Arsenal continues to make its market in this summer transfer window 2023. The Gunners formalized the arrival of Declan Rice on Saturday. The latter becomes the most expensive British player in history.
After Jurrien Timber and Kai Havertz, Arsenal has just struck a blow on the Premier League transfer market. The London club formalized this Saturday, the arrival of Declan Rice. The midfielder trained at West Ham will therefore join the Gunners for the record sum of 122 million euros. An amount that makes him neither more nor less than the most expensive British player in history.
Winner of the Europa League Conference this season with the Hammers, Declan Rice is also an English international. He who had never known any club other than West Ham therefore made an important decision by joining another club in the British capital. The exact duration of the contract has not yet been revealed, but the Dailymail mentioned for his part a “ long term agreement between the two parties.
A new chapter begins. pic.twitter.com/ha5Btd8I2h
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) July 15, 2023
The third was the good one
Arsenal were slow to win their case and had to make three offers before West Ham management agreed. It is in any case, on paper, a masterstroke for the London club which notably outweighed the two Manchester clubs, also interested in Rice.
