True, Manchester City have no eager need of Declan Rice like Arsenal do based on the availability and form of Rodri in the defensive midfield. Arsenal keen interest on West Ham £100m Declan Rice explains how serious and ready the gunners are for the next season as their highest last signing amount was £75m Pepe from Lille. But then in my very opinion this is coming some how late, cause if such amount was spent last summer on the needed players then Arsenal would have been able to secure the EPL title last season.
Aside from Rodri, they have Kalvin Philips as well who can play well as defensive midfield. Still I feel City needs a midfielder but right now it seems they are interested in adding a defender and are reported to be interested in getting Josko Gvardiol from RB Leipzig. Now that City has gotten out of the race, I think they will be going after Josko Gvardiol. I feel that signing Josko Gvardiol and both Declan Rice would have been too much and would have placed them in UEFA radar again maybe in breach of FFP rules (
?) . Remember, City were recently in lot of troubles but they have gotten themselves out somehow and will for sure will take care of not making those mistakes again.
Yeah for Arsenal it seems Rice is the most expensive signing but I feel that his price is well justified (bit overpriced but it's ok). Pepe was a flop signing but I feel that Arteta will surely find his use regularly in squad as Xhaka and Partey are set to leave. I would say about last season, we had everything in our squad but it's slight injuries and something just went down that just dragged us down, otherwise we were very strong last season. And now about the signings we are currently making, it is obvious that with CL also this season we have to make signings as we need density to play our best in both PL and CL in a week. It's hard to keep up for a club when they are in CL and PL as well. Arsenal needed reinforcements and here they are:
[1] Havertz (Attacking midfielder) ✅
[2] Declan Rice (Defensive midfielder) ⏳
[3] Jurrien Timber (Right Back) ⏳
Aside from them^^, we have players coming back from loan who had a very good season at their loan spell for example Florian Balogun. I think this season there will be lot of expectation from Arteta and his men.
Come to think of it, the price at which West Ham has placed on Declan Rice is way too high. I hope this is not one of another English media hype like they did with the likes of Harry Maguire few seasons ago from Leicester to UTD.
I would say, it's ok in my opinion given his age and how well he plays in his role. Also don't forget the competition between the clubs for Declan Rice. Some backed off from proceeding given his price but there were big clubs after him which were: United(last season transfer windows) and this transfer window- Bayern, City and Arsenal. Let's see how it goes, but I think he will do fine.