Nasri and Frimpong?

[dario2739]

Twitter... they really should rename it TWATTER!

 

[Andouble]

know it's behind a paywall but anyone have the Nasri interview in the Times they could share?

 

[Calcio]

Fucling hell, are these supposed to be grown men. I'd expect to hear that sort of shit from my 14 year old, not from international players.

They are French....its normal for French men to behave like bitches

 

[glossop is blue]

soooo, the one thing I'm missing is why Nasri has said this about Gallas? Is it because of his move to Tottenham or something thats gone on from their Arsenal days together?

Farcically, it's over a row about where Nasri sat on the French team bus once (according to the press anyway). Apparently Nasri sat in Thierry Henry's throne, and Gallas didn't like it.

-- Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:10 am --

they had a fall out in the euro 2008 over a seat. Word is that Nasri sat on henrys seat in the bus and gallas told him to move and he told him to feck off basically. Then in his book Gallas basically said he's a spoiled brat who lacks respect for anyone. Basically there was alot of friction between the young players like benzema, nasri, ben arfa and the older ones like vieira, henry, gallas and evra. The camp was divided in two.

There certainly didn't seem to be any tension between Nasri and Vieira when he signed for us last summer. They greeted each other like long lost brothers before Garry Cook's infamous, um, "brother" comment.

I know, Im just saying what people were saying at the time. No one knows exactly what happened. All we know is there was a falling out over a seat. nasri has also confirmed the seat story, but he says gallas told him to move out of that seat and he said say it in more respectful way, he then said I never caused any problems and just moved when i realised it was henrys seat. All i know is the french are very bitchy and they always seem to have infightings

That's the version i heard. Only the frogs would do this!!

 

[jo_is_superman_]

too big for his boots frimpong

 

[pweyhe]

First of all, as has already been said these comments were about Gallas, not Frimpong. And Gallas is a complete twat. He wrote a book calling out his own teammate when he was supposed to be the team captain. He blew this tiny little bus story completely out of proportion. Nasri and Henry hug and greet one another every time they see each other so I really doubt it was that big of a deal. And he wasn't the only one who hated Gallas on Arsenal.

Second, Sky Sports posted some of his quotes from his interview with the times here.. <a class="postlink" href="http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11670/7445967/Nasri-denies-money-motivation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... motivation</a> If someone wants to make a new thread with it feel free. I haven't posted enough yet to be allowed. Pretty good quotes -- He's completely aware that he isn't on top form and wants to do more, which is nice to see.

 

[Dubai Blue]

When Nasri signed for us Frimpong said he was a mercenary going for the money or words to that effect anyway

I remember Frimpong having a go at WILSHERE on Twitter for saying that Nasri is class and saying that the Gunners would miss him.

Frimpong is an arrogant little turd, not fit to lace Samir's boots.

Well he's just taken a very hefty boot to the face against Villa and is in the process of being stretchered off. Look at it as karma

 

[LoveCity]

He got FRIMPONG'd by Petrov. Was in a very bad way going off, a 5+ minute stoppage.

 

[salford blue 62]

calcio,jog on you cockney wanker

 

[tommytheblue]

know it's behind a paywall but anyone have the Nasri interview in the Times they could share?

Oliver Kay Football Correspondent
January 21 2012 12:01AM
Samir Nasri has heard the whispers. He has heard the jeers. He even suffered the indignity of being hollered at while driving home from the Etihad Stadium ten days ago, when a couple of Liverpool supporters told him that he “should have stayed at Arsenal”.
Nasri has a blunt response to the suggestion that he erred in joining Manchester City. “Look at the Premier League,” he says. And sure enough, City are in first place, 15 points ahead of Arsenal going into an weekend in which the clubs face stern tests at home to Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United respectively.
Nasri is a strong-minded and opinionated individual. He talks like he plays — cleverly and incisively, with a dash of devilment — and later he will have cutting words for William Gallas, Emmanuel Frimpong and Raymond Domenech.
But, sitting down for his first newspaper interview since his £24 million transfer to City, he is more interested in challenging the perception that he joined City only for financial gain — a view offered by, among others, Arsène Wenger, who said: “Frankly, you don’t go to Manchester City to win titles. Players go to Manchester City because they pay much better than Arsenal.”
Let us be objective about this. City pay an awful lot better than Arsenal. Also, on the basis of this season, they play a lot better and look a far safer bet for a player hoping to win the game’s biggest prizes over the next few seasons. Leaving Arsenal for City app-eared a far better career move by last summer than when Kolo Touré and Emmanuel Adebayor headed north two years earlier. But it will be an unqualified success for Nasri only if he plays better and more regularly under Roberto Mancini than he has to date.
“So far it’s not my best season,” the 24-year-old says. “It’s always difficult when you change clubs, even when you stay in the same league. I had a difficult season at Arsenal too, my first one, and after that everything went well.
“It’s like this: you have to fight, you have to show you’re a man. I’ve had a discussion with the manager. I know how things are. I know that, if I score goals and make assists, then I’ll play. If I’m not in good form, I won’t play.
“I’m a competitor and I love playing in the big games. But sometimes you have to accept that, in a big squad, you have to be on the bench, especially if you’re not in good form. Then, when you have the chance, you have to show you deserve to play.”
So what of his departure from Arsenal? What of Wenger’s view that he joined City only for financial gain? Unwilling to point the finger at the Arsenal manager — “A great man”, “The best”, “I still talk to him on the phone” — Nasri takes the story back to last winter, when he was in outstanding form for Arsenal and seemingly about to commit his long-term future to a club who were competing for trophies on four fronts.
“I started discussions with Arsenal in October and I told them I wanted to stay,” he says. “In December they came back with a proposition. I told them what I wanted and they said that in February they would come back to me. They didn’t come back in February because, you know, we were playing in all the competitions. I wait, I wait, I wait and then they came back in June and it was a little bit too late.”
It would not be controversial to suggest that it was too late because Nasri’s head had been turned, long before City’s offer was accepted in August. That is a reality of the football business. The more relevant thing is that City’s interest came at a time when Arsenal were vulnerable, with Nasri in the final year of his contract and no longer so optimistic about the club’s outlook as he had been in February, before the Carling Cup final defeat by Birmingham City and subsequent collapse.
“You can be the best team, but if mentally you are weak, you fail,” he says. “I know that last year we had everything to be champions, but losing the Carling Cup final killed us. My own form suffered before that. I had two injuries and I came back really quickly to play against Barcelona. Football is a collective sport, so you have to depend on your team and your team depends on you. But my injury killed my form. After that, we suffered for confidence.
“When you’re a fan of a club, you don’t know what happens on the inside. The easiest thing for the fans to say is: ‘He went there for the money, he betrayed us.’ I had a better [financial] proposition in another country, which I didn’t choose. Yes, I have good wages here, I can’t deny, but every player has good wages. If you play at Arsenal, you have better wages than somewhere else. I didn’t choose Manchester City for the money. The Premier League table shows that.”
Nasri, like Cesc Fàbregas, left Arsenal with best wishes from Wenger and his players — all except Frimpong, the young midfield player, who made a sarcastic remark on Twitter and clashed with his former team-mate during City’s 1-0 win at the Emirates Stadium in the Carling Cup in November.
“He’s the only one at Arsenal who I have a problem with,” he says. “He did it like he wanted to make a joke. I told him it’s not the kind of joke I like. Then when he played against Arsenal, because he knew I was nervous, he said things to me on the pitch to try to make me angry. At the end he tried to shake my hand and change shirts with me. I said no — and some other stuff.”
At least Frimpong is in some esteemed company in Nasri’s little black book. Gallas, the Tottenham defender, is not fit enough to play against City tomorrow, but, if he were, he could expect to be shunned by his former Arsenal and France team-mate.
“I don’t talk to him,” Nasri says. “If he plays, I won’t shake his hand. I’m not a hypocrite.I don’t want to pretend he’s my friend.”
The issues with Gallas stem from a trivial incident during the European Championship finals in 2008, when a young Nasri refused to give up his seat on the team coach to Thierry Henry. In the court of Domenech, the eccentric former France coach, a fleeting spat escalated into a serious feud in the camp. Domenech sided with the older players, left Nasri out of the squad for the 2010 World Cup and was rewarded with a calamitous campaign — and, of course, the sack.
“I was shocked and disappointed by what happened with France in the last World Cup,” Nasri says. “But I was happy the manager lost his job because if I was the president of the federation, I would have taken him out after 2008. But he stayed and he said things about me that weren’t true because he wanted to trust Gallas and some of the older players.
“After 2008 people said I was the troublemaker. But then after the World Cup, when I wasn’t there, they saw that I wasn’t the problem.”
Neither is Nasri a problem at City. Frustrated at sitting out some of their bigger matches? Certainly, but he has no doubt that the final months of the season will bring him far more fulfilment than at Arsenal last season.
“If you’re not happy, you keep it in your house,” he says. “You come to training, you smile and you show everyone you’re happy to be here. After, you can go home and cry if you want, but the important thing is to show we all want to move in the same direction. I don’t have any regrets at all.”