Caporegime
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- 18 Oct 2002
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We've already offered him Fabregas wages, the problem is Wenger keeps caving one little idea at a time but is somehow convinced both that Arsenal play the same way we did 6 years ago, and that every other part of the club is run the same.
Nasri has had exactly one half of a decent season, his other seasons, even missing a decent wedge with a fractured leg, are frankly pathetic, 2 goals 4 assists, and 6 goals 2 assists the season before that.
Marginally better than Hleb, and thats a pretty big insult, because Hleb was awful. We used to win stuff, we used to have Pires getting 10-16 goals a season and 5-10 assists, Hleb was 1/50th the player Pires was and Wenger took Pires off in the CL final rather than Hleb, and rightly Pires took that to mean Wenger doesn't respect him and its time to go.
Nasri is barely half the player Pires was, yet we've already offered him more than Pires was ever on, and Nasri's asking for more because, of a 10 goal season. When cesc was out and the team relied on Nasri, Nasri dissappeared completely.
We should kick him out on his arse to send a message to the squad to work harder.
I feel one of the biggest problems at Arsenal is, they're cruising, if Theo barely tries for more than 5 minutes of a game and is comftably straight back in the team whenever he's fit, wheres the motivation to improve? THe problem with Nasri, Theo, Song, Diaby, denilson/Sagna is, they don't think they need to get better, even worse, Wenger doesn't think they need to be better.
They've all stagnated, under no pressure to improve or be shown the door, they constantly turn in below par performance, put in very little effort, and their reward, is more starts.
Wenger 10 years ago had no trouble ditching Overmars, to cash in on his peak, to get in a player he regarded as better.
Now rather than sell Nasri and get someone better, we're begging him to stay and overpaying him to do so.
As I've said many many times before, Wenger is NOT the same manager, and again the problem is that he doesn't even know it. He's completely unaware of the fact that his philosophy at every level has completely changed.
He's not unwilling to replace Denilson, he doesn't think he needs replacing, he doesn't want to get someone far better than Nasri, he thinks Nasri's one of our best players.
The problem starts and stops at Wenger, I think theres 2-3 players at the club who wouldn't improve under a stricter more clinical manager who will drop and sell players who aren't good enough, it will make everyone else train harder and improve.
