Cesc won't go, I don't fear that at all. Starting to look likely Clichy and Nasri might though, but I don't think that would be catastrophic - especially as Wenger wouldn't get away with not spending serious money to replace them.

My gut feeling is Nasri will sign, Clichy will go.

Here's the interview with Telefoot (partie 2).
When asked if he was going to sign a new contract he says he doesn't know.
When asked about Manchester United's interest he says "you'll have to ask my agents".
When asked if he would like to go to Man U he said he'd first have to see if the interest was real and, that after the match against Poland, he'll have to ask himself the right questions and discuss it with the club as well.

Not very promising.

http://videos.tf1.fr/telefoot/blanc-et-nasri-l-interview-exclusive-partie-2-6518041.html

At the moment having watched the way he responded to those questions I'd agree, sell him, not to Man U though

Doesn't sound promising, but it could be a negotiating ploy. Especially the idea of him seeming open to a move to Utd. If anything is gonna get Arsenal to come up with the extra cash he wants is him name dropping the likes of Utd.

If he ever goes to Manure, he will definitely overtake Ade's status.

He's doing his best to go down that route anyway. I get why he wants 100k a week but is it really worth bleating to the press about Man Utd being interested?

These quotes are worrying. I always thought of him as someone with a little more intelligence and integrity.

Shady Shakes wrote:

Nasri's always been the type of guy who knows how to look after himself. Looking back at the way he got the move to us from Marseille, and the incident with Henry on the French team bus, and not speaking to or shaking Gallas' hand. He has a high opinion of himself and puts his own interests ahead of loyalty.

This being the same guy who could've left Marseille for nothing but chose to sign a new deal as long as they put a release clause in the contract just to ensure that they got paid properly?

A few people on twitter seem to think that Nas is asking for money that will make him the clubs highest earner, even more than Cesc.

not too bothered if we sell him, sign gotze or something. there are loads of attacking mids around. if sammy thinks he's so good, then why was he so crap the entire 2nd half of the season, right when we needed him most? 100k my ass. i know rooney did far worse to united when he was re-negotiating, but this type of behaviour really gets at me. 90k is generous enough for guy who's had 1 great half season at the highest level. we've got too many guys whose actual performances don't meet up to their egos or to our expectations.

Sign Goetze? He's 18 isn't he? Hopefully not.

Nasri is a top class player, without question, it's silly to say otherwise, but if he's being unreasonable, and I suspect he is, then sell him and bring in another top class player in his place.

I think he is replacable myself, but problem is will we get a top quality guy to replace him? prolly not, will get some kiddish or inferior one.

Plus the fact if he leaves now it will be way below valuation because of his contract length. Damned we are fucked both ways by this greedy cunt

Ricky1985 wrote:

if he's being unreasonable, and I suspect he is, then sell him and bring in another top class player in his place.

Problem is that when you look at other players in Europe who are roughly on the same level, like Sanchez, they're rumoured to break transfer records to the left and right and would command a very high salary anyway. We could possibly pick up someone like Hazard (which we should be able to do anyway without selling anyone), but he's a level or two beneath Nasri currently and doesn't have any experience from Premier League. Losing Nasri this summer would be the dumbest move this club has made for years. Arshavin is likely to go too. We'd be back on square one with Walcott as our only established wide player.

The way we stopped Cesc from moving to Barcelona must have made Nasri think twice before signing a new long term deal.

If we're going about our business like usual then signing a, say 4 year extension, would mean he could go another 3 or so years without winning anything.

This trophy drought is really starting to hurt us.

Clrnc wrote:

I think he is replacable myself, but problem is will we get a top quality guy to replace him? prolly not, will get some kiddish or inferior one.

Plus the fact if he leaves now it will be way below valuation because of his contract length. Damned we are fucked both ways by this greedy cunt

Well then surely that means he's not replaceable?

In terms of ability Nasri has got some distance to go before he's on par with RvP and Cesc but, as Klaus said, in terms of reputation and achievements there aren't many proven wide players out there. The fact that our biggest hope happens to be Eden Hazard, talented though he may be, says it all.

Unless we've got some £25m-£30m knocking about to spend on top of all the transfer we need to make already we aren't going to acquire a wide player that's at Nasri's current level of ability. We'll be going backwards again. Moreover, Nasri's got the potential to play like he was during the first half of the season on a more regular basis and if that turns out to be true then that narrows down our choices even further. I'll pull my hair out if he ends up at United. Not just because we lost a good player but it'll be the biggest kick in the nuts that we've had since Ashley Cole.

lets not exaggerate. cole was the worlds best LB at the time. i don't doubt nasri's talent, but in terms of actual performance, he's had 1 great half-season for us. the entire rest of his arsenal career has been pretty meh. we could replace him at or below zero net cost with someone like gotze, kagawa or whoever (alvarez?), and hardly suffer in actual on-the-pitch performance.