West Ham owners planning on resigning new deal with Declan Rice after what happened earlier

Declan Rice took his game to another level with Arsenal last night and it has many wondering whether his old club West Ham might benefit.

Many scoffed at David Moyes when he reiterated this week that West Ham should have demanded another £50m from Arsenal for Declan Rice.

“l used to get criticised when I said that he should be £150 million,” Moyes said of his former Hammers captain before Everton’s draw with Arsenal.

“When I see Arsenal supporters I tell them they still owe me £50 million because we only got £100m for him. I think that he’s proven exactly what we thought he was.”

Rice takes his game to another level in Arsenal win

Many Arsenal fans, some of whom have taken great delight in goading their West Ham counterparts ever since signing their homegrown skipper for over £100m, actually think they got an even better deal than Moyes alludes to.

Arsenal fans have – gallingly for West Ham – christened the midfielder ‘half price Rice’ in the belief they did indeed massively underpay for the 26-year-old.

Some Gunners supporters have been highly critical of Rice this season too, though.

Especially after he had another stinker against West Ham in the recent 1-0 defeat to Graham Potter’s side at the Emirates, being hooked after just 53 minutes.

Rice proved a few of his own fans wrong – and many of his old West Ham supporters right – with a virtuoso display in Arsenal’s shock 3-0 win over Real Madrid in their Champions League quarter-final first leg on Tuesday night.

The Hammers Academy graduate scored two of the best free-kicks you will see to put Arsenal in a commanding position to make the semi-finals.

It gives Arsenal new hope of ending the season with the major silverware Rice left West Ham in search of.