dctid said:
if the deal had been done they could make a similar announcement is subject to blah blah blah and wait for a couple of days and complete - the deal aint been done ansd it is unlikely that the tming of this transfer is being timed becuase of his CL suspension
whatever happens Nasri will be top of the "to do" list
Why's that unlikely? The difference between Nasri being available for our first CL game or not probably means a lot to Mancini - what if it's against Barca? what if Silva happens to be injured? There's no point getting him in two days early when he can't play tomorrow anyway, at the expense of that.
Making the kind of announcement they just did for Fabregas isn't standard practice, it's done in situations like that where they think it would be helpful to have a resolution, for reasons of not distracting the team and allow everyone else to focus having had some clarity etc - Nasri doesn't carry that same weight so there's nothing in it for them to do that/let us do that.