Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Pretty Boy Lee wrote:dazby wrote:
I disagree. I think we've had two seasons of growing pains with the lesbian. This season with more competition for his place he'll really come out of the closet.
I'm going to stick my neck out and call Samir as the 13/14 player of the season.
(I hope this goes better than my Maicon scoring an important goal prediction. I maintain that if he'd played in the FA Cup final he'd have scored. Oh well.)
If a new manager can't bring the best out of him, he needs shipping.
Sadly he won't be worth much by then.
I don't trust Nasri at all, so I wouldn't shed any tears if Pellegrini got rid of him. I do however think that he could be miles better than he has shown for us or on the whole for Arsenal & France. If the Count thinks he can get that out of him, then I'm happy enough to let him try PROVIDED we do sign Isco or someone of a similar style. I don't want to entrust our creativity to just Nasri & Silva after their limp, uninspired performances last season.
Although tbf I think people will be surprised when the find out what Fernandinho actually does.
Oh yeah, if 'grini wants to give him another crack I'm all for it but one of the biggest mistakes we made last season was to expect so much from Nasri mainly because we failed to get Hazard. We really can't afford to make that mistake again.
For me Nasri seems like yet another wonder kid who never quite fullfilled his potential. It's just so frustrating because you see the massive potential but he seems to lack the hunger. He concentrates on looking good more than being efficient. His constant efforts to dribble without actually moving anywhere makes me pull my hair out. Someone should say to him "look Samir, that's their goal over there... keep your head up and always try to find shortest route there".
The problem was that he has the speed and ability to beat a player but was so focussed on not losing possession that he pulled out of potentially defence splitting situations. Is that due to a lack of confidence? Or playing to instruction? Or a combination of the two?
I'll repeat. We are in for a big season from the lesbian.