Declan Rice

[robbieh]

Even more to the point, 5 players for 4 spots and Rodri who basically can't be dropped

Rodri, Phillips, Kovacic, Foden, KdB, Bernardo, McAtee.
I make that 7

 

[jimharri]

Would he want to leave London though?
Manchester isn't great in parts.

Neither is London. It's not all St John's Wood, Kensington, Chelsea and Hampstead Heath.

 

[Bernard20]

128 knife incidents per 100k residents as compared to 121 to 100k in Greater Manchester. Hardly a great pissing contest.

That’s a stat I haven’t read before… pretty shocked by that, because I was probably one of the naive that thought knife crime was London centric. Can you pm me a link?

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

In the space of 24 hours we've gone from 'Rice only wants Arsenal' to 'Rice still keen on Arsenal, but would find it hard to say no to City and Pep'. I wonder what tomorrow will bring.

If we want him, he's ours.

He will never sign for city……where will he get his jellied eels and pie mash from ?

 

[Tony - MCFC]

Haha.
I wanna believe you've got inside info on Rice cos I think he's a great player.
I honestly think he's being held back playing as a 6.

All I have ever said on Rice is that City are all in for him this morning but so did others and before that I think. I have nothing new and would not say with 100% certainty or claim to say he’ll Def be at City.

I think he will imo; we’ll find out soon enough.

 

[Carlos- the- jackal]

128 knife incidents per 100k residents as compared to 121 to 100k in Greater Manchester. Hardly a great pissing contest.

How many brown bread me old china?

 

[RodrimOn]

I know that it’s a pretty different situation, but remember when Mangala said straight up in an interview that he preferred Chelsea over us because they’re in London, but he ended up joining us a month or two later?

 

[Ajm1985]

Sorry, I see the London local news on most days, and not Manchester's, it was only meant as a bit of a joke comment, sorry if it ofended.

No offence! It's a higher volume in London so you would but it's a bit of a trope. West Mids and Cleveland forces report higher knife rates per 100k but it's all shite. Either way, doubt Rice would take it into account!

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

Love some of the comments on here.
'Can't believe Gundo's leaving for Barca. Needs to tell his Missus he's happy in Manchester'
Same with Bernardo.

Then people saying do they think 'Rice would wanna swap London for Manchester?????'

 

[yankblue]

Moving quickly it seems like.

I just want to say Stones + Rice + Gvardiol (if it happens) is a fascinating group of players to work with in that area of the pitch. The flexibility they each provide and ability to move into midfield/drop into defense.... will be interesting to see them all in the same side. Peps wet dream