{"id":295699,"date":"2023-11-20T01:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T01:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=295699"},"modified":"2023-11-20T01:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T01:24:04","slug":"declan-rice-insists-hes-not-fazed-by-his-105m-price-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/declan-rice-insists-hes-not-fazed-by-his-105m-price-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Rice insists he&apos;s not fazed by his \u00a3105m price tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Declan Rice insists he&#8217;s not fazed by his \u00a3105m price tag as the Arsenal and England midfielder wants to perform on the biggest stages<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Declan Rice joined Arsenal for club-record \u00a3105m from West Ham in the summer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Midfielder insists he always had faith in his ability to step up to the highest level<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Southgate&#8217;s loyalty to his players is an issue and a weakness &#8211; It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Declan Rice went to the World Cup surrounded by England team-mates who had won the biggest prizes in the game &#8211; now he is a \u00a3105million player who insists he is not fazed by the price tag having lifted European silverware and instantly taken to Champions League football.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old admitted a year ago in Qatar that he wanted to play at the highest level and left West Ham in the summer after captaining them to Europa Conference League glory.<\/p>\n<p>Rice moved across London to Arsenal, joining the Gunners for a club-record fee and has hit the ground running with a run of fine performances for Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>While previous big-money signings have seemingly been weighed down by hefty price tags, Rice has flourished in spite of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When the transfer was going through I was very nervous because of the price tag,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/00\/78003931-0-image-a-101_1700440046754.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Declan Rice joined Arsenal for club-record \u00a3105m from West Ham in the summer<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s natural to think about that. You&#8217;re a human being bought for \u00a3105m, it doesn&#8217;t feel very normal. But that was because of what I&#8217;d done at West Ham, what they valued me at.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When I signed for Arsenal, I just thought I just need to be Declan Rice, be myself, don&#8217;t be any different, everything will go smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The first three weeks of pre-season were really tough in terms of the change. When you&#8217;re at a new job you start to feel really settled after a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That really feels the case now. In terms of the price tag, I don&#8217;t really think about it, I just play the games and try to play as well as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Honestly, I just try to play my football. I don&#8217;t let it affect me in any way, shape or form. I just go to training, try to train as well as possible.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rice&#8217;s England colleague Jack Grealish admitted he found talk of his \u00a3100m move to Manchester City &#8216;annoying&#8217; and that more was expected of him as a result of the big fee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s \u00a3100m, it&#8217;s a lot of money, I could understand the pressure that comes with it,&#8217; added Rice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/00\/78003899-0-image-a-103_1700440120072.jpg\" height=\"444\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The midfielder insists he always had faith in his ability to step up to the highest level<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not only the pressure you put on yourself but there&#8217;s an expectation of being bought for that much money we need to see performances straight away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I want to repay the club back straight away, they have invested a lot of money in me, I need to prove why I can go there and change things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I can see why Jack struggled maybe at the start &#8211; mentally. He was a \u00a3100m footballer but as he wasn&#8217;t playing as much, it was probably as bit different for him. Now he&#8217;s flying and it&#8217;s the same for me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rice insists he always had faith in his ability to step up to the highest level and he has shone particularly brightly on Arsenal&#8217;s Champions League nights so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I won the trophy at West Ham, which was another level. It was incredible for me and the club. Now I&#8217;ve been playing on Champions League nights and been playing relatively well, but it&#8217;s something I always believed I could do,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was just waiting for my chance and my opportunity. Every game that&#8217;s coming now, I&#8217;m just trying to take it step by step and perform on the biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Speaking honestly, I feel I was playing as well at West Ham in my last season. Even though we didn&#8217;t have the best season as a team, I feel like I kicked on again. You never want to stay stale as a footballer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You&#8217;re always looking to improve, always looking to get better. I still feel there&#8217;s so many more levels I can get to. It&#8217;s just about being eager to learn, practising on the training pitch, and always listening as well.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rice has also called on England to end an unbeaten 2023 with a &#8216;bang&#8217; by winning their final Euro 2024 qualifier away to North Macedonia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/00\/78003913-0-image-a-102_1700440105549.jpg\" height=\"475\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rice wants England to end an unbeaten 2023 with a &#8216;bang&#8217; by beating North Macedonia<\/p>\n<p>England have not suffered defeat since their World Cup quarter-final exit at the hands of France last December and sealed their spot at next summer&#8217;s finals with two games to spare.<\/p>\n<p>After a drab 2-0 win over Malta on Friday, Rice is keen for England to put in a better showing to bring the curtain down on a strong calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think especially the other night after Malta there is just a bit of pride in ourselves that we need to raise our level,&#8217; the Arsenal midfielder said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We need to put out a statement and it would be a good way to end the year. We are currently unbeaten since the World Cup so it is down to us to go out tomorrow night, put on a performance.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12769107\/Declan-Rice-insists-hes-not-fazed-105m-price-tag-Arsenal-England-midfielder-wants-perform-biggest-stages.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Declan Rice insists he&#8217;s not fazed by his \u00a3105m price tag as the Arsenal and England midfielder wants to perform on the biggest stages Declan <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/declan-rice-insists-hes-not-fazed-by-his-105m-price-tag\/\" title=\"Declan Rice insists he&amp;apos;s not fazed by his \u00a3105m price tag\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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