Declan Rice

[jimharri]

Anyone been on the Arsenal forums in the last couple of hours? How are they taking this alleged development?

 

[SSL2]

if they don't get rice it makes their havertz signing look even more bizzare than it already is.

penny pinching over a couple mil for rice whilst they've just spunked 65m on havertz who you could argue they didn't even need. madness

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Piers Morgan

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I’m not sure my spleen will survive City wrestling Rice away from us

I'd pay £100m just to see Piers lose his spleen.

 

[M18CTID]

Odegard and Saliba yes. Arteta tapped up a couple of City players. I reckon Arteta has a better idea of a player type to sign. Not sure they are as progressive as City in their recruitment. There’s still a Aubameyang, Lacazette, Ozil, Pepe hangover for me before you lose the spent money poorly moniker.

Mangala? Bony? As you say, those players above weren't Arteta signings. Martinelli wasn't either but he's turned out to be fantastic value for money. Trossard at £27m is too

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Indeed, but if we match it, you can just up it again most likely. Like I said, we don't win these transfers up against the likes of yourself and Chelsea.

That’s not true, we walked away from Maguire and Sanchez due to price. If Rice is too expensive we won’t buy him.

 

[BringBackSwales]

We've spent well the past 2 or 3 years, we've just not sold well because the players from the era before that were too old or not good enough. Without looking into it, I'd assume Gross Spend would be similar, but you have sold way better than us?

My point was I've seen this game before, only in January with Chelsea. We try to get the best deal possible for us with several installments and add-ons and then a City or a Chelsea come in and offer what the selling club is actually looking for.

Part of the swing in net spend was the near £100m you gave us last season for 2 squad players. To be fair both great characters but ultimately you bought a striker who doesn’t score prolifically and a left back who can’t really defend. However I grant you that your spending has improved significantly from when buying Aub, Lac and Pepe

 

[dhruvblue]

I don't know if he joins us Or not. I don't know what happens yo Bernardo or Phillips as we can't keep all of them together and happy but one thing I know arsenal fans are on suicide watch and those London rags are abusing City like any thing and their meltdown stupendous

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Anyone been on the Arsenal forums in the last couple of hours? How are they taking this alleged development?

 

[M18CTID]

if they don't get rice it makes their havertz signing look even more bizzare than it already is.

penny pinching over a couple mil for rice whilst they've just spunked 65m on havertz who you could argue they didn't even need. madness

They probably thought they had a free run at Rice. It's happened to us in the past with players, thinking we've had them in the bag, then suddenly another club pops up!

 

[BringBackSwales]

How about Pep's first few seasons here? Have you forgotten all those £50m+ signings?

No but I would say Walker, Stones, KDB etc have turned out pretty fucking well