Nasri To City - Done Deal!

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I'm unsure as to the credibility of the 'papers in the UK. Can someone rank the major ones in descending order, please?
 
Times are decent.. so that might confirm our interest. Doesnt mean anything beyond that tho.. Arsenal will resist and if they have to sell, they might try to turn it into a bidding war.
 
Mad said:
I'm unsure as to the credibility of the 'papers in the UK. Can someone rank the major ones in descending order, please?
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Caughtoffside
Goal.com
MrAgentITK2000XXX
Every newspaper
 
prateik said:
Times are decent.. so that might confirm our interest. Doesnt mean anything beyond that tho.. Arsenal will resist and if they have to sell, they might try to turn it into a bidding war.
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Bidding war?? No ones offering more than £25m for Nasri they'll be lucky if it reaches that figure. If they try and sell him abroad they'll get considerable less too. We talking around €15m.
 
Telegraph also reporting the exact thing.
 
evra said:
This is something nobody will agree on!


Sunday Broadsheets

Broadsheets (Independent, Guardian, Telegraph, Times)

The Mail

Sun

Mirror

Daily Express

Daily Sport
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I'd be tempted to put the Mail at the bottom, simply because it tries to pass itself off as something other than a tabloid, which at least the red tops are open about.
 
All the papers were City this morning....just trying not to get my hopes up. Seems an easy story - the eve of his return, then more tomorrow say that hes asked to leave followed by weeks of further contradictory speculation. I think it's safe to say that nobody bar Nasri and Wenger know what's going to happen.
 
Danny Taylor says the bid was rejected

Manchester United's £20m offer for Samir Nasri is rejected by Arsenal | Football | The Guardian


Manchester United's £20m offer for Samir Nasri is rejected by Arsenal

• Arsenal tell United they will not sell for less than £25m
• Nasri due to return to training on Thursday

* Daniel Taylor
* The Guardian, Thursday 7 July 2011

Arsenal have turned down Manchester United's opening offer for Samir Nasri and told the champions they will not sell the Frenchman unless they receive a bid of at least £25m. United must now decide whether they are willing to meet the asking price and put together an improved financial package after it emerged on Wednesday they had placed an offer of just under £20m two weeks ago.

The clubs had agreed at the time not to publicise the bid but it is now clear that United, having already spent £50m on Phil Jones, David de Gea and Ashley Young, have made the first decisive move towards bringing Nasri to Old Trafford and reinforcing their position as the major force in the summer transfer market so far.

At the same time, they are threatening to make it an even more traumatic summer for Arsène Wenger, who is already faced by the near-certainty of Cesc Fábregas's departure to Barcelona and now confronted by the distinct possibility of losing another of his key players. Nasri is due to return to Arsenal for pre-season training on Thursday and the expectation is that the 24-year-old, in the final year of his contract, will inform the club he wants to leave. Arsenal are willing to award him a vastly improved salary but they will still find it difficult to compete with the money on offer from Old Trafford.

The news of United's bid may trigger counter-offers from Manchester City, Internazionale and Chelsea, who have monitored Nasri's potential availability and are weighing up whether to turn their interest into something more concrete.

City distanced themselves from reports last week they had made a £20m bid, saying there had been no talks between themselves and Arsenal and that, at that stage, none were planned. They are, however, reconsidering their options after the failed move for Alexis Sánchez of Udinese. Should they decide to compete against United, City would also be confident they have the financial power to offer Nasri the best deal. The difficulty for Arsenal is that Nasri will be available as a free transfer in a year's time and, unless he signs a new contract, his value will start to depreciate sharply. Wenger, therefore, must decide whether it would be better for the club to cash in on the player and put the money towards rebuilding.
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ahh, Daniel Taylor pretending to be ITK after the Times report on a bid that was supposedly made 2 weeks ago.

That said, its highly unlikely that any club would accept the first formal bid for a key player..
 
We should tell them they can have the extra £5m if we win the league, that way Arsenal fans will be able to celebrate when the league is won even though it's still not them lifting it.
 
If this info is true, it seems we haven't made an improved bid in two weeks. Perhaps this means we're certain Nasri only wants to come to United, and therefore, Arsenal will have no choice but to sell him to us (if they decide to sell at all).
 
Theyre having a laugh turning down 20 million for a player with a year on his contract.

Offer them 20.5m or tell them to feck off

It's very obvious no-one wants to play for the sky-blue horrible bastard massives anyway
 
R_Nick said:
We should tell them they can have the extra £5m if we win the league, that way Arsenal fans will be able to celebrate when the league is won even though it's still not them lifting it.
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When you think of it, a transfer fee based on future add-ons depending on our success will be quite funny in this case. :lol:
 
SteveJ said:
If this info is true, it seems we haven't made an improved bid in two weeks. Perhaps this means we're certain Nasri only wants to come to United, and therefore, Arsenal will have no choice but to sell him to us (if they decide to sell at all).
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Or perhaps it just means David Gill left his phone charger behind when he went on holiday.
 
R_Nick said:
We should tell them they can have the extra £5m if we win the league, that way Arsenal fans will be able to celebrate when the league is won even though it's still not them lifting it.
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