Declan Rice departs West Ham United

Yeoldhammer

the infamous 100m figure reached, i suspect there might be wrangling on the breakdown of the transfer fee installments coupled with further addons to bring the deal in line with (Bellinghams 85+25 for 110m) so maybe a few more Addons to up the deal. But looks like we could be reaching a conclusion.

Will be very interesting to see if City / Man U or whoever come over the top of that offer if true.

Bazshuayi

100M plus Smith Rowe three year loan

jay_in_cpt

Sounding like Arsenal’s 3rd offer payment structure hasn’t gone down too well if latest reports are to be believed….

Lukerz

Yep, £100m spread over 5 years

Lukerz

Basically, they can’t afford him, so move along

Giant_Hammer

There’s a nice bottle of brandy in my local offie for 180 quid. I’m going to offer them 18 quid a year over the next 10 years. I’m sure they’ll accept it.

mike

Lukerz said:

Yep, £100m spread over 5 years

If that's true that's 20k per year(i'm bright ).
I'm sorry but we are going round in circles with Arsenal.
Lets see if citeh come back with something or the other alternative is we keep Dec for another season.

epsom_bubbles

Dec's dad is playing at my golf course today. Didn't get a chance to speak to him 😢

Hamstew

Man City out of the race. This a dark day

OldCastleSwift

I guess he stays then.

thornburyiron

Mike you’re not that bright it’s £20M

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

I think it's crazy to go to Arsenal. They've had their best season in years and years and won nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped out of the top four next season, with or without Rice.

Arsenal obviously have a better chance of winning things than us, and he'd get to play in the Champions League, but for Rice to not hold out for a City, Madrid, Bayern Munich, or even Chelsea, Liverpool or Man United, seems mad to me.

IronHerb

I think Arsenal are set to be the 'second' team for the next couple of years.

Ravel49

I really think champs league will hinder them
I reckon there’ll be top four but not challenge for the title

Hamstew

They will struggle for top four imo. They had one good season and still won nout

mike

thornburyiron said:

Mike you’re not that bright it’s £20M

DOH! 😳

IronHerb

mike said:

thornburyiron said:

Mike you’re not that bright it’s £20M

DOH! 😳

£20m - a lot of DOH. 😂

Ravel49

👏

Ravel49

https://twitter.com/fabrizioromano/status/1674014536976793607

buffybegood

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes said:

I think it's crazy to go to Arsenal. They've had their best season in years and years and won nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped out of the top four next season, with or without Rice.

Arsenal obviously have a better chance of winning things than us, and he'd get to play in the Champions League, but for Rice to not hold out for a City, Madrid, Bayern Munich, or even Chelsea, Liverpool or Man United, seems mad to me.

I think it's clear he really, really wants to stay in London. Who are we to say he shouldn't value family and friends more than a better chance to win stuff (even though he has gone on record as saying he wants to win stuff, but he also added that obviously all players want to win stuff)? It's all about priorities, and it seems that, at this stage of his life (and with a partner and young baby), he's prioritising friends, family, and possibly his partner's wishes, over a move to a currently bigger club than Arsenal.

It may be that he genuinely buys into Arteta's vision, and they have got some good, youngish players there to continue building around, and it may be that he sees himself as a bigger cog there than he would be at an already all conquering Man City, but the long and the short of it is that he'll earn more money with this contract than he'll ever need and so maybe he is placing a higher value on the intangibles of being close to friends and family than others would do in his situation.

Ravel49

“Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over."

PrestonHammer

Love a bit of Shaun of the Dead.

claretandbluesky

Injury aside he would need to really drop his form to not get Arsenal a good chunk of their money back if not more if sold in three years time as he will only be 27.

The fee for Rice is really just lent from the balance sheet but if someone bids silly money for Kane they are getting little or nothing back in three or four years time.

Bazshuayi

I think with the additions of Havertz and Rice (maybe Timber too) Arsenal will have enhanced their squad and they'll definitely be in the top 4. Last seasons performances were really good up until near the end of the season. They also have Trossard for the tart of the season plus they barely had Smith Rowe available. Jesus being out for ages didnt help nor did Saliba. They basically ran out of steam and maybe it was experience too when it got to the last knockings. I believe Arsenal will be better than last season nd more able to cope.

Hamstew

Havertz is trash imo

Bazshuayi

I think he will come good. He's got massive potential IMO (and not as a forward though)

Whitehorsehammer

Don't tell Arsenal that Ham they will be really sad having spent all that money on him.

Lukerz

We’ll settle on £100m over 2 years, I imagine.

IronHerb

Lukerz said:

We’ll settle on £100m over 2 years, I imagine.

Very surprised if we get it over 2 years.

Yeoldhammer

wonder if we will enquire for a loan deal for an Arsenal player if they cant keep to a 18 month pay structure as a sweetner