Graeme Souness has taken a fresh swipe at Declan Rice, criticising the Arsenal midfielder’s transfer fee and suggesting that he is overhyped.
Rice has been one of the Premier League’s standout players for several seasons, which led the Gunners to break their transfer record to sign him in the summer of 2023.
His first season at the club was a strong one, with Arsenal performing well in Europe and coming close to winning the Premier League.
Mikel Arteta’s side continues to place their trust in him, and fans expect even greater performances in his second season at the club.
Rice himself is confident that his second year will be even better.
However, Souness insists he is not worth how much Arsenal paid for him. He said, as quoted by the Daily Mail:
‘When you talk about players who are overhyped, you also have to factor in transfer fees, and Declan Rice comes to mind.
‘I don’t think he is worth the £100million that Arsenal paid for him.’
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Rice is one of the best players in the Premier League, and including him in our squad has significantly improved our performance.
We can understand if someone does not like him or thinks he is overrated, but the midfielder is doing a good job at the Emirates.
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Whether Declan Rice is overhyped and overpriced or he’s not. But Arsenal have already signed him. And he’s been playing very well for them ever since they’ve signed him last summer for a club Arsenal record transfer fee of £105m paid to West Ham to get his signature.
And the Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta, us Gooners the club’s fans and supporters, have been very satisfied with Rice performances for the Arsenal team sincere he joined us.
No disrespect or disregard to Graeme Souness for his comments making particularly on Rice’s transfer fee move to Arsenal.
It seems Souness, the pundit, has been ignored recently, so he needs to say something outrageous to get some attention.
I just ignore most of the comments from TV and Radio Pundits, especially since most of them are biased.
145,000 for Calciedo? How’s that going? Souness just hates Arsenal, it’s as simple as that
Rice has been worth the money, it feels like he’s basing this off the euros.
If his argument is based on transfer fees then what about Caciedo, Enzo, Mudryk, Anthony? All of them had big fees and were hyped previously.
Although fees have got utterly ridiculous, Rice has proved his worth.
Off topic note to admin, how about a thread devoted to transfer deadline day comments so we can post our recently heard rumours and confirmed incomings/outgoings and reactions to to what happens today? I’d write but am getting ready to depart for my holibobs😊. Here’s a start though, Neto coming from Bournemouth (we put 4 goals past him last season)on a season long loan to cover for Raya.
Neto on way to Arsenal for medical this morning.
Nobody associated with Arsenal is complaining. Did the guy who criticized spend his money to bring Rice to Arsenal?
I think that guy hate gunners. But that is nt aproblem to arsenal we have to aim high. We want arsenal to ranked top this season.