Samir "The Weasel" Nasri - The Epitome of Wenger's Failings!!!

[Özim]

I'm one of them. But I'm not just going to make up reasons to have a dig at Wenger based on the usual papertalk which goes on at this time of the year. None of us know what's going on behind the scenes. There are plenty of good reasons to criticize Wenger right now, we don't need to make ones up.

Well he's the one that preaches unity and spirit, so if you choose to do that and then players walk away every summer you have to take some of the blame.

[Joker]

Don't know if this has been posted, but Nasri was interviewed on French TV yesterday about his future. Apparently, the conversation went like this (via Arseblog)

Q: Will you extend at Arsenal?

I don’t know, I haven’t really thought about it. Discussions are taking place. I still have important games with the national team

Q: Were you contacted by Manchester?

You have to ask my agents. I have to see if there is anything concrete/true about it.Then we’ll have to ask the right questions and talk about it with the club after the Poland game with France.

It doesn't look very promising tbh. This whole situation is both an indictment of modern parasitic footballers like Nasri and on Wenger, who has unforgivable allowed this situation to develop (and not for the first time either)

[Japan Shaking All Over]

kind of agree with Letters on this

its Nasri who needs to take the heat for his unjustified inflated ego and the way he goes advertising it
........AW may be part to blame for the way that some think it OK to spout tosh but if the guy had any decency he would shut his mouth and wait to see what the morning brings

would love Wenger to turn round and say......'Fuck off Samir, I thought you were going to do well, but must have been wrong'

[gunsofashburtongrove]

Wenger and the board have got us into a deep mess. We are in a position where there a few fringe players who should be replaced and then we struggling holding on to 2 of our 3 supposedly world class players. I don't think Nasri's contract should have been renewed last year as he hasn't done anything till this season. We would have ended up with another overpriced wanna be. The problem is much deeper than Nasri's specific case. We pick youngsters who make a name with us and then want to leave for lucrative offers under the pretext of moving to win trophies. The other problem is that it leaves the club at the mercy of youngsters who threaten to leave unless they have better contracts or they get more playing time. The only way out is to start winning, which wont happen unless we invest in the present.

[KSE Comedy Club]

This has nothing to do with Wenger.

Nasri is the one stalling because we wont pay him over a £100,000 a week because he thinks he is the french version on Messi.

Frankly, he can fuck off.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

but who will fuck off with him?


I love the way the hate threads get far more posts than the love ones!

[Letters]

Well he's the one that preaches unity and spirit, so if you choose to do that and then players walk away every summer you have to take some of the blame.

I guess that's reasonable.
But players being unlikeable, spoilt, overpaid twunts who would piss off at the first big cheque waved at them is a problem throughout football though and that isn't Wenger's fault. The way he manages the players is of course but tbh none of us really know what goes on behind the scenes and the way he told Barca to piss off last summer was an example where he did get it right IMO.

[IBK]

The fact remains we should have sorted out his contract last summer, that way we wouldn't be in this situation and had we chosen to sell him we'd get full money for him.

As for doing your utmost, well I have to say these players clearly need someone to motivate and inspire them (most players do), AW doesn't consequently many doing give 100% and chase every ball. I think Nasri has done quite well this season until he got injured.

It may be about money, but at a club with no success it most often is, like I said when you achieve nothing in 6 years, don't spend on improving the team and collapse every season it doesn't give you much bargaining power.

I don't see why we should be expecting loyalty from a player who has been here for a relatively short period, is always played out of position and has never won anything with us. Loyalty is something that occurs over time with most players, have a close knit group who deliver success certainly helps, failing as we do every year doesn't.

I think that you are absolving the player for his own failings. End of the day, the players, not the manager step onto the pitch. Nasri is expecting to be paid as a 'go to' top player - while having demonstrated that he is nothing of the sort. Did RVP's efforts drop in the last 3 months of the season? Wilshere's? Sangna's? If a player is to be paid what Nasri is demanding, then he should not be looking to the manager for motivation. If he is, then he is not ready to be paid that much.

I won't comment on the contract scenario last Summer, but I find it impossible to believe that an overture was not made by the club when so many other contracts were extended. As we are seeing now, you cannot get anything sorted without the willingness of the other party to coopertate. And there would have been no reason back then for club or player to make and failed negotiations public.

One thing people might not know is that he had just signed an extended contract with Marseille when he came to Arsenal. This would suggest that he might well be looking to re-negotiate/leave now even if we had extended last Summer - given that this would have been before his so-called 'breakthrough' season.

Like I say, I am not expecting loyalty. But I see in Nasri a player who, though talented, may well be too self centred to truly realise his potential.

[Power n Glory]

Nasri is a real scumbag. You can't excuse that. Wouldn't even rule out a move to Man Utd. Low class scumbag!

But, Wenger is an complete tool. How are you going to allow this player to get down to year on his contract? Why start negotiations so late on? We did the same thing with Walcott and RVP and they were frustrated but lucklily they signed. The greed of players annoy me but how naive are the people in our organisation? We just signed Chamakah on a free transfer afte the guy ran down his contract. How naive can Wenger be? You must now something about the nature of footballers by now, man, surely!

I say we cough up the cash and let him rot on the bench until January. Teach this prick a lesson. Give him what he wants but make him hate life here. He should suffer before he goes. Or if Wenger wants to keep him, he has to do a Wayne Rooney and make a very public apology.

[AKBapologist]

Nasri is a real scumbag. You can't excuse that. Wouldn't even rule out a move to Man Utd. Low class scumbag!

But, Wenger is an complete tool. How are you going to allow this player to get down to year on his contract? Why start negotiations so late on? We did the same thing with Walcott and RVP and they were frustrated but lucklily they signed. The greed of players annoy me but how naive are the people in our organisation? We just signed Chamakah on a free transfer afte the guy ran down his contract. How naive can Wenger be? You must now something about the nature of footballers by now, man, surely!

I say we cough up the cash and let him rot on the bench until January. Teach this prick a lesson. Give him what he wants but make him hate life here. He should suffer before he goes. Or if Wenger wants to keep him, he has to do a Wayne Rooney and make a very public apology.

Your talking a load of crap tbh. Contract talks started last season. When our competitors could easily double his wages I'm not surprised he's looking to be off. I mean there's loyalty, and then there's being paid something resembling the market rate.