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Declan Rice

Gazza M

yanited in for him as well. he's mad if he goes there over us, but I wouldn't rule it out after how our last of couple of major negotiations went

JazzG

HomeSteak I thought as much, seen him pop up before when it comes to West Ham news. We have defo done the groundwork on this deal. West Ham will try to ignite a bidding war but as long as we have the player on our side we should get this over the line.

Gazza M Will push the price up but as long as we can agree a deal with West Ham I think he'd choose us. Not like we are gonna be offering him poverty wages. Also if the player rejects the club they'll back off pretty quickly.

Burnwinter

If Rice chose United over us we'd know we dodged a bullet. Only an idiot would, even for 50% higher wages ...

HomeSteak

JazzG that guy is tier 1 for West Ham. His social media is also full with pics with him and the West Ham players. I think he might work for the west ham TV or something? Anyway, he is very close to the team.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

HomeSteak

This is correct. Massive West Ham fan.

Qwiss

Sounds like we have Rice agreed and will just have to work it out with West Ham.

Clrnc

Qwiss Basically Mudryk.

lorddulaarsenal

Rice Rice Baby!

Coombs

Clrnc except without any of the politics. Different situations.

Qwiss

Clrnc and Caicedo, difference is West Ham are open to selling.

flobaba

He spoke glowingly and admiringly about us during his post game interview in the first leg at the Emirates this season. Thought was a bit weird how complimentary he was being - I guess we must have been working on this behind the scenes for a while. I'll wait till it's all official before I begin to get excited about having him with us. But he's a very good player. Fantastic engine, fantastic attitude, good leader, technically better than most in his position and defensively tuned in. Will be a huge upgrade on Xhaka and a very good replacement for LaRapist if that's the role Arteta sees for him. Let's not mess around with this one. Get it done.

Gunner89

At the end of the day, the ability is obvious and when the chips are down, like when Liverpool scored 1 back or West Ham scored 1 back, who would you trust to steady the ship? Rice or a player who's barely past 12 months playing in the league? (Caicedo)

Qwiss

Gunner89 who would you trust to steady the ship? Rice or a player who's barely past 12 months playing in the league? (Caicedo)

Caicedo, he's already great and has world class potential. Rice will never be world class.

lorddulaarsenal

Rice is quite a bit better than Caicedo.

Kel Varnsen

I agree. Rice is better.

Caicedo reminds me of Makelele. Very good defensively. Covers space, reads the game very well, and is technically very good, but he is also definitely a 6 in our team. Not an 8. Rice can cover both the 6 and 8 imo.

Pepe LeFrits

TLDW; he's like Xhaka except better

RocktheCasbah

Pepe LeFrits I mean... I was sold already but I'm even more so now. Will be gutted if we don't get him.

KingslandBarge

Cynic in me thinks Rice goes to Man City, and Caicedo either stays or goes to Liverpool. Man City will probably flip Kalvin-Phillips without too much sunk time. Hope it wouldn’t be to us.

Qwiss

KingslandBarge isn't MacAllister going to Liverpool? I think if Caicedo moves it'll be to a CL team. I reckon signing that new contract was a big fuck up by his agent though and he'll probably end up staying.

Don Pacifico

Very possible - it's why we're looking at multiple options (including the likes of Mount), which is unquestionably the right thing to do as I think there's a decent chance we don't get either of the two main targets.

KingslandBarge

Qwiss Got 1-2 reasons in my mind but I am totally guessing Liverpool may have shifted the target over to Caicedo, with a different kind of CM additionally on their list. I'd be more relieved if it was MacAllister though.

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