Samir Nasri

[Moody]

That is rubbish, his best form for Arsenal came playing as a right winger where he scored quite a few goals.

Nasri is never a central midfielder as he doesn't offer anything defensively and he can't play with his back to goal to play behind the striker. He's a neat and tidy player but not one that hurts a team with his passing.

Uh no, Nasri played his best football as supporting attacking midfielder behind the striker, a penetrative running attacker, which contributed to his two-digit scoring run. Nasri is an intelligent player, he's the type that runs through spaces, not the type that creates spaces.

Ask any Arsenal fan, he played off the right not the middle when he was going through his best patch of form. Your right on his penetrative runs but it was from the right.

He is not a playmaker that dominates games and never has been, at most an attacker that makes runs from the second line.

nasri's best form came as an attacking midfielder behind forwards ask any arsenal fan they will tell you wen fabregas left and he moved into that position they got the best form out of him! fact

 

[Marvin]

Nasri has been poor this season and he needs to step his game up or he will be gone. He links up well with Tevez but for the money we spent on him he should be offering much more to the team

Quality player with the ball at his feet. We need to give him the chance, and believe in him.

At the moment he gets dropped 60 mins in, and is greeted with silence by City fans who can't get the memory of that RVP free-kick out of their heads

Time to move on. Sacrifice a mis-firing striker, andlets start dominating possession again.

 

[citymad]

I would drop Dzeko.

At the moment we are caught between two stools. Wing play and playing through Silva

Whenever the game doesn't work, we take off SIlva and go to plan b which is raid down the wings and cross for Dzeko

We need to know what we are doing and stick with it. Play through Nasri and Silva. And on to Aguero with maybe Milner arriving late in the box like Lampard and Gerrard do.

Can not continue with what we are doing now as it's not working and the manager is obviously losing faith in the players ability to do what they did last season

Good post Marvin, makes total sense. What I want to know is what happened to last seasons plan B where on 65 mins Yaya would be released forward. Surely we can add that as a plan C. We need options not only teams playing the "parking the bus" but now were facing teams that play the high pressure game like the dippers, dortmund and southampton.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

@DeadlineDayLive: AS Monaco are poised to make a joint £35m offer for Manchester City's Samir Nasri and Carlos Tevez. (Source: Goal)

Posted a thread in transfer forum about this....tried to get Mancini as well.

Take them all for 40 mil. :)

Some Russian billionaire is splashing the cash at Monaco...another PSG...let's see what platini has to say about that........FUCK ALL..IMO

 

[chesterbells]

Nasri has been poor this season and he needs to step his game up or he will be gone. He links up well with Tevez but for the money we spent on him he should be offering much more to the team

Quality player with the ball at his feet. We need to give him the chance, and believe in him.

At the moment he gets dropped 60 mins in, and is greeted with silence by City fans who can't get the memory of that RVP free-kick out of their heads

Time to move on. Sacrifice a mis-firing striker, andlets start dominating possession again.

Yep.
Nasri is always looking to pass forwards (rather than sideways like some others). He also is one of our best ball carriers, as well as being able to engineer 1-2s around the box.

 

[sleaky72]

Uh no, Nasri played his best football as supporting attacking midfielder behind the striker, a penetrative running attacker, which contributed to his two-digit scoring run. Nasri is an intelligent player, he's the type that runs through spaces, not the type that creates spaces.

Ask any Arsenal fan, he played off the right not the middle when he was going through his best patch of form. Your right on his penetrative runs but it was from the right.

He is not a playmaker that dominates games and never has been, at most an attacker that makes runs from the second line.

nasri's best form came as an attacking midfielder behind forwards ask any arsenal fan they will tell you wen fabregas left and he moved into that position they got the best form out of him! fact

When did Fabregas leave and Nasri get slotted into that position to get the best form? Didn't they both leave at the same time save for two games?

 

[awest]

Let's be honest nasri can't wait to get out of the club.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

@DeadlineDayLive: AS Monaco are poised to make a joint £35m offer for Manchester City's Samir Nasri and Carlos Tevez. (Source: Goal)

That would be a sensational piece of business for city.

 

[mancity1]

Nasri has been poor this season and he needs to step his game up or he will be gone. He links up well with Tevez but for the money we spent on him he should be offering much more to the team

Should be offering more even if he came on a free.

Had a very poor season , not alone by any standards as the vast majority of our squad have underperformed but Nasri lets face it has offered very little when he starts or off the bench.

Like a number of our players its clear he doesn't want to be at the club anymore.

 

[inbetween]

Not seen enough from him, he should be scoring at least 5-6 a season and so far, 1 and only 3 assists, it just isn't good enough. His movement was crap yesterday, passed and moved into a position where no player could pass to him, saw him in the box at one point while Dzeko had the ball on the wing, he either doesn't understand his role or he is being told to play that way.

 

[argyle]

Plays like he doesn't want to be here. Really thought he would do well for us but sadly bar a few games this hasn't been the case.

 

[Kid A]

Plays like he doesn't want to be here. Really thought he would do well for us but sadly bar a few games this hasn't been the case.

Hardly surprising, given that he has been in and out of the team and constantly played out of position. Very talented player who may deliver under a new manager in a different system, but given his baggage, I guess we'll attempt to get some of our money back in the summer.

Fingers crossed that Monaco keep winning.

 

[CitizenTID]

@DeadlineDayLive: AS Monaco are poised to make a joint £35m offer for Manchester City's Samir Nasri and Carlos Tevez. (Source: Goal)

That would be a sensational piece of business for city.

I'd be happy with £40m for both of them considering Carlos himself last year could have gone for £30m/£35m.

 

[blueinsa]

Not a fucking prayer of getting that sort of money for them.

Nasri has been shit for the most part and everyone knows Carlos is going into his final year.

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

@DeadlineDayLive: AS Monaco are poised to make a joint £35m offer for Manchester City's Samir Nasri and Carlos Tevez. (Source: Goal)

That would be a sensational piece of business for city.

I'd be happy with £40m for both of them considering Carlos himself last year could have gone for £30m/£35m.

Are you mad we were never going to sell Tevez for anywhere near that amount.

Would be sad to see Tevez go but anything over 25 million is a great deal.

 

[Kid A]

@DeadlineDayLive: AS Monaco are poised to make a joint £35m offer for Manchester City's Samir Nasri and Carlos Tevez. (Source: Goal)

That would be a sensational piece of business for city.

I'd be happy with £40m for both of them considering Carlos himself last year could have gone for £30m/£35m.

If Tevez goes, I don't see us getting more than £10M for him, and if we get anywhere close to £20M for Nasri after the season he has had, our negotiating team should get a medal.

 

[Burtonblue]

You could argue he lost us the league single handed with that act of sheer cowardice against the scum. That was a massive blow psychologically.
Until that point we were in complete control of our destiny.

You could argue that but it would be the biggest load of shite imaginable. Why did we concede that free kick? Because Clichy dicked about when he had plenty of opportunity to play the ball. Or because Hart didn't come for it. Or because Clichy fouled the rag player. And let's ignore the fact that we were shit in the first half generally and so gave away 2 goals. And the fact that we were shit yesterday and the weekend before and the Tuesday before that. Let's also ignore the fact that golden boys Silva & Yaya have generally been shit all season along with Aguero & Tevez. No - much easier to blame Nasri.

Ridiculous argument. Tevez did give away a needless free kick but at least he was tracking back and trying to win the ball.
All Nasri had to do was f*****g stand on the spot Joe had told him to and DO HIS JOB!!!
Like it or not, losing that game having got back into it was a massive turning point in the season and I for one hold Nasri responsible for the loss of that game.

 

[CitizenTID]

Oh yes, we're Man City aren't we.

Sorry I was trying to go a bit nearer to today's pricing trends.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

That would be a sensational piece of business for city.

I'd be happy with £40m for both of them considering Carlos himself last year could have gone for £30m/£35m.

If Tevez goes, I don't see us getting more than £10M for him, and if we get anywhere close to £20M for Nasri after the season he has had, our negotiating team should get a medal.

If we get anywhere near £20m for nasri then we are getting a brilliant deal for him. I can't see any club being incompetent enough to spend that on him. We paid way over the odds and I'm sure he's way overpaid, so we will do very well indeed to get shut at all. Personally I'd be surprised of we got £20m for the pair, given their wages and poor form.

 

[WNRH]

I don't rate Nasri and i don't rate Denis Suarez but now the title has gone Suarez should be given a chance to see what he can do.

My opinion on both is they will both be gone next season as neither are good enough but lets find out.