Declan Rice

[Any1aBlue]

West Ham are out of their minds, City need to move on.

In what way?

 

[oakiecokie]

Move on. That’s stupid money for him already, he’s not worth a penny more.

Is it your money thats being spent on him. So just lets leave it to the people who understand how much we CAN spend.

 

[oldius]

I think the prediction was that by 4pm Bluemooners would be saying that we should walk away from the deal.

 

[jrb]

I can’t even bring myself to watch the female woke pundit on Talk Shite, talking utter shite.

The mind boggles at how these pundits are picked and get paid big money to continually talk utter shite.

 

[DeBlueLou]

I think the prediction was that by 4pm Bluemooners would be saying that we should walk away from the deal.

Just before the 6pm Kovacic announcement

 

[not my fault!]

Just before the 6pm Kovacic announcement

Have the chairs been put out yet?

 

[RayCTID]

Why do you think that? Most of us here haven’t got a clue what wer prepared to spend, so it’d help if we knew your reasoning or itk info. Thanks.

 

[dave_blue12]

I can’t even bring myself to watch the female woke pundit on Talk Shite, talking utter shite.

The mind boggles at how these pundits are picked and get paid big money to continually talk utter shite.

Interesting use of the word 'woke'.

 

[skillman]

The ideal scenario is he only wants us and he’s let us know. West Ham have promised him he can leave so we sit still.

West Ham will do all they can to get him here rather than another London club in Arsenal.

Not only that, the deal will almost certainly include add-ons and, let's face it, ours are going to be more achievable than what Arsenal's are given they're usually trophy-related.

TH said it perfectly, Arsenal are in a nightmare scenario now of having a player who is comfortable going to either club - not just Arsenal as they wanted everybody to believe - and our first bid being higher than their second. If they bid again, which they've leaked will be their last, then it either has to blow us out of the water or we can simply outbid again and get the player.

Either way Arsenal have paid more than they wanted to or they've lost out to a rival in a very public transfer battle - or they simply back down to save face.

Txiki will be sat there after last night knowing full-well West Ham would reject that first bid but knowing that our ceiling is higher than Arsenal's.

If only they'd have won something, their kitty would've been so much bigger...

 

[Calv_from_the_frog]

I can't imagine for one secodn that we want Rice if we've submitted a bid that has so quickly been rejected by Wham (gievn that bids don't just materialise out of thin air, they're a result of some verbal communication / negotiation first).

For me, this leaves one of two possibilities:

1 - A solo venture, where we don't actually want him but are attempting to get Arsenal to stump up mega-ding so that they're limited in the improvements that they can make (a bit like we've done with Utd pretty much every summer for the last 10 years).

OR

2 - Some sort of collusion with Wham in order to get Arsenal to stump up as much as possible (basically no.1, but in league with Wham).



Either way, (and even if the true answer is 3 - We are actually genuine in our attempt to sign him, I never thought that it was possible to feel so 'meh' about City putting in a £90m bid for a player.