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

[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.