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Nasri is fourth in Player of the Season poll
Today, we start the countdown to unveiling our O2 Arsenal.com Player of the Season. We will be devoting a week of content to each of the top four as voted by you.
Samir Nasri leads off our quartet. The French star received 8.1 per cent of the votes cast after a highly-promising debut campaign at Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal.com editor Richard Clarke gives his verdict on the versatile midfielder.
It took just 224 seconds for Samir Nasri to make an impression on the Arsenal fans.
But the Frenchmans debut goal on the opening day of last season proved to be no flash in the pan. Forty-four games later, Nasri was still among your contenders for Player of the Season.
He ended up with 8.1 per cent of the vote, good enough for fourth place. It is respectful nod towards a player who made a notable contribution to Arsenals campaign.
True, Nasri did not have the thunder-clap arrival of another player who was new last season and ended up on the left-flank - Andrey Arshavin.
But like the Russian, Nasri did provide a highlight in a difficult season when he had a major game against a top-four side. The 21-year-old built on his opening goal with a brace against Manchester United in November; a game that breathed optimism back into Arsenals campaign after disappointments against Hull, Spurs and Stoke.
But while his sides form was patchy, Nasris contribution was steady. He was not winning rave reviews yet but for a young player in his first season in a foreign League there was more than enough cause for optimism.
Im content with my form, Nasri told the Official Matchday Programme in February. But I know I can do better as well.
Of course I am never completely happy - you have to keep working, progressing, continuing to make improvements. For a professional that is very important.
I had to get into the rhythm of the Premier League but I think I have managed to acclimatise having strived to do so. I feel fine now.
By that time, Nasri had ceased to be played solely as left-sided midfielder. It was not surprising. At Marseilles hed played centrally, almost never wide, and Arsene Wenger began to use that option as the season went on. There were occasional run-outs on the right and, most surprisingly of all, just in front of the back four.
It is a role he would like to reprise next term. But then Nasri is a real footballer, a player with the technique and temperament to play in any number of positions. It is the mark of a modern footballer. Standard, static formations have pretty much gone and consequently players must have flexibility.
In truth seven goals and five assists should be just the start for Nasri and everyone will look for more next season. But adaption is a funny thing. For every early starter like Arshavin or Patrick Vieira there are a heap of later bloomers like Alex Hleb.
You sense Nasri can rise to the challenge. His slightly-built frame belies a steely resolve forged in the backstreets of Marseilles. He left his home town and his home-town team to come to Arsenal. Yet speaking to Arsenal TV Online last summer he suggested he wanted the move simply to further his career. No regrets, no rancour, just regeneration.
Twelve months on, you cannot say the process is complete but at the same time Samir Nasri has made giant strides forward.
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