Declan Rice

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

It's over

Thank fuck for that - sense has prevailed, finally.

Onto the Bernardo Silva thread!!

 

[DeBlueLou]

What was the point.

Thankfully it isn't August when this happened. Hopefully they have a plan C

 

[samuelyeboah]

Good - next target please!

 

[Sibierskii]

Fucking hell

 

[halfcenturyup]

It's over

So Eni was right all along. Bless her.

 

[Blue Smarties]

Thankfully it isn't August when this happened. Hopefully they have a plan C

Hopefully Valverde.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

That’s all folks.

 

[FatedBlue77]

Very strange to have left after our 1st bid knowing west ham were holding out for at least £100M. Very baffling imo.

 

[samuelyeboah]

City look a bit silly here imo

Not at all. Arsenal look silly here if anything. 105m for Declan rice..

 

[Tugay One Cup]

So Eni was right all along. Bless her.

They hated her, for she spoke the truth.

 

[not my fault!]

Famous people fly in and out of places in private jets all the time without having their photo taken (or at least posted publicly). Could obviously be nonsense but this isn't a valid argument against it. The proof of it being rubbish would be something like a photo of Rice in another country yesterday, which may well be somewhere on social media and turn up shortly.

The fact anyone would take any credence in him possibly being here and then needing to search the internet to find an image to prove otherwise is dumbfounding.

 

[DeBlueLou]

Good - next target please!

If there even is one.

 

[theres only one carlito]

City look a bit silly here imo

We value what we value him at, it’s that simple. He’s only worth what a buyer is prepared to pay. We ain’t desperate, so it’s thanks but no thanks and we crack on.

 

[richards30]

So we have missed out on out top 2 midfield targets?

 

[DMA's]

In all fairness this is the best result.

I’m not so sure tbh. Rice improves arsenal and we will need to move on to our 3rd target. Teams around us our spending crazy money to catch us up and we need to be careful that we don’t let that happen.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Let’s see if West Ham & Arse get a deal done though. No point offering that money if they can’t do the payment terms required.

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

Given I was told people at City thought he’d end up at Arsenal a few days ago I was surprised to see us make an official proposal for him.

100 million pounds for Declan Rice is truly laughable.

What is Rodri worth then ? 200 million ?

I would be staggered if we don’t now walk away and move on to other targets.

The only ace up our sleeve would be including Kalvin in the deal but I don’t see him being remotely interested in going to West Ham. He’s desperate to stay.

As expected, we have pulled the plug on it.

 

[pudge]

It's over

Thank fuck

 

[jaseisblue]

100million + is too much for rice imo.

What if it turns out to be really good Rice, like the one with little bits of meat and prawns in it. You know the one that is ooozing with flavour and serves you well.

 

[DMA's]

We value what we value him at, it’s that simple. He’s only worth what a buyer is prepared to pay. We ain’t desperate, so it’s thanks but no thanks and we crack on.

But what were we expecting? Was always gonna take a bud of around 100 mil so why get involved at all?