🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Arsenal have reached total agreement with West Ham to sign Declan Rice

3 years ago by onlythisonceortwice to c/football

#WHUFC have now accepted #AFC payment structure on record £100m + £5m fee. 24yo England midfielder given permission to do medical & finalise personal terms @TheAthleticFC https://theathletic.com/...

thorcik 9 points 3 years ago

West Ham going keto (:

I'll see myself out

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Marshyq 6 points 3 years ago

Annoyingly this feels like a really good signing, shores up a major area of their squad

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Figaro2x 9 points 3 years ago

This place needs flairs 😂 What do you mean "annoyingly", it's perfect you mean, right?

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ABCDE 2 points 3 years ago

Depends who you support! Great signing for them, makes them competitive for a few years with how the club is being managed at the moment. There is a lot of top... Seven competition now.

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FlayOtters 3 points 3 years ago

It seems like they're going to be changing a decent amount if their starters in one window. With Xhaka and Partey potentially leaving presumably they need to sign another midfielder in addition to Rice?

Timber, Rice, Havertz minimum as new starters.

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ThePowerOfGeek 3 points 3 years ago

Lokonga's almost certainly gone too.

As it stands, our starting central midfield will be:

Havertz - Rice - Odegaard

With backups being:

Smith Rowe - Jorginho / Elneny - Vieira

Probably still need at least one other midfielder. I know Lokonga wasn't playing last season so good departure should be a net zero loss. But we now have CL and need more able bodies. And of our backups, Smith Rowe has been struggling with injuries, Elneny is past his prime and not competing for a starting place, and Vieira still seems to be struggling with the pace of the game every other match.

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FlayOtters 1 point 3 years ago

Can't say I really get Havertz playing deeper but Mikel obviously knows his stuff and sees potential there.

Its inevitably going to take a while for the midfield to gel though.

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thegenesis 1 point 3 years ago

What happens to Partey then?

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FlayOtters 2 points 3 years ago