Declan Rice

He met Southgate in the summer , he met o'Neill and more recently Mick mcCarthy , you don't know what Gold is saying to him in the background or the board. On another note he is going to win absolutely nothing as West Ham , so if he's ambitious about winning trophies etc it aint happening in east London. If he goes he goes but i expect him to commit, with our talent pool a year or 2  younger than him  (parrot, O'Connor , Connolly )  we actually have some decent players hopefully coming through premier league clubs . He is also sponsored  by nike so you don't know what's going on there!

royal rover wrote: He is also sponsored  by nike so you don't know what's going on there!

said it before and will say it again, your nationality isn’t a choice. If you’re Irish, you’re irish. Regardless if you’re born in England, Scotland, Sudan or Egypt! If you know you’re irish then making a choice to play for the national team shouldn’t even come into it. 

Bob Hoskins wrote: tetsujin1979 wrote: FWIW, his 20th birthday is this Monday.... why post this info up, there'll be a queue of twits posting happy birthday Decky can't wait to see you wear the green

  pretty sure that would have happened regardless if I had posted it or not.

Edited by tetsujin1979 - 10 Jan 2019 at 9:17pm

I'm not too confident of him declaring for us .  The fact a decision has taken so long seems like he wants to show people it was such a difficult decision after 3 caps for us. I can imagine the statement he releases , how difficult a decision it was but he wants to be successful and challenge for trophies with England . Really hope I'm wrong 

howieb wrote: I'm not too confident of him declaring for us .  The fact a decision has taken so long seems like he wants to show people it was such a difficult decision after 3 caps for us. I can imagine the statement he releases , how difficult a decision it was but he wants to be successful and challenge for trophies with England . Really hope I'm wrong

I think him fudging this decision means he'll eventually choose them, the need for Ireland is rather pressing....with England he can take his time, be looking a bit longer the Summer or next season ..........the longer he's kicked the can down the road the more our chances have dwindled

No means no.

Double Maxim wrote: Gabrieléire wrote: said it before and will say it again, your nationality isn’t a choice. If you’re Irish, you’re irish. Regardless if you’re born in England, Scotland, Sudan or Egypt! If you know you’re irish then making a choice to play for the national team shouldn’t even come into it.      Spot on.

Jimbhoy wrote: There is no way he is going to play for us. England basically have a home tournament in the next Euros with only one game away from Wembley. Rice probably thinks they will have a good chance of winning that. The thought that McCarthy being manager changing his mind is laughable and mindless wishful thinking. It's not as if we've just appointed the next Jock Stein or Alex Ferguson. Rice's agent will have ensured that he gets a massive bump in his contract when he gets an England cap. No way would he tie his client in for 6 years on £30k a week, he  would be the worst agent in Europe for agreeing a deal like that