Ashley Young was in the same position as Samir Nasri, in his final year of his contract with Villa and able to leave for free on July 1st 2012.
Man Utd have signed the 25yr old for £17m today. So... if Utd are willing to pay £17m for Young, then the assumption that Nasri could be signed 'on the cheap' for £8-£10m has been well and truly rubbished! Either Nasri signs a new contract (most likely) or Arsenal will tell Utd to start negotiations at £18-20m. If a contract isn't signed and Nasri simply thinks he's going to run down his deal and leave on a free, Wenger should ship him out to any European club (preferably in Russia or Ukraine!) on loan for the final 12 months. We don't want a player who isn't prepared to commit himself to the team.
If Young went for £17m - How much for Nasri
posted on 23/6/11
We don't want a player who isn't prepared to commit himself to the team.
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Why Tottenham will never make the Top4, they keep players against their will, meaning those players won't perform to their best
posted on 23/6/11
actually it was undisclosed but probably around that figure.
Nasri would be about 20 million even in last year of contract.
But dunno what your worried about he will sign new deal anyway.
posted on 23/6/11
I'm not worried! He was fantastic from Aug-Jan and then faded to grey. What's the point in having a world class player for half a season? Either he improves his game or he is more than welcome to move to Manchester!
Arsenal has been and will continue to be a factory for aspiring young players. If Nasri goes, we'll simply develop another one - yes, it may take 2-3 seasons, but in the meantime the £20m or so would be enough to buy a bit of experience to tide us over.
posted on 23/6/11
RE: Tottenham not making the top 4 - it's not about keeping players against their will, no club can do that! Did they keep Berbatov? No. And you should know all about being unable to keep players against their will after the 'Winker' flipped you the bird and flew to Madrid.
Tottenham won't be able to keep Modric if Villas-Boas wants him. The first bid at £22m was purely a toe dipper and boy did Redknapp make an idiot of himself (no change then!) over that! If Chelsea up the bid as expected to £27m, Levy will have his hand forced. Spurs don't have CL football - a prime bargaining tool for signing and retaining top class players. If they continue to finish outside of the CL places against this season then Bale and Van der Vaart will soon follow. It's inevitable. Sad, but inevitable.
posted on 23/6/11
Who cares what he is worth. What I am more concerned about is him signing a new contract.
posted on 23/6/11
Regarding contracts - Samba signed a new deal this last Winter. Does that suggest that Blackburn just wanted to make sure they could get the highest fee possible for his move to Arsenal?
posted on 23/6/11
A question to all Arsenal fans: What are your ambitions for the upcoming season?
Assumed answer: PL champions/ a domestic trophy.
Therefore you would be better keeping Nasri even if it is for just one year and then letting him go on a free. Lets face it Arsene will not spend any of the transfer fee on an established PL player so it's pointless anyway.
posted on 23/6/11
You seem to be forgetting english players have 7 million quid 'english tax' if nasri goes i can see us selling him for the same as we bought him unless we manage to get a bidding war going