Declan Rice

[hilts]

Not sure if signing the Chelsea lad affects any desire to get Rice.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

highly ridiculous

They already told United he’s not keen on a move to them. If united go in again it will reek of desperation but they may think they can convince Rice if Arsenal don’t hurry up.

 

[waspish]

Personally don’t think we in for Rice

 

[DMA's]

The fact arsenal are being so relaxed and low balling West Ham suggests to me they know rice wants only arsenal. Very similar to Jesus last season, they seem to box the player off and then negotiate with the club knowing they can low ball. Similar to how we operate tbh

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Why on God's earth would he want to go there

 

[Trickyblues]

The fact arsenal are being so relaxed and low balling West Ham suggests to me they know rice wants only arsenal. Very similar to Jesus last season, they seem to box the player off and then negotiate with the club knowing they can low ball. Similar to how we operate tbh

Mudryk and caicedo only wanted arsenal too…

 

[Any1aBlue]

Absolutely no chance whatsoever he goes there. Better prospects staying put.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Like you and I said, City haven't shown any concrete interest. He and his family would need convincing to leave home - big ask

Yup stay for the family and celebrate christmas cup parade.

 

[DMA's]

Mudryk and caicedo only wanted arsenal too…

Well we know ourselves with Jorginho, Sanchez, maguire (thank god) players can change their minds. Just feel rice has been totally convinced to join arsenal. They are ambitious, building a brilliant squad and keeps him close to home. Just seems to make too much sense

 

[richards30]

Well we know ourselves with Jorginho, Sanchez, maguire (thank god) players can change their minds. Just feel rice has been totally convinced to join arsenal. They are ambitious, building a brilliant squad and keeps him close to home. Just seems to make too much sense

depends if we have only just joined the party mate?

 

[not my fault!]

Think it's a game being played out by both sides. Who is leaking that West Ham were expecting bids by at least 2 other clubs last week, that wasn't Arsenal.

Honestly, i remain to be convinced we'll offer what is actually acceptable to West Ham in teerms of up front fee & instalments. Maybe we will and are just trying to get as good a deal as we can for ourselves to allow us to make other signings, i don't know. I much preferred when the first you heard about these signings were on teletext or the back of a newspaper.



Sorry, West Ham itk's. There's been an official from Bayern quoted as saying they haven't bid because they've heard he's going to be an Arsenal player by July 1st as well.

I agree with you, it's all guesswork, and i'm not as confident as Humbled (i never am, somewhat ironically with his username). I do believe Arsenal are his first choice because there's too much noise saying so, but if we can't get an agreement and City do, i think all bets could be off, but that's guesswork from me as well.

I didn’t look properly and assumed I’d replied to Humbbled to be honest… you’ve been decent so far.
From a City point of view I’m really not fussed if we brought him or not, I wasn’t with Jack though to be fair and that’s turned out ok so.

 

[Tb1981]

The fact arsenal are being so relaxed and low balling West Ham suggests to me they know rice wants only arsenal. Very similar to Jesus last season, they seem to box the player off and then negotiate with the club knowing they can low ball. Similar to how we operate tbh

The risk with that is if a team like city or united come in and offer West Ham what they want
Then you either up your bid or the player may change his mind
Like murdyk did

 

[SWP's back]

Was it civilized?

Yeah it was decent fun to be honest. Think the buy in was only about a tenner and it used to last a couple of hours. Don’t think we had many bellends join in which helped.

 

[MCFC1993]

I would now take this if the Gundo news is true:

 

[bell_mcfc]

Get this done.

Get Lampard on the coaching team and he could work wonders with Declan.

 

[Danny Hoekman]

Am I missing something with Declan Rice?

 

[Dr Jacoby]

I could only see this happening if Phillips is prepared to leave in a part-exchange deal. Seems unlikely at present.

Not particularly fussed as I think he has technical limitations and wouldn’t necessarily flourish here for what would be an exorbitant fee.

 

[TonyM]

In what way is Rice a replacement for Gundogan? I mean in terms of style or a job to do on the pitch? I can only see him as an extra body or a replacement for Phillips.

 

[SWP's back]

It is true. It is very true. I mentioned it the other day, footballers are people too. Thier homelife is a factor in decisions to move clubs.

When people say 'If City want him, its done', I always imagine a bunch of movers letting themselves into the Rice household and start packing up their belongings, and Declan and his missus come out of bed bemused wondering whats going on. "City have bid for you Declan, its done, pack up your life and your 6 months old son, your moving to Manchester".

I mean cmon, at the end of the day football is his day job and his family come first.

Haha fuck off soft lad. People move further away for jobs paying £50k per year. Let alone to work with the best manager in the world and play in the best team in the world.

Ps, Alderly Edge is a great deal nicer and less stabby than anywhere in London.

 

[richards30]

In what way is Rice a replacement for Gundogan? I mean I terms of style or job to do on the pitch? I can only see him as an extra body or a replacement for Phillips.

Phil is meant to be moving more central mate and Jack could as well plus Kovacic now?