Nasri To City - Done Deal!

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amolbhatia100 said:
Alternatively he'll move abroad but he won't come to United. Arsenal aren't that thick.
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I don't think they have much of say in the matter considering his contract situation. If Nasri genuinely wanted to join us, then he can easily force a move. Arsenal will then have to choose between selling him to us or risk letting him go on a free next season, hardly a difficult choice.
 
Wittmann45 said:
Don't listen to the rumours that my agent and I started and fueled, it was only an attempt to get more money
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16:35 More ambiguous comments from Samir Nasri have emerged today. "There is not much to say apart from don’t listen to all the rumours and everything that is written or said," he says. "Earlier in the season I spoke with the boss and we said we would talk during the summer, which is what we are going to do." Which is fine, except those comments were made to the official Arsenal magazine, which means the interview most like took place two or three weeks ago. Plenty of time for things to change.
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There's hope yet.
 
That there are few rumors that ties Nasri to us is a clear sign that he will be the one to replace Scholes. In any case, based on historical preferences, with more credibility
than articles in hotsoccer, SteamTalk and transferjunkie etc.

I am still waiting ....
 
MANCHESTER UNITED will make a £20million bid for Arsenal contract rebel Samir Nasri this week.

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has pledged he will NOT sell the French international to United.

But Old Trafford chief Sir Alex Ferguson is ready to test Arsenal's resolve to keep hold of a player who can go for nothing in 2012.

Nasri refuses to budge from his demand for a pay hike from £70,000 a week to £110,000. But the financially prudent Gunners are reluctant to offer Nasri more than £90,000 when talks resume.

Wenger has said Arsenal will sell Nasri and Gael Clichy, who also has only a year left on his current deal, rather than let them run down their contracts as Mathieu Flamini did.

And with captain Cesc Fabregas's future also in doubt, the club are facing a summer crisis.

Playmaker Fabregas, 24, will be on holiday this week in Catalonia where suitors Barcelona will be lurking.

The Champions League winners are preparing an improved offer after a £27m bid was rejected last week.

Arsenal have made it known they will not accept less than £44m but could be forced into doing business if his Catalan admirers slap a £35m offer on the table.

It is unlikely the Gunners will be able bolster his market value by convincing the Spaniard to extend his contract, which has three years left to run.

There are also growing concerns over his fitness, with hamstring injures dogging four of his last five seasons with the Gunners.

United are set to take their summer spending to more than £50m by completing the £18m signing of Atletico Madrid goalkeeper David de Gea this week.

Spurs midfielder Luka Modric remains a prime target for Ferguson but the Croatian has expressed a preference to move across London to Chelsea.

Snatching a star name like Nasri - who is 24 today - from one of United's big-four rivals would be a massive coup for Fergie.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/not...-Arsenals-Samir-Nasri.html?CMP=SOCjam_TW_NOTW
 
I'd love to believe that we'd sign Nasri but it's just going to happen. Everybody surely thinks it's a ploy for more money and eventually he'll get at least something close to what he wants and we'll all move on and agree that it was never going to happen.

Just trying not to give it any creedence to build my hopes up.
 
izzydiggler said:
I'd love to believe that we'd sign Nasri but it's just going to happen. Everybody surely thinks it's a ploy for more money and eventually he'll get at least something close to what he wants and we'll all move on and agree that it was never going to happen.

Just trying not to give it any creedence to build my hopes up.
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It would be hilarious if we did nab him on so many levels.
 
Arsenal are in a corner, in a little under a months time he could buy the remaining year of his contract out and any club could pay him higher wages with no massive fee to pay. He could sit out the last year of his contract and Arsenal get nothing, if they sell I doubt they'll get more than £15m.
 
cj_sparky said:
Arsenal are in a corner, in a little under a months time he could buy the remaining year of his contract out and any club could pay him higher wages with no massive fee to pay. He could sit out the last year of his contract and Arsenal get nothing, if they sell I doubt they'll get more than £15m.
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Nasri refuses to budge from his demand for a pay hike from £70,000 a week to £110,000. But the financially prudent Gunners are reluctant to offer Nasri more than £90,000 when talks resume.
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I refuse to believe that £20K per week is a stumbling block to signing a new contract. It's nonsense like this which lead me to believe the whole story is guff...
 
Colin129 said:
I refuse to believe that £20K per week is a stumbling block to signing a new contract. It's nonsense like this which lead me to believe the whole story is guff...
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I think it probably is. The numbers I've heard are £100K offered £120K asked. The problem is we can't afford to pay 20% more on salaries across the board than we already pay (£120M at the last count). I suspect we'll find some way of sorting it without increasing his headline pay if the numbers are that close.
 
peterstorey said:
I think it probably is. The numbers I've heard are £100K offered £120K asked. The problem is we can't afford to pay 20% more on salaries across the board than we already pay (£120M at the last count). I suspect we'll find some way of sorting it without increasing his headline pay if the numbers are that close.
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why should it be across the board? surely certain players can be paid a higher wage based on ability.
 
peterstorey said:
I think it probably is. The numbers I've heard are £100K offered £120K asked. The problem is we can't afford to pay 20% more on salaries across the board than we already pay (£120M at the last count). I suspect we'll find some way of sorting it without increasing his headline pay if the numbers are that close.
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£20K a week is £1M a year, in the rarefied world of the EPL, that's should be just pocket change...

If he signs a 4/5 year deal it would be well worth it.

I remember when Roy Keane renewed his contract at £60K per week and everyone was saying at the time mental amount of money, but compared with letting him leave for peanuts and finding a comparable replacement, it was the cheaper option by far despite the, at the time, record salary.

Pay him the money or sell him to us for £15M & we'll pay it...;)
 
Red Dreams said:
why should it be across the board? surely certain players can be paid a higher wage based on ability.
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You'd think, and then we used to operate under what seemed like a similar wage structure

Bumping up Nasri would probably see lots of others needing to be bumped up
 
Colin129 said:
I refuse to believe that £20K per week is a stumbling block to signing a new contract. It's nonsense like this which lead me to believe the whole story is guff...
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but he hasn't signed his contract so how can the story be guff? Arsenal seem a bit tight :)
 
Well, I never thought this thread would be interesting again, but here goes.
cj_sparky said:
Arsenal are in a corner, in a little under a months time he could buy the remaining year of his contract out and any club could pay him higher wages with no massive fee to pay. He could sit out the last year of his contract and Arsenal get nothing, if they sell I doubt they'll get more than £15m.
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prateik said:
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Article 17 of Fifa's transfer Regulations states that:

"any player who signed a contract before the age of 28 can buy himself out of the contract three years after the deal was signed."

Article 17 was introduced in December 2004, with effect from 1 July 2005

Nasri falls into this category having signed a four-year deal with Arsenal on the 11th July 2008. There's only one case I'm aware of where this come to pass - Andy Webster's transfer from Hearts to Wigan.
Pioneer Webster buys out own contract | Football | The Guardian

The metric used there was the players average salary multiplied by 1.5 - roughly equating in the case of Nasri to under £2m.

Fairly big bargaining chip to be playing with, to say the least.
 
The big clubs have an agreement/understanding between themselves not to use the Webster ruling.
 
Cant see Arsenal selling him to us. There will be plenty of suitors that will pay that kind of money for him. Bayern and Inter and teams like that will have plenty of money to make bids. But if Nasri refuses them and only wants to sign for us then there is a small chance indeed!! Cracking player
 
peterstorey said:
I think it probably is. The numbers I've heard are £100K offered £120K asked. The problem is we can't afford to pay 20% more on salaries across the board than we already pay (£120M at the last count). I suspect we'll find some way of sorting it without increasing his headline pay if the numbers are that close.
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£20.000 may not seem that much - but let's just say they have 6-7 players on £90.000 - they will probably demand £20.000 each ...and voila - it's not £20.000 but £100.000 extra pr week...which is a nice £5 million each year
 
cj_sparky said:
Arsenal are in a corner, in a little under a months time he could buy the remaining year of his contract out and any club could pay him higher wages with no massive fee to pay. He could sit out the last year of his contract and Arsenal get nothing, if they sell I doubt they'll get more than £15m.
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All the major clubs have a mutual agreement not to use that ruling though. If he buys out his contract, he won't find employment with a CL club.
 
Wes said:
Well, I never thought this thread would be interesting again, but here goes.




Article 17 of Fifa's transfer Regulations states that:

"any player who signed a contract before the age of 28 can buy himself out of the contract three years after the deal was signed."

Article 17 was introduced in December 2004, with effect from 1 July 2005

Nasri falls into this category having signed a four-year deal with Arsenal on the 11th July 2008. There's only one case I'm aware of where this come to pass - Andy Webster's transfer from Hearts to Wigan.
Pioneer Webster buys out own contract | Football | The Guardian

The metric used there was the players average salary multiplied by 1.5 - roughly equating in the case of Nasri to under £2m.

Fairly big bargaining chip to be playing with, to say the least.
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CAS £11m award in Matuzalem case ends cheap contract buy-outs | Sport | The Guardian

and more importantly, if a player has to buy out his contract, he has to inform the club within 15 days of the season ending.
 
A few weeks ago I thought Samir Nasri was a very good player but also a typical Arsenal fanny who looks brilliant for three months and then disappears when the going gets tough.

Now I want him badly, and will be gutted when this bullshit move inevitably doesn't happen.

Ladies and gentlemen: the close season.
 
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