Arsenal can blame Premier League rivals Chelsea for his or her pursuit of West Ham captain Declan Rice turning right into a painful public bidding struggle with treble winners Manchester City. The Gunners are reportedly making ready a 3rd bid for Rice over the approaching days as they desperately scramble to beat City to his signature. 

It has been claimed that West Ham are holding out for a document price for Rice. Both Arsenal and City have seen their affords rejected up up to now. 

Arsenal’s newest proposal amounted to £90million, with £75m up-front and a further £15m in add-ons. City then submitted the same bid structured to provide West Ham £80m as a assured price and an additional £10m in bonuses. 

West Ham have turned down all three affords made by the 2 golf equipment, with Arsenal now onto their third bid. And the Gunners can blame Chelsea for it getting this far. 

According to TalkSPORT, the Hammers need a British-record switch price for Rice. They need a deal that eclipses the astronomical £106m Chelsea paid to signal Enzo Fernandez from Benfica within the January switch window. 

Chelsea paid over the chances for the Argentine star after his improbable performances on the World Cup. And his switch price has now change into the benchmark for gamers of the same customary. 

It signifies that any Premier League membership now desirous to signal an elite defensive midfielder will now have to half with a price at the least near 9 figures. West Ham are effectively inside their rights to demand such a price for Rice, who has established himself as one in all Europe’s greatest gamers in his place. 

“Undoubtedly Declan is going to be a top player,” Hammers boss David Moyes stated of Rice in January. “And undoubtedly he’ll be a British transfer record and more whenever he leaves West Ham.”