Samir Nasri

It's all good and well to say lack of trophies, but I find it disgusting that they're happy to leave the club with a losing mentality instead of attempting to prove the critics wrong. Albeit, the lack of trophies is deplorable, and that rests with Wenger and the board.

I'm sorry, but I just don't see it being the same with Nasri or Cesc beyond this summer if they stay. I find it really difficult to sympathise with people who earn ridiculous money, and in many ways I commend the club for trying to keep it realistic. I am as irate as the next Gooner when it comes to us not spending or should I rephrase that. Purchasing the correct acquisitions to balance out the squad and give us a fighting chance.

Yes, we've not won owt, and that's frustrating as ****, but we have also been extremely unlucky in two Carling Cup Finals and countless capitulations because of the squads mentality when push comes to shove and because of the managers inept way of doing things.

Yeah that extra £10k keeps our star players, keeps them happy. Until they want another £10k. I am sick of what football in England has become, it's ruining countless clubs in the lower leagues and the lower half of the table. There needs to be a time when these distorted realities and perceptions need to stop. It's fair enough saying it's a business, it's a career, that's what they need to do - no one's telling them to spend their £100k a week straightaway.

I appreciate the whole we need more quality, we need more investment, but I'm in a hard place accepting a player can hold a club of our size and stature to ransom over money, in a global economy where people struggle to put food on the table. Don't ever expect me to sympathise with these pricks.

(PS. Our haggling does annoy me, don't get me wrong, we're the most Arab/Turkish club in the league when it comes to haggling.)

All part of Wenger's five year plan. Great success.

Love the consistency in the business model as everyone has pointed out. I guess logic isn't Wenger's cup of tea.

I mean if you are keeping Nasri at the very least he could try influencing him to stay at the end of next year by going out in the transfer market and buying some quality in the meantime. otherwise we are out 20 million pounds that we could have utilized now in the market anyways.

If it was about the salary with him, we may as well have paid it as I'm sure what we could have sold him for in a few years time or so for what would be a vastly superior amount of money.

Whether that influences other players to negotiate their wages up you must take the risk to keep someone of Nasris quality... Besides, what type of signal does it show if we aren't attractive to our own young players and will let them leave on free transfers to collect huge wage packages at other top clubs

Gervinho and Wilshere were going to be starters regardless. Cesc is leaving which meant only RVP and Song were definite starters.

Walcott has continually shown himself not to be quality enough to play against teams that have a LB that can at least run. Arshavin has only become consistent in the fact that he is an average to above average player now. Not really good enough to be considered a starter on a title challenging squad.

Ramsey is exciting and a true intelligent prospect so I'll give you that one.

Rosicky is dead to me. He has actually been using up the money we could have paid Nasri while hanging out at our club injured all year. Nasri has a right to figure he isn't paid enough when you see shit like that.


All in all Nasri will be a big loss for us. It is a slight on Wenger that he is leaving, not Nasri's character. He has grown into a player with a strong personality with great confidence. This is the type of player we need at Arsenal. While many of our other players looked like they shit their pants while lining up to play Barca, he looked confident as hell. He has grown much in the last season or two. His personality reminds me of Sneijder now, and I consider that a personality that could lead a team once Cesc leaves.

I agree that it is always exciting to see how our stars in the making do. That is why I enjoy the league cup and FA Cup. I don't want our entire squad to be comprised of them. This is another drastic step back when we obviously want to be progressing ahead. The excitement of watching another Wilshere make it on to the stage is little compared to that of playing in and winning UCL finals against the top teams in the world or consistently playing our league competitors off the park.


One player doesn't come near the presence that a whole team functioning in perfect accord and thought does (unless you are a top 5 player). So Wenger is right in this sense. Only one little freaking problem... that hasn't been our squad in a long time. Fabregas, Nasri, and RVP have single handedly won us games countless times over the last few seasons. We are probably about to lose two of those three players.

This is scary, and Wenger isn't letting Nasri go because he knows loosing both of them in one season means a champions league spot is unlikely. Plus Fabregas is the key to us functioning as a system at all. Wenger knows if they both leave then we also lose our system we have been built on.

Wenger's five year plan was based on having a consistent squad with players that know each other in and out. He hasn't been trying to build depth for that very reason, he believed a Bendtner who understands and has played with the same squad for five years will prove a better player than a David Villa in his first year with this group of players.

This didn't work out as our best and most confident players decided to leave. Now the player that this 5 year plan was molded around, is about to leave long before he was supposed to (In Wenger's mind). Nasri is a smart player, he sees this and either expects to get paid like the new Fabregas he must become, or he will leave since the club clearly isn't going to improve when the best player leaves and Wenger continues his unproven philosophy.