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Declan Rice

Daz

goon yeah cos that never happens 🤣

Gazza M

I'll be fucking pissed if he goes there. those dirtbags should be under a transfer ban on general principle

in any case, getting gazumped on a top target again will be a major blot on edus copy book. those 2 failed bids will not be looked upon kindly if we fumble this, especially having aggressively and unhesistantly spent 65m on havertz for reasons unknown

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Gazza M agreed. Edu needs to bounce if he fails in this one too.

QuincyAbeyie

Gazza M Especially not when we buy Havertz for 65m in between putting in bids we knew West Ham would decline.

Pepe LeFrits

QuincyAbeyie Especially not when we buy Havertz for 65m in between putting in bids we knew West Ham would decline.

They would have rejected our opening bid whatever value it was, imo

KingslandBarge

HomeSteak Interesting.Think our 2nd bid was rumoured at 75+15 over say 5 instalments. I'd like to think a third bid (if it goes in) needs to be decisive and not a marginal improvement.

Mirth

Don’t think the Havertz bid had anything to do with it. You could just as easily argue we’ve been wasting time on Timber or Lavia or whoever

In reality West Ham knew City were interested and wanted to draw this out as long as possible. Even if City didn’t join the race, West Ham knew we were a willing buyer later on in the window anyway. Also West Ham’s issue wasn’t a £10m here or there but the fact that they wanted all payments in 2 instalments vs 4-5 instalments that we offered - that’s actually a pretty significant challenge

Qwiss

goon exactly. Rice isn't a unicorn, there are other midfielders out there, we just need to get one of them. What we can't do is wait till everyone good has been snapped up.

Mirth

Qwiss if Man City are this keen on him then it does feel like we’re losing on a big player

HomeSteak

Big Willie

HomeSteak both tweets within a space of 55 minutes.

HomeSteak

Mirth I don't think they are. He will be Kevin Philips nr 2 there (amazing how they can pay 50 mil for that guy, play him 10 games and then move on to the next back-up, a 100 mil one). He won't start every game, but it stops us from getting better and they have another great option in the middle of the pitch. But yeah, he is not pushin Rodri or Stones to the bench

Mirth

HomeSteak well, either way - if city are paying this much just to stop us from having him then that’s a sign too. They obviously know there’s other options on the market too

Also Phillips was injured for most of his first season so I’m not sure the comparison holds

Pepe LeFrits

Sounds like City are operating under similar valuations as us anyway. If we match their bid I agree with @goon, I think he'll choose us. City have already signed Kovacic and have Rodri already - don't think he'll risk going the way of Kalvin Phillips if Arteta's vision of Arsenal with him at the centre of it is an option.

Course, a 300k a week wage with all sorts of add ons from unrelated third party companies could make him change his mind

Gazza M

there is a slightly conspiratorial suggestion that city didn't like that we were tapping up gundogan before the season was over, and are making a point of going after rice. they want him, but they also want to put us in our place

HomeSteak

😆

JazzG

Well if anything shows that he is worth the kind of money being banded around if the top two clubs in the league are offering it. Then you have the likes of Man Utd who also want the player.

Sounds like they've offered £75m + £15m in addons. Two instalments on main fee and addons more easily achievable.

HomeSteak

The westham guy saying the City bid is 95 +15.

Pepe LeFrits

If we're only talking a £10m difference on a 90-100 million deal and we lose Rice, I will be so pissed. It'll be like missing out on Xabi Alonso all over again.

KingslandBarge

Not sure I believe that but either way more market distortion from these pricks. Between them and Chelsea ruining the game.

QuincyAbeyie

KingslandBarge Aren't we also doing that with our Rice bids then? I don't think they'll go way beyond ours.

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