Declan Rice

[Blue warrior]

Haha, Arsenal are in pole position, but City are coming up fast. Remind you of anything?

Not got a clue mate :)

 

[mexico1970]

If we do manage to land Rice imagine the piss boiled at Tarquin HQ?

 

[Mad 4 It]

We get rice and it’s paid for by Arse who buy Cancelo and Phillips off us lol :)

 

[Gabriel]

If we do manage to land Rice imagine the piss boiled at Tarquin HQ?

Akin to this, I would imagine.

 

[JustAnotherCityFan]

Trying to think if we've done this before on a high profile signing, where another club is nailed on for them and we jump in last minute and snatch them? I know it's happened the other way round enough times!

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

No thanks. Don't need him

 

[mexico1970]

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Akin to this, I would imagine.

 

[Jack74]

No thanks. Don't need him

Is that because of the switch ?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Trying to think if we've done this before on a high profile signing, where another club is nailed on for them and we jump in last minute and snatch them? I know it's happened the other way round enough times!

We've had a lot of times where someone negotiating a big deal has feigned interest from us to get more money. So there is that.

I'm not that arsed about getting Rice, but I'd definitely enjoy the Arsenal fam TV clips.

 

[DeBlueLou]

Trying to think if we've done this before on a high profile signing, where another club is nailed on for them and we jump in last minute and snatch them? I know it's happened the other way round enough times!

Bernardo silva was fairly close to the rags no? Same goes for Gundo?

 

[Tb1981]

Sounds to me like West Ham are putting some pressure on arsenal to bid properly and get it done
Can’t see us doing anything
If we were that interested I think it would be done already

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Sounds to me like West Ham are putting some pressure on arsenal to bid properly and get it done
Can’t see us doing anything
If we were that interested I think it would be done already

But we know from tolmie that our no.1 target was Bellingham and our no.2 target is Rice. Bellingham joined Madrid, so now we move on Rice. We didn’t have Rice locked off because we thought we had Bellingham.

 

[Gabriel]

He'd be so overcome that he might actually start making sense.

 

[mexico1970]

He'd be so overcome that he might actually start making sense.

Blud ;)

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. He isnt creative or technically gifted enough to play as an 8 and while he would be good cover for Rodri you don't pay 100 million for someone to sit on the bench. Rather give Phillips another year to see if he can turn it round. I'm willing to give him a chance after singing the Jonny Stones chant on live TV.

 

[Sir Joe Aguero]

No thanks. Don't need him

Agreed, we’ve got Stones, Phillips & Kovacic who can all play there, or even Gvardiol/Ake on the left.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

He might be worth £120m to West Ham but he is not a £120m player.

That kind of figure makes Kalvin look like a bargain.

 

[Fox17]

West ham at home last game at Etihad, it would be good for Rice to potentially lift the prem infront of west ham fans.

 

[HelloCity]

No thanks. Don't need him

I made this post on him yesterday:

Obviously it’s not happening but I think Rice would have been excellent in our new system.

If Stones, Dias and Ake were in defence then Rice and Rodri could have been in front of them. If Rodri needs a rest then you play Stones and Rice in front of the defence and bring in another defender.

I wouldn’t have seen the need for him in the old system when we just played Rodri as he’s too good to be a backup but in the new system I think he’d have been a good fit.

 

[Tb1981]

But we know from tolmie that our no.1 target was Bellingham and our no.2 target is Rice. Bellingham joined Madrid, so now we move on Rice. We didn’t have Rice locked off because we thought we had Bellingham.

We would have know that a while back
I’m sure we weren’t waiting on real Madrid’s Twitter announcing it yesterday