Samir Nasri interview

[ChicagoBlue]

Many men are of a time and a place. Nasri and Mancini were two of them.

Nasri got an earful from Mancini for not tracking his man, enabling him to head in the second QPR goal in “that game,” so I’m not surprised Nasri didn’t think they could turn it around.

Mancini made history with City and was the springboard for high(er) expectations than the “40 point” mentality that seemed to pervade the place prior to him.

City had been the kind of club that gets a penalty at home at the end of the last game of the season to enable them to get into Europe for the first time in ages, has a legendary scorer step up to take it, and pass it into the keepers hands!!

Under Sven, we got a little bit of je ne sais quoi into the team, and even had some decent results and games. However, it was the mania that was Mancini, and the melting pot of personalities and abilities he was able to cobble together, that elevated the club to the heights from which we have yet to recede.

Mancini was the yardstick by which everyone that came after him would be measured…then Pep arrived and the yardstick became a mile marker!

Nasri was a talent. No doubt. However, like many French talents, you just wonder if him knowing he was talented was enough, because they just don’t seem like they’re willing to die for the shirt…even the Tricolor shirt!

Regardless of the insights and peeks behind the curtain from yesteryear, there is literally nothing ANYONE can say that can take the bloom of the rose that is 2012 and beyond!

 

[No One Understands]

You can argue that Mancini telling them they won't win anything without Yaya was spot on man management. We were stuttering for a bit at the time. Take everything with a bit of salt that Nasri says, and I loved him as our player. No one told him to duck out of the balls way when he stood in the line. Nasri could argue with every one. There is a reason why he was never called up to the French team when DD took over.

I won't pretend that Mancini had not lost the dressing room, but no one is bigger than the club in the end. You can ask Cancelo and others how that works out. Never wanted us to be the next Chelsea when it came to player power, so I for one don't like players cozying up to owners.

It's time we all, including former players, moved on. Many have. That group at the time came here to do something special, and they all had different motivations, but in the end they did, and I salute everyone of them. Even the Wayne Bridges of this world. I'll get me coat.

 

[Keeper!]

Good read that.
Every manager is different behind closed doors, that's standard.
He was a character was Nasri.

And one hell of a player when we was in the mood, sad that it did not work out with Pep.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

Nasri gave his all in many games, but shirked a few too. Inconsistencies and judgment cost him a few more years at City, but let's be fair, he was part of something big and a transition time. Like many, few players of that era annoyed me. Even Milner going to Liverpool doesn't upset me. He was part of it. That season Mancini released a video with the club. Bonobo on the soundtrack. The phrase Be Part Of It on car stickers etc. We grew. We re-emerged. Caterpillar to butterfly. Glad Nasri's interview was to the point. People move on. It is always a shame that bridges topple, burn or shift a fraction.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

The beauty is whether through timing, good management or pure luck, all those players that slate him, very few had better career spells than under his stewardship..............

Well, yeah. Most of them were in their physical prime when he was here.

 

[Coatigan]

The beauty is whether through timing, good management or pure luck, all those players that slate him, very few had better career spells than under his stewardship..............

Depends on what you mean by career spells, but for a few players that's not true either way.

Fair point on the whole.

 

[Coatigan]

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

And that we paid him twice, secretly.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

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!

What's disrespectful to Mancini about that post? Just wondering.

 

[FantasyIreland]

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.

Also a similar mercenary type to Cancelo.

I never took to Nasri,it was clear money was his only motivation and he was far too fucking arrogant.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

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.

Mancini was a bit of a ****, well colour me shocked.

He’s also exactly what we needed, someone to wipe away the mard arsed “typical City” attitude that permeated right through the club and inject a bit of fight and ambition.

He’s a fucking hero and deserves a statue for what he did.