Samir Nasri will never again play for the France national team.
That’s a fact.
The player has made that clear on a few occasions already, especially as long as Didier Deschamps is in charge, which we can only guess will be until 2018 at the earliest.
Speaking to RMC about his return to England with Cardiff and his rather unhappy time at Arsenal, the striker also touched on Nasri’s international career.
He said: “Everyone could see it, he was always the ugly duckling. Every time there was a problem, it was obviously his fault, and at one point, I think he got fed up, and that’s normal. He wants to play, be happy, take pleasure. He received a rather terrible relentlessness from everyone, so it’s really understandable he turned down being called up earlier than planned.
“If he doesn’t take pleasure with the national team, and he doesn’t see the positive side of it, he made the right decision to draw a line underneath it. It’s normal, I understand him, and if I had been in his position, I’d have done the same.”
Since then, the attacking midfielder enjoyed two rather mixed seasons at Manchester City, and left on loan to Sevilla in the summer, where he has already earned a lot of respect from Spanish football fans with impressive performances.
A happy Nasri means a good Nasri, and perhaps that’s what a few managers missed in the past.
