✍️ OFFICIAL Declan Rice

[Sanchez11]

Come on Orny its time

 

[Batman]

Regarding the reaction from fellow Hammers, I don't think Arsenal fans generally understand how it feels to support a club that doesn't compete for anything 99% of the time and more often than not have to fight to even exist in the big league.

Whenever we have something to get genuinely excited for, be it a first team player, a prospect or a manager, we know everything is on borrowed time. You don't continuously build on a platform; you start building only for the house to get torn down every couple of years. There is no "project", because heavily investing in youth and a young manager at our level comes with a very real chance of relegation and financial ruin.

Selling to you lot kind of hammers home (pun intended) the inherent uneven playing field that football is. There's a ceiling on a club like ours and that fact in itself is frustrating beyond belief, so fans lash out. Rice is loved by everyone at West Ham, but we are so deeply aware of our status within the game that we also acknowledge and respect his wishes to leave.

Whenever you see Hammers online lashing out at Arsenal, it's more often than not anger towards the state of football rather than specific hatred towards another fan base. You are just the most recent example of how we're just generally ****ed and on top of that you happen to come in for our most beloved player in more than a decade.

Ok then explain why many of these same supporters have been twerking to sell him to City, a club far more emblematic of the kind of inequity that you're describing than Arsenal could ever dream of being.

 

[OnlyOne]

Look at them ffs. They've completely lost touch with reality. They are saying they want 100m upfront, lmao, no deals are done like that.

This account is just a troll.

 

[WiscoGooner8]

There is a thread called what would they be worth today maybe you should ask about fabregas there.

Well it’s not exactly the same question. My point was that what we got for him was a lot less than his value.

 

[Sapient Hawk]

How does 24 year old compare to 24 year old Patrick Vieira?

One was instrumental in his clubs double (including the first PL era title) at 22 & the other has been staving off relegation with West Ham.

It's not even apples vs oranges it's crocodiles vs gnats.

 

[benjamin86]

Right, that’s what only wanting to play for one club looks like, not what Rice and Mudryk are doing/did.

and also not wanting to burn bridges at your current club.

 

[Camron]

I don't think Arsenal fans generally understand how it feels to support a club that doesn't compete for anything 99% of the time

 

[A_G]

“Claret and Hugh”

 

[field442]

Stop linking anything related to Claret and Hugh FFS. Any West Ham called Hugh is an imposter.

 

[Dokaka]

Ok then explain why many of these same supporters have been twerking to sell him to City, a club far more emblematic of the kind of inequity that you're describing than Arsenal could ever dream to be.

Because no one sees City as anything real. Whenever they win, it's completely hollow. It's a sports washing bonanza, so over the top that it's more laughable than anything. No one cares about them. They literally just won the treble and it still feels pointless.

It's genuinely a compliment that fans are upset about selling to you and not City.

 

[Halcyon Daze]

Look at them ffs. They've completely lost touch with reality. They are saying they want 100m upfront, lmao, no deals are done like that.

Don’t think they’ve lost touch with reality. This post is pure b***ocks and he has no idea what’s going on behind the scenes. Just rubbish. Nobody laughed in that boardroom, and that c**t wouldn’t know even if they did.

 

[GDeep™]

Look at them ffs. They've completely lost touch with reality. They are saying they want 100m upfront, lmao, no deals are done like that.

I would laugh too.

 

[WiscoGooner8]

and also not wanting to burn bridges at your current club.

But neither has even said publicly they want to play for Arsenal. If they did we would have a lot easier time signing them. Makes you think how much of what we hear of us being their first choice is media BS when you don’t hear Arsenal leave their mouth once. They could state their preferences without burning bridges. That’s why I think they don’t really care where they go, as long as they left their current club.

 

[Heavy Duty Rom]

Because no one sees City as anything real. Whenever they win, it's completely hollow. It's a sports washing bonanza, so over the top that it's more laughable than anything. No one cares about them. They literally just won the treble and it still feels pointless.

It's genuinely a compliment that fans are upset about selling to you and not City.

Yeah this is all true tbf.

 

[Rasmi]

“Claret and Hugh”
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I could take this guy easily in a sword fight

 

[DUFFMAN]

United paying 100 million for bums like Sancho and Anthony has really messed up the transfer market.

****s.

 

[benjamin86]

But neither has even said publicly they want to play for Arsenal. If they did we would have a lot easier time signing them. Makes you think how much of what we hear of us being their first choice is media BS when you don’t hear Arsenal leave their mouth once. They could state their preferences without burning bridges. That’s why I think they don’t really care where they go, as long as they left their current club.

Knocking millions off your price burns bridges.

 

[Burrata]

sick of this whole saga

 

[Diesel]

and also not wanting to burn bridges at your current club.

In the case of mudryk it went from 60 to like 100m. Seems like west ham want 100 plus where we bid 80. City bid 90. Dont see arsenal going past 100. If 100 comes in and no phantom city bid comes in then its up to rice to push the move. Dont think he will extend just so they get another 20m.

 

[ArsenalInMyHeart]

so still no bid