Quote Originally Posted by Ice Berg Kamping View Post
It makes me smile when people justify players' moves away by saying that they are entitled to take a better offer/go where they feel they are likely to win trophies - as though this is the main issue for debate. Of course players are entitled to do what they like. Its a free country. Are people arguing that Nasri should have stayed at Arsenal because we are more likely to win things than Citeh? I haven't seen a single argument along these lines.

Away from the dry corridors of the department of the bleeding obvious, we are football fans - and passion and emotion apply here. Why should we wish a player well who was given his chance at our club but fucked off at the first opportunity - taking a pop at us fans in the proceess? Just as we admire players who give their all on the pitch, we tend to admire characters who are loyal and principled. They don't have to be - but these players tend rightly to be elevated above the avarage and treated as heroes. Something Nasri will never be.
Quite right.

It really amazes me that people want to turn the Nasri thing as support for their campaign against the club and it's management.

I don't think there is an Arsenal fan out there who hasn't criticised the club for the way things have gone over the last 4 to 5 years. And certainly, there is a point where the balance between finances and matters on the pitch have NOT been correctly weighed. We all know that. We also know that some of that is beyond our control. See City / Chelsea, I don't need to say any more.

BUT. To say that Adebayor, Nasri, Cesc, Flamini, Clichy etc etc and on and on....and in future (I hope to God not), Walcott, Wilshire, Song etc etc and on and on, the product of OUR club, brought into the limelight by OUR manager, shouldn't knuckle down, back up their posturing with performance, off the back of what we as a club gave them, paid for by US, the fans, AND show a degree of integrity and loyalty....is absurd.

But it is quite funny. Because without our Manager, we wouldn't have had those players in the first place.

It's about money.

We'll never know, but maybe if those players had some loyalty, we would be winning trophies. But what is evident from last year, is that they weren't team players. Because we weren't a team in the last 6 months. We were individuals. With no bottle, and eyes on bigger contracts.

Nasri can fuck the fuck off. Money grabbing filthy lesbian whorebag CUNT.