Declan Rice

[Immel & Dibble]

Get the fanny wipes out

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Rice is a brilliant player but £100 million is a crazy fee.

With the limited minutes Phillips had last season, he’s virtually a new signing for us and when on form he’s a very good player.

There’s a much better deal to be done for James Maddison. Half the price of Rice and he actually adds creativity to the middle of the park which is what we need in KDBs absence.

People need to forget price.

It's marginal gains for a team as great as City's.

There are very few players who might be available or who might want to join us, who can improve us.

Rice improves us and keeps us ahead of the chasing pack.

It also covers the eventuality when Rodri finishes or even wants to leave.

 

[waspish]

I thought it was well known FDJ is on 400k+ a week and wont take a wage cut.
It's rumoured we looked at it and said nahh, no thanks.

€750k a week

 

[chris8910]

Imagine we bid £115,000,001.00. Just to absolute piss boil the piss.

 

[mancboy]

I think the question to ask would be what does declan rice bring , does he make us slightly better? maybe, does he turn arsenal into title contenders, i doubt it. The confidence that arsenal have on the back of two thirds of a good season is insane. Arsenal quite simply had a leicester season and the only difference is leicester got it over the line and arsenal didnt, the reason this is even a conversation is that those muppets on aftv have managed to parlay their little rants into a legitimate sports business and are now pushing this agenda that arsenal are back where they should be yadda yadda, last four seasons they have finished 8th, 8th, 5th and 2nd, now some will say thats an upward trend, i say thats an anomaly of a season. Rice may well go to arsenal and more power to him if he does but the only argument that arsenal makes for him going there is that he gets in their team every week but he doesnt get in ours and if thats the mentality that he has then he shouldnt be at city. My god if we were talking about signing a young spanish or french midfielder from a team anywhere but england that had finished 14th for figures north of 100m the world would rightly say we wed gone mad

 

[OrigamiNinja]

£105m for Declan Rice. The world has gone fucking mad.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

On a side-note, what’s with all these bids going in during the dead of night?

Ornstein trying to protect his stuff and give it more exposure.

 

[Coatigan]

Why are we assuming City will pull out now? Am I missing something?

Because it is a sensible assumption.

The club walked away from pursuing Harry Kane over a similar amount when our greatest striker needed replaced, and went into the season without anyone there. Waited a year for a defender when Vince left, waited a year for Rodri rather than paying 5-10m more for Jorginho.

Maybe the club do a fuck-it bid. Unlike the examples above, we have 3 players in that position already, and no need to pay silly money.

 

[Bald fraud]

Not worth it. If Arsenal sign him for that price it will be heralded in the media and all we’ll hear about is how they’ve got one over on city. How he’s chosen history over money blah blah blah. If we sign him for that price it will be disgusting. Ruining football farmers league blah blah blah.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Who here even gave the slightest fuck about Declan Rice until we were linked with him?

Decent player in an average team.

Would probably do ok for us at the right price but I’m not getting my knickers in a twist about it either way.