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Jacob Steinberg: Arsenal expected to pay guaranteed part of £105m deal for Declan Rice in 3 instalments over two years. (lemmy.world)

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Link to article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jul/04/arsenal-close-to-finalising-terms-for-rices-105m-move-from-west-ham?CMP=share_btn_tw

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What if he has always been in our plans and we needed to move now to make sure we don’t lose him?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure that's what happened. City really spooked us, and we may have been surprised by Rice's level of interest in them.

It's just that of late we seemed to have a Plan B ready to go if a team played hardball with us (like with the Mudryk saga). This deal feels very different: we're letting West Ham kind of run the show here. Arteta clearly values Rice exceptionally high, but it feels like a real divergence from our recent deal-making.