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bristolhammerfc wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 8:33 am For me, this summer will tell us everything about Dec's future and our club as a whole.

I feel this is his watershed moment.

He has the opportunity to stay with us, become club captain and legend, moulding a team around him and having a big say in our future.

It will mean the club making him the highest paid player and captain, and matching his talent with the very best in the transfer market.

Or the club choosing this point to cash in and cement another period of our history as 'what could have been'.
Remember the World Cup is this year, which puts a slightly different perspective on his decision making. Is this year the time to take a chance on your future? He really doesnt have to this year.
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Individually the best player on the pitch - different gravy - but if he’s going to play like that someone’s got to sit and that’s not Lanzini’s game.

We’ve got two centre halves incapable of passing through a press and no holding midfielder in front of them to either protect them or come get the ball off them. Madness. No structure at all. Peak Pellegrini.
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He was insanely good today.
Head and shoulders above anyone else on the pitch
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Crouchend_Hammer wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 4:53 pm He was insanely good today.
Head and shoulders above anyone else on the pitch
Agree, but to me it just makes it more certain that he will leave us in the summer.
As a club we just haven’t got it in us financially to make that next step to be top six on a regular basis.
Can’t blame him for wanting win medals/trophies.
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Hammer in Hornchurch wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:10 pm Agree, but to me it just makes it more certain that he will leave us in the summer.
As a club we just haven’t got it in us financially to make that next step to be top six on a regular basis.
Can’t blame him for wanting win medals/trophies.
I’d say we have as low as 5% chance of him being here next year. In a different stratosphere to any of his team mates.
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Sensational today in every facet of the game but I am starting to feel that a brilliant Rice performance does not necessarily make a great West Ham one. We were so easy to play through. A player with more experience would have perhaps realised that and rather than try to do everything, sat in, steadied the ship and trusted in his team mates more.
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Lovejoy wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:17 pm I’d say we have as low as 5% chance of him being here next year. In a different stratosphere to any of his team mates.
Still requires someone to bid £150 million, I don't think anyone with that sort of financial muscle needs him yet.
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Have been a hammers fan since 1968 and in that time I have seen quite a few class players but I am starting to think that Rice is probably the best player in his position...the only one who could come near him was when Billy played the swashbuckling midfielder but even he couldn't do it every game whereas Rice does.I can't think of any other player or has my memory glossed over a little as well as my eyes.
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Bubbles Fortuna wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:52 pm Still requires someone to bid £150 million, I don't think anyone with that sort of financial muscle needs him yet.
I would bet my mortgage on him leaving in the summer for under £100 million.
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I bet you rent
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Morocco Mole wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 4:44 pm Individually the best player on the pitch - different gravy - but if he’s going to play like that someone’s got to sit and that’s not Lanzini’s game.

We’ve got two centre halves incapable of passing through a press and no holding midfielder in front of them to either protect them or come get the ball off them. Madness. No structure at all. Peak Pellegrini.
Sometimes the best 11 players don't make for the best team.

Honestly would have taken Lanzini off for Kral at half-time and given Declan the freedom to drive forward more without exposing us. As good as Rice was, the fact Leeds played through us at will for most of the match showed that it was sometimes doing us more harm than good.
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Georgee Paris wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:07 pm I bet you rent
His mum's basement.
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Turtlecharityracer wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:04 pm I would bet my mortgage on him leaving in the summer for under £100 million.
Jim, is that you?
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we're allowing dec to develop in a way that a title chasing team couldn't afford to.

he could sit as a DM and be the best in the country, but we give him a platform to be an explosive box to box midfielder who still has plenty of rough edges. it'll cost us a few points, but win us a few more.

he has everything it takes to be the great english midfielder of his generation and playing for us will ensure that he doesn't have his wings clipped for more short term club aspirations.
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Bubbles Fortuna wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:52 pm Still requires someone to bid £150 million, I don't think anyone with that sort of financial muscle needs him yet.
No chance, sorry he is mustard don’t get me wrong but we aren’t getting 150 for him. I still think we’d accept between 70-90. You need to factor in that he might kick up a fuss and force a move and we don’t exactly have a great history on selling players for their max.
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Lovejoy wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:14 pm No chance, sorry he is mustard don’t get me wrong but we aren’t getting 150 for him. I still think we’d accept between 70-90. You need to factor in that he might kick up a fuss and force a move and we don’t exactly have a great history on selling players for their max.
Moyes has already said he was a bargain at £100 million last summer and that bargain is gone.

And now we can use Grealish as a benchmark.
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If we sell Rice.for £70 million considering the money spent on Maguire, Grealish and Sancho we'd deserve shooting.
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Rice and Rodri in midfield..if you get past that pair then you deserve to beat city.
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ChzMff wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 5:50 pm Sensational today in every facet of the game but I am starting to feel that a brilliant Rice performance does not necessarily make a great West Ham one. We were so easy to play through. A player with more experience would have perhaps realised that and rather than try to do everything, sat in, steadied the ship and trusted in his team mates more.
Tbf though, we only lost by the odd goal in the end, having missed a couple of gilt edged chances, so you could argue that his tactic of taking it to them could just as easily have been successful.
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Lovejoy wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:14 pm No chance, sorry he is mustard don’t get me wrong but we aren’t getting 150 for him. I still think we’d accept between 70-90. You need to factor in that he might kick up a fuss and force a move and we don’t exactly have a great history on selling players for their max.
We’d be better off letting him leave for free at the end of his contract
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