The unusual fundraising by Arsenal fans

Yes. You read that right. Arsenal fans raise more money to give West Ham for Declan Rice’s move, as they believe he is too good for how “cheap” his move was. The Gunners paid a club record figure of 105 million pounds (122 million euros). The club’s fans believe that this price is low for the performance it is having under Mikel Arteta.

Through the GoFundMe platform, An Arsenal fan is looking to raise £25m to give to Declan Rice’s former team. “In light of the unfortunate theft from West Ham United. We are asking Arsenal fans to come together to raise funds to compensate West Ham United for underpaying Declan Rice,” the fan commented in the description.

““Over the last 15 weeks it has become clear that Edu and Arsenal were the beneficiaries of a £25,000,000 underpayment to West Ham United,” the fan added in the description. Edu Gaspar is the sporting director of the London team, and one of the people most responsible for making the transfer for Rice a reality.

The English midfielder has been a key piece for Arteta and the team. The Spanish coach believes he has found what he was missing to lift the Premier League trophy for the first time in almost 20 years.

For the local tournament, Rice started all the games, playing all 15 dates. In these games he scored three goals. The peculiarity of them is that they all scored in the last minutes of the game.

His first goal was nothing more and nothing less than against Manchester United. Both teams faced each other for the fourth round of the Premier League. The game was tied 1-1, and reaching the 96th minute of the game, after a cross from Saka, Rice put it to sleep with his chest and hit the far post to make it 2-1. Gabriel Jesús finished the game in the 101st minute and the Gunners won 3-1.

His second goal was against Chelsea in the classic. Arteta’s men were losing 2-0 when in the 77th minute Rice scored his team’s first to begin the comeback. The match would end in a 2-2 draw.

His third and last goal was this Tuesday against Luton Town in a real great game. There were a total of seven in the match and despite the fact that it remained tied 3 to 3 until the 97th minutethe Gunners managed to win it in the last play thanks to Declan Rice. After a cross into the area, the Englishman connected with a header to take it to the back of the net.

Rice, 24, became the most expensive signing in Arsenal’s history, above the 90 million that the Gunners paid for Nicolás Pepé in 2019. Rice, who was also closely followed by Manchester City, left West Ham after a decade at the club, from the youth ranks, and in which he played 245 games with the first team, in addition to having won two titles: the European League in 2017 and the Conference League in 2022.

Below Rice and Pepé is Kai Havertz, for whom the club paid $80 million. The German was a direct request from Arteta, which surprised his fans: he did not have a good time at Chelsea, who also paid a multimillion-dollar figure for him. He is currently having a lot of experience in the team and was able to score four goals.