Player thread: Samir Nasri (2014/15)

[dronefromsector7g]

Time to sling him while we can still get some money.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

We wouldn't have even been playing tonight if it wasn't for Nasri who produced a fantastic performance in our time of need in Rome.

Way too few and far between these type of performances.

The all important opening goal in our final game of the season when we needed to win to win the League.

I'm not saying he doesn't contribute. If you read the post match comments in the Stoke and Newcastle games I had him down as man of the match but against Liverpool and tonight he was absolutely dire.

Great players don't have as many average or poor games as he does.

 

[bluethai]

Mancini was always right about him.

 

[hgblue]

Way too few and far between these type of performances.

The all important opening goal in our final game of the season when we needed to win to win the League.

I'm not saying he doesn't contribute. If you read the post match comments in the Stoke and Newcastle games I had him down as man of the match but against Liverpool and tonight he was absolutely dire.

Great players don't have as many average or poor games as he does.

I'll throw the cup final goal against Sunderland into the equation as well. He has a lot less poor/average games than people make out, and many more decent games than he gets credit for. He's a bit of a whipping boy imo.

 

[mosssideblue]

Sorry to think this, but I think him and Yaya are the bad apples in the barrel. Ship them both out asap

 

[BigOscar]

Tonight was a gut check, whe Nasri and Yaya were found wanting. Others may have lacked the quality, but these two lacked something far more important. The first half was pretty much summed up by Fernandinho and Milner getting nutmegged repeatedly, but along with Silva, they continued to chase back and try and get back, while Yaya and Nasri just jogged on the spot.

 

[baildon blue]

That wasn't the Nasri that played against Roma away .
I always think Nasri looks better when Silva not playing .
In fact Nasri played better in November and December when Silva was injured .

 

[Chippy_boy]

Forget the performance.

Risking a red card -again- just because he's annoyed is disgusting.

It's one thing doing it at the end of the game vs CSKA, I could understand it to a degree. But to do it midway through the 1st half away at Barca is criminal.

Selfish twat

That sums it up pretty well.

 

[waspish]

He just doesn't do enough when we haven't got the ball is sell him

 

[Summerbuzz]

Very good player, useful tactically. but I think he's one I'd let go fairly quickly. We need to improve discipline, work off the ball and consistency. These are his weak points.

Personally I also think he holds the ball too much. It only takes a couple of attacking players to start doing this and attacking play will become stilted. I think that's partly what's happened this season - Aguero is playing extremely 'head-down'. Navas is that sort of player too, unfortunately. For all Yaya's indifference, Milner's shortcomings, and Silva's lack of form, they are always moving the ball on and combining.

Someone compared him to Iniesta, and that's ok as far as it goes - They play the same role and are comparable in pace, ball control, and finishing... but Nasri produces a fraction of the really incisive passes or super-high-quality one-twos that the Spaniard conjurs up.