Dec 15
Ex-Arsenal midfielder ‘considered’ return to club
Former Arsenal midfielder Samir Nasri looked into the possibility of re-joining his former club, it has emerged.
Nasri, who famously admitted that he will always be an Arsenal fan, has kept in close contact with his ‘second father’ and Gunners’ boss Arsene Wenger since joining Manchester City in a £24 million deal last summer.
French tactician Wenger keeps in touch with many of his former players, especially fellow compatriots such as Nasri with whom he had built up a close relationship with during the Frenchman’s three years in North London.
25-year-old Nasri justified his reasons for leaving Arsenal last season as City went on to win the Barclays Premier League title, although the ex-Marseille midfielder hasn’t been involved as much as he would have liked so far this campaign due to injury problems.
Homesick?
Creative midfielder Nasri flourished under the guidance of Wenger and bagged fifteen goals and five assists in his final full season at the club and still misses many of his former team-mates, along with his old Hampstead-based mansion.
His relationship with City boss Roberto Mancini is also reportedly ‘strained’ after the Italian criticised Nasri for ducking out of the way of Robin van Persie’s free-kick winner in the Manchester derby last Sunday.
A return to Arsenal is highly unlikely because of Nasri’s £180,000-a-week wage demands, City’s reluctance to strengthen a ‘rival’, added to the fact that many Arsenal supporters still feel resentment over the circumstances in which he left the club.
Would you take Nasri back if he was available next summer? Leave your opinion in the comments section below.
i hope he has learnt his lessons, dat not all dat glitters is gold.it will b a good tin if he comes back cos he will fit into d team asap. i hope he comes back.
Are we nt buying striker again, le prof shold 4gt nani, nd go 4 raheem sterllin,
I don’t think it will be possible bcaus his wages is the key factor that can prevent him to be backed again and also i don’t think wenger will re-signed him again because i don’t trust wenger,what he is saying is difference 4rm what is doing but nasri is very fantastic and kind of player we need right now,he is welcome back home again if so happend
I know he disrespected us arsenal fans, you have forgive to forget who knows, if he did come back he would in the top four players for arsenal, however have you seen how shit he was at city than he was with us, personally I would forgive him and for him another chance who knows but I can feel arsenal dominating in a few years COYG!!
I use to buy him 4 arsenal when playn fiea or pes games b’cos of his atistry n dribln abilities,but can 4give.if dat has happen at arsenal b4 then i wuldnt mind.
I use to buy him 4 arsenal when playn fifa or pes games b’cos of his atistry n dribln abilities,but can 4give.if dat has happen at arsenal b4 then i wuldnt mind.
I’d welcome him back. His quality is really needed in Arsenal. Though, he should know that if he’s to be granted coming back to Arsenal, he must:
1. Take a pay-cut
2. Apologize to all fans
He’s a prodigal son.
You lot kidding? Get nasri back? No chance!! He made his bed, lie in it, if arsenal weren’t good en
Shame Nasri, coming back to do what, Mr Wenger please dont distroy the Team for the fans, Nasri should go back to Francs the fans dont need him, greedy players.
Football has it’s weird and wonderful moments.
People make mistakes, (as well as much money for a while) learn from them and are forgiven if they deliver.
I don’t care if he comes or not, what i care about is that AFC builds a strong team, gets a coach with a football brain and multiple tactics instead of the ONE way of playing that does not work anymore, not even against so called “lower” teams who, by the way, have improved tremendeously, sadly AFC hasn’t.
No, let the Dyke-look a like stay on the bench at City!!
Nasri is a very good player he flurished at arsenal than man city just because he as been used wit arsenal patan. Wenger know how to use player so if his willing to come bk let wenger embrace him
why do u want the views of the fans wen their views have not been respected. did u consider them wen u were buying squilachi or gevinho? gevinho makes me sich. why play him wen we hav andrei? i feel nauseated to see this ivorian on the line up.
No , one word …. Judas
Nasri…u were ma best after v.persi, i want u 2come back home cuz,charity bginz @home o, bt u did it wrong 2leav in the fist place, so u hv2 nd must appologise strongly 2all d fanc ‘gunners’…one-luv bro.
It is very easy to have remorse but why leave in the first place. The answer is greed. Let’s get the new team back on course and leave the greedy B*#! to wallow in their own bank balances
we don’t neet nasri we have arteta and jack viva arsenal
If you say we play the barca way! Then it’d be wrong! Coz we play “total football” and were masters of it during the early 2000′s.! So wenger could not keep it on due to less resources but still has done fabulously fantastic ! Questioning him would be insult , if he wishes to get nasri back , he should.!
Fans know IAWT.!:-D
I would definitely take Samir Nasri back. I know his act was one which people would refer to as ‘Judas’ or ‘C**t’ but Nasri is a very classy player. Just watching his involvement in City’s goals on Saturday made me realise how good of a player he is. I believe that we fans should put our differences with former players aside and realise that we need a stronger team.
But i seriously doubt that Nasri would come back to Arsenal.
Nasiri couse us so much pain but than we need him
we human beings commit sins nd god forgives so i want wenger 2 forgive samir nasri cuz av missed him so much evaly gunnerz
Nice if wenger can allow him to back to the team thr gridil guy can fill any roll in arsenal
I’m short of words, recently it was flamini, then Fabrigas and now Nasri what a hip of garbage. Wenger has never done anything right this season To please us the fans. But to take a clue to the question asked,prodigal or not, arsenal is a home for players both home and abroad. We don’t need nasri to solve our problem.Our problem is Diaby’s absence.arteta is not trust worthy. Buy diamey and dan baba that’s that.
Nasri is my man let’s forgive him. pls come AW asept him pls he’s a good player.
No chance, he can feck off, the mercenary, money-grubbing w*nker.
He use 2b my favorite player in Arsenal b4 he broke my heart by leaving, cos who knows maybe those players that left after him would have gotten more zeal to stay back if he was to still be in the club. Even if he was to eva leave d club that brought out the star in him, that was definately not the right time to do that. Well “d ball is in ur court wenger”, to treat him like d prodigal son or like an infected seed that has been uprooted neva to grow amongs others to avoid spreading his diseases of greed and ingratitude amongs others. Thats my verdict!
When will Arsenal blogs/fans see the issue is not personnel? We are tactically inefficient. When Arsenal last won the league, we did so playing pressing football. Our attacking players (Pires and Ljungberg in particular) were notable for tracking back. Granted, on his day,m Theo could be a bigger threat than either but the tracking back and laughable defending contribute to a woeful team IN COMPARISON TO THE GOLDEN YEARS.
As for Nasri, this would probably involve Cazorla going the other way.
It aint going to happen- not now or ever. No one will match City’s wages- not even ManU. This is because he does not add anything like 160k worth of value to any team. He is wasted at City. Mancini is the wrong manager for a player of his type.
He will never reach the heights he could have as a player under Wenger. His style of play is perfect for arsenal.
His style of play may have been perfect for the style of play we HAD , when we also had fabregas,song and RVP and a manager who knew what he was doing, but not any longer. Even if he was worth getting back there is no one at the club capable of seeing that and pulling off the deal.
His best position is on bench in MC. Arsenal had no enough bench spacing for him to sit.
We don’t need betrayer!!!!
I’m a City fan; Ive always respected Samir Nasri for all the work he did with Arsenal. However, I dont think he should be in City, he worked and co-operated better in Arsenal, at City he hardly scores, but does assists, and when you see him play it’s like hes not happy – because he doesnt get the joy that he got in Arsenal. So Nasri back to Arsenal, it’ll be better for his career, but his wage expect is too high if he wants to go to Arsenal.
yes indeed i would luv to see him back in d club.
I would have any ex Arsenal player back. Nasri is not flourishing at city as he did while with Arsenal.
Assume nasri wanna come back, how much is the price tag? Which one do you prefer, a same quality player with the same price without black history among the fans or him?
We dont want him back, his a betreyal and will always be. let him remain at city and rot there
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