Declan Rice

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JewelZee said:
I'm not trying to be funny but can someone explain "huge club" to me? They play in a large metropolitan city and, therefore, have a lot of fans. They've had periods of success over the decades but hardly any in the past 20 years. They've never been champions of Europe and their legendary Invincibles would have finished a full ten points behind our Centurions. Anything else?
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Not sure that there is a precise definition of huge club. Or big club or small club. They're all fairly subjective terms. Just like words such as legendary.

But I'm nearly 60 and I've grown up witnessing Arsenal winning lots of silverware, so for me they are at least a big club. Maybe huge should be reserved for the likes of Bayern, Real, Juve, Barca, Milan and of course City. Can't think of any other clubs deserving of the title huge to be fair.
 
Iassel said:
The interesting unanswered question for me is why City have gone about it the way they have..

They will have spoken to Sullivan and gotten a good idea of what was acceptable, so to come in so far below that, with a payment schedule that apparently was not attractive, and then walk doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Even if it were an attempt to drive the price up you would expect us to have gone back again a chunk below Arsenal but with good payment terms to force their hand.

Can only think the club were hoping/led to believe Rice would kick up a fuss to accept the original offer and now it’s clear he won’t we have walked away..

That would mean though that the journos who said he wanted to go to Arsenal were right all along and we were all told they didn’t know shit..
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perhaps we have another iron in the fire? Who knows but an odd stance from City.
 
I have a little question...

If Arsenal finally signs Rice for £110 millions, will all the media and basically everyone call them state club and criticise them for spending too much money and still not winning the Champions League?
 
BobKowalski said:
Because we put a valuation on a player and don’t budge. We valued Rice at around £90m, anything above that and we walk. Did it with Cucurella, Kane, Maguire etc. It‘s how we roll.
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True, but I thought we would've had another nibble. It's all well and good us valuing Rice at £90m and that's our prerogative but West Ham were on record as saying they wanted £120m which is their prerogative, so the sensible thing would've been working towards meeting them half way, but on a better payment structure than what Arsenal have offered.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I absolutely love it when people say "Close the thread" when they think we probably aren't signing someone. I can't quite explain why, it's like a pride thing or something.
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I think they tend to be a bit simple tbh. Transfer forum seems to bring the very worst of our fan base together and reading half the shite hurts my brain.
 
Chiefmcfc said:


Jack Guaghan retweeted his earlier article.
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Now THIS is more a City style signing! Viega & Güler would suit me just fine.

With Kovacic now a City player at £30m replacing Dog, if we can sort out Alphonso Davies at LB, Gvardiol if Laporté leaves, Güler/Dominik Szoboszlai, a rapid left winger & move Grealish inside, I'd be fuckin made up with this window!

We could get Kova, Viega, Güler & Szoboszlai for £20m more than Arsenal paid for Rice! I rate Rice, but I know which I'd prefer! :-)
 
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M18CTID said:
True, but I thought we would've had another nibble. It's all well and good us valuing Rice at £90m and that's our prerogative but West Ham were on record as saying they wanted £120m which is their prerogative, so the sensible thing would've been working towards meeting them half way, but on a better payment structure than what Arsenal have offered.
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Maybe we put a limit of say £100m on him and bid £90m to test the water but when Arsenal bid £105m it became clear we would would have to go some way over our valuation. Maybe Arsenal knew/guessed that too.
 
I did want Rice, think he's brilliant but truthfully there isn't a gap in the squad for him so it's not a huge miss

Hes a very good upgrade for Arsenal though
 
Didsbury Dave said:
No player in world football would choose Arsenal over City. "Huge club" is fan talk.
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Whilst we all have our views not sure i agree with that. Yes we look a better proposition for the next couple of years. But that statement just sounds incredibly arrogant to me. People do strange things. I mean who would have thought that Tevez would have left the rags for us?
 
Lord Blue said:
If we dropped players after a bad performance then Dunney would have barely played for us the amount of own goals he sliced in.
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That was then,different animal these days mate,oh and also add to the fact that Pep basically called him a fat **** as well.

Huge summer for him,if he shapes up and sorts out then who knows,but he will have to do both to stand any chance of getting a sniff
 
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