Samir Nasri

Samir Nasri has spent the majority of his professional football career outside of his native France. As a matter of fact, he has not played for another French team professionally since leaving Marseille for Arsenal in 2008. The Gunners paid around £12m for Samir Nasri.

French international Samir Nasri played for several local teams at an early age before he joined hometown club Marseille at the age of nine. He was at Marseille for almost a decade before he got the chance to play for the first team and he grabbed it with both hands.

Former Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has finally opened up on his famous heroic performance against Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League back in 2011. Arsenal were drawn against Barcelona in the Champions League in 2011 and they were immediately written off while everyone believed the Spanish giants would come out on top because they obviously had the better team on paper.

Wilshere has revealed what his former teammate Samir Nasri told him in the dressing room after the match and they were nice words indeed. The English midfielder said Nasri commended his heroics in a wonderful post-match reaction that was well-deserved.

Wilshere was a star on the night as he took center stage and dominated a midfield that contained some of football's great midfield superstars including Andres Iniesta and Xavi. Pep Guardiola was the manager at Barcelona then and he and his side fell to a shock defeat to the Gunners in what was an unexpected result.

Former Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri has welcomed transfer rumours linking him with a move to Argentina outfit Boca Juniors.

The 33-year-old is currently without any club after being released by Belgian outfit Anderlecht. He had moved to the Belgian league on a free transfer after being released by West Ham towards the end of the 2018-19 campaign. After spending just one season at Anderlecht, Nasri had been released since he did not make much of an impact in the seven league appearances that he made for the Belgian club. After having been without a new club for almost 6 months, it is rumoured that Nasri may be looking for an opportunity outside Europe.

Samir Nasri is now 33 years of age and is a free agent after failing to live up to expectations with dismal stints at Turkish outfit Antalyaspor, Premier League club West Ham United, and Belgian side Anderlecht. Since he left Arsenal, Nasri, who came up the youth ranks at French club Marseille never became the same even though where he had a career closest to his Arsenal days was at Manchester City.

Although his move to the Etihad was a fruitful one as he became a Premier League champion on two occasions and also won a League Cup, he never really showed the true talent, skill, flair, tenacity, and potential he put on display at Arsenal consistently. During his final years as an Arsenal player, he was a force to reckon with.

Samir Nasri Is a name that will ring bells in the heads of both Arsenal and Manchester City fans as he played for both Premier League clubs in his career. Arsene Wenger had been following and monitoring the player since 2004 and then in the 2008 summer window, he finally made a move and got his man.

We get signed Nasri for a fee reported to be in the region of £12million. He was signed from French Ligue 1 side Marseille not long after he agreed on a deal in principle with the French club and signed a fresh contract.

Due to the corona virus epidemic situation in the world, most of the sports activities are stopped and the tournaments are postponed. But the sporting organizations and clubs asked all the players in contract with them to keep informing them about all their movements during the lockdown phase.

As Samir Nasri is now in contract with the Belgian club Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, they also asked him to keep informing the club officials about all the traveling and training schedules. But it has been reported that Nasri has not contacted the club official after he flew to Dubai. Thus the club has taken a decision to sack him for going to AWOL without any information to the club during the corona virus lockdown. The news has been confirmed by the club officials and in the official statement of Samir Nasri; he denied the fact that he went AWOL.

Manchester City star Raheem Sterling believes the club are facing a crucial period ahead as they compete for silverware in the FA Cup and Champions League.

The Mancunian giants have produced a poor defence of their league title this term and they are currently a staggering 21 points behind champions Liverpool with three games to play.

Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud has revealed that he wants to earn a century of appearances with the France national side while breaking the goalscoring record held by Michel Platini. The former Arsenal man had planned to retire from international football following the 2020 European Championships but his decision has been delayed for another 12 months after the competition was postponed until next summer.

Manchester United forward Anthony Martial is keen on making the France national team for the summer’s Euro 2020 tournament. The Frenchman has been in top form for the Red Devils this term and he has already contributed 17 goals from 31 appearances in all competitions. As a result, he is on course for the best-ever return during a single campaign and Martial has his sights on representing Les Bleus at the European Championships.

Real Madrid striker Eden Hazard has hailed Karim Benzema as the best striker in the world amid his struggles to reclaim his spot with the France national side. The striker has not featured for Les Bleus since his involvement in the blackmail case on teammate Mathieu Valbuena and he has been out-of-favour for the past four years.