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Postby Bridge'srightfoot » Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:30 pm

Deserves his own thread.
Many (including myself) wanted him out the club after being largely shite for two seasons but he's been on a different level this season. His work rate has massively improved and he's finally showing why we bought him.
Long may it continue.
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Re: Nasri

Postby Twobob » Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:35 pm

He's been like a new signing this season! Nuff said
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Postby Beefymcfc » Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:36 pm

Always had faith in him. Pity it took 2 seasons to see some consistency.
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Re: Nasri

Postby Dingus McDouchey » Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:44 pm

Just my opinion but I don't think his work rate has changed at all. He's always worked hard for me. Just think he's got tons of confidence, no injuries, and a system that suits him a bit better.
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Re: Nasri

Postby bobby brows » Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:44 pm

Been immense this season. I'm very pleased to being proved wrong. Has been excellent regardless of the goals he's scored
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Re: Nasri

Postby Spurge » Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:46 pm

Loving his performances this season - absolute class
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Re: Nasri

Postby Twobob » Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:46 pm

Beefymcfc wrote:Always had faith in him. Pity it took 2 seasons to see some consistency.


We may be wobbly at the back but Pellers has really up'd the attacking play and Nasri for one has benefitted most so far, he's loving the extra space and options ahead of him and his overall work rate is vastly improved!

A French player with a smile on his face? He'll be getting a bad reputation!
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Re: Nasri

Postby gmercer1 » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:00 pm

I wanted him out last season. How he has proved me wrong. He works none stop and keeps the ball so well. Class
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Re: Nasri

Postby PrezIke » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:03 pm

Beefymcfc wrote:Always had faith in him. Pity it took 2 seasons to see some consistency.


this, indeed.
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Re: Nasri

Postby aristation » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:04 pm

It was the physicality of his performance today which was great he was fighting, tugging, kicking and pushing totally different from last season. when you add this to his obvious skill he is a tremendous player
It may be my last year as a season ticket holder as it just doesn't seem the same with so few English and local players (but I said that last year)
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Postby Peter Doherty (AGAIG) » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:06 pm

We've not missed Silva thanks in large part to Nasri's performances. Superb again today and I was glad to see the reception he got when he went over to take a corner at the North Stand end.
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Re: Nasri

Postby Beefymcfc » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:07 pm

He's still a sissy French surrender monkey ;-)
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Re: Nasri

Postby nottsblue » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:52 pm

Is a class player & on his day can batter even the best defences. Am chuffed to fuck he's now doing it for us this season as after last season it would've the easy option to sell him. The best compliment to pay is Silva will struggle to dislodge him at moment
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Postby freshie » Sun Dec 01, 2013 9:55 pm

nottsblue wrote:Is a class player & on his day can batter even the best defences. Am chuffed to fuck he's now doing it for us this season as after last season it would've the easy option to sell him. The best compliment to pay is Silva will struggle to dislodge him at moment


Silva won't have to dislodge him. He'll take Navas' place in the team
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Re: Nasri

Postby PrezIke » Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:08 pm

good article posted on him here:

http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/mancheste ... 75?cc=5901

Nasri's star in the ascendancy
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It is a widely held opinion that, when Samir Nasri lifted a genteel leg in the dying seconds of last season’s Etihad Manchester derby almost 12 months ago, the free kick struck by Robin van Persie memorably rearing up off the cowering, half-creased figure of the Frenchman, nominally the “last man in the wall,” United began to seal their title comeback season with more than just half-hearted hopes and wishes.

Nasri was pilloried for a dereliction of duty on such a grand scale, one wondered if he would ever really make it at City. The talent was there in abundance, but the application was often missing. One only had to look at City supporters’ real hero, the gritty, run-through-walls Pablo Zabaleta, to see what the home support required from its men in blue shirts. While Zabaleta would leave the pitch covered in blood, Nasri would often be replaced before the end, departing to half-hearted applause for another job half-done.

While United went on to seal the title as a farewell gift to Alex Ferguson, City stumbled over the finishing line a distant second and Nasri retired to the quayside bistros of Marseille and Miami to lick his wounds.

With a change of manager comes a change of tack, however. Some players come, some players go. Those who stay put shift uncomfortably as they wait to see if they will make it as the apple of the new man’s eye. Zabaleta, typically for him, is still there, zooming up and down the right flank like a tank with no reverse gear. On Sunday, he completed a sterling 100 percent of his passes against a Swansea side that had come to try to do exactly the same. It would take some kind of manager to shift the Argentine from the side on any grounds, one would suppose, but others were not so sure of their places.

Nasri, for example, was a different story. Chipper of character, prone to looking on the lighter side of things, it has been sometimes easy to ask oneself if his heart is really in it, if he really wants to squeeze every last ounce of talent from that athletic, well-balanced little figure. Manuel Pellegrini must therefore be congratulated on the job he has done on the little midfielder. City fans are seeing a Nasri seldom been seen before, certainly never on such a regular and reliable basis.

Against Swansea, he found himself among kindred spirits, the away midfield determined to carve as many pretty sculptures as the blue-shirted artists they were facing. It led to a match that was perhaps low on the passion that Zabaleta thrives on, but high on the aesthetically pleasing shapes that make tacticians and casual observers alike purr with delight.

After a first half where the powerful Alvaro Negredo turned to precision to give City the lead, the second period developed into a riveting ebb and flow of pass and move, orchestrated in the middle and down the flanks by the little Frenchman. That he ended the match with two goals -- and should really, with a little more composure, have completed his first Manchester City hat trick -- tells the story of what was the complete midfield performance.

City versus Swansea is a match with sparse history. The sides had only met 25 times before, mainly spending the long years separated by more than one division. Some older in the tooth will remember that it is a fixture, however, that has supplied grand artistry before. As far back as 1981, when Asa Hartford flicked a cheeky free kick up in the air for Dennis Tueart to smash into the top corner on the volley, City-Swansea matches have been leaving us all with unforgettable snapshots to place in our collective memory banks.

Fast forward more than 30 years and the sides find each other in rude good health, organised expertly by two managers deeply concerned by winning the right way, as people like to call it these days. Football will not die from a lack of beautiful football. There are too many people desperate to win by any means, foul or fair, to make this a risk.

But in the hands of the likes of Pellegrini and Michael Laudrup, the sport will surely continue to prosper as a spectacle, as they carve their sculptures with an eye for the fine line.

With such artists in charge of proceedings, the likes of Zabaleta will always be needed to balance the lighter creative players who are responsible for the mesmerising beauty we witness on a weekly basis. That this artistry now comes in spades from the little imp Nasri, who trudged off the Etihad pitch a year ago with his head bowed low, is a tribute to his manager. Primarily though, it is a tribute to the player himself, and for that he is to be offered the highest praise.
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Re: Nasri

Postby Sister of fu » Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:10 pm

Beefymcfc wrote:He's still a sissy French surrender monkey ;-)


You forgot lesbian..
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Re: Nasri

Postby Peter Doherty (AGAIG) » Sun Dec 01, 2013 10:18 pm

Nice article from Curtis, that. Thanks for posting it.
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Re: Nasri

Postby Blue Since 76 » Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:03 pm

His general lack of giving a shit over the last few seasons used to drive me up the wall and I don't think I ever forgave him last season after the Derby defeat.

But this season, I think he's our most improved player and in most home games has been in the shout for MOTM. That it was only after today's game that I remembered Silva has been injured says it all.
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Re: Nasri

Postby Slim » Mon Dec 02, 2013 2:21 am

Blue Since 76 wrote:His general lack of giving a shit over the last few seasons used to drive me up the wall and I don't think I ever forgave him last season after the Derby defeat.

But this season, I think he's our most improved player and in most home games has been in the shout for MOTM. That it was only after today's game that I remembered Silva has been injured says it all.


Silva was missed today in that he can unlock defenders easier than Nasri and it did seem at times that we were missing the creative spark.

The change is in his desire to be involved in everything, you could see his frustration today as we were unable to get the ball for long periods and when we did get it we were being isolated and swamped. In the second half when Swansea lost their edge it didn't take much from him to run the show and deservedly get his brace.
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Re: Nasri

Postby Niall Quinns Discopants » Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:47 am

Frustrating thing with him was always that you could see the talent but he always used to dribble the same guy five times over near halfway line. Probably someone just told him "look, that's the goal, the point of this game is to go that way".

Guys like him and Kolarov always make wonder though. How long is this going to last?
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