People mistakenly think if Arsenal had offered £90m+£10m in addons initially WH would have demanded £125m afterwards, with transfer these days, the price is the price and it’s up to clubs to meet it especially as it relates to player with a couple of years on their deal. Player and their agents are more powerful than ever.
We’ve seen big transfers happen very quickly when clubs aren’t trying to haggle their way down with lowball bids.
I said ages ago the idea of an upwards bidding war between clubs is largely not a reality these days. It’s been known for a while what figure and payment plan WH are seeking. Pay the money and get it done.
Exactly.
I don’t understand why we are so worried about City.
“they have the money”
“they have more influence”
“they have higher chance to win”
“they are more attractive than us”
“they are going to outbid us”
Come one, if City REALLY want Rice, they would have snatch him before we place our first bid.
You think they would give us a chance to bid or stand in the way between them and their target?
Through communications before the formal bid, we knew they are going to play hard on us, they want a bidding war.
We are so generous to Chelsea but why we are so different in bidding our NUMBER ONE TARGET?
We have no idea how quickly big transfers happen, we only know what gets reported but not every deal is leaked to the media or ITKs.
We also have no idea what West Ham would have done (accepted/rejected) if we offered £100m, but we know that they 100% would have asked City to beat the offer or terms (same way an estate agent does when there are multi bidders on a sought after property). West Ham wanted this public and a “bidding war”.
City can obviously beat any Arsenal bid but I’d like to think even they have a value they wont exceed, they have not been reckless with transfers in general.
Anyhow, it all matters not, Rice wants to be Gooner, he’s choosing us and its just a matter of time now
Ok, if West Ham don’t accept that or City gazump us, you genuinely can’t say we didn’t push for the deal.
Not only a club record but a British player record fee too.
Usually when bids leak it means they’re getting rejected but I reckon West Ham will see if City match it or offer a better deal and then finalize the deal to whoever offers the best deal(or possibly whoever Rice forces the move to).
