Nasri [Merged] continued.

[BringBackSwales]

I'm not sure red sun deserves all the abuse, he is just defending his club like we would. I hope he sticks around and adds a different perspective on things ala castiel, shafter and our resident rags.

yeah I am sure if I went into some arsenal forum telling them "what's what" they would be incredibly welcoming, FFS

 

[Bilboblue]

De Jong - £18m in January, chance of losing out on him in the summer.

don't understand this Ricster - are you predicting de Jong won't sign an extended contract?

No mate, it was in reference to the previous post i quoted.

People are saying lets just wait til the summer to get Nasri, the only problem is there would be more suitors, i just used the De Jong example as a comparison. De Jong is such a huge part of our team and although i slated Hughes at the time for it, £18m in the January, or the possibility of losing out on him in the Summer, it is now a no brainer.

De Jong had signed a new contract at Hamburg when we bought him so would not have been available on a Bosman that summer.

 

[oddfellows]

Very confident that Nasri will be blue, Gooners shareholders and Wenger have difference of opinion but cash is king.

 

[pudge]

don't understand this Ricster - are you predicting de Jong won't sign an extended contract?

No mate, it was in reference to the previous post i quoted.

People are saying lets just wait til the summer to get Nasri, the only problem is there would be more suitors, i just used the De Jong example as a comparison. De Jong is such a huge part of our team and although i slated Hughes at the time for it, £18m in the January, or the possibility of losing out on him in the Summer, it is now a no brainer.

De Jong had signed a new contract at Hamburg when we bought him so would not have been available on a Bosman that summer.

Nobody said he would be available on a Bosman, but he would have cost around £2-3 million that summer, and so more teams would have been interested

 

[graham baker]

No mate, it was in reference to the previous post i quoted.

People are saying lets just wait til the summer to get Nasri, the only problem is there would be more suitors, i just used the De Jong example as a comparison. De Jong is such a huge part of our team and although i slated Hughes at the time for it, £18m in the January, or the possibility of losing out on him in the Summer, it is now a no brainer.

De Jong had signed a new contract at Hamburg when we bought him so would not have been available on a Bosman that summer.

Nobody said he would be available on a Bosman, but he would have cost around £2-3 million that summer, and so more teams would have been interested

Wrong. 2-3m pund was the price on his head before he signed the new lucrative contract with Hamburg.
The price, and interest, would probably been higher that summer.

 

[southern muppet]

I'm not sure red sun deserves all the abuse, he is just defending his club like we would. I hope he sticks around and adds a different perspective on things ala castiel, shafter and our resident rags.

He's nothing like those two, he's clearly a bit of an uppity twat just based on this thread alone.

And only one of our 'resident rags' is actually not a cock either, to be fair

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

There is a great concern from Arsenal fans down here that mounting a Premier League title this coming season is looking less possible as each week progresses. Getting a top three finish seems to be a a more realistic objective.

The likely sale of Febregas, holding on to an unsettled player with Nasri, the short term injury to Theo Walcott who increasingly appears to be made of glass, the disappointment of Chamakh and the fact that Thomas Vermaelen is injury prone.

Obviously they are going to trouser a decent fee from Barça if it goes through within the dealine specified by Arsenal which frees up funds to finalise the Mata purchase and possible one other in central midfield.

Nonetheless, the Nasri situation should crystallize in the next 24 hours as Arsenal receive our well timed bid. A figure of £22m must surely tempt the Arsenal board. I'm pretty sure that Stan Kroenke and the rest of the board would overrule Arsene Wenger if only from a logical economic standpoint. That £22m could then be used to fund a fourth signing. Gervinho, Mata and two others.

If all their players could remain fit, most unlikely given their track record, Van Persie, Wilshere, Walcott, Mata (if signed), Sagna and Ramsay would form the basis of a new Wenger work in progress that might, repeat might cause problems. However, as things stand, there are too many players in the current squad, who have been at the club long enough to become disenchanted with the lack of progress, including Van Persie, Fabregas and Nasri who must be disappointed with Wenger's weak and parsimonious forays into the transfer market over the last 3 years, seeing the qualitative gap between Chelsea, the rags and now ourselves, widen, not exponentially but certainly of significance.

As a consequence, I am growing increasingly confident that Samir Nasri will become a Manchester City player in the very near future.|

A great post. Sums up my thought on the matter pretty well. I think securing the signing of Nasri is dependent upon whether our first choice (whomever that may be) is available.

 

[Andouble]

surprised there's so little activity in this thread after some reports last night; it either means we as a fan base believe this signing is inevitable or we all collectively now know The Sun is a piece of shit.

 

[MCC]

This thread is made for the return of Tolmie with an update.

Ajay is awfully quiet. I wonder what has happened to his bullet proof contacts.

 

[Hooch]

This thread is made for the return of Tolmie with an update.

Ajay is awfully quiet. I wonder what has happened to his bullet proof contacts.

They're still in a meeting