Will he or wont he?
Samir Nasri seems to be the newest transfer story that will cease to go away.
A few days ago Neil Ashton of the News of the World broke the story that Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is a big admirer of Samir Nasri and wants to make him the number one transfer target for the rest of the summer.
However only yesterday news broke that Manchester City have made a £20million bid for Samir Nasri and offered him wages of £180,000 a week. Or did they? It only took a few more minutes on Sky Sports News until it went from “closing in on Samir Nasri” to “interested in Samir Nasri.” Rumours have it that it was just speculated that this was the case since they are rumoured to have the same agent.
Whether there is an actual bid on the table from Manchester City is under question. There is no bid from Manchester United as of yet but the interest in him is thought to be real.
So we have it. Will Samir Nasri transfer to Manchester? It is looking likely now but to which club will he be at? The red half of Manchester or the blue half?
Will he chose a team that he believes is up and coming but not yet one of the world’s best or will he chose a team that in recent years have basically guaranteed silverware for their players? Manchester United have now won the Premiership trophy 4 times in the past 5 years and have also won a trophy ever year since 2005 which is coincidently the last time his current team Arsenal won a trophy.
Manchester City of course will be a team who is always going to be thereabouts now due to the large scale investments they are receiving. Will he be playing in their sky blue kit come 13th August? As with most players who join them, I believe a move to Manchester City over a club that has been achieving much better in recent history is motivated only by money. Moving from Arsenal to Manchester City would seem quite a sideward move for Samir Nasri, although his bank balance may be much healthier.
So what would a move to Manchester United mean? I’m personally open to the idea. He was one of Arsenal’s stand out performers last season even though his form wilted away towards the back end of the season, but as with Nani I just put this down to the excessive amount of games that he played last season. With Van Persie and Fabregas making appearances only in the 20’s last season the burden fell on Samir Nasri who appeared around 50 times last term.
I feel that as well as signing a very good player, this transfer will also majorly weaken Arsenal. With Arsenal losing Fabregas, Nasri and Clichy for possibly a combined fee of around £60million, I highly doubt there is enough quality in the current market to replace each of these players man for man both in the number of personnel and quality. Players of their quality do not become available in the market too often and so at £20million I see Samir Nasri as a bargain regardless of how long he has left on his contract.
Would you like to see Samir Nasri in a Manchester United shirt next season? Do you think Samir Nasri is Manchester United quality? What would your feelings be if Samir Nasri ended up at Manchester City? Feel free to comment below.
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nasri would be a good signing but i still struggle to see arsenal selling him to us and there would also be a big question over his ability to fill the gap his being touted to fill.
as he i think he would want a more advanced role than scholes has played in recent years, so would most likely play where rooney has been or moved out on to the wing.
Samir Nasir is bound for manutd, i do believe that hhe ewill never think abount going to mancity because, winning is in united DNA.
Nasri fits at united so let arsenal leave le man to sign with Alex Ferguson.Nasri is a good player and he is a better replacement of Paul Scholes,Ryan Giggs.
i tink sneider wud be better but if we gofor him insted of nasri itill take 2 long and citywud probobly come in and hijack de deal we dont haf dat kind of money so lets keep goin for nasri !!!!!
Actually mancunians this saga could have a surprise Alfred Hitchcock type ending with Nasri going nowhere. C’mon you Gooners!!!!!
As a Man U fan with a special place in my heart for the Gunners (ie. Henry, Bergkamp, Viera, Overmars, Petit, Seaman, Parlour, Gallas, Pires, Adams, and yes, even Wenger, etc), I can’t see Nasri staying at the Emirates past the next couple of weeks. The club has been beaten to the punch by Fergie and others already this summer. With Fabregas sure to go (no suprise), and Wenger and the AFC Board apparently twiddling their thumbs, both Clichy and Nasri must’ve decided it was time to leave what probably looked to them like a soon sinking ship. They probably thought the Club would just sit on the cash again this year. When you’re a talented player, you need to believe you’re on a team that is there to compete for trophies. That’s how you KEEP the Nasri’s of the world at your club. If you dawdle and hem and haw over a few thousand pounds worth of transfer fees, it’s gonna bite you back with a vengence.
He could be pulling a Rooney
City are a joke any player they buy wants to leave there club within a season its all about money with and not about winning unlike
Nasri will only go to city for the money they are a very small club with no history or proper foundations unlike man utd who are all about winning and building a club on proper foundations money or no money plus we always give youth a chance unlike city buy a player for mad money who is not worth the money the player then relizes city is a small club and wants to leave how many players have they bought who want out now about 70% the game is not about money but being a big club who are winners= MAN UTD.
a source has told me he told wenger he is leaving and it will be on the papers later on toinght trust me it will be ;
Glory glory manutd as the reds go marching all all all and nasri too know it
GOONa the only Hitchcock reference that he’d be a psycho to stay with the ARSE & bigger one to go to Shitty. PS since why does everyone use the expression “blue half” of Manchester? If you lived there like I do & know your fractions you’d say “the blue quarter of Manchester”… ONE LOVE