better dead than red
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Perhaps. Rodri, cost €70m in 2019. I'd guess the price would be considerably higher in 2025 money. When we purchased him, he wasn't worth €70m by any stretch. There will be a lot of faulty memories here but many on this forum repeatedly called him a shit player.Rice isn't capable of doing what Rodri and Fernandinho before him did. He cost £110m and for that should be a special player. He isn't special. Neither are the other £100m+ players Caicedo, Fernandez and Grealish.
Could Pep have made Rice even better? Probably. You don't know that Rice isn't capable. Perhaps he's doing what is asked and expected of him?
Kovacic and Phillips the combined total price was about £80m. For another £20m, in my opinion, Rice would have been with it.