Don't think Rice has been mentioned tbh (from latest reports of who our recruitment team are monitoring). I think our new recruitment team have a list of options, all of which look pretty good.
I feel a box to box player is the perfect partner for him (if Kante can somehow get back to good health he'd be perfect atleast in the short term).
There is a reason that we are not mentioned, he is said to favour Man City and follow in Agueros footsteps, of course no one would be surprised by that, however apparently Newcastle, Liverpool, man united and Arsenal are all preferred as well. However Liverpool have conceeded they Cann sign both him and Jude and are pushing for Jude.
I wasn't "bemoaning" Rice due to the money, it was because I don't think he's good enough unless we revert back to counter attacking football and that's before I get into the excuses he has made while playing for England.
Wasn't aimed solely at you, there's plenty on here that's used price tag as a reason to not pursue Rice.
Ah that reminds me of the Lukaku is a changed player narrative when he returned.
He is a technically good player, and would give us some goals in the middle of the park. He isn’t going to start for us though even if we assume we get rid of Kante, RLC & Jorginho in the summer. He will just be a depth player on the bench on £100k+, as he isn’t starting ahead of Kovacic. I’d rather we spend the money on Rice or any other DM to act as a foil for Enzo assuming he ends up here, giving us some physicality in the middle.
He's a carbon copy of Mount. He'd just be surplus imo.
Even if we don't sign him I am just glad that it's been sufficient as a diversion so that Boehly didn’t sign Ronaldo. We enough of a laughing stock as it is.