Arsenal frustrating West Ham in Rice deal
West Ham United have grown frustrated with their counterparts Arsenal, in the deal regarding Declan Rice.
Despite agreeing on a whopping £105 million for the Englishman last week, the lawyers of the North London outfit have not yet signed the paper works, which will put an end to the saga.
The player has already passed his medical as a new Arsenal player, but the delay has caused some anger in the hierarchy at The Hammers.
🚨 West Ham are becoming increasingly frustrated about the delay with the deal to sell Declan Rice to Arsenal.
The £105 million deal was agreed eight days ago but it has not been signed yet. West Ham are still waiting to sign the contracts pic.twitter.com/i2xtKp1CYg
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) July 12, 2023
The Gunners play German side Nurnberg on July 13, and that is a match that will certainly come too early for Declan Rice’s debut.
But the club is hoping to complete all the formalities before their pre-season trip to the USA, where they are set to lock-horns with the likes of Barcelona, Man Utd, Monaco and MLS All-stars.
It would be a good experience for Rice, to get to know his teammates and the tactical philosophy of Mikel Arteta.
The money that has been spent on the 24-year-old is no joke. It is the record transfer fee paid by a British club. Thus, it will only be natural if the whole world is watching Rice and the young Gunners team.
Waiting for Jurrien Timber & Declan Rice to be announced as Arsenal players.. ⏳ pic.twitter.com/kWC2MjkGcu
— afcstuff (@afcstuff) July 12, 2023
Many opposing will be hoping to see the team trip up. But there will be only one thing visible in the eyes of Arsenal fans: the hope of winning the Champions League and the Premier League.
After winning the latter in 2004, the club’s faithful have not really got what they have deserved. A team struggling to perform in 2019, to a team narrowly missing out on the title in 2016, to a team in a rebuilding process in 2021.
It has definitely been a rollercoaster ride, and the fans will hope that the last curve on the rollercoaster gives them the maximum thrill.
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I bet 105m is so heavy to carry. Let them wait!
It’s a huge transfer and a huge amount of money. Everyone involved will just need to be patient. 8 days isn’t really a long time
Honestly nothing is 100% but I believe the transfer will be completely shortly
I keep saying the bigger the fish is the more oil it takes to cook.
I fail to see what makes 105M transfer take more time than lets say 60M.. Is there a threshold when crossed delay agreements?
This site does seem over keen to repeat anything negative that regularly appear on a multitude of other non Arsenal supporting media outlets.
There are no end of sites spouting any anti Arsenal
stories they can find, mostly untrue or made up and designed purely to generate clicks, without you adding to them here.
It’s not negative to ask why announcements are taking so long to be…. announced!!
It’s a sign of anxiety, or maybe relief, or even curiosity.
Our club has a habit of, seemingly, drawing out any transfer deals, either in or out and, following the Mudryk debacle, it is natural to be questioning the status of said transfer dealings.
👍 Ken
You can hardly expect “non Arsenal-supporting media outlets” to be positive about Arsenal but on this one issue,£100 million plus is an awful lot of money to hand over, so dotting i’s and crossing t’s has to be exemplary. West Ham is a bit impatient to spend some of it, so I can understand their frustration at the delay.
This delay is a joke, regardless of the amount a contract is a contract! Have arsenal legal gone on holidays maybe?
Arsenal are dragging this out to punish West Ham for making them pay a premium to sign the best player the Hammers developed in over a decade.
Arsenal know that West Ham need the cash from Rice’s signing to buy a replacement, and by dragging it out, they are making it harder for the Hammers to sign his replacement.
It is a bush-league move, unworthy of a big club. WestHam should set a deadline of Friday and if Arsenal don’t complete the signing by then’ they should activate Declan Rice’s 1 year extension and tell the Gunners to jump in the lake.
Any shred of evidence for your THEORY?
Declan Rice will not be a British transfer record or record transfer fee by British club. His on going £105M transfer is less than Enzo Fernandez’s £106.8M move to Chelsea last winter.
The record is for British players between British clubs, so Rice just beats Grealish.
Having cold feet over cold Rice. Good. I’d rather have a serving of Caicedo plus Lavia for the same money.
Potentially this will stop Rice joining preseason if the lawyers don’t get a move on.
Arsenal may have been offered a better deal elsewhere for a better defensive midfielder and are weighing up their options, OR the contract drawn up by Westham was a bit of joke and needed a qualified lawyer from Arsenal to correct the spelling mistakes, OR to change the payment terms to 4 half year payments of £25 million every 6 months. who knows. If the deal was for £80 million, i think it would be Arsenal fans worried that it may not happen, but since it is £105 million, i think most Arsenal fans are nkt worried if we get Rice or not. It seems its the Westham fans want the deal to go through more than the average Arsenal fan, due to this deal not exactly being a bargain. Ha Ha Ha.
I guess Arteta is already having a change of mind.
£105m is too much for an average player with 1 yr left in his contract.
Lavia + Partey + Joginho can do the job.
I’ve read elsewhere that Arsenal is dragging this out as long as possible to avoid paying £250K per week in wages.
Bit daft, but they do want to get a move on to avoid West Ham pulling the plug on the deal.
West Ham were not in a hurry to sell by waiting for a bidding war which they thought they would get. All of a sudden they’re in a hurry to wrap it up. They should wait.
Why on earth would you be happy with a delay of a player joining the squad for preseason???