Declan Rice
There is more talk of Rice signing a new contract now the window has closed. This was very predictable as he will not want go another season on the relatively small salary he earns, but as his aim is clearly only to secure better wages and still wants to leave next summer it seems likely to be a difficult one to negotiate,
He will want to sign but with a release clause and we will only allow that if the release clause it to our liking, any idea of a 70m release clause I imagine would be rejected immediately. Were I the club I would be looking for a 120m clause and nothing less than 100m, as otherwise you are just paying him an extra 80k to 100k per week more for him to go at the end of the season anyhow.
He will want to sign but with a release clause and we will only allow that if the release clause it to our liking, any idea of a 70m release clause I imagine would be rejected immediately. Were I the club I would be looking for a 120m clause and nothing less than 100m, as otherwise you are just paying him an extra 80k to 100k per week more for him to go at the end of the season anyhow.
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I think unless we somehow manage to get top four, Rice will be gone by this time next year. He's already a PL captain and England regular 22 and is only going to get better.
I do wonder if that's what we decided to bring in Kral. Yes, he'll be useful in the short term, but could ultimately be Rice's replacement, and someone that might keep Soucek happy at the club, too.
I think he’ll sign a new deal with a release clause of £90m included. He gets a pay rise, we retain a chance of keeping him if nobody pays that fee &, if they do, we get good money.
I think we’ll have a release clause of around £80m, which is good business for a DM, but not great business for a box to box midfield general. I think a lot of people view him as a straight DM, whereas most of us think of him as an all rounder.
Rice deserves more than he is currently getting, he's our captain and star player plus he s a fully fledged England International, he should be among the top earners
And a release clause defends us, you activate it you get him but if you don't then he's got the new bumper payday and the release clause he accepted so he stays
I'd say around the £80mil marks I'd be happy, holding midfielder prices have definitely gone up but it's not as much as the glory positions as strikers, winger and centre backs
£80mil would make him tied with Frenkie De Jong (a truely world class CM) as the most expensive holding mid of all time
I’m hoping he stays and helps build his own future.
My middle name could be changed to naive.
When is he leaving or getting sold etc,
I wish the mods remove all remarks till prove , I find it offensive
Just wish that the media would totally bog off (Obviously with the exception of our Outcast
I think we're lucky he's still here; without Covid, and with a more active transfer window I feel there was definitely a chance he would have gone this summer, but I think it's very likely he'll go next summer when the finances of most clubs will have recovered a little and we're more likely to get a fairer valuation for him.
City chose to go to £100m for Greilish and in fairness probably din't need Rice quite as much as their Manchester rivals.
Chelsea spent 98m on Luakaku and despite all the nonsense about his mates at Chelsea they probably don't need him whilst Kante is there.
United spent on Sancho but in my view should have gone to 100m for Rice to properly test us. I think they needed him most and he would have bridged the gap between them and the two sides mentioned above and made them genuine trophy contenders.
I think the European hierarchy is changing with the decline of Barcelona and to a lesser extent Madrid and I feel City and Chelsea will be dominant on the pitch with PSG and United the only club able to challenge them in the transfer market. I don't think Rice would ever go to PSG as I think he enjoys the English banter and wants that around him, leaving the three English clubs the only possible destinations.
My view is he will sign a contract with a £100m clause or he won't and he will leave anyhow next summer for around 80m. Either way I think he leaves but we try and give him £5m in extra wages this year to get an extra 20m in the transfer fee.
A release clause doesn’t help Declan. He knows the club will be forced to sell next summer & a release clause could only make that more difficult. At the moment, there is no fixed price so clubs won’t be put off. The only situation where he may sign a new deal is if the release clause is low (£60m-£70m).
#bye Fred