2023-06-10 14:19:00
By Marie Schulte-Bockum
FC Bayern Munich wants Declan Rice, but this flirt looks more and more like a one-sided love affair.
new ones ran– According to information, Rice has already made it clear to his West Ham club president where he wants to go: “Declan Rice told David Sullivan a while back that he was only going to Arsenal,” it was revealed ran from the close circle of West Ham’s President Sullivan.
“This deal has actually been a done deal for a while,” the source close to Sullivan said ran. The fact that Arsenal FC has now also qualified for the Champions League and that Rice might stay in London with his family, including his eleven-month-old son Jude, probably does the rest.
Nevertheless, FC Bayern can continue to hope for two reasons. Albeit not too big. Firstly, Thomas Tuchel’s visit to London, during which the coach is said to have chatted with Rice and his father for 90 minutes, probably left a powerful impression on the 24-year-old, who was once trained at Chelsea’s academy.
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Second, the Sullivan contact confirmed ran opposite that West Ham demanded around 100 million euros for their team captain. “Sullivan won’t let him go if he doesn’t get that award,” the source continued.
This is exactly where the German record champions have their chance. Because while Bayern President Herbert Hainer recently said publicly that FCB would also sign a player above the 100 million euro threshold, Arsenal have so far resisted such sums.
“Arsenal is looking at a sum of between £60m and £80m for Rice,” said John Cross, chief football officer at the Daily Mirror, England’s main sporting publication. (Editor’s note: the equivalent of 70 to 93 million euros).
The “Gunners” are almost conservative on the transfer market by English standards. Arsenal spent more than 60 million pounds (70 million euros) only once in their club history: record signing Nicolas Pepe came from Lille in 2019 for 80 million euros.
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Nevertheless, there are no worlds between the 93 million euros that Arsenal are said to be willing to bid at most and the 100 million euros that West Ham are asking for their star. Especially in times of installment payments and performance-related bonuses (see Bellingham), it would be easy to negotiate between north and east London.
In addition, unlike Manchester United’s courtship of Harry Kane, no club competition stands in the way of Rice negotiations between Arsenal and West Ham. Because while Tottenham would like to transfer their star striker Kane abroad so as not to strengthen a direct competitor in the Premier League, the picture at West Ham is very different.
“West Ham don’t see Arsenal as a rival, they won’t be fighting for the top four,” Harry Harris, football biographer and two-time England Sportswriter of the Year, told ran. Accordingly, West Ham have no urge to mediate Rice abroad.
Harris, who has followed Rice’s career from a young age, sees Rice as “a fine leader who never stops working and running, who brings relentless, aggressive determination to the court.”
It is probably precisely these traditional English virtues that make the winner of the conference league so unique in this era of the powerful eights.
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