and no glory.So in life we have to choose rightly.
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who cares!
jst go spending on his cash on cashri shitty!!he would be an arsenal family an a superstar here bt he is idiot.dnt wnt him! hazard or goetze or shaqiri or erikson or anyone,jst not him!
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Far better players than nasri have left arsenal why give that goofy bastard so much coverage. let him rot on the city bench with his extra 5m a year
can u please concentrate your articles on players that want to play for arsenal for crying out loud there are 63 professionals currently on our books and another 15 scholars give them some paragraphs.
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Wow! Enjoy chasing silvas shadow! Oouch! That will hurt nasri if he ever heard that! Im sure citys management would be asking why they bought him wen they had silva! A piece of advice… All that glitters like nasri, is not gold! Hahahahahaha! Poor guy.
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He will come begging stylishly like Adebayo, Hleb, Pires & co.
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@WillyG Yes we do think Arsenal can go all the way. We wouldn’t be Arsenal supporters if we didn’t. Realistically speaking, when we are on form which we are at the moment, we can beat any team. We have quality – RvP, Walcott, Song, Wilshere, Arteta, Vermalaen, Gervinho, Santos, Sagna, Szczesny. I think those players are capable of beating top teams.
Even if City win the BPL, Nasri would probably have only played in a few of those matches. Not much of a contribution is it? And he will have Silva’s shadow to follow pretty much his whole career at City. Don’t know but I wouldn’t feel like too much of a champion if I was a sub most of the season.
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hope they gt a draw with chelsea or lose. or even we cn b the first team to beat them in the premier league away.and that wud b a huge boost.keep on hope and faith.better nt putting on my hopes too high.aslong evryone step up on their game.and robiin stays fit n healthy this weekend.hope tv5 is alright.we need our mighty tv5! i think there wud b no changes for wenger.i jst hope rosicky plays ahead of ramsey.
stil cnt frget that stunner from robiin.exceptional!!
COYG!!
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I really think nasri has betrayed us, but i also dont deny that he is a CLASS player, he’s unique, he’d be a star at arsenal …
super dribbling, great creativity, and some stunning goals …
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Sometimes everythings is not about money. Let us be assure that Nasir would has blame himself by now for leaving us when we needed him most. But he can not make it open to MC fans.
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while talent ability can take you to the top,only character can keep you there..sm1 lacked this
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nasri will realise how stupid he has been when one talented french youngter outshines him and replaces him in the France squad.
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Arsenal will hammer man shity on sunday we are on the fire & we will burn them to death 1-3ARSENAL we are gunner bring any team we will tear them appart
come on arsenal….
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Not so sure we miss Nasri who held the ball too long and was not decisive enough. Buying Arteta was master stroke..it is clear he is fully behind the club and will be for the next two or three years. Wilshire is every bit if not better than Nasri and like Arteta he wants to play for the club. Its the team and team spirit that matters..look at Stoke today beating Spurs….they ran themselves to a standstill. Nasri and Fabregas were not interested once they had mafe their minds to leave..Forget them.
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Samir $ Nasri……shame on you! You will see you immature youngster. Go Gooners.
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guyz why are we wrsting our tym on these players who left as come on guys…the past is the past.
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I think i’ll switch on channel 5 on a thursday night to see if he still a good player or not. HAHAHA
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Forget about him!!
bring gotze or hazard, or both:):)
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Who cares he’s shown that he’s a money grabbing B#STARD good ridance to scum wouldn’t even want him back.
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he will prob end up at tottenham, then we can all laff sum more lol
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Lucky Nasri won’t be occupied on Tuesdays and Wednesdays so he can watch the Arsenal playing Champions league football.
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Nasri watch us on tuesdays & wednesdays in champions league meanwhile WE rest for 2-3 days waiting manshity in the BPL. Keep on chasing Silva’s shadow.
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£10 on him wanting to come home
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He chose money over football. It was entirely his call. I think he should have preferred to play for Arsenal only but he was desperate to increase zeros in his bank account. He is another Adebayor (big traitor) would never settle in one club. Mark my word, will be kicked next season & forced to join a B grade team like Spurs. Good luck Mr.Money Bag
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Massively over rated, never warmed to him as an arsenal player. With one or two notable exceptions he went missing in the biggest games. Arsenal are a better team this season without him, city are welcome to him, most city fans were completely indifferent to him signing anyway. He will be moving on at the end of this season again.
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He tweeted happy 125th anniversary to Arsenal the other day which was thoughtful, I guess. But he’s gone, he’s not an Arsenal player anymore so who cares about him? Not me.
As far as him regretting his leaving goes: even if Shitty are out of the CL this year, they’ll be there next year, along with us of course.
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Nasri would been better off & effective in Arsenal..with our style of play, he fitted in well… he is a good passer of the ball, have eloquent runs to the box area & has a good right foot…In City, he is a loner…. David Silva is playing in his position & he is getting redundant…
Arsenal gave him the space & fame… if he had gone there only for money- he should not complain…
However at Arsenal – he started getting rave reviews with fans behind him…City would have a different culture..perform or perish…which with so much money on the table- is quite ok for the owners to demand…
Nasri – frankly speaking we don’t miss you or for that matter Fabregas that much.. Arteta & Gervinho has filled in the void…my personal rating for Arteta ( at times ) would be much higher than Fab as he takes a hell lot of work-load…both defensively & going forward….
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Out of the CL eh? Ah! well Samir that`s one excuse for leaving Arsenal out of the way and being as money wasn`t a reason what next? Oh! of course, you couldn`t stand the cold in London and longed for the Manchester sunshine. Why didn`t you say so in the first place. See you at the weekend.
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ohhh!!! that boy is still around! I had completely forgotten about him and his greedy ways. This is a good lesson that money is not everything. You can earn as much as Bill Gates but if you are treated like a slave, no amount of money can make you happy. Na$ri might have the money but is he a respected player at $ity? Do the fans idolise him as they did at Arsenal? No and No. these are things that money cant buy but money has bought him a seat on the $ity bench.
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He started well at goonerland but faded in the middle of the season………….. This shows that though, he’s a ‘great’ talent, he still needs some ‘wenger’ tutelage if he’ll go on to be a great player- not to talk about being a ‘GREAT’! Now, he missed all that……..my condolences to the poor guy!
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Nasri is great guy;yes,he is stupid,but at least he isn’t liar and hypocrite like Catalan sh’t.
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Who’s Samir Nasri?
Silly banana.
Let’s All Laugh At Nasri,
Let’s All Laugh At Nasri,
La, La, La, La!
Everything wrong about modern day football is embodied in Samir Nasri.
Nasri, you mug!
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Money doesn’t buy you everything. Who would not want the respect and following that he would have gained from the Arsenal fans? In City, he has had poor form, and will never be a great. At Arsenal, he had the potential to be a legend.
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samir nasri’s a disgrace and i hope he gets injured tonyt against chelsea nd hopefully chelsea will beat thm today…U SUCK SAMIR!!!
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If he had stayed, he could have replaced Ramsey or Arteta. But that doesn’t matter now. Arsenal will look for other replacements and when Wilshere comes back, it will be a very strong Arsenal.
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to be honest, in EPL fabregas nasri midfield is non-winning combo. they both skillful, but too soft. arteta, ramsey, wilshere etc are stronger, therefore better for EPL. nasri unfortunately came along with improvement in silva’s game, so at least he is choice number 2. and yes, no wenger unfortunately to land him helping hand of understanding, he is all alone there. welcome to real world and city jungles!!!
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Late every player go is our season nasry will never acheave.like flamini and hlef.pls wenger spend some in this coming windo transper.
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To me, Nasri comes from a poor family could be he wanted city money to settle his family and social problems that made him to leave arsenal otherwise I personally don’t miss him at arsenal he is not bigger than the club.
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all gunners please and please again lets forget this money like man.
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Plz wenger dont sell RVP is important 2the team nasri is stupid and idiot 4get about benzema we dont need him
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