Respected French sports newspaper L’Equipe claim Marseille play maker Samir Nasri will sign for Arsenal tomorrow afternoon, before he returns to France’s Clairefontaine training camp to prepare for the forthcoming European Championships.
Young Guns reported earlier in the week about the possible transfer in the comment sections, however since then Marseille based sports newspaper La Provence have confirmed the transfer will take place for a fee of €17.5 million or around £12.5 million pounds. L’Equipe claims it could be as little as €15 million, with the player due in London tomorrow for a medical and personal terms.
Only recently Samir signed a new long term contract to 2012, but it later emerged that included in the deal was a release fee between the aforementioned €15-17 million Euro. He is expected to be the replacement for out going Alexander Hleb, which Young Guns speculated could be in talks with FC Barcelona. So despite featuring as an attacking midfielder, Wenger it seems will play Nasri on the wings as he has done with Robert Pires, Alex Hleb, and more recently Tomas Rosicky.
Nasri is expected in London early tomorrow morning, where he will meet with Arsenal officals to agree personal terms, and undergo a medical at the Shenley based training centre. He will then travel to the Emirates Stadium where he will be shown around, before having pictures taken for the clubs official website. His day will end as he flys back to France at 19.30 hours for French national team training.
Even the Samir’s fans claim he is on his way to Arsenal !
Article By – J.Sanderson
good its fantastik boy
the should be announce in 1 or 2 hours ! and we still waiting ..
How long does it usually take for arsenal.com to update about new signings? Any chance that, if this story is true, that it could be up today or tomorrow?
i havent been this excited about an arsenal signing in a long time! but im gonna wait til it actually happens
Respectable Football news source, Goal.com, have claimed that on May 21st Samir will be unveiled as an Arsenal player at 7.30pm
what is marseille’s website ?
is he left footed? the goal he scored a few days back was with his left i know that.
Frenchies :D Chantome would be the typical Wenger-buy. Not a very known player for people outside france, but with the right abillitys. He’s is kind of an Flamini type, works like hell, and tackles good, and has solid technique.
Nasri would of course be great!
Rosicky/Hleb – Chantome – Fabregas – Nasri
Hleb is a great player but the softest touch ever! But I prefer Rosciky. A lot more efficient player.
Damn It.. ^^ This is a shockin’ news… >.< Aarrgggh!
I too am like you, i can’t wait for it to be confirmed (if it is true) that we have Nasri! From reports that i have read about him he will fit into our style of play no problem!
well some sports channels on the Tv claims the deal done , but I only Believe it from skysports or bbc
Arsenal ‘sign French starlet’ but not nasri !
Coquelin
http://sport.setanta.com/en/Sport/News/Football/2008/05/21/Prem-Coquelin-transferred-to-Arsenal/
acoording to this:
http://www.eurosport.fr/football/aucun-accord-pour-nasri_sto1579585/flashnews.shtml
the Nasri deal is far from complete, it has quotes from his agent saying there is an Arsenal offer but there are other offers too, and nothing has been decided yet.
Nice to see we are all hard at work :-)
I would rather keep checking newsnow every 5 mins to see the deal go through than work!!
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hi, look r arsenal about to sign nasri and if so please explain and please tell me who you expect to see at the gunners this summer and also who u expect to leave this is wht i think (AND HOPE):
IN
Nasri
Chantome
Ben arfa
Santa cruz
Kompany
out
senderos
eboue
hleb
flamini
lehmann
i think this guy is a good player . hleb is a good player but does not score enough goals so i think the combination of nasri and hleb will bring more goals i wish he playes like pires did b’se its what we are missing at the moment. we dont score enough goals from midfield
Looks like his agent wants more money..
Yea i just read that the agent has said that they have received other offers. Well i don’t believe that, i think he is doing the typical agent bit of we have a good offer but want a bit more so suddenly now more people want him. The only other club that i have heard were interested in him was Lyon and that was because Marseilles wanted Ben Arfa. We will have to see what happens but i still think we will sign Nasri and Ben Arfa will go to Marseilles.
This is great news for us! Nasri Is a talented player and you can see for urself on youtube what i’m talking about!!
Also I have it on good knowledge that we will also be signing some other top class players, my friend in the reserves says that the eto’o link is VERY strong! also Diego looks quite promising! in addition..wenger will sign sankhare and sakho of PSG! this is all definate! remeba who told u 1st!! *T.G*
tommy brown: there is no way santa cruz is even being considered by the team, let alone going to be playing for us. Arsenal have a terrible relationship with Blackburn and that Fergie-whipping-boy manager of theirs. Kompany is like Frey, just because we are linked with him every summer doesn’t mean we’ve bought him does it? It’s like newspapers think about how to second guess AW’s ability to find random prospects and use FM as the easiest way of finding these names.
Senderos is staying and so is Eboue. Hleb, for now, is still an Arsenal player although it seems likely he’ll go. Hoyte and Djorou also seem likely to leave.
Anyone actually know anything about this PSG fella? I always find myself sceptical of players who have been battling relegation all season: if they were worthy of CL football at Arsenal then why the hell do their teams do so badly with them in the side? Yeah, I know that there are examples of this not being true (Tevez for example, and the Valencia team) but in general I’m not filled with confidence buying from the botton quarter of league tables.
UPDATE!!!
http://sport.setanta.com/en/Sport/News/Football/2008/05/21/Premier-League-Agent-plays-down-Nasri-talk/?facets/sport-space/football/great-britain-locale/Arsenal/Barclays-Premier-League/
UH OH!!!!!!
Does your ‘friend’ in the reserves have long, intimate talks with Wenger about his transfer strategies?
Wenger won’t buy Eto’o….remember who told you first!!
We better not let Nasri slip through our fingers, it would be extremely frustrating if this transfer didn’t come to fruition.
TG: You can’t even spell properly and yet I am supposed to trust you when you say we are buying Samuel Eto’o even though the manager has expected RVP to be like a ‘new signing’, Vela to take up Eduardo’s role all while Nikky B and Theo continue to grow as great strikers?
All my trust is in you.
In response to Samuel–Sankhare’ And Sakho are TWO WORLD CLASS YOUNGSTERS!! Both in the first team at PSG and look set to have very bright future’s ahead of them!! Check youtube for Sankhare and im sure u will be impressed! The kid has flair, technique and most of all TALENT! enough said…Sakho on the other hand is very talented defensivly and has been likend to Thuram in his playing style!
Meanwhile, Arsenal have also handed a trial to Ghanaian starlet Tawrick Jibril.
The 16-year-old is currently with Hearts of Oak and has been linked with Atletico Madrid.
Jibril will link-up with Arsenal in July and will hope to make an impression on Wenger.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_3591228,00.html
Any thoughts J?
Im having difficulty understanding what it is that i have mis-spelt samuel??Are u not familiar with internet slang and the shortening of word’s like “yourself” to “urself”??? Come along now sammy boy!!! We are all GOONERS here!!!We all want the same things!! And as for my friend in reserves…he plays for the club….he trains everyday….he hears rumours first hand….nufff said springs to mind…??? ;)
TG: Ok, I’ve played fm08 as well. So who’s this supposed source in the reserves who found AW’s list?
Samuel: Not to sound like someone who has been caught out playing the fibbing game or anything!!!…But obviously for the fact my mate told me in confidence I aint exactly gonna say his name! Although it isn’t really a biggie, players are liable to get a bollocking from the management at a club if they discuss any private internal affairs! I’m sure U can understand this! And yea FM08 is a great game!! ;)
Yes T.G, but being talented and French doesn’t mean that you are automatically going to get a transfer to Arsenal. And personally, I think your being naive in your attempt to persuade us that Eto’o will be wearing an Arsenal shirt next season. Like I said, if Arsene consults 16 year old reserve players about his transfer targets then we are in a worse state than i thought.
Please, don’t disrespect my, and other Arsenal fan’s, intelligence by posting this loosely constructed, unfounded, and quite frankly lazy drivel.
TG: “urself is “yourself” spelt wrong. You even indicate you know it is in your post and yet you stay ignorant of the language. It’s not internet slang, it’s just proving you are stupid and yet you ask people to have faith in your words. I think when you stop ebing 13 you’ll realise that rarely do people write in such a horrible way, for example J doesn’t wrie his blog as if he doesn’t know the Englisg language.
Also, this is a blog dedicated to the Arsenal reserves, you think you can just get away with going, “Ummm… I know that one, you know, that trains?” Well bloody hell mate, he trains for the club does he? He’s THAT type of reserve? Unlike the ones that just sit around drinking tea and listening to Phil Collins? He must know we have signed Eto’o.
I actually think we should sell the guys that sit around listening to Phil Collins. Phil Collins just isn’t Arsenal class.
IN RESPONSE TO BOTH OF YOU NON-BELIEVERS! WHAT I REALLY FIND FUNNY IS THE FACT THAT YOU WOULD RATHER LISTEN TO THE BULLSHIT U READ ON SKY SPORTS NEWS THAN A FELLOW ARSENAL FAN WITH A RELIABLE SOURCE! WHAT I ALSO FIND FUNNY IS THE FACT THAT I HAVE NOT SAID THAT ETO’O OR DIEGO ARE DEFINATE SIGNINGS!!!BUT JUST THAT MY FRIEND HAS TOLD ME THAT THESE ARE SOME OF THE STRONG RUMOURS AROUND THE TRAINING GROUND!AND AS FOR THE TWO FRENCH YOUNGSTERS–A PLAYER NAMED GILES SUNU WHO PLAYS WITH MY MATE IS THE PERSON WHO PASSED ON THIS RUMOUR INITIALLY! HATE ME FOR THIS IF U LIKE…IM ONLY TRYING TO PASS ON MY KNOWLEDGE AS A FELLOW AND ORIGINAL ARSENAL FAN!
Ok, have fun gooners. I am going to go have a movie marathon (Brighton Rock, Paranoid Park and Hallam Foe I think, it’s gonna be the nuts.), its not like there is any real football on tonight. Have fun TG.
Please please please don’t use caps lock, it’s the most ghastly thing a person can do when typing.
SAMUEL:”I think when you stop ebing 13 you’ll realise that rarely do people write in such a horrible way, for example J doesn’t wrie his blog as if he doesn’t know the Englisg language.”
MY ADVICE TO YOU SAMUEL IS TO TAKE A LEAF OUT OF YOUR OWN DICTATOR BOOK AND LEARN HOW TO SPELL MY FRIEND LOL!! ;)
SEE YA LATER DARLING MM M M M M M MMMWAAAHH!!! XXXXXX LOADS OF KISSES FOR SAMMY BOY!!! U BIG OLD POOF LOL! ;)
TG: That’s great and all that now you think Sunu is the all encompassing knowledge source of the transfers of the future but we are signing a french youth in the next 24 hours and you named two totally different players. If you coudln’t get that one right, why should we believe your ignorant capslock arse?
Also, you may not have been a gooner long, or even one used to reading the news but I don’t trust most newspaper outlets with their actual sources within the club or Myles Palmer and his premonitions but at least I knew the credentials of each. You are just some dude going “I have a friend who isn’t AW or Ken Friar, so obviously I know who they are on the phone to right now”. Seriously, do you not remember Palacio? Gunnerblog did an assessment of Barry as a possible flam replacement and the next day it made 2 papers. Last week I thought it 90% certain we were to sign HBA. Why the hell should we trust you? I trust BBC stories (not the gossip column) and arse.com announcements.
Ah, I accidentally mispelt. Oh noes. There is a lot of difference between that and intentionally making yourself sound like a moron. And then there is the annoying caps lock and silly homophobia. That helps everyone doesn’t it. If only we could purge the retards from the internet it would be a nice place for people to be. Although this is also true of life.
You do realize that the ‘BULLSHIT U READ ON SKY SPORTS NEWS’ is very similar to the bullshit you’re spouting. We have been linked with both Eto’o and Diego on a number of occasions in multiple forms of the media so to claim you are anymore authentic or trustworthy in your claims is pathetic. Get a grip T.G….and yeah caps lock makes you seem borderline retarded. True story
You hit the nail on the head mate!! You dont have to trust me—or should I say my source!!! Which is why i only said that this was what I have been told….I didn’t say anything is definate!! And by the way I was born in woolwhich arsenal…the original home of the club! I have been a supporter all 20 years of my life and there is no1 who can dispute my love and dedication to this club! No1!! As for you Sammy boy lol…your just a wind-up mate! I tell you what…how about a bet that Nasri doesn’t end up at arsenal but at least one of the player’s I have mentioned does??? Does that sound fair??? I’l give you some time to respond as I know you must be tired from sitting on ur computer all day since you saw the Sky Sports article that stated we were signing Nasri by this afternoon–waiting for conformation of this but instead only gettin a statement from his agent which clearly says that Nasri is not on his way to Arsenal!! So u go right ahead and carry on trying to hav a go at me my old mukka!! lol!! You are just anoter slave to the silly season rumour mill my friend! Don’t be mad at me for that lol!! ;)
Oh yeah and Pjanic is also another player who is rumoured to be joining! This would appear more likely to me as he is out of contract at Metz and due to the Bosnian link we have through Primorac could well mean he signs! Looks like a good player!!
Angelo you are obviously Samuels Whipping Boy lol!! I think you will find that the BULLSHIT ON SKY SPORTS is much larger in size than the 5-6 names I have simply mentioned as rumours! I havn’t claimed us to 100% be signing any of these players sonny jimbob!!! U guys need to chill out lol!! We’re all fans here man! RELAX!!! This is all just funny to me!
And there is where you went wrong TG, as Pjanic has just signed a three year deal with Metz back in November 2007, so how come he is out of contract? Perhaps some sort of a new ruling recently made up?
Pjanic only signed a youth contract my friend!!! He would still be able to sign for free on a proffessional contract elsewhere!!! GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT WEIR!!
Pjanic only signed a youth contract my friend!!! He would still be able to sign for free on a professional contract elsewhere!!! GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT WEIR!!
Who the hell signs a youth contract and is able to break it for free?? Or any other contract for that matter! Before you mention the likes of Fabregas, Merida, etc. they were signed BEFORE they even signed a contract, let alone a youth contract! Get your facts right TG!
According to radio station Talksport we have signed Nasri….still, they are usually full of sh!te so we’ll see…
T.G. I think it’s best to shut up now. You don’t know me personally so I would advise you to steer clear of personal insults. And the fact that I posted a response to you before Samuel technically would make Samuel my whipping boy. But no…we’re just two guys who happen to see through your bulshit and bad grammar.
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Thank you for this post.
Marseille Supporters Forums are already saying their ‘goodbyes’ to Nasri
http://www.om-passion.com/forum/viewtopic-19180.html
Has he signed yet? I think we should all get Wenger out if he dont sign. He might as well take Eboue, Sendy, Hleb, Rosicky, Sick note RVP, Gilberto with him and lets get the ‘special one’ in.
Ive had enough of the Spuds buying all the average players.
You bunch of Wallies !
trust my philosophy… – mr.wenger
quick ques j.sanderson..
will wenger get the SIR title like fergie did..??
because i think he had done a very good job at arsenal.
he deserves it..
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what a sighing by arsen wenger all we need now is ben afra on the other wing then we will win the title
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The response to national disaster is great but it’s a damn shame that so many people take advantage of the negative situations.
I mean everytime there is an earthquake, a flood, an oil spill – there’s always a group of heartless people who rip off tax payers.
This is in response to reading that 4 of Oprah Winfreys “angels” got busted ripping off the system. Shame on them!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/19/crimesider/entry5251471.shtml