Gunners host the champions but there is much more at play than performance of €120 million midfielder.
David Sneyd THE EASY SELL for Arsenal against Manchester City this afternoon is the performance of Declan Rice.
But it was a transfer tug-of-war that always felt as though Arsenal had a far tighter grip, yet City still seemed in control. “I don’t think Manchester City actually want to sign Declan Rice, I think what’s going on is Arteta has picked up the phone to Pep and said ‘listen, Arsenal are going to do the incremental bid approach, if you put a higher bid in, that will push my owner’.”
Rice’s arrival at Arsenal was viewed, from the outside at least, as one that could be transformative for ambitions that were so nearly realised during the title race the season before. “Maybe Mikel was more convincing than me, or the club itself. The offer they got we could not reach it because we thought about Josko Gvardiol in that position and we could not afford to pay that much. That is why.
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