Declan Rice

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01cravend said:
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This wins the forum, forever.
 
JTFactsPlz said:
Excited to see who we go for now. Delighted we pushed the Arse to waste an extra £20m.
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We will struggle to get another quality midfielder in this window… probably best to leave it. Everyone knows we are on plan C so the negotiations will be a nightmare. I think we need some new energy in the side - there will be a drop off from the players who gave everything last season in the first few months and I doubt we will see KDB until late October. Pep will need to weave his magic.
 
shevtheblue said:
Arteta HAS to win something now, and i don't mean a domestic cup. They are backing him big time here, and it's fair enough because he turned them around last season, but it means he has to deliver.
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They're now the highest spenders of the last 5 years and within touching distance of the top spenders of the biggest spenders over the last 10 years. Anything other than a league win or champions league win for them next year isn't good enough really
 
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Was excited about us getting Rice. But as always, fully support the clubs judgement. As an approach, it hasn't worked out too badly for us in the past has it.
 
FatedBlue77 said:
Wonder how pep must feel right now. Lost out on top target bellingham to madrid, strongly wanted gundo to stay which would've negated the need for rice and not prompted us to come into the bidding race but got overriden by the board. And now lost out on rice which was his bellingham alternative to Arsenal.
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Are you fishing or do you genuinely mean this?? the only person that decided Gundy was going was Gundy. Arsenal are desperate for Rice - we aren't. Arsenal are spending more than they can...they'll have problems.
Pep and our owners have a great relationship and Pep will not be feeling anything but trust that club does what is best for the club
You really make yourself look like a secretly gloating rag
 
Reminds me when trevor sinclair went to QPR instead of the mighty Manchester City.

this feels similar except I was arsed about that
 
SWPISHOME said:
I said on here a few days ago "If we get Declan Rice so be it, If not we move on".

We've been incredible in the transfer market over the last 10 years plus but especially since Pep has arrived.

We have a valuation on a player and that's it, We won't be taken for mugs. £105 million for Declan Rice, Ludicrous.
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EXACTLY
 
halfcenturyup said:
People will always forgive you for being wrong. But no-one will forgive you for being right.

Smartarse :)
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He wasn't 'right'. He guessed. He had a 50/50 chance of being right. Just turns out he was a pessimist rather than an optimist. Far too many people trying to get on the itk bandwagon recently.
 
It will be interesting to watch now how this plays out. Arse want to pay over 5 years, porn baron wants it over 2. I am sure he was expecting us to match. As far as I can see we have not pulled out, just said we won't match their 105. Just how much do West Ham want it over 2 years for cash flow purposes and regarding replacements.
 
fair fucks to City sticking to our valuation the offer was a respectable one despite the hammers ridiculing it.

The obvious thing for me is City clearly believe they need another high calibre midfielder despite signing Kovacic. Will we look at another player or does history show we will go with what we have?!
 
nmc said:
We will struggle to get another quality midfielder in this window… probably best to leave it. Everyone knows we are on plan C so the negotiations will be a nightmare. I think we need some new energy in the side - there will be a drop off from the players who gave everything last season in the first few months and I doubt we will see KDB until late October. Pep will need to weave his magic.
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We can't keep relying on him to "weave his magic", though. It doesn't set a good precedent if we want him to stay past his current deal.
 
Coatigan said:
Yeah totally dampens our treble celebrations this, not sure how we will cope with the embarassment and having to live with looking silly for not going over our 90m valuation. Oh the shame!
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Some people still playing football manager. We know how to deal with idiots like Sullivan - Gunners have fallen for it
 
CC1 said:
Are you fishing or do you genuinely mean this?? the only person that decided Gundy was going was Gundy. Arsenal are desperate for Rice - we aren't. Arsenal are spending more than they can...they'll have problems.
Pep and our owners have a great relationship and Pep will not be feeling anything but trust that club does what is best for the club
You really make yourself look like a secretly gloating rag
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Na im being honest. It's been widely reported that gundo wanted 2+1 and city were offering 1+1. Pep really wanted gundo to sign which obviously didn't happen due to the clubs policy of not offering longer deals to older players. Sam lee in his article said that declan rice was part of the players requested by pep along with kovacic and gvardiol.
 
Silva&Silva said:
We can't keep relying on him to "weave his magic", though. It doesn't set a good precedent if we want him to stay past his current deal.
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Our club management will, the management is taking this too granted and depending on Pep so much to weave his magic to able get away in player transfer.
 
Coatigan said:
Yeah totally dampens our treble celebrations this, not sure how we will cope with the embarassment and having to live with looking silly for not going over our 90m valuation. Oh the shame!
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We would have looked silly matching the bid only for Rice to choose Arsenal.
 
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