Nasri Gamble

[Fist of Lehmann]

If he stays...
Assuming he is money orientated and that he will be playing for a massive signing-on fee somewhere, we should get one final Flamini-esque year from him.

The question is, will that one year be enough to offset the loss of revenue his non-sale represents and garner the money needed to replace him? On his own, he isn't enough to make the difference between winning the EPL or not. But is he the difference between 4th and 5th? That in itself would equate to £25m of lost CL revenue.

If we sold him now and used the cash to buy someone almost as good...
Most likely puts the 4th/5th further at risk but means no additional expenditure in replacing him.

Then again, maybe that is too literal. We already have Gervinho, maybe the money would be better served buying a centreback.

Overall, I said sell. I just hope holding onto him doesn't turn out to be a strategic error.

[Kano]

def keep him

[fakeyank]

Any money we get wont be spent on the team and will go in Wengers and the boards pockets so we might as well keep Nasri

I voted to sell Nasri but this comment makes more sense actually. AW isnt going to invest back into the team so might as well keep him

[Xhaka Can’t]

Don't like the guy, but voted to keep him. I don't think we can afford to lose him and Fabregas in the same season. Also, I have little confidence of him being replaced, so why should I care about how much money ends up in the Club's coffers?

The only reason I care about the transfer value of Fabregas is out of blind hatred for Barcelona.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Would prefer to sell him abroad for a lesser amount (even if we lose 5-10M) and buy someone like Mata to replace him, in an ideal world.

That said, I think he'll be one of the top five players in world football once he develops, so Wenger should be sucking his dick to make him stay.

This agree with this pose 100%

[selassie]

Assuming he won't sign we should sell him now. Ideally we should sell him to a team abroad, assuming he wants to leave the country. If he wants to stay in England then we'll have no choice but to sell him to a rival but we should invest every penny of the sale in improving the squad.

[-Xs-]

Keep him. He's only going to go to a rival anyway, rather we keep him for one season more if it results in us winning something. The money is irrelevant, it won't be reinvested.

[Niall_Quinn]

Keep - we're stronger instead of a rival being stronger if he's still on the pitch for us. There's more to this than just the money. Another shitty season and half our players will want to go anyway, plus we'll have less chance of attracting decent replacements. So this year has to be about winning and to do that we'll need all our best players. He's one of them.

[Penguin]

Keep - we're stronger instead of a rival being stronger if he's still on the pitch for us. There's more to this than just the money. Another shitty season and half our players will want to go anyway, plus we'll have less chance of attracting decent replacements. So this year has to be about winning and to do that we'll need all our best players. He's one of them.

I'll say it now, we wont win anything even if we keep him. Really all it comes down to is us proving a point and it isn't even a good one because the world and his dog knows he will still walk for nothing in 12 months. If you were an Arsenal player a year from now, watching one of our best players leave for nothing and knowing we will have 0 to spend on a replacement what would you think? We're likely to have plenty more want-away's next year so I'd prefer us to take the money now and bolster the squad. Gervinho is already a replacement and we need to beef up the defense.

That said, Nasri will be playing out of his skin this season to keep the attention of the big clubs. £20million good? No, not unless he wins us one of the big ones. The thread title's perfect, it's a gamble. A massive gamble.

[Özim]

Keep - we're stronger instead of a rival being stronger if he's still on the pitch for us. There's more to this than just the money. Another shitty season and half our players will want to go anyway, plus we'll have less chance of attracting decent replacements. So this year has to be about winning and to do that we'll need all our best players. He's one of them.

Trouble is we're not winning anything unless we sign some quality. This team has shown it's not up to it, don't see how that's going to change without signings.

Personally would rather sell, we at least then have an outside chance of seeing a decent replacement, I'd like him to stay but not to watch him go on a free next summer.

Wenger has this pipedream that he can convince players to stay long term, trouble is without winning anything you have no hope.