Consultant for Canal +, Marseillais Samir Nasri will not be in Budapest this Saturday (6 p.m.) to comment on the Champions League final between PSG and Arsenal. The former OM player, who also made the heyday of Gunnerswill remain in the studio in Paris to participate in a post-match prime time show.
He explained it on the daily website The Teamhowever refusing to discuss his tax affair. “Even if Arsenal is my old club, I don’t have an extraordinary relationship with its supporters (since his transfer to Manchester City in 2011). That’s why it was better for Canal + to send Robert Pirès, who is fully for the Gunners, next to David Ginola, fully for PSG. It’s better for the set of a final, on the pitch, than someone neutral like me.”
And that would have nothing to do with the insults received in Munich during the semi-final return: “I was insulted by Parisian supporters. But that’s part of the game as a former Marseillais… Even if I think they had other things to do, like celebrate qualifying for the final.”
“Medhi was committed until the end”
The interview is also an opportunity for him to defend his friend Medhi Benatia after his vitriolic comments. “He had a mission, that of imposing rigor on this club, excellence in terms of behavior, desire, self-sacrificecontinues Nasri. And several times, he felt betrayed by players, some of whom he had brought in himself. His outings allowed others to remain discreet… Medhi, it never bothered him to be the bad cop in a duo. And above all, each time, I understood his speeches. It spoke to me as an OM supporter, it described exactly what I had seen on the pitch. (…) We can’t blame him for being committed until the end.”even believes his former friend at the training center, who has undoubtedly forgotten the episode of the resignation on Instagram.
Also questioned about Habib Beye and the obscure criticisms linked to his past as a consultant, Samir Nasri believes that it was “unfair”. “We had to judge Habib Beye for his ability or not to coach OM, it should have been just that over the last four months. We should not judge him because three years ago, he declared that he did not understand the management of the Mbappé case by Luis Enrique. He was then paid to be a consultant and give his opinion. And when he became coach, everyone was waiting for him with a sniper rifle to shoot him. That’s not right.”
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