Declan Rice

[Dax777]

He looks like the captain of the Star trek Enterprise:)

 

[JewelZee]

no. not even close.

With prize money and recent net spends at least 400 mil...

 

[Gremlin]

Is it real that we legally, and because of the treble money, have around 1 billion to spend?
That seems a LOT and we can do wonders.

About Rice, I'm too pleased we retracted on him, he is good but no way 100 million. This stupidity with the over-overpriced players has to stop and it's good we don't follow it.

We can do much better with 100 million.

The 'Treble money' is the new 'Coutinho money' and both are bollocks.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

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

Never heard of him. What's his FIFA 23 rating?

 

[SebastianBlue]

“and I am sure contributed to team chemistry and hunger to achieve greatness, which we did.”

In essence his contribution was extremely limited.

Have to be honest, given our transfer business last summer (including what ended up happening with our “Plan A” for fullback), and achievement over the course of the season, fixating on Gomez’ transfer as some sort of sign of weakness by Txiki and co is a very strange position to take.

 

[US47Blue]

At least if nothing else, we now have a floor price evaluation for Rodri.

 

[SebastianBlue]

The 'Treble money' is the new 'Coutinho money' and both are bollocks.

Whilst the ‘Treble money’ for transfer spend situation is likely being exaggerated, it is in no way comparable to the ‘Coutinho money’ situation.

For one, we haven’t even had a transfer window yet to spend whatever part of it accounting has cleared as available, much less three or four. And for another, we won far more in prize money this season than the supposed sum was paid for Coutinho.

They are wildly different situations.

We won’t be spending anywhere near the amount quoted because that is not how football finance works (all prize money has to go to all operations, not just transfers), but we also are skint and fabricating myths about spending our prize money every window for the next four years.

 

[melrose40yarder]

At least if nothing else, we now have a floor price evaluation for Rordi.

Yes priceless!

 

[Phil1]

Have to be honest, given our transfer business last summer (including what ended up happening with our “Plan A” for fullback), and achievement over the course of the season, fixating on Gomez’ transfer as some sort of sign of weakness by Txiki and co is a very strange position to take.

Strange is the new normal in these parts it seems.

 

[Calv_from_the_frog]

Got a feeling this ain't over

IMO, if we were ever serious about bidding for him (and not just driving his price up, and Arsenal's transfer budget down) up, then I agree.

Maybe a question of waiting for Wham to accept a bid & then match it, to end any bidding war.

If not (which you may recall is my personal belief), then its as dead as a Norwegian Blue.