Declan Rice

[yankblue]

Typical Arsenal ruining football, inflating the market for the rest of us

 

[Cotontoquinn]

can’t remember when we were last involved in a bidding war where literally every bid and the structure (?!?!) was analysed so much

Marc Cucurella

 

[supercity88]

The best thing to do is for us to say we’ll match that offer and then it’s up to Rice.

Assuming Sullivan isn’t going to do something daft and reject that.

Depends on payment terms. I can't see them dropping the number of payments from 75m over 4 to 100m on the nose!

West Ham need cash to replace him now not in a few years.

City will have been waiting for Arsenal's move and now it's over to West Ham. We are in the perfect position to react though.

 

[bluesince76]

Good player, but not sure he's worth that, especially if your current midfielders aren't liable to get a red at any time or, er, may feel the need to move somewhere without extradition.

If Bernardo stays, we don't need another midfielder this season. If he goes, we'll have extra cash for an alternative.

Strange though that he only wanted Arsenal yet they've increased their bid massively as if they were concerned they'd lose him otherwise...

 

[Dr Jacoby]

£100 mill would get you Frenkie De Jong

Or close to four Wilfred Bonys

 

[Tony - MCFC]

Forget FDJ, he won’t be leaving Barca and have you seen his wage at Barca!

 

[not my fault!]

City won’t be publicly agreeing to £100m for any player let alone Rice while still negotiating for Gvardiol! The moment we “agree a deal” with West Ham we give RB Leipzig the opportunity to try and rinse us for more money. Once that deals boxed off I suspect City will either just pay what WH want or move on to another target of equal or better ability for probably less money.

 

[Ehza]

Marc Cucurella

That wasn't a war, we werent going to pay what bloom wanted and then chelsea came in and paid 60m + colwill on loan lol

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Arsenal went from an opening offer worth £80m to a 2nd offer worth a potential £90m, to a 3rd offer worth a potential £105m, so why wouldn’t City reach the same figure from an opening offer worth £90m? I think we’d have no problem with the fee if Arsenal’s bid gets accepted. We’d match it all day long.

 

[LIBlue]

We paid 100m for Grealish boys offer the same 105m no add ons leggooo

 

[SWPISHOME]

£100m + £5m Add Ons looks all well and good when posted and Twatter.

All depends on how Arsenal want to pay the installments. Their latest offer was over the space of 4 or 5 years.

Arsenal ruining football eh

 

[walker_is_faster]

Club I think would consider £80m plus kalvin for a deal but doubt they'd match financially on money

How much you value Phillips?

 

[DeBlueLou]

So assuming City pull out now, what plan C options does City have?

 

[Gumzy97]

It's all to do with the structure of the bid. We payed 100 for Grealish and were going to pay the massive fee for Bellingham if he didn't join Madrid. So i think we will go above a 100 million

 

[p.taker]

So assuming City pull out now, what plan C options does City have?

Kalvin Phillips

 

[KingGeorge]

So assuming City pull out now, what plan C options does City have?

Don't think any of us know the answer to that question

 

[leo_city]

So assuming City pull out now, what plan C options does City have?

I assure you of all areas on the pitch midfield won’t be struggling

 

[LIBlue]

How much you value Phillips?

Id trade for a good filet

 

[Phoenix900000]

It would be interesting if West Ham rejected it due to structure of payment or add-on being to low.

I think they may try to see if City will go back in to squeeze as much as they can put of this

 

[DMA's]

Just out of interest, what would you have done differently?

I obviously don’ have all the facts but reading that pol article the other day I don’t think we handled the gundo situation very well. Offering him a reduced wage wasn’t a good look when pep was saying how important he is to us. Also allowing the situation to rumble into mid June I feel was a bit naive.

Losing Bellingham to Madrid that’s just unlucky it can happen but seemingly coming in for rice late in the day just feels almost like a panic buy.

I’m really intrigued to see where we go from here but we need to nail this cm position. I know we have just won the treble but we are likely to lose at least 2 vital players from that midfield in gundo and Bernardo. Kovacic is a decent signing but we need another. We have to keep improving otherwise teams will overhaul us.