Samir Nasri attacks Arsenal fans, inadvertently revealing his own hypocrisy
May 16, 2012
I’ve got a bit of a confession to make. I wasn’t that bothered when Samir Nasri left Arsenal.
Sure I was bothered generally by the situation. I didn’t understand why we’d played him in all of our pre-season friendlies. I couldn’t see why we hadn’t signed a proper replacement. And to lose both him and Fabregas in such quick succession seemed like a particularly ill thought out strategy.
But I wasn’t exactly weeping into my corn flakes. Or beating my chest and howling at the moon. Or constructing Samir Nasri effigies using a sack full of rat droppings and an old discarded Martina Navratilova waxwork head that I found in the bins round the back of Madame Tussauds and gave a slightly more rubbish haircut to.
It’s fair to say that I wasn’t that bothered. In fact, getting a £25 million transfer fee for a player going into the last year of his contract I’d go so far as to say I was pretty pleased with the deal. So it’s been particularly galling that as ‘an Arsenal fan’ young Samir has felt the need to rub his recent League victory right in my not that bothered face. Speaking to French TV channel TF1 he said:
People at Arsenal tried to make out that I came here for the money. I hope they are watching me now, collecting my Premier League winner’s medal. I believe they have not won a trophy for many years now.
I made the hard choice to come and fight for my place at a big club, and I have proved it correct. I now hope the Arsenal fans can get on with their lives and forget me.
Get on with my life and forget you? I was busy celebrating our 16th straight qualification for the Champions League before you came along and started victory yodelling in my face. It’s like a girlfriend you dumped and don’t especially want to see again coming round and getting off with her new boyfriend in your front garden then screaming through the letterbox ‘you’ll never see these again’ before flashing you her boobs like Kitty the secretary in Arrested Development (You Tube it). Except the ex-girlfriend looks like an aunt that’s not really an aunt just a friend of your mum’s that you’ve known for years but never seen without her full make-up job on and it makes you feel a bit sick.
Like I say, I wasn’t too bothered about Samir Nasri but the more that he insists that I was, the more annoyed I seem to be getting. He went on to say:
If all that I was interested in was money, the easiest decision would have been to stay at Arsenal, picking up my money every week and walking into the team. There are many people doing this right now at Arsenal.
Well, no. If all you were interested in was money then the easiest decision would be to jump ship for a club that instantly offered you double your existing wages and spend a good proportion of your time sitting on the bench. I mean, I’m no financial expert but even I understand that.
He signed off by telling the Arsenal fans:
Celebrate third and I will focus on winning titles.
Yeah okay. Why not focus on that? Rather than telling Arsenal fans all about it. I’m sure the massive haul of five goals you contributed to the effort made a world of difference. It is after all nearly as many as Thomas Vermaelen scored for us this season.
And while you’re focussing you might remember your own words from 2010 before you took the ‘difficult financial decision’ to jump ship for double the salary:
It is annoying. The work we do is not getting the credit it deserves because we are not winning silverware. It is unfair because I think we have more merit as a club than those who have built their teams with millions of pounds whereas Arsenal have brought in young footballers, who have come here to play a certain kind of football and who have developed.
So, let me get this straight. Essentially what you’re saying is that there’s very little merit for clubs that simply buy their way to success. Almost like the trophies that those clubs win, the medals that their players so proudly boast about don’t actually count for all that much anyway. Do you know what? I think you finally said something I can agree with.
Right. That’s all for today. Our Robin should be making his way over to Arsene’s house as I type this while M. Wenger is no doubt scurrying around the kitchen putting the finishing touches to his famous granola parfait. Let’s hope it’s to the captain’s liking and Arsene refuses him seconds until the deal is signed.
Could be a pretty big day.
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NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Samir You’re A ****, You’re A ****, Samir You’re A Cunt!
Woops!
I meant to censor the last ****.
Sorry.
Shame he had to sink to new lows, at first it was just a spat between him and some of the fans, Frimpong and Piers Moron. Now however he has insulted the club and everyone connected with it, Wenger, ex-colleagues and fans. If it is true that Citeh are going to invest big again this summer they’d have to cut some players from their squad…….wouldn’t it be funny……. I mean, Modric leaving…..
excellent article.
Nasri was replying to naughty questions from the media, and of course he was asked about the ten grand bet he had with Piers Morgan regarding winning silverware, which will go to charity.
That aside, obviously he wasn’t talking about all Arsenal fans, just those many thousands who have booed him live, made abusive banners (very professionally done too – kudos!), and been all over the media, like Piers Morgan, calling him every name under the sun.
He probably wasn’t including you, on reflection.
He is right of course on one point, those Arsenal fans acting like they’ve been dumped by their girlfriend, need to get over him, as the hurt is about to start all over again when Van Persie follows his heart (and wallet) to another suitor.
the modern footballer has no loyalty to anyone or anything but their own career, as do football clubs, only contracts are binding – the rest is pure business.
these footballers in the main aren’t even from this country, never mind born within the catchment area of whichever club they now play for, and so if the rumours are true Yaya Toure wants to leave City “to find a new challenge” according to his (?) agent, then good luck to him, life goes on.
No player is bigger than the club, that’s how it should be.
Nasri is now a champion with Man City. He has suffered dogs abuse from Arsenal fans but in the end he has been proven right.
You celebrate qualifying for the champions league for the 16th consecutive time.
Can you celebrate your 8th year without a trophy?
He has made 31 league appearances scoring 5 goals and assisting 9, he will improve next season.
Get over it your bitterness and jealousy is cringe worthy. You should drop this resentment now and focus on your team, it is embarrassing.
tiny bit hypocritical wouldn’t you say ?
It may be that ‘you’ personally didn’t care much or didn’t give out the abuse when nasri played against arsenal but then I suspect his comments weren’t aimed directly at you were they.
I suspect his comments were aimed at the ‘majority’ element at your club who like to hurl vicious and obscene abuse at ex-players.
Oh, and a bit of it might have been aimed at the twatters in your playing squad. pffft.
I’ve waited for this post since Sunday when Na$ chanted after their match that he was right. I’d hit him with a hammer!
$Nasri wasn’t even a first choice name on the Man City team sheet last year, so what’s he going to feel like once Eden Hazard signs for them? Even less playing time and yet he will still be paid the same amount of wages – total hypocrite and waste of space and so glad he left AFC.
I know, the only problem with Nasri leaving is that we didn’t replace him early enough. He’s less than a footnote in Arsenal’s recent history and a revolting, pointless little shit bag. I don’t think any gooner would want him back, he’s not even worth getting abuse when he plays against us. They would have won the title whether he was there or not, they bought the premiership and are a disgrace to fair play and sporting principles. Nasri and greasy Man City deserve each other. Okay, that’s off my chest now : )
Nasri, you are a fool, you supposed just to tap your mouth and celebrate what you have, no need to come back to us, now dream your grassy coffee, foolish!!!!
Think of who is coming in your beloved team next season, the like of Eden Hazard, esh!!!! i feel pretty silly for you small ugly boy!!!!
nasri he forgot one thing.yah he is a best player.but remember there are no bigplayer than club.mr nasri please don’tsay anything that u will regret cozin soccer they is good moment and bad moment so enjoy when is good.
Hilarious article
get over it you sad gooners. where are these young players coming through, all bought from clubs like southampton, you even robbed jack wiltshire from luton. city are just doing what arsenal have been doing for years giving players a better chance to win things and earn more money. if stan kronc gets his checkbook out and buys aguero for £50m and pays him 250k a week will you be complaining then, i think not. get behind your team (oh you only do when things are going well, i heard the boos) arsenal are the old man city selling players to survive
@Mike & (in a way) Melon Man, as well as all the others who think Nasri is right if he says so:
I understand there was a lot of flak and f**k flying at him over these past 8 months (it’s almost a full new baby away!), and so, it’s okay for him to react, although he is in a slightly different position – it’s in front of the cameras and face to face with the journos. You can’t just do unto others as they do to you, because it’ll always look bad in the media.
But it’s really a hit-and-miss situation. Yeah, he’s right, he was lucky enough to win (with ManU tripping themselves up), and he deserves the credit even just for being there (he’s responsible for like a tenth of their goal output, a fringe player, but still good enough to make it). But why should he claim Arsenal players are only about collecting money when a part of his own deal was to get more of it? Why should he say it would have been easier to play upwards of 50 games out of position for half the pay he gets for playing about 35 in position? That’s where he gets it all wrong. You see, he has a point, but he’s so intent on proving Arsenal (and fans) wrong that he overdoes it. And that’s what our noble and entertaining author got spot on.
I must say I quite enjoyed the idea of booing Nasri, as much as I enjoyed that of booing Adebayor. This simply because both made choices that were no more than 50% about success. The rest was all money. And it’s ugly, leaving a place that was like a home to you because another foster mother gives you more toys? At least Nasri isn’t such a total dork with it as Adebayor… Both should take lessons in humility and rhetorics. On the other hand Arsenal fans could also teach themselves to boo a little more intelligently…
@city r
Nope.
Loved the Arrested Development reference, keep it up MarbleHalls
Melon, Mike and Tublu, you are a bunch of nincomp–ps. You really can’t see beyond your noses. Can you. You are commenting on an issue you know nothing about. And you are doing it with the arrogance and gait of an imbec-les.
Na$ri bit the fingers that fed and nourished him and when when he grew fat, he ran. Just imagine your mother carrying you in her womb for nine months, gives birth to you, feeds you, educates you, literally toils for you to the last drop of her sweat. And when you grow up and people began to notice your bulging biceps and began to feel happy for your old lady thinking “Ah, now is the time for the poor old lady to sit back and begin to enjoy the fruits of her many years of painful labor”. But wait a minute. The young man suddenly runs off to pitch his tent with some prostitute old enough to be his mother!!!
No amount of persuasion from the bewildered old mother would make him see reason. And at the slightest provocation(?) he sits on the roof of the tent of his new found love (the old prostitute) from across the street and throws stones at his mother every time she walks by.
Well now, there is your toy Na$ri that you are so eager to defend for whatever reason.
All these ”when hazard goes to city” type shit sounds like sour grapes. Hell the whole tin sounds like sour grapes! Am a gooner. Common gooners, its his time, just as it was adebAyors time wen he scored and raced the length of the pitch to taunt us. Nasri likes arsenal. What he is trying to say by ”a lot of players are doing this right now at arsenal” is ”sell almunia, fabianski, manone, vela, bentner, squilaci, dourou, etc, coz they are NOT ARSENAL WORTHY! So u see, thats love. Arsenal fans, like wenger, need to grow up coz THE TRUTH IS BITTER!
And we have had loads of players who have done their bit to the very best of their abilities at The Arsenal and left over nice friendly smiles, handshakes and hugs. Some of them are actually considered legends at Arsenal and would be happily welcomed back very easily, whether as players (if they still have what it takes), gooner fans or in some other official capacities that we at The Arsenal find suitable.
Na$ri and Adebayor don’t fall under this category. And until last year, who would actually consider City as a “big” club?
He has no class completely. A pure cheap slum boy who has unexpectedly seen some light.
Poor boy, where you have been will always remain your refernce. We shall always judge you lowly in Arsenal. I know one time you will need to identify with Arsenal but no body will give you that audience.
Love the article. I had a few laughs. That Na$ri quote will came back to haunt him already lol. Great article
tainted silverware-cheating-unsavoury characters.
Ha, dont make laugh.
took you how long with how much money again? to win something big. wind your necks in. NOBODY outside of supporting and playing for oil blue respects you, bar mercenary whores like maybe hazard.
it wasnt that long ago, im sure you can remember life without the cash watching chavski do what your doing now. we have usmanov.
and if he managed to get in power and basically cheat to titles, yes id support the team undoubtedly but not for one second would i brag about winning stuff.
do you lot realise the amount of money you still have to spend and the titles you have to win before you can even sit near our table!!?
time will tell ultimately, ask leeds, portsmouth, newcastle, blackburn even now chavski etc… enjoy your time fickle $ity fans and na$ri cos when it comes crashing down, and it will, it always does. post mockery will just be karma manifested.
city r chumps
So we robbed Jack Wilshire from Luton did we? He was 9 years old when he joined Arsenal. It’s like saying Manchester United Robbed David Beckham from Ridgeway Rovers U/10′s.
What’s most embarassing is these gooners who just can’t let go of nasri, d guy played 30 league matches,starting 26. 6goals 9assists. If that isn’t full contribution for a season i dnt know what is. How many arsenal players can boast of such an impact? Now all some can say is to boast about the players city will buy,let nasri worry about that while u worry about the next 14yr old city will buy
Pius G. Chomo –
wow, i had never thought of the Samir Nasri situation like that, you have opened my eyes!
Only slight flaw in your amusing story is he wasn’t “born” or “grew up” at the Arsenal.
This is an extract from Wikipedia outlining Nasri’s career to date –
“Nasri began his football career playing for local youth clubs in his hometown of Marseille. At the age of nine, he joined professional club Olympique de Marseille and spent the next seven years developing in the club’s youth academy at La Commanderie, the club’s training center. In the 2004–05 season, Nasri made his professional debut in September 2004 at the age of 17 against Sochaux. In the following season, he became a regular starter in the team and also participated in European competition for the first time after playing in the 2005–06 edition of the UEFA Cup. In the 2006–07 campaign, Nasri won the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) Young Player of the Year award and was also named to the Team of the Year.
He finished his career with Marseille amassing over 160 appearances. He played in the teams that reached back-to-back Coupe de France finals in 2006 and 2007. In June 2008, Nasri joined Premier League club Arsenal agreeing to a four-year contract. He reached prominence with the team in his third season winning the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Fans’ Player of the Month award on three occasions and being named to the association’s Team of the Year. In December 2010, he was named the French Player of the Year for his performances during the calendar year.[8] In August 2011, after three seasons with Arsenal, Nasri joined Manchester City on a four-year contract.”
So if any team ought to be annoyed with his departure, it would be Marseille, not Arsenal, although the reported £14,000,000 transfer fee may have softened the blow. yes, that’s correct, Arsenal paid fourteen million pounds for the Frenchman, already a French international – so much for developing him as a player my arse.
having said all that, he could have kept his gob shut, but what would we have to moan and boo about if it weren’t for the antics of the modern footballer?
*next 14yr old wenger will buy
Yea &all dis shit abt nasri being ‘born’ & ‘bred’ by arsenal makes me laugh. How convenient it is to forget that arsenal practically poached nasri, a full french international from marseille in similar circumstance
All of saying arsenal always boo their ex-players are either suffering from amnexia or some worse ailments…a certain henry left for barca when we needed him most and he’s still a legend with the fans and the club…same for cesc,kolo toure,overmars and petit and even pires..they are still legends and respected…the difference is grace and class!
The only decent thing to do now on both sides is for Nasri to focus on his career while Arsenal focuses on its team.
He has duly challenged Arsenal to beat Man City to EPL title in 2012/13 and to finish above them every subsequent year until Nasri retires from playing football. Then, we can rightly rub his nose in it.
Ashley Cole issued the same challenge to us and we never got the chance to top him and his Club.
Understandable until now: we were neck deep in managing the Club out of our challenging financial position brought about by the investment in Ems.
Today, the situation has eased significantly. There is fewer reason why Arsenal is unable to take on the challenge this time!
Come on Gooners, it is doable! Lets focus on rubbing Nasri’s nose in it!!
Peter I love it, its is so appropriate for this small minded hypocrite. Let this be Nasri’s new name given the fact he warmed the bench so much…..”NASRI the SUB” (Small ugly Boy). I wish I was in England I would have this poster at every game.
Melon, Melon, Melon. I love you bro and that passion of yours, although misplaced by miles. You sound like a nice guy who actually doesn’t really get the gist.
I could reel out a list of names as long as my arm. Sorry, no. Not my arm. As long as from Jos to Abuja in Nigeria (I am a Nigerian gooner by the way – laugh) of footballers who have an endless list of inconsequential “trophies” having been engaged in a million menial jobs. This is an analogy I would ascribe to that your list of Nasri’s achievements.
The point I’m really making is this. Nasri, as far as the football world is concerned was, and there’s no joke here, a complete nonentity at the time he arrived Arsenal. He had a talent though, which nobody seemed to notice or really appreciate. Wenger saw that raw talent in him (which he always does), brought him to the most exciting league in the world, washed him clean and groomed him. It was at Arsenal that Nasri’s hidden talent blossomed.
Now, what we are saying is that he ought to have shown some gratitude. Henry did it. Fabregas did it. And many more before these two did same. When they left we didn’t like it. But we understood because they had exhibited great loyalty over several years before indicating their desire to change environment. The case of Fabregas was particularly and truly more painful because he had just received the final polish when the strong need to go home and meet up with his childhood peers overwhelmed him. No good father would refuse a humble, loyal child that simple but painful request to GO HOME. It was never primarily about the money for Fabregas. Wenger could have insisted he saw out his contract before leaving. But no. Wenger is too much of a gentleman to do that to anybody. You’ll agree with me that Na$ri’s case was entirely different. His was all about the money, whether he publicly admits this or not. Loyalty or gratitude was the last thing on his mind. And for Na$ri to rub it in our faces at every opportunity is most despicable.
As much as Man City winning the league depressed me in much the same way it bugged me when Chelsea bought the league, I was genuinely pleased for Clichy, Toure and even Viera despite him not being a player. Nasri and Adebayor are two of a kind in the classless way they behave but I chose to focus on the good business we did on both their sales, 25 mil for a guy who played one half of a good season in three years is not bad going. Plus it won’t surprise me if Nasri only lasts as long as Adebayor did at City.
Wow, got to be a record for comments. The one that made me laugh the most was from “City R Chumps” about how Arsenal fans only support the team when things are going well. City have only got anywhere near filling their (government paid for) staidium when it looks like they were going to win something. Once Man U went 8 points clear, there were empty seats all over the stadium even though City were having their best season in years. The Etihad will going back to being half empty and dull the again the moment City drop out of the top 2, which could well be next year. And what happens if the Sheikh leaves and they go back to having to try to survive on their own revenue? Empty stadium again!!
I have to say though Marble that I think that Nasri made a valid point in amongst what he said. We can’t deny that he has won a trophy, and has improved as a player. Maybe we should listen when he says that some of the Arsenal players just take the easy option to walk into the first team. I don’t think that’s too far wide of the mark when you look at the performance of some of the players this season. Nasri spoke of Mancini not accepting second best, and I think that maybe Wenger could maybe learn something from that rather than indulging under performance and poor attitude.
I think I love you too Pius G. Chomo.
I will go to my grave with the image of Samir Nasri sitting on top of an elderly prostitutes tent, throwing metaphorical stones at his real “birth” mother, Arsene Wenger.
I’ve had a fucking tremendous week so far (including Sunday), you have more than successfully kept it on a roll, for which I thank you.
Hi Melon. Nice chatting you up bro. It’s been fun really. That’s what football does. That’s what it’s all about. What would it be without the overflowing passion of the fans. The beautiful game! The beautiful game!! Cheers.
PS: I didn’t get the club you support. Hope it’s Arsenal.
lakey- im not convinced that point is valid.
yes it has elements of truth in it but the best lies usually do.
in short the financial situations of both teams are the cause.
building the stadium meant we couldnt be picky. all the players knew this and some showed their true colours.
$ity on the other hand can afford to have tevez out for most of the season(good for 15plus goals and assists), greedy on loan etc…
wenger can learn from mancini!!!?? you cannot be serious if your a gunner. give wenger half the cash and he’d eclipse everyhing he’s done in half the time. easy.
ak47 – you know I love Arsenal, and i take your point about differences in budget, but i definitely think that Arsene still has his faults. Maybe not demanding enough of his players, and letting them become complacent is one of them. Nasri’s comments weren’t the best, but i imagine that he is the victim of a leading question (not an excuse him though), and he has after all worked for Arsene and Mancini, so he would be well placed to spot any differences.
Cheers, Lakey
everyone has faults. but his pros outweigh the cons by some margin.
i cant comment on his methods as im not a manager, let alone at his level. from the outside looking in i get frustrated too but reading blogs like desigunner helps me understand how complex it can be. i dont agree with the ‘max out’ training sessions but who am i? it wasnt an issue with the invincibles?
what i find more important is how we dont get a single penalty at home and the two manc clubs get more combined than the five london teams.
well, Nasri its not your fault, you have forgotten that the club that brougth you to limelight has now become your laughing stock, next season your position will be under treat when Eden Hazard and others come to M City. Arsenal fans will sympatized with you next season on your substitute bench.Arsenal is coming great next season.
I also see it differently to Nasri – he says he could have stayed and walked into the squad every week – but he could have actually lead our team forwards, he had a chance to be one of the most important players in the team but he chose to be a bit part player instead. I’m pleased for City and all their players – good for them, but making fun of us basically because we have less resources is a pretty knobish thing to do.
You didn’t note his greatest hypocrisy. He said Arsenal fans need to get over him. In the immortal words of Emmanuel Frimpong, “PFFFFFFFFFF.” Na$ri is supposedly over the moon that City won the title and what is he talking about? ARSENAL FANS. Who needs to get over whom $amir?
Yep. Spot on.