Nasri To City - Done Deal!

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Scholesy isn't helping things btw

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Guardian:
Another player expected to leave Arsenal, the Frenchman Samir Nasri, is not due to resume pre-season training at London Colney until Thursday but will meet Wenger then and is expected to confirm his desire to join Manchester United. The 24-year-old has entered the final 12 months of his contract and has rejected a new five-year deal worth £90,000 a week at the Emirates Stadium, leaving Arsenal with a dilemma as to their next move. There had been a reluctance to sell a key first-team player to a direct domestic rival – City and Chelsea are also monitoring Nasri's situation – though that stance may now shift.
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SAMIR NASRI
Wants to go to... Manchester United
Status The Frenchman is reluctant to commit himself to Arsenal for a new contract. He returns to training tomorrow, when he is expected to hold talks on his future. United value him at £20m.
Probability rating 4/5
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Arsenal's summer transfer sagas - Telegraph
 
Reluctant Wenger puts £25m price tag on Nasri

Manager revises his stance on selling midfielder to Premier League rivals, as Clichy completes City move

By Mark Fleming

Manchester United will have to pay around £25m for Arsenal midfielder Samir Nasri as the north London club are reluctant to do business with any of their Premier League rivals.

United lead the chase for Nasri, 24, who has one year remaining on his contract with Arsenal and has rejected the club's offer of a new five-year deal worth £90,000 a week.

Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger had initially ruled out selling him to another English club, but it is understood his stance has mellowed slightly in recent days as the alternative is to allow a player who cost £15.8m from Marseilles in 2008 to leave for nothing when his contract expires.

However it would take a bid of around £25m for Wenger to sanction selling the Frenchman to one of Arsenal's direct rivals. United have made their interest clear, while Manchester City and Chelsea are paying close attention to developments and may enter the bidding should other potential deals fall through.

Milan and Internazionale have also expressed interest in Nasri, who scored 15 goals last season. He is due back at Arsenal on Thursday for the start of pre-season training, and Wenger still harbours hopes he can be convinced to sign the contract offer that remains on the table. Nasri, however, wants £120,000 a week, which would exceed the pay structure imposed by the Arsenal board.

Wenger is especially keen to keep Nasri as he accepts he will be unable to prevent Cesc Fabregas leaving for Barcelona, as long as the two clubs can agree a fee. Arsenal value their captain at £40m and last year rejected a £29m bid from Barcelona for the player who is contracted until 2015.

Gaël Clichy yesterday completed his transfer to Manchester City from Arsenal for a fee rising to £10m. The defender, who spent the morning undergoing a medical at a private hospital, was in the final year of his contract at Arsenal and, although Wenger was keen to keep his fellow Frenchman, he had made it clear he would not be signing an extension.

It is understood Wenger is not looking to sign a left-back as a replacement but is considering asking Thomas Vermaelen to move across from centre half. Instead Wenger is looking at signing two centre halves, and is inching towards a move for Bolton Wanderers' England international Gary Cahill. Bolton are understood to want the full £17m that was written into the defender's contract as a buy-out clause, while Arsenal would prefer a player plus cash deal, and are prepared to offer Bolton the England under-21 international Henri Lansbury.

The Bolton manager Owen Coyle yesterday claimed his club have yet to receive a formal offer for Cahill, 25. Coyle said: "I have been very open. Some of the elite clubs in this country have noted their interest. But there has been nothing concrete. Until that changes, Gary is a Bolton player. Gary has been the subject of speculation every day, probably to the point he is frustrated by it."
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Reluctant Wenger puts £25m price tag on Nasri - Transfers, Football - The Independent

I wonder where this stuff about us leading the chase has come from.
 
Virtuoso said:
I wonder where this stuff about us leading the chase has come from.
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Being Nasri's destination of choice maybe? It's not hard to imagine we're the most attractive option out of the 3 teams that have been 'linked' with him thus far
 
I got a feeling he will leave Arsenal now, and I believe we'd pay £25m to get him - we paid £15m+ for Young who was in the same position and is inferior. Question is, will Nasri go for fame or money when presented a choice? And will we even bid?
 
charlenefan said:
Being Nasri's destination of choice maybe? It's not hard to imagine we're the most attractive option out of the 3 teams that have been 'linked' with him thus far
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It's definitely not and I would imagine we'd be the most attractive option, but where is the evidence and how exactly have they come to this conclusion is what I'm wondering. Nasri preferring a move to us has been stated in The Independent and the Telegraph tonight, I'm just curious as to how/where they've got that piece of information from or if it is just guesswork.
 
Well if thats true and the independent is a generally decent source then it depends on whether Sir alex sees Nasri at 25 million good value, tbh in todays market 25 million for a player at 24 of his ability is great value but of course theres the fact hes in the last 12 months of his contract and whether wed be willing to offer so much knowing hes a free agent next summer.

Must say there does seem to be a general acceptance in all the more respectable papers (independent/guardian etc) that we are the front runners for him which im surprised by but obviously they have reason to believe so.
 
Red Dreams said:
we paid what 16 million for Young...with a year left

in that sense this may not be that crazy.
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Yeah true, as i say 25 million for a player of his talent in todays market (a market where Joleon lescott and james milner went for more! :lol:) its great value, im just not sure we as a club would pay so much for a guy in the last year of his contract, 25 million is not a whole lot less than our transfer record.
 
Red Dreams said:
if his quotes are to be believed he may well end up with us rather than noisy neighbors
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If those quotes were genuine then reading between the lines they sound like a great big feck off you anti football more money than sense small timers, making references to playing in a team who play the type of football he likes and direct comments about money not being important certainly sounded like a direct slap in the face to City and their dull slow defensive football and ££££.
 
Really hope this happens, I'd have had Nasri over Sanchez any day of the week and to get him for £20m would be a steal.
 
Allforone said:
Well if thats true and the independent is a generally decent source then it depends on whether Sir alex sees Nasri at 25 million good value, tbh in todays market 25 million for a player at 24 of his ability is great value but of course theres the fact hes in the last 12 months of his contract and whether wed be willing to offer so much knowing hes a free agent next summer.

Must say there does seem to be a general acceptance in all the more respectable papers (independent/guardian etc) that we are the front runners for him which im surprised by but obviously they have reason to believe so.
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He won't be a free agent next Summer though, if we don't buy him now someone else will.
 
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