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Nasri reveals off-field Gallas issues

May 15, 2010
By Soccernet staff

Samir Nasri has said he is one of "four or five" Arsenal players who do not speak to William Gallas.

William Gallas, Samir Nasri
GettyImagesSamir Nasri insists there are no problems on the pitch with William Gallas

Hill-Wood questions Gallas demands

Gallas is out of contract this summer and looks likely to leave Emirates Stadium, with chairman Peter Hill-Wood saying the club is unwilling to match his "extravagant" demands for a new deal.

Nasri and Gallas are known to have a problematic relationship, with a bust-up at Euro 2008 documented in Gallas' autobiography, but Nasri has now revealed a number of players do not get along with the 32-year-old.

"I don't communicate with him, but I'm not the only one at Arsenal who doesn't have any communication with him," he said in the Sun. "We are four or five, but that doesn't stop us fighting for each other on the pitch.

"You don't get 11 friends in a football team. There are people who have affinities and who get on, but on the pitch we fight for the same cause."

Kolo Toure revealed last month that his feud with Gallas had driven him to quit the club for Manchester City last summer.

"I had a few problems with a few people there and wasn't feeling happy," he said. "I was looking for somewhere else and a new challenge.

"Gallas and me misunderstood each other at certain times and one of us had to leave. As a player I had great respect for him because he was older than me.

"In Africa, when someone is older you have respect for them, but I think sometimes he took advantage of that in some ways."