Danny Murphy believes Declan Rice wouldn’t have had the identical influence had he joined Manchester United as a substitute of Arsenal final summer time.
Rice swapped West Ham for the Gunners in a deal price as much as £105m and has rapidly established himself as a key participant for Mikel Arteta’s aspect.
Arsenal are embroiled in a fiercely contested title race with Manchester Metropolis and have definitely improved as a group this season, which partly is all the way down to the arrival of Rice.
Rice would have had much less influence at United?
The England worldwide has remodeled Arsenal’s midfield this season and has been an entire revelation on the Emirates.
Rice has even added objectives to his recreation and has scored seven instances and offered 9 assists from 36 Premier League video games this season.
Manchester Metropolis tried to signal Rice final summer time however noticed a bid rejected for the midfielder, while United have been linked with the 25-year-old up to now.
Former Liverpool participant Murphy believes if United had ended up with Rice he wouldn’t have made the identical influence that he has at Arsenal.
“There may be no larger praise to pay Declan Rice than to say he’s en path to changing into one other Rodri, a very powerful participant at Manchester Metropolis”, Murphy advised The Day by day Mail.
“Rice is among the gamers of the season, you may’t consider it’s his first season at Arsenal.
“The transition after leaving West Ham has been seamless, he has embraced the stress of getting to win each week.
“United would have benefited massively by signing Rice however I’m undecided they’d have ever received him, the match with Arsenal appears to be like good, from being in London to the reference to Arteta.
“Pretty much as good as Rice is, he wouldn’t have been in a position to flip United’s fortunes round on his personal.
“He’d be in a group struggling to get possession and dominate video games, I don’t assume Declan shall be strolling round Outdated Trafford considering: ‘Oh no, I want I performed for these.”
Rice shall be hoping to take his good membership kind into the summer time as he goals to assist England win the Euros in Germany.
