Declan Rice

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Have West Ham accepted their bid? Be great to see the dildo king push for a few more quid for shits and giggles.
 
Just too expensive mate nothing more to say .
But we knew the price we were never going to get him for under 100m, rumours of Bernardo resigning would make this seem a possible reason for walking away.

And if the little fella is staying or even better extending, it's the best signing of the summer.
 
Missing out on two main targets isnt ideal.

Dont think we'll be going for a Plan C, the club rarely panics and waits a year or two to get the right player.

Think it will be Gvardiol and thats it for this summer.
Think we could go for veiga from Celta viga .
 
Reading the comments under the Rice to West Ham article in the Daily Mail, the majority of the Arsenal fans aren't happy about the £105mill transfer fee, a think Arsenal have been taken to the cleaners by West Ham.
Is that where they've all disappeared to? I thought there'd be a deluge of them on BM today.

They must be feeling butt hurt or something. Be careful what you wish for, innit? :-)
 
Only thing I don't get is that we went from Bellingham and Rice who are a little similar style wise, to now being linked with Gabri Veiga who's the complete opposite?
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To be fair to Eni, she got her assessment a shit load closer to the eventual outcome than many of us did... :-)
She didn’t. She was talking unadulterated shite.
We didn’t get him because his value put on him by his club was more than we thought he was worth.
Nothing more, nothing less and nothing we’ve not seen before from ourselves.
 
I don't think you're paying attention- I feel we never really wanted Rice- we stuck our beaks in and as a result Arsenal have paid well over the odds for him.

Also is Kovacic no one?

Eh?

Bellingham was a main target and Rice was the alternative. We didnt put a bid in just because Arsenal did. Anyone thinking we did so to increase the amount Arsenal had to pay is either a moron or a teenager on twitter.

I meant Gvardiol will likely be the only other signing.

Thought it was self explanatory.
 
Tbh with Phillips staying we were never going to sign Declan rice as both players are on similar level when playing for England anyway and what with Rodri being the best in the world it didn’t make sense .
 
Not with the first bid we put in, that was never going to be accepted, looks like Txiki has played them good and proper.

100m was always a very high price for the player but we were never going to get him for less.
You keep saying that… this isn’t Dickinson’s Real Deal! What makes you think we would waste our time with a perfunctory offer, that only serves to set up our actual offer?

We bid, it wasn’t enough, Arse bid more and we moved on.

By all accounts it was £95m paid in 2 years (incl realistic add ons), and Arsenals latest is £105 (they aren’t miles apart - so it was a serious offer). It wasn’t accepted, Arsenal went higher and we move on. I like that approach and it’s served us well so far.
 
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I have a feeling this signing might haunt us. Yes we’ve been in this situation before and have come out better but Rice really is a brilliant footballer who is only going to improve under arteta. I hope the club are confident in their ability to see off a better and more experienced arsenal along with the other clubs who would’ve made improvements too.
 
I have a feeling this signing might haunt us. Yes we’ve been in this situation before and have come out better but Rice really is a brilliant footballer who is only going to improve under arteta. I hope the club are confident in their ability to see off a better and more experienced arsenal along with the other clubs who would’ve made improvements too.
Arsenal will be lucky to get top 4 next season.
 
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