Declan Rice

[xMatMcC]

I have a little question...

If Arsenal finally signs Rice for £110 millions, will all the media and basically everyone call them state club and criticise them for spending too much money and still not winning the Champions League?

no.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

I have a little question...

If Arsenal finally signs Rice for £110 millions, will all the media and basically everyone call them state club and criticise them for spending too much money and still not winning the Champions League?

I doubt it.

 

[Phil1]

I absolutely love it when people say "Close the thread" when they think we probably aren't signing someone. I can't quite explain why, it's like a pride thing or something.

I think they tend to be a bit simple tbh. Transfer forum seems to bring the very worst of our fan base together and reading half the shite hurts my brain.

 

[Dribble]

Jack Guaghan retweeted his earlier article.

Now THIS is more a City style signing! Viega & Güler would suit me just fine.

With Kovacic now a City player at £30m replacing Dog, if we can sort out Alphonso Davies at LB, Gvardiol if Laporté leaves, Güler/Dominik Szoboszlai, a rapid left winger & move Grealish inside, I'd be fuckin made up with this window!

We could get Kova, Viega, Güler & Szoboszlai for £20m more than Arsenal paid for Rice! I rate Rice, but I know which I'd prefer! :-)

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I'm sure he wanted us.

But i can understand him wanting Arsenal more.

He's a London boy and Arsenal are a huge club despite our current run of silverware.

No player in world football would choose Arsenal over City. "Huge club" is fan talk.

 

[Lord Blue]

True, but I thought we would've had another nibble. It's all well and good us valuing Rice at £90m and that's our prerogative but West Ham were on record as saying they wanted £120m which is their prerogative, so the sensible thing would've been working towards meeting them half way, but on a better payment structure than what Arsenal have offered.

Maybe we put a limit of say £100m on him and bid £90m to test the water but when Arsenal bid £105m it became clear we would would have to go some way over our valuation. Maybe Arsenal knew/guessed that too.

 

[Sir Joe Aguero]

I’d test Madrid to see if Camavinga/Tchoumanei picks up the phone

Think that’d be dependent on what happens with Mbappe and if they need to sell to accommodate. Be very happy with either.

 

[handsofstone]

I did want Rice, think he's brilliant but truthfully there isn't a gap in the squad for him so it's not a huge miss

Hes a very good upgrade for Arsenal though

 

[Lord Blue]

No player in world football would choose Arsenal over City. "Huge club" is fan talk.

Whilst we all have our views not sure i agree with that. Yes we look a better proposition for the next couple of years. But that statement just sounds incredibly arrogant to me. People do strange things. I mean who would have thought that Tevez would have left the rags for us?

 

[meeesh]

If we dropped players after a bad performance then Dunney would have barely played for us the amount of own goals he sliced in.

That was then,different animal these days mate,oh and also add to the fact that Pep basically called him a fat **** as well.

Huge summer for him,if he shapes up and sorts out then who knows,but he will have to do both to stand any chance of getting a sniff