Declan Rice

[Nour]

They already started the narrative of him choosing them over us.

 

[Cricket Blue]

Very disappoinng news

 

[TonyM]

Mate, you missed the:

"None of us outside of City's transfer board will truly know what our true intentions were, but the end result was Arse panicked & coughed up £35m more than their initial bid, & with the mission complete, we stepped away & got on with our intended business, leaving Arse massively overpaying."

There's so many theories as to how & why we ended our interest, we'd be here until tomorrow poring over them.

We made a bid to force Arse to pay more to ensure Arteta got his player?

Txiki put in a bid to panic Arse into overpaying, thus taking a chunk out of their transfer budget?

We genuinely reasoned £90m was our limit?

It all adds up to the same outcome. Arse overpaid for Rice & their entitled fans feel like they've been dry bummed by the Hammers, & the whole bidding process has got City's fingerprints all over it! Lol :-)

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Reads to me like Arab villan bla bla bla bla bla American victim. Boo hoo.

 

[bmfc95]

this is ridiculous no wonder city didn’t want to entertain

 

[manimanc]

Pressure all on Arsenal now. They need a good start or Arteta will be toast.
Two good solid signings for them in Havertz and Rice.
Going to be a proper fight next season, can't wait.

 

[bluedan]

Arsenal singing Rice and Havertz for £170m has made their net spend over the last 5 years tip over £570m. That's more than Chelsea and United over the same period. Any mention of this in the media?

How are they getting past FFP with no previous CL football

 

[FatedBlue77]

Arsenal will be under HUGE pressure to bring home silverware. He’s been backed massively and nearly all of his 1st choice targets have been successfully signed.

 

[Blue Smarties]

I genuinely don't think Havertz is all that? Certainly wouldn't concern me seeing him line up.

 

[Dribble]

I'll agree with you totally on the end result. I'm just looking at who initiated it. Can't be both.

Who cares mate? We'll never truly know either way.

The main point is City's bid forced Arse to massively up their bid which was rejected, but we just left them & the Hammers to it.

Reports tonight are both clubs are trying to iron out the details of the payment plan. All of a sudden, WHU have reversed their **REJECTED** stance & have settled on £105m for Declan Rice! Lol :-)

Another plus is Grealish must be fuckin relieved that he's no longer the record fee paid for a British player, or the record transfer involving a British player!

Those honours now go to Bellingham & Rice. It's a fuckin win/win! :-)

 

[Barcon]

I genuinely don't think Havertz is all that? Certainly wouldn't concern me seeing him line up.

I don’t think anyone does mate apart from arteta