{"id":439844,"date":"2023-07-15T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T13:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439844"},"modified":"2023-07-15T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T14:01:02","slug":"arsenal-complete-105m-transfer-for-declan-rice","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arsenal-complete-105m-transfer-for-declan-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal complete \u00a3105m transfer for Declan Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal have officially announced that West Ham&#8217;s Declan Rice has joined them for a record British fee of \u00a3105m (\u00a3100m plus \u00a35m in add-ons).<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners announcement comes only hours after the Hammers confirmation that they have agreed with Rice that he will be leaving the club in a written statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OFFICIAL: Declan Rice joins Arsenal on club record deal for \u00a3100m plus \u00a35m in add-ons. \ud83d\udd34\u26aa\ufe0f\u2728 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rice also becomes the most expensive English player in the history of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Rice will wear number 4\ufe0f\u20e31\ufe0f\u20e3 and signs deal valid until June 2028 with option for further season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ai32Q9lvTA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ai32Q9lvTA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1680189941244985347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old declared how &#8216;tough&#8217; it was to leave the fans he was bringing joy to for so many years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been looking at Arsenal over the last couple of seasons and the trajectory they&#8217;ve been on,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not last season but the season before, they [only] finished fifth, but you could see the style of play Mikel was implementing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last season was an outstanding season, blowing pretty much every team out of the water with the exception of Manchester City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rice becomes Arsenal&#8217;s third major signing this summer following in the footsteps of Kai Havertz and Jurrien Timber as the Gunners are looking to bolster their squad and their ambition of mounting a serious title challenge next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal have officially announced that West Ham&#8217;s Declan Rice has joined them for a record British fee of \u00a3105m (\u00a3100m plus \u00a35m in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439845,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18396,19203],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[19168,19204,366],"acf":{"announce":"The transfer saga is finally over as the 24-year-old joins the Gunners","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439844"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439844"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}