Declan Rice

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Ghostofmerlin said:
We can assume at least a little of what pep thinks about Philips, I would think. Last season left us a couple of clues.
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Don’t need clues, Pep told us exactly what he thinks. What he didn’t tell us and we can’t know is what he thinks Phillips is or isn’t capable of if he stays. He will however have told Phillips, so Kalvin will know.
 
Rice is over priced but if a deal can be done with Kalvin, I would be all for it.

As others say it is very clear that Pep did not trust Phillips at the end of the season. This is not to say he has no use for him, but he was not up to standard at this point. Interestingly in need of goals, Pep did not trust Grealish against Villa at the end of last season.

He might still think he offers something this next season etc.

Very nice bloke by all accounts Phillips, better passer of the ball then Declan but not sure as good dribbling etc. There is some stat on win percentage for West Ham being a significant amount higher when Rice plays. He offers something.
 
Fuzzy80 said:
Rice is over priced but if a deal can be done with Kalvin, I would be all for it.

As others say it is very clear that Pep did not trust Phillips at the end of the season. This is not to say he has no use for him, but he was not up to standard at this point. Interestingly in need of goals, Pep did not trust Grealish against Villa at the end of last season.

He might still think he offers something this next season etc.

Very nice bloke by all accounts Phillips, better passer of the ball then Declan but not sure as good dribbling etc. There is some stat on win percentage for West Ham being a significant amount higher when Rice plays. He offers something.
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Agreed with him being overpriced, I would like to know how much time phillips actually spent on the training pitch this season with his injuries because he wouldn’t of had that much time to learn the system and implement that into the training ground. Also is unfortunate that when he was fit it was the run in into the end of the season so he wasn’t trusted over Rodri.

I do reckon we will bid for him in the coming days and if Phillips goes the other way he really can’t moan he’s in the squad that won the treble and he shouldn’t of come back unfit from the World Cup, he will be great for West Ham and they will get money to further invest.
 
Manchester_City_Blue said:
Win win in a sense. If we get Rice great. If we push Arsenal to pay 100m (Likely most of their budget) on Rice then they can't strengthen much and are right back in trouble with a couple of injuries next year.
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Its not all our budget. Stan Kroenke owns us but Josh Kroenke his son has taken over as the de-facto owner. Stan is married to Anne Walton, with Anne being Josh's mother. Anne Walton is member of the Walton family who own 51% of Walmart stock which is currently worth over 240 billion USD. We are de-facto owned by the richest family in the world (private enterprise). Type 'richest family in the world' into google and you get the Waltons looking back at you

Ever since the Kroenke's completed a full take over we have spent solid sums. No one initially noticed because we spent 72m on Pepe, gave Amumayang 350k a week and Ozil 300k a week. But in recent years we have been getting it right with our spending, and also paying unwanted players to leave, while fending off real interest in Saliba, Saka and Martinelli are giving each a 200,300,200k a week wage respectively - you watch, Odegaard will sign next. Now were offering 100m for Rice.

Most people are stuck in 2012 with regards to our ownership. They still think being owned by the Kroenke's is a bad thing, when in actual fact they were bad owners when they owned only a portion of the club. However as mentioned, ever since the full takeover we have been ramping up the spending.

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