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the judas money grabbing **** has decided to tell us how to win. this makes me laugh, what did this **** ever do to help us win? disappeared in a major final when we needed him, was good for 4 months and now thinks cos his city team are winning he knows how too even though he just sits on the bench.Quote:
Samir Nasri admits that he has at times found it hard to live up to his price tag since moving to Manchester City.
But, six months on, the Frenchman is adamant he made the right move, with City still top of the league.
And he believes his old club Arsenal are currently faltering because they do not know how to "win ugly".
"Sometimes it's good to win ugly," Nasri said. "Arsenal are proof of that. They play good football but, after seven years, they don't win."
Arsene Wenger's side have lost five of their last 10 matches, leaving them 17 points behind Premier League leaders City.
They trail AC Milan 4-0 after the first leg of their last-16 Champions League tie - having not won a trophy since the FA Cup in 2005.
Nasri in numbers
£15.8m - The fee Arsenal paid to Marseille
£24m - The fee Manchester City paid for his services
18 - The number of Premier League goals he scored for Arsenal
4 - How many goals he has so far for City
31 - His number of appearances in all competitions this season
Wenger has come in for criticism in the past week with former Arsenal and France World Cup-winning midfielder Emmanuel Petit saying this was "the worst moment of Arsene's career with Arsenal".
Former Gunners manager George Graham has also said the club is failing because Wenger has not bought "quality" players.
But Nasri is hopeful that they will get it right in north London.
"I don't want Arsenal to fall down," he said. "I have respect for the players and the manager.
"They have a good philosophy. I know they will find some solution."
Since moving to Manchester in the summer, for £24m, Nasri has started 25 matches for City and believes he is now starting to show the form that earned his big-money move.
"It's always tough when you change," he said. "When you go to another team and have to be involved 100% and I wasn't.
"Now I start to be settled and you will see a better Samir every week.
"I never asked City to pay £24m so it's not me.
"What you want to do is to give something to the team and the people who bring you here and trust you."
the stupid judas ****
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I don't want Arsenal to fall down," he said. "I have respect for the players and the manager.
"They have a good philosophy. I know they will find some solution."
Nasri :bow:
WTF does Nasri know about "ugly wins".....when has he ever etched one for us?
sure shiteh is currently top the league tables now and will probably win the title but it won't because of that little whore's contribution - not when all he's doing is hogging up all the bench
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I don't want Arsenal to fall down," he said. "I have respect for the players and the manager.
"They have a good philosophy. I know they will find some solution."
Shame he didn't have respect for the fans or the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17132737Quote:
On the face of it, there is no reason why Tottenham's trip to Arsenal on Sunday should carry more significance than previous north London derbies.
Two fierce local rivals, three keenly contested Premier League points and one much-coveted set of bragging rights - so far, so familiar.
But scratch beneath the surface and an entirely different picture emerges.
"This is the most important derby in Arsene Wenger's 16 years as Arsenal manager," former Gunners right-back Lee Dixon tells BBC Sport.
"It comes at a very poignant time in the club's history."
2011-12 Premier League
Arsenal's average of 1.7 points per game is their lowest under Wenger
Tottenham's 2.1 points per game is their highest since Wenger arrived
Out of contention for every domestic trophy and facing likely Champions League elimination, Arsenal are staring at a seventh consecutive trophy-less season.
Defeat by Tottenham, who have never finished above their neighbours during Wenger's tenure, would leave the Gunners 13 points behind third-placed Spurs in the Premier League with 12 games remaining.
Unless Arsenal then won a probable four-way scrap with Chelsea, Newcastle and Liverpool for fourth place, their 15-year run in the Champions League would be over.
"If they don't get Champions League football next season it's going to be a nightmare," says ex-Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Petit.
"To get back to where they were, Arsenal need to sign big players in the summer and you can't do that if you don't play Champions League."
Following devastating defeats by Sunderland and AC Milan in their last two matches, Arsenal will be desperate to reignite their season against Spurs.
It is a league fixture that Wenger lost only once in his first 14 years at the club, but all evidence suggests the tide is turning.
North London derby
Arsenal have been higher-placed in the table before 28 of the 32 derbies since Wenger arrived
On average, Arsenal have had 10.62 points more than Spurs going into derby games
Arsenal have won just one of their last seven top-flight meetings and go into the game below Tottenham in the table for only the fourth time in Wenger's 32 derbies.
"Spurs are a better team than Arsenal," Petit admits, while Dixon adds: "There has definitely been a gradual shift of power over the last few seasons."
Football analyst and author Alex Fynn wrote a book in 2000 entitled The Great Divide, which sought to explain Arsenal's dominance over Tottenham.
"Certainly there is no great divide now," says Fynn. "If anything, it may be role reversal."
This has not gone down well with the crowd at Emirates Stadium, where rumblings of discontent have been audible for some time.
Tim Payton, spokesman for the Arsenal Supporters Trust (AST), describes it a "a culture shock, a wake-up call for Arsenal fans who have been used to enjoying St Totteringham's Day".
That is the name Arsenal followers jokingly give to the date each season when Spurs cannot mathematically finish above Arsenal.
Unfortunately for them, that holiday looks like it will not be celebrated in 2012 and many of those fans are questioning how it has come to this.
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There's no bigger game than the north London derby at this stage of the season with so much at stake. So roll your sleeves up and get stuck in
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Lee Dixon
Ex-Arsenal defender and BBC football pundit
Wenger lifted seven trophies in his first nine years at Arsenal, but now looks set to endure the longest barren spell of any manager in the club's history.
"Wenger needed a challenge from his backroom staff and the board," Fynn argues. "This is the most significant problem he has failed to deal with.
"The other major clubs have arguably had better backroom staff and refreshed them on several occasions. Just look at Manchester United.
"Wenger has never had this and, as other clubs have moved on, Arsenal have stood still and maybe even gone backwards.
"Why has he not surrounded himself with men of quality? What on earth is [retired former Arsenal captain] Patrick Vieira doing at Manchester City?"
Fynn also blames the 2007 departure of chief executive David Dein, who remains Wenger's best friend, for Arsenal slipping behind their rivals in the transfer market.
This is one of many areas in which Tottenham have excelled since chairman Daniel Levy appointed Harry Redknapp as manager in 2008.
"Spurs were branded a team without ambition for almost a decade," Petit explains. "But in the last two years they have signed so many good players and big characters that this team seems far more competitive than Arsenal.
"All of a sudden the politics changed and they started to spend a lot of money. Big wages, bringing in many international players with big experience, big characters - mixing the likes of Rafael van der Vaart and Emmanuel Adebayor with very good players already in the team like Gareth Bale, Aaron Lennon, Jermain Defoe.
"Now the quality is there and they have the mentality too. It will be very interesting to see how Arsenal react to this, especially at home. It's a massive test after what's happened during the last week."
The Redknapp effect
Arsenal have won only one of their last eight Premier League games against Harry Redknapp's Tottenham
Dixon adds: "Going into a north London derby, as fans you'll read lots of stuff. As players you put that all out of the way, you forget it, because it is ultimately about what happens on the day.
"The thing to pay more attention to is recent results and Arsenal's form is poor.
"That in itself is demoralising. But when I was at the club, if we ever had a bad series of results the next game you want to be a big one because it gets your mind focused on what's coming rather than feeling sorry for yourself.
"And there's no bigger one than the north London derby at this stage of the season with so much at stake. So roll your sleeves up and get stuck in."
The AST estimates that missing out on the Champions League could cost Arsenal £45m and that is why Payton thinks Sunday is "much more than a north London derby".
Victory would bring fresh hope but, for Arsenal and Wenger, defeat does not bear thinking about.
"That would be the third body shot in quick succession," says Fynn. "It may be the knockout blow."
Dixon and Petit and a couple of Pub Teamers on the NLD
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If Arsenal win the derby on Sunday the celebrations will stretch from the red half of north London to a Red Bull in Tucson.
That's where Thierry Henry will be watching after returning to the United States last week to prepare for the new MLS season with his New York team-mates.
The 34-year-old will be resting after a Desert Diamond Cup clash with the New England Revolution when Sunday's local affair kicks off in London, but this is one game the former Arsenal player - and full-time Arsenal fan - will not want to miss.
And Henry believes three points against Spurs could kick-start his old club's campaign.
"I will be in Arizona for a pre-season camp and for sure I won't be watching it with [New York team-mate] Teemu Tainio because he's a Tottenham fan!" Henry told Arsenal Player.
"For years we have been used to being on top of Tottenham, by a mile, and now it is the opposite. But this is the derby, which you don't want to lose, and we need those three points massively.
"Hopefully it will be the derby that can spark the players, the fans, everybody at Arsenal Football Club. We'll see.
"The league is going to be very difficult but the top four is in Arsenal's hands. They have the squad, there is a long way to go, they have to play Chelsea at home, Tottenham at home, Newcastle at home, Man City at home… it is not impossible."
He sounds like Wenger
Heny :bow:
The king rallying the troops