Samir Nasri interview

[Scottyboi]

Oh god, the Mancini lovers heads are going to spin off again. That might be the whole squad now who’ve gone public on what a dick he was.

Vafanculo

 

[chesterbells]

Oh god, the Mancini lovers heads are going to spin off again. That might be the whole squad now who’ve gone public on what a dick he was.

Bring back the Mancini Wars! Calling @BillyShears

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Bring back the Mancini Wars! Calling @BillyShears

You, me, Billy, TH, PB, blueinsa, Fantasy Ireland, Rammy Blue, a few more. “The Cabal” they called us. Most still around 10-12 years later too. Fun times.

 

[chesterbells]

You, me, Billy, TH, PB, blueinsa, Fantasy Ireland, Rammy Blue, a few more. “The Cabal” they called us. Most still around 10-12 years later too. Fun times.

Absolutely. Before you know it, bbc2 will be commissioning the documentary pal ;-)

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I always thought Mancini was emotional/highly strung, but I never realised what a twat he was to the players - surprised we won anything and it didn't just all implode.

It’s a known fact that people like that can yield extremely short term results in any kind of management whilst they bully everyone out of their comfort zones but before the resentment gets so bad that their staff stop performing and/or move on. I think often they are sociopath types who don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks. Mancini, I don’t know, something always said to me that he was a spoilt kid/enormous ego type.

Whatever, he won us the league and the cup and gave us the springboard to this era so ultimately it was the right call to appoint him and the right call to move him on.

 

[Ysabel 123]

There's only 3 things you need to know about Mancini - he won us the Premier League, the FA Cup and Community Shield.

Just in case anyone forgot, we'd not won these for decades before he came.

I do think Pep would've made Nasri into a great player though. He had all the attributes Pep likes - technically good, kept the ball, intelligent and could pass. I'm not sure he could handle being told what to do though.

It's a great interview though and I can imagine if you've got a dressing room with Mancini, Zaba, Kompany, Hart, Yaya, De Jong, Tevez and the likes it's not going to be a quiet one. They weren't passing tea and cakes around at full time and from what I can gather, other great sides were exactly the same. Our team was packed full of winning personalities and thank God they were - a lesser team would've lost to Newcastle away, lost to United at home etc.

Thanks Nasri though, you were brilliant at times and got us that 2nd goal to beat Sunderland in the League Cup final.

He also, tore down that fucking 34 year banner after beating them twats in the semi final, before absolutely annihilating them 1-6 at the swamp (whilst sitting in the OT dug out pissing his sides) on his way to delivering our fist title in 44 years!

So fucking what if he upset a few of our players on the way to achieving the above, he was a pussy cat compared to Brian Clough, and look what he did with Forest!

The man got us as fans, Granted he wouldn't work as our manager now, but he was exactly what we needed at the time. Show him some respect!

 

[Pep Guardiola]

There is more, the interview was a long one.
Says his only regret in football is leaving City, but loved working with Sampaoli at Sevilla .
Says Pep told him he was at Barca level but played for City because he loved money. Samir responded by asking Pep if he was in Manchester for the beautiful weather .:)

Pep trying to get him go away.
Pep brought to City the big club mentality: if you don't have discipline, goodbye.

Old mentality in City was: wow, he has talent although he has no discipline, he is my hero!

First is the club, second are the players.

 

[FantasyIreland]

You, me, Billy, TH, PB, blueinsa, Fantasy Ireland, Rammy Blue, a few more. “The Cabal” they called us. Most still around 10-12 years later too. Fun times.

Back to back and throwing punches....i fucking loved that period.

 

[Ysabel 123]

How many giftedly brilliant French players have had that selfish stubborn attitude over the years?
Cantona
Ginola
Evra
Zidane
Anelka
Ben Arfa
Nasri
Pogba
Rabiot
Benzema

 

[Dirty Harry]

A fantastic footballer, who lacked the desire and application to become a really great player, always saddens me a bit to see players like that.