It didn’t matter much. In the early 2010s, Samir Nasri left Arsenal for Manchester City. Which allowed him to win the Premier League in his first season at the end of which a future big name of this decade of the English championship could have joined Nasri. A little-known anecdote told on Canal+.
It has now been five years since Samir Nasri serves as a consultant to Canal+. Having spent the longest part of his playing career Premier Leaguenamely a little over 8 years, “the Little Prince of Marseille” was obviously there at the meeting Canal Football Club this Sunday in a special show with guest: Eden Hazardanother great figure of Premier League from the 2010s.
“Roberto Mancini spoke to me about wanting to recruit him to partner us with David Silva and have a line of three behind Agüero”
Asked by the presenter Hervé Mathoux on the place that‘Eden Hazard occupied the landscape of European football during his career, Samir Nasri who crossed his path a lot on the English lawns when the Belgian played Chelsea and he Manchester Cityrevealed that the two stars could have played together in the Skyblues. “In the hierarchy of great players, where do you place Eden Hazard? Very high, he is a player that I have always appreciated. In addition, in 2012, Roberto Mancini spoke to me about wanting to recruit him to partner with David Silva and have a line of three behind Agüero.”
“I was quite excited because I watched Ligue 1 a lot”
However, it is on the side of Chelsea that the former attacking midfielder trained in LOSC signed in the summer of 2012. To the great dismay of Samir Nasri who did not hide his excitement about this possibility of evolving alongside‘Eden Hazard has Manchester City. “I was quite excited because I watched Ligue 1 a lot and I really liked what he was doing at Lille. For me, in our generation, there is Messi, Cristiano, Neymar and then he is there. He’s a player who made a lot of difference with the ball, altruistic, who always thought of the team, I have a very high esteem for him.
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