Declan Rice is not needed at Chelsea, this should go without saying

[James 5,140]

I’ve seen the many rumours linking Chelsea to signing West Ham midfielder Declan Rice, and whilst I understand the links, any move for the England international would be a waste of time. Rice is a more physical and robust type holding midfielder, something that Chelsea lack a little. Now I do not know whether this […]

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[Vesper 27,310]

3 hours ago, Jim said:

I’ve seen the many rumours linking Chelsea to signing West Ham midfielder Declan Rice, and whilst I understand the links, any move for the England international would be a waste of time. Rice is a more physical and robust type holding midfielder, something that Chelsea lack a little. Now I do not know whether this […]

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Major problem with this. I rate Declan Rice as being (down the road, hopefully sooner than later) moving back to CB for both his club and also for England. I think he has a brilliant future there, was already a Chels lad at one point, and can play both DMF and CB. Ampadu is till massively unproven at either position. I think Rice has the potential to be a player similar to John Terry (NOT saying he will be THAT good, no one has been in EPL history with the possible exception at times of Rio Ferdinand, and I still would take Terry over Rio).

My dream CB combo in 2 or so years would be Rice and then Çağlar Söyüncü or Dayot Upamecano or Ibrahima Konaté or possibly Gabriel Magalhães