Declan Rice

[kaz7]

Crowing about us playing them into spending an extra 25 mil?

They will ignore that bit , lol

 

[BlueRockape]

Got a feeling this ain't over

 

[mattcity5]

Tell you what, if Moyes is still after Phillips after this, the price has just gone up...

£60m in one go please.... :-D

 

[KingGeorge]

As much as I think Gomez is a very rough diamond, to be sure, I don’t think his transfer to us ended up being a problem.

He filled a role and did his part in us winning a treble.

Not sure what more anyone would want from a signing.

"He filled a role and did his part in us winning a treble."

What role did he fill? An extra body to help in training? I mean he may have not been a huge problem, but he wasn't much of a value-add either.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Got a feeling this ain't over

Oh you!

 

[bluetonium]

The money doesn't bother me, we could afford it. It's more telling that we don't want to cough up. That would suggest there are other irons in the fire, because if we thought Rice was the primary target, of such importance to our plans and his club is selling, we'd have no issue meeting the price tag

Either that or we've been directly told Rice wants Arsenal not us, either way we'll have our own cunning plans and these usually turn out pretty well.

 

[eyalluvitt]

These dick heads who call us a small club don't let the facts get in the way of their ridiculous narrative.

Hard to shake the media driven narrative, after taking a very impressive 30K fans to Istanbul they said yes ‘City took a lot of fans but they barely celebrated the goal or the win’. United and Liverpool apart I would stand our support against any other fan base in England

 

[JCB001]

Got a feeling this ain't over

Hope not

 

[Manncity]

Gabri Veiga is the player we need to pursue , I’d be more disappointed losing out to him than rice.

 

[Kippaxpete]

So are the ideas he was ridiculing. Both are absurd. We clearly wanted him, but valued him at a certain price or less. Once Arsenal bid above our valuation we bowed out.


Now we've developed a reputation for not paying above our valuation. And historically this has worked out splendidly.

I personally loveed the news we had pulled out. It was what I hoped for.

Regardless, in the eyes of the media we'd have paid an excessive amou

The money doesn't bother me, we could afford it. It's more telling that we don't want to cough up. That would suggest there are other irons in the fire, because if we thought Rice was the primary target, of such importance to our plans and his club is selling, we'd have no issue meeting the price tag

Either that or we've been directly told Rice wants Arsenal not us, either way we'll have our own cunning plans and these usually turn out pretty well.

100% this.