{"id":13647,"date":"2011-08-26T11:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T08:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=13647"},"modified":"2011-08-26T11:14:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T08:14:38","slug":"samir-nasri-cesc-fabregas-criticise-arsenals-emirates-atmosphere-13647","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/samir-nasri-cesc-fabregas-criticise-arsenals-emirates-atmosphere-13647\/","title":{"rendered":"Samir Nasri &#038; Cesc F\u00e1bregas criticise Arsenal&#8217;s Emirates atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13648\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13648\" title=\"emirates_highbury_arsenal-nationalturk-00123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/emirates_highbury_arsenal-nationalturk-00123.jpg\" alt=\"Highbury Atmosphere missing? Arsenal fans lack the passion at Emirates, say ex-gunners Fabregas and Nasri\" width=\"610\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highbury Atmosphere missing? Arsenal fans lack the passion at Emirates, say ex-gunners Fabregas and Nasri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Cesc F\u00e1bregas backed up Samir Nasri&#8217;s claims of Arsenal are missing the &#8216;special&#8217; Highbury atmosphere and fans being &#8216;not that passionate&#8217; since move to Emirates.<\/h1>\n<p>Departing Arsenal players Cesc F\u00e1bregas shared his former teammate Samir Nasri&#8217;s comments. Both ex-Arsenal say Arsenal are missing their &#8216;special&#8217; former home at Highbury. Samir Nasri&#8217;s criticism of the atmosphere at Arsenal&#8217;s Emirates Stadium has been endorsed by the former Arsenal captain Cesc F\u00e1bregas, as he also admitts he &#8220;never felt at home as I was at Highbury&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cesc F\u00e1bregas, asked about the comments by ex-Arsenal Samir Nasri following his move to Manchester City in which he criticised the home fans&#8217; lack of passion since the move in 2006, agreed that their former home was &#8220;special&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>Barcelona&#8217;s Cesc Fabregas on Arsenal&#8217;s season<\/h2>\n<p>Cesc F\u00e1bregas expressed &#8220;I have never felt at home as I was at Highbury at any other stadium in the world but it was not my decision, it was Arsenal&#8217;s decision, it was what they needed in that moment.\u00a0&#8220;Highbury was a special thing that I don&#8217;t think will happen any more, but Arsenal have to make the Emirates their own home now and with their own cabinet of trophies to start all over again.&#8221; the Barcelona midfielder continued.<\/p>\n<p>Cesc F\u00e1bregas, speaking ahead of Barcelona&#8217;s Uefa Super Cup clash against the Europa League winners, Porto, stated he had been nervous watching Arsenal&#8217;s thrilling win over Udinese in the Champions League on television, but backed his old team-mates to make real progress this season in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<h3>Fabregas still refers to Arsenal as &#8216;we&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I watched it and became a bit scared when they scored and got the penalty, but I think after we saved the penalty the game became more comfortable for us and I think we played very well.\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy for Arsenal and their fans because they deserve to be in the Champions League. It&#8217;s a big boost for Arsenal and the players, because it is a very difficult season and I am sure from this they will get so much confidence they can move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please share what you think on Fabregas&#8217; and Nasri&#8217;s comments on Arsenal with us below<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cesc F\u00e1bregas backed up Samir Nasri&#8217;s claims of Arsenal are missing the &#8216;special&#8217; Highbury atmosphere and fans being &#8216;not that passionate&#8217; since move to Emirates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,135,118,127],"tags":[17349,17350,6244,17346,17348,17353,17351,17352,8167,17347],"class_list":["post-13647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-football","category-hot","category-sport","tag-arsenal-emirates","tag-arsenal-highbury","tag-cesc-fabregas","tag-cesc-fabregas-arsenal","tag-cesc-fabregas-barcelona","tag-cesc-fabregas-comments-arsenal","tag-fabregas-comments","tag-nasri-comments","tag-samir-nasri","tag-samir-nasri-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}