If Arteta and Edu fail to close this deal serious questions will be asked. The bookmakers have us raging favourites to sign him. Rice is a London lad and by all accounts has little interest in moving outside the M25. As for being able to afford him. We bid something like 85m for Mudryk and Saka's new deal is close to 300k a week. Ever since the full takeover in 2019 by the Kroenke's we have been spending money. You woulnt have noticed because we dropped the ball big time with Pepe, and spent big on Ozil and PEA contracts. But lately we have been splashing the cash and making it count. I think we will have another big window, aided by sales of Tierney, Balogun, and perhaps even Smith-Rowe, of which we will raise close to 100m from those three.
This is a signing we need to make. And its there for the taking to
