Why arsenal fans hate nasri

He is petulant. He abuses journalists for doing their job. Even his transfer saga showed how infantile and childish footballers have become; he offered himself on a silver platter, 50 Shades of Grey-style, to Manchester City, who—50 Shades of Grey-style—spent a perversely long time admiring the target from all angles, before cooling their interest. The used-and-abused Nasri, desperate to cut his losses, then went around offering his body and all the things that it is capable of yes, I am deliberately making Nasri sound like a prostitute to anybody , approaching PSG for a move which was a stark confirmation that, truly, he was only interested in money.

Oh, and Lukas Podolski. God, what a prick. Good riddance to the bugger. Anyone with that inflated sense of self-importance will forsake any kind of loyalty or sacredness in order to further their own cause, and at a club like Arsenal, where respect, dignity and measure are paramount to the ongoing success and maintenance of the distinctive aura that the club holds, anyone like Samir Nasri can only be poison.

The sort of hope that I imagine an extremely religious person might hold for someone who is flagrantly on the wrong track in life. Hope for their sake, that their soul might be saved. Van Persie had a chance to be a legend. To buck the trend. He could have been one of the greatest Arsenal players in history.

All the ingredients were there: he had been identified as a troubled but precocious young player by Arsene Wenger; he had undergone severe and debilitating setbacks, but his guru had stood by him during the times of trouble. Wenger made him the focal point of nouveau Arsenal, knowing that his mental resilience, his leadership and his outstanding ability would set a shining example to the rest of his young and adapting team, that Van Persie would provide goals when there were no goals, hope when all hope appeared lost.

He could have been the moral centrepiece of football: proof that even in a game which increasingly seems to portray itself as a business, humanity and principle and faith can still be relevant, are still present.

I began writing for Bleacher Report at the start of the Robin van Persie saga, and most of my articles have involved him in some way, shape or form. He has put me through just about every emotion football can elicit from a fan: joy, love, admiration, despair, sadness, regret, anger and relief. Now the only feeling I have towards him is of disappointment.

The sort of disappointment that you might feel in an artist who forsakes his art for fame, or a principled lawyer LOL who forgets why he became a lawyer because a big firm places a blank cheque in front of him. Those naysayers will claim that football is a job, that Van Persie was doing what he felt was right for his career, and this argument has some merit.

We cannot expect players to feel the same about a club as we do, because they are employees and we, ostensibly, are the employers. But after winning the Premier League during his first season in Manchester, Nasri admits that he is sad at how quickly his relationship with his former fanbase deteriorated, though he is adamant that the abuse no longer affects his on-field performance.

As Nasri explains, it was never about the money… although his justification will certainly annoy Arsenal fans:. For all his ambition, Nasri is yet to establish himself in the Manchester City squad, tallying just four goals in his past two seasons due to a poor run of form and a series of injuries. Nasri was an adored figure during his period at Arsenal. After taking a while to settle into English football, he repaid the faith shown in him by Arsene Wenger, scoring some phenomenal solo goals as Arsenal surprised everybody… finishing 4th.

He didn't achieve much at the Gunners in all truth, his main highlight being when he had major beef with Nasri during a League Cup tie between Arsenal and City at the Emirates.

It got very heated between the two throughout the game and the pair were seen exchanging words at the end of the game.

At the time, it appeared as though Frimpong was trying to score some points with Arsenal fans in winding up Nasri, who is of course hated by Gooners for the manner in which he left. But he's revealed that his hate for Nasri stems from how the Frenchman treated him when he was sent off against Liverpool many moons ago. Still, the attacking midfielder's move also paid off in a sporting sense, with Nasri winning the Premier League twice in Manchester, in and However, Pep Guardiola's arrival in effectively spelled the end of his time at the Etihad and, after a season-long loan at Sevilla, Nasri eventually departed in , joining Antalyaspor.

Things did not go well for him in Turkey, Nasri terminating his contract with his new employers after just six months, at a time when he was the subject of a UEFA investigation into his alleged use of an intravenous drip at a Los Angeles clinic in December However, the suspension was increased by an additional 12 months in August , albeit backdated until July 1, The bottom line was that Nasri was sidelined until the end of last year.