There is no certainty about the current domestic competition facing a health crisis, it turns out that the world of player transfers in European football to face the upcoming competition season has begun to heat up. Arsenal and Chelsea are now fighting over West Ham United’s midfielder Declan Rice. The 21-year-old player is expected to move to one of the London-based clubs in the transfer market next summer.
The Blues Chelsea are reportedly interested in bringing the midfielder who is also back in the England national team to Stamford Bridge, even though N’Golo Kante and Jorginho are already in that position. Keep in mind, Rice before becoming a star at West Ham has spent eight years at the Chelsea academy and is good friends with Mason Mount.
But it’s not just Chelsea who want Rice, one of Arsenal’s legends, Paul Merson. Writing in the sky sports column, he suggested that Arsenal should beat Chelsea to get the signature of a player who has a back number 41 at West Ham. “Chelsea have been linked with him, but I do not know why Arsenal did not look at Declan Rice. They should not continue to hunt for the central midfielder, they must need a disciplined defensive midfielder, who will stand up and protect their four defenders in order to manage the team,” wrote Merson.
In addition to the two Londoners, Manchester United are also rumored to be monitoring developments in Rice, who has played 30 times for the Hammers this season and it looks like he will win a player award this season. Earlier in the summer of 2019, Manchester City had been interested in it, but the Hammers asking price of 70 million pounds made Pep Guardiola’s club withdraw
Speculation about Declan Rice’s future with West Ham United has received high attention in recent months. The midfielder who had defended the Irish national team is associated with several big clubs in the English League. He has the opportunity to leave the London Stadium in the 2020 summer transfer market. However, Rice has recently signed a new long-term contract at the London-based club.
This makes it automatically put West Ham in a strong position in negotiations next summer. It is known that David Moyes’s club will demand a price of 80 million pounds to release his players. Rice appeared solid with West Ham in the 2019/20 Premier League. The proof, Rice was able to record an average of 3 tackles and 2.1 intercepts per game in the league this season.
He can also flow the ball well. The 21-year-old scored an average of 45 passes per game with the percentage of successful passes reaching 86.2% this season. Rice is also able to package two assists. From the reviews sourced from some of these articles, it can be concluded that these big clubs have not really shown seriousness to get Declan Rice, even if the serious one might be Chelsea, yes. As a basis they have the capital in Mason Mount the true best friend Rice.
But, personally also Rice still wants to be together and commitment with West Ham until his contract runs out in 2024 especially he was very loved by supporters. In fact, Rice was thinking of wanting to be like captain Mark Noble where from a young age until now only defended one club, West Ham and became a club legend.
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