{"id":458973,"date":"2023-09-12T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458973"},"modified":"2023-09-12T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:37:35","slug":"declan-rice-says-rodri-is-the-best-midfielder-in-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/declan-rice-says-rodri-is-the-best-midfielder-in-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Rice says Rodri is the best midfielder in Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Declan became the most expensive British footballer in history when he inked with Arsenal in a 131 million dollar deal during the past summer transfer window from West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the 24-year-old being the most expensive British midfielder, Declan shared that 1 player is better than him at that position in the Premier League. \u201cObviously, the best one in the league is Rodri, he\u2019s phenomenal,&#8221; Rice shared.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Declan Rice ranking his role models:<\/p>\n<p>1. Rodri.<br \/>\n2. Partey.<br \/>\n3. Tchouameni.<br \/>\n4. Jorginho.<\/p>\n<p>Rice\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f: Obviously the main one is Rodri, he is incredible. The way he works, the way he keeps that City team ticking you know, he is a top player.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XoqFqtvyfx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XoqFqtvyfx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 foland (@propsMCFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/propsMCFC\/status\/1701510563656818846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a fantastic player; the way he works, the way he keeps the Sky Blues side ticking, you know he\u2019s an elite player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodri is among the nominees for the Ballon d&#8217;Or after his excellent past season with Manchester City. The Spain international netted the triumphing goal in the UEFA Champions League final to help the Sky Blues not only win its 1<sup>st<\/sup> ever European Cup but also a treble after finishing 1<sup>st<\/sup> in the Premier League and beating Manchester United at the FA Cup final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declan became the most expensive British footballer in history when he inked with Arsenal in a 131 million dollar deal during the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":458974,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18396,17317,20893],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[19168,17886,366,7120],"acf":{"announce":"Rice named his Manchester City rival Rodri as the league\u2019s current best midfielder.","video":["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\/458973"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458976,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458973\/revisions\/458976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458973"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458973"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}