Rio has said that those quotes were made ages ago before this transfer malarkey.

Caligula wrote:

Thanks, Burns.
Why are we paying our executive team 15m quid a year as Ricky claims if they can't nail down our players to new contracts, increase cash available for salaries, or find ways to help Wenger mange the roster to create some salary space for better players like Nasri? Something is rotten in Ashburton

Ricky doesn't claim, the AST claim.

Caligula wrote:

Thanks, Burns.
Why are we paying our executive team 15m quid a year as Ricky claims if they can't nail down our players to new contracts, increase cash available for salaries, or find ways to help Wenger mange the roster to create some salary space for better players like Nasri? Something is rotten in Ashburton

That's some very tenuous conjecture. Nasri stalling a contract tells us fuck all about the performance of the club's executive team.

villa seem resigned to losing young to united - wonder if that would mean they'd drop any interest in nasri or if they'd want him to fill a central role or just have both?

Nasri aint going to United. It would be over Wenger's dead body if he did (don't get any ideas Bigs!).

He'll sign, I'm very confident of it.

We should sign Ashley Young. Damn.

I'd have Nasri over him every day of the week. Although it will be funny next season hearing him proclaimed by everyone as some sort of world class player, even though no one thought that when he was at Villa doing exactly the same thing. The Man United syndrome.

Ricky1985 wrote:

Nasri aint going to United. It would be over Wenger's dead body if he did (don't get any ideas Bigs!).

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What does it have to do with Nasri?

Captain wrote:

We should sign Ashley Young. Damn.

Ferguson has an awful lot of decent wide players if he gets Young - as usual. Would he play him on the left?

I think he is tired of Nani's flakiness.

Young could also see some football centrally at ManU.

Nani's a tosser but a good player. I suppose there's a chance Ferguson could be about to cash in.

I would take a Nasri for Nani swap deal in a heart beat.

YounGunner wrote:

I would take a Nasri for Nani swap deal in a heart beat.

i wouldnt

That's more like it. Would be an amazing signing.

French, unheard of, two foot tall.

Awesome.

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Silky skills and mazy dribbles are out of this world though...

Who watches Sochaux games? I literally don't watch Ligue 1 beyond the top teams, so cannot comment on the quality of this man. Rather, I'll lean on the experiences of those who've watched him.
What can you say of his speed, ability to take on players? How is he getting those 19 assists? Through balls, 1-2s, crosses, lay-offs? and should we be worried that he scored only 3 goals?