Arsenal Transfer News: How Should Fans React If Samir Nasri Plays This Weekend?

Samir Nasri wants to leave Arsenal. He has made that much clear. With a much-anticipated and over-reported transfer to Manchester City looming on the horizon for the French playmaker, many Gunners fans have turned on one of their best players.

Nasri was offered a new contract this summer, but with City reportedly offering double that amount, Nasri has refused to re-sign with Arsenal and has forced a transfer away from the club.

Last week at Newcastle the away supporters sang a less-than-favorable song directed at Nasri, to which he tweeted this response: 

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"I heard what the Arsenal fans were singing about me and it is really disrespectful as i'm still a arsenal player [sic]"

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This isn't the first time the Arsenal fans have turned on a player for wanting to leave the club and earn more money. Emmanuel Adebayor received similar treatment. 

The Adebayor and Nasri situations are fairly similar. Indeed, after finishing his one and only quality season in England, Adebayor publicly stated that he wanted to move elsewhere.

In an effort to appease him, Arsenal upped his wages.

The fans did not take kindly to this behavior. They rightly saw Adebayor as selfish and greedy and many supporters vocalized that anger when Adebayor played the following season. He was going to have to do more than kiss the cannon on his shirt to win back the Arsenal fans.

But he didn't.

The newly-rich Adebayor underachieved and the team had to fight a battle with Aston Villa for fourth place for much of the season. City bought him for £25 million the next summer.

Two years later, City have reportedly offered the same fee for Nasri, but the two situations are fairly different.

Nasri has simply refused to re-sign any deal with the club and, in essence, forced Arsenal's hand. He has not made any public statement saying he would like to leave the club, despite the fact that when he tweeted "still," he essentially implied he expects to leave.

The Frenchman turned down a pay raise at Arsenal because he was confident he could earn more elsewhere, even if it meant waiting a year to do so.

Nasri has not been loyal to Arsenal, but at least he has been professional.

In any other business, no one would begrudge an employee for declining one contract in order to accept one with double the pay. But football is not any other business. 

Nasri's lack of loyalty frustrates the Arsenal fans. The fans pay the highest ticket prices in Europe. They do so because they love the club. They pay a steep price for their love of the club.

So when the fans see millionaires like Nasri and Adebayor turn their back on the club they love without hesitation, only to earn even more money, they feel betrayed.

Nonetheless, Nasri may still have a part to play in Arsenal's season before he gets a pay-raise at Man City. Arsenal are missing eight first team players due to injury and suspension this weekend, and the squad has been stretched very thin.

Consequently, Nasri has been included in the squad to face Liverpool. If selected, he will receive a mixed reception from the Arsenal faithful.

How should the Arsenal supporters treat Nasri if he plays? Does he deserve to be booed? Should the disrespectful songs continue?

Or is the club only put in a worse position every time the fans turn on a player like this? Should the fans ignore his apparent disloyalty and cheer him on in what will almost certainly be his last match for the club?