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When Wenger asked Arsenal fans not to boo Samir Nasri on his return to The Emirates most Arsenal fans read it as a reminder to boo him. To adapt a cliché: hell hath no fury like a fan-base scorned. And Arsenal were scorned indeed. The departure of one of your best players is bad enough, it’s even worse when he’s the back up plan to your departing captain and he also decides to leave for a team that represent the exact opposite philosophy to that of your own club. So, when Nasri did return to north London it was hardly surprising that he was unceremoniously booed throughout the game. You can understand why Wenger would say not to boo a former player, to be fair Nasri gave one hundred per cent whilst he was at the club but to leave under the cloud he did cannot be expected to be forgiven, and it was pretty clear that Wenger knew that. You didn’t hear him calling for Arsenal fans not to boo Thierry Henry when he came back with Barcelona, he didn’t tell the fans not to boo Robert Pires when he came back with Villarreal, and why? Because they never would have been booed, most ex players wouldn’t.
Arsenal have seen a fair few of their players shipped off to other clubs in recent times but their aren’t many that would warrant a poor reception. Players say they don’t understand it when their old fans turn on them but their ignorance is false. Take the players sold to Manchester City: first you have Kolo Toure who gave everything for Arsenal and expressed a desire to finish his career at Arsenal only to be sold against his will. He is always received well; in fact I still wear my Toure Arsenal shirt with pride. Then you have Clichy. Clichy was also a long-standing servant for Arsenal and it was clear that he was stagnating at Arsenal. He is yet to face his old club but you can be sure that nobody will heckle him when he does, there is no cause.
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Finally Adebayor. People think there was no cause to boo Adebayor either but the fans’ problem with the striker stemmed back to long before his sale. He came to Arsenal after falling out of favour at Monaco and developing a bad reputation as a trouble-maker. Arsene Wenger gave him a chance for a fresh start and at first he took it. However after his first really successful season in 2007/08 he began talking up rumours of a move, claiming he wasn’t paid enough and inviting the advances of clubs like AC Milan. Needless to say his form the following season suffered and when his relationship with the fans was never the same. So, unsurprisingly, when he signed for City with wages around £160,000 per week many of the fans disdain increased towards what they saw as a player ungrateful to the manager that made him.
There will always be cause to heckle former players, and if there isn’t then they probably won’t be heckled. Henry, Pires, Campbell, Toure and many others can all pay testament to this; whilst Cole, Nasri, Adebayor and a few others will warn you of the perils of jilting the love of those fans that used to idolise you.
Only a minority of fans have such short memories that they would resent their former players moving clubs. Players can move on for any number of reasons and most of those are perfectly understandable: not enough game time, more ambition, being unhappy in a foreign country. However to move either for money or to a rival will not go unnoticed; to do both as Nasri and Ashley Cole did is unacceptable. Similarly with Sol Campbell during his time at Tottenham. He had the option of moving to Manchester United but instead he chose Arsenal. Is it at all surprising that Spurs’ fans resented him for it? Football fans are often accused of being fickle but it is rarely the case. As Thomas Vermaelen said recently after signing a new contract at Arsenal: the temptation to jump ship in times of trouble should always be overpowered by the desire to help out the club that has invested so much time and money in you. If you can genuinely say as a player that you gave your all to a club then it is acceptable to move on. If you sign for a club, benefit hugely from their manager and coaching staff before forcing a move to a rival before you’ve even seen out your first contract, as Nasri did, then don’t ever presume that you would be welcome back in that part of the world. Yes, players have short careers and they need to make the most of their opportunities but that doesn’t mean that you can go through life with no principles and expect to be loved for it.
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