Declan Rice

[adr2.8i]

its time for ISCO as last!

 

[Any1aBlue]

As I was saying……close thread and move on now.

 

[Gabriel]

Sterling?

Born in Kingston Jamaica, Rice Kingston upon Thames.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

As I was saying……close thread and move on now.

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.

 

[roman totale]

Good. This only serves to highlight Arse’s desperation.

 

[Lord Blue]

I'm not trying to be funny but can someone explain "huge club" to me? They play in a large metropolitan city and, therefore, have a lot of fans. They've had periods of success over the decades but hardly any in the past 20 years. They've never been champions of Europe and their legendary Invincibles would have finished a full ten points behind our Centurions. Anything else?

Not sure that there is a precise definition of huge club. Or big club or small club. They're all fairly subjective terms. Just like words such as legendary.

But I'm nearly 60 and I've grown up witnessing Arsenal winning lots of silverware, so for me they are at least a big club. Maybe huge should be reserved for the likes of Bayern, Real, Juve, Barca, Milan and of course City. Can't think of any other clubs deserving of the title huge to be fair.

 

[nmc]

The interesting unanswered question for me is why City have gone about it the way they have..

They will have spoken to Sullivan and gotten a good idea of what was acceptable, so to come in so far below that, with a payment schedule that apparently was not attractive, and then walk doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Even if it were an attempt to drive the price up you would expect us to have gone back again a chunk below Arsenal but with good payment terms to force their hand.

Can only think the club were hoping/led to believe Rice would kick up a fuss to accept the original offer and now it’s clear he won’t we have walked away..

That would mean though that the journos who said he wanted to go to Arsenal were right all along and we were all told they didn’t know shit..

perhaps we have another iron in the fire? Who knows but an odd stance from City.

 

[Lord Blue]

We did,Southampton away in Carabao,didn't go or end very well

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

 

[NatalieM008]

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?

 

[M18CTID]

Because we put a valuation on a player and don’t budge. We valued Rice at around £90m, anything above that and we walk. Did it with Cucurella, Kane, Maguire etc. It‘s how we roll.

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.