OK then I accept the fact that West Ham have achieved sweet fuck all , apart from winning the Inter Toto Cup, since our golden season of 1985/86 is totally down to me. Guilty as fucking charged. Although I have never said the club SHOULD sell him, just that imo selling him sooner rather than later is inevitable. I'm sure when he does leave it will be his, not the club's, decision.Watcher wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:20 pm Whiskeyman
Your attitude is a good example of why we havent progressed through the years
You would have been no better than Brown back in the day.
Why shouldn't Rice be bothered by disrespecting the club by joining it's rivals you say? Maybe because he respects his club West Ham United?!
How are we going to grow as a club with that attitude???
If he helps us become better in the next years and we achieve what we all want and qualify for Europe it increases our chances to replace him properly if he leaves because we would attract better players.
Selling him now would be a ridicilously bad decision on so many levels!
The board promised us the next level before we moved to the OS. They need Rice to achieve that!
But for the benefit of people less naive than you can I just say:
1. I have never said he shouldn't be bothered. And his performances have been totally professional. I did say he probably couldn't give a flying one if a few people give him grief if he joins another London club. And nor should he. He's an employee not a fan. Deal with it.
2. If Rice decides he wants to leave he will be sold. Whether the club wants to sell him or not will be completely immaterial. Players and their agents hold all the cards today. But even if they didn't no point holding onto a player who wants out.
3. The board promised a lot of things when they took over the club. Not my fault if you were one of those dumb enough to have believed everything they told you.
4. Finally ask yourself this. If you were a sought after, highly rated young professional footballer, regarded by most people as the best player in your current club, but realised your team was way behind the ones chasing for the honours that you aspire to would you:
a) Shrug your shoulders and accept things. Grin and bear it.
b) Take the opportunity provided to play with a better team and try and achieve some of those ambitions next season instead of, maybe if you're lucky, doing so in 3 or 4 years.
