The France midfielder, who was out for most of last season with a thigh injury, also missed Pep Guardiola's first game in charge against Bayern Munich after the new boss brought in a strict new training regime.
City defender Gael Clichy said that Guardiola had stopped players training with the first-team if they were not at their correct weight.
And Guardiola said after City's 6-5 penalty shootout victory over Dortmund in China, that Nasri was one of them but praised him for his work in preseason.
"He arrived a little bit overweight. He's much, much, much better now," Guardiola told a news conference.
"He fought a lot in these weeks but he is still a little bit [over]weight. And last season he was overweight and he was injured all the season we want to avoid that, we want to adapt.
"The players that are on the pitch they are fit, their weight is in the right place to arrive at many minutes. But hopefully in the next two weeks he will be right with us."
His side have played just two friendlies and have another against Arsenal in Sweden, but Guardiola is confident that they can fit in another game in Manchester.
"In football the season starts when the last one finishes. You don't have time to rest. We're going to kill our players," he added. "We will play two more friendlies before Sunderland and we'll see how the condition of the players is and we're going to decide.
"We saw in Munich and here as well what I want to see -- we were aggressive without the ball.
"The next game is in Manchester against a Scottish team. After, we play Arsenal."
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