{"id":437536,"date":"2011-06-07T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/07\/i-did-speak-about-samir-nasri-but-not-since-manchester-united-move-talk-started-rio-ferdinand-distances-himself-from-speculation\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:15:00","slug":"i-did-speak-about-samir-nasri-but-not-since-manchester-united-move-talk-started-rio-ferdinand-distances-himself-from-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/i-did-speak-about-samir-nasri-but-not-since-manchester-united-move-talk-started-rio-ferdinand-distances-himself-from-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I did speak about Samir Nasri but not since Manchester United move talk started&#8217; &#8211; Rio Ferdinand distances himself from speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Joe Doyle<\/h3>\n<h4>7 Jun 2011 16:15:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"57.3524096386\">\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Samir Nasri (France)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/133200\/133286_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Samir Nasri (France)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"20.8090551181\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd\">Manchester United<\/a> defender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/1941\/rio-ferdinand\">Rio Ferdinand<\/a> has stated that his quotes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\">Premier League<\/a> rival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/france\/7626\/samir-nasri\">Samir Nasri<\/a> have been taken out of context, as the quotes were from before the speculation surrounding the midfielder began.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand had initially said: &#8220;Samir Nasri is an excellent player&#8230;for me, he is one of the best players right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Ferdinand took to his personal <em>Twitter<\/em> account to provide some background to the quote.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted: &#8220;My quotes about Samir Nasri are not recent (not that the papers let u know this) I spoke about him waaaaay before any speculation started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nasri has one year remaining on his contract, and has commented on a French television programme that he did not know whether he would be signing a new contract at Arsenal, before failing to rule out a move to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are loathe to lose such an influential figure for free at the end of his contract next year, but manager Arsene Wenger stated that they would not be selling him to Manchester United, whatever happened.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/07\/2521944\/i-did-speak-about-samir-nasri-but-not-since-manchester\" title=\"'I did speak about Samir Nasri but not since Manchester United move talk started' - Rio Ferdinand distances himself from speculation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;I did speak about Samir Nasri but not since Manchester United move talk started&#8217; &#8211; Rio Ferdinand distances himself from speculation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Joe Doyle 7 Jun 2011 16:15:00 Samir Nasri (France) Related Links Teams Players Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has stated that his quotes about Premier League rival Samir Nasri have been taken out of context, as the quotes were from before the speculation surrounding the midfielder began. Ferdinand had initially said: &#8220;Samir Nasri is an excellent player&#8230;for me, he is one of the best players right now.&#8221; However, Ferdinand took to his personal Twitter account to provide some background to the quote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;I did speak about Samir Nasri but not since Manchester United move talk started&#039; - Rio Ferdinand distances himself from speculation - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/i-did-speak-about-samir-nasri-but-not-since-manchester-united-move-talk-started-rio-ferdinand-distances-himself-from-speculation\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&#039;I did speak about Samir Nasri but not since Manchester United move talk started&#039; - Rio Ferdinand distances himself from speculation - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Joe Doyle 7 Jun 2011 16:15:00 Samir Nasri (France) Related Links Teams Players Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has stated that his quotes about Premier League rival Samir Nasri have been taken out of context, as the quotes were from before the speculation surrounding the midfielder began. 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