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Gaffer58 1:21 Wed Dec 29
Rice & Bowen Values

So in the summer Liverpool come after Bowen and either Chelsea or Man U for Rice, what would be an acceptable valuation for each, for Rice £80 - £100 million and Bowen £40 - £50 million, should be enough to bring in at least 6 premiership level players.

legrandefromage 1:25 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

I heard their values were freedom, security, loyalty, intelligence, connection, creativity and humanity.

claretandbluedagger 1:26 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

Quite frankly it has to be a lot more than that for both of them. These “big” clubs need to be aware that they have to pay a serious premium to get our best players.

Is Rice worth £120 million? Of course not (yet), but he’s worth that to us. Likewise Bowen - £50m is probably fair given the amount he contributes and the fact he’s still pretty young, but for us? Let’s say £80m.

If these clubs (who can afford ridiculous prices) want our best players, they’ll have to work hard for it. Otherwise, thanks but no thanks.

Sven Roeder 1:37 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

Lets look at some other players ... Wan-Bissaka was £50m , Harold Maguire (who looked like Malky McKay v Newcastle) was £80m & Jack Grealish was £100m (girly hairband not included).

Rice is the best English midfielder by a country mile.
As Moyes said .... there may have been a bargain at £100m available last summer but there isnt now

Alwaysaniron 1:41 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

to be totally honest it's about time we started to have a 'big club' mentality. I think Moyes is achieving it on the pitch, the club have to start believing it off the pitch too (that includes us). In the first instance we need to tie them both to new contracts, then we need to tell any interested party to fuck the fuck off if they enquire. If they're persistent and it looks like the player really wants to leave then we should screw the buyer for as much as possible. £>110m for Rice and £>55m for Bowen. Plus sell on and buy back clauses. We get 60k per game in our stadium and if it held 80k i really believe we'd get that too if we were a successful team. About time we acted like a grown up club.

Chinkey Weasel 1:46 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

Rice will replace Fernandinho at Man City for £100m at the end of the season.

Bowen might stay but Liverpool would have to bid £50m to even consider it.

Glenn Rodent 1:52 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

An outsider would look at Bowen and would see that West Ham bought a player from the Championship who isn't an international. So in their mind, he is probably worth no more than £30m.

But anyone from inside the club would see that we have a player that is getting better and better who isn't even in his prime. A player that is under contract until 2025 at a club in Europe who don't need to sell.

In my mind he is worth an absolute minimum of £50m. But I wouldn't even take £50m, He realistically isn't worth say £70m, but that is the kind of offer I would be looking at.

Although Rice is easily worth £100m-£120m to us, most clubs won't be prepared to spend that much and the price will continue to drop the longer it goes without him signing a new contract. But I reckon he will go this summer for around £90m plus add ons.

AKA ERNIE 1:59 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

Idealy neither for sale but we know how football works .

Bowen minimum 70 million
Rice minimum 120 million

Anything less turn it down

RBshorty 2:01 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

I'll be shocked if both go next summer.
Starting price.
Rice. £100 million
Bowen £60 million.

Low ballers should be told to fuck off.And no swap deals.Cold hard cash only.

PwoperNaughtyButNot 2:02 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

We don’t get any of the money and football doesn’t end so I’ll leave it to the clubs to sort out.

If a player doesn’t want to play for us then sell them. If a player does want to play for us and we need them then keep them.

Coffee 2:06 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

Any values mean nothing if we end up with an inferior first team.

Gary Strodders shank 2:24 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

Regardless of value the big problem is replacing them with players with the same quality, potential and work ethic
You always pay a premium for british players and those from abroad often take time to settle in both on and off the pitch..
We should be looking at trying to hold on to both and adding quality players to play alongside them.
Bowen should be easier to keep hold of than Rice and he can continue his development amongst a progressive team where forn permitting he will play week in week out.
I dont see the likes of Man utd Tottenham or Arsenal being anything other than a sideways move and going to any of the other three may well result in less game time and form could suffer accordingly.
In order to have any realistic chance of keeping Rice he needs to be shown that the investment and quality is there for him to achieve his goals at West Ham and become an absolute club legend in the process.
If we could hold onto those two and next year find a top class goalkeeper centre half and striker we would be bang there im sure.
Far easier said than done of course.

Darby_ 2:33 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

I'll never understand why people want to sell our best players. It's never worked out well in the past.

Charoo 2:33 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

Advertised price

Rice £140m deal at £120m
Bowen £60m deal at £50m

Chelsea or Man City for Rice

Liverpool for Bowen.

Be absolutely gutted to see them leave - buying more than 3 or 4 and integrating them is hard work. If they both go, no matter who we sign I see a season of adaptation ahead.

Charoo 2:36 Wed Dec 29
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For the record I’d rather keep both and invest, for me I’d rather have the players than the money but if the big clubs come calling and we aren’t in champions league - those players heads will both be turned. Young, hungry and ambitious.

Eerie Descent 2:43 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

Rice will be gone if we don't win the Europa League. He has gone beyond a level that everyone expected, I thought he'd be top class, but he's becoming world class, so there's no way he'll stay if we're not in the Champions League next season, and he deserves it.

I didn't think we'd get £100mil for him, but now I'd say £120mil.

Bowen won't go anywhere. We are his level, he's brilliant for us, but he's not quite at the level to be a regular starter for Liverpool, so they won't be paying what we would see as value for a bench warmer.

, 2:47 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

The sale price is dependent on how long there is remaining on their contracts. Seems to have been ignored.

El Scorchio 2:57 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

And you have to factor in how much the player has been tapped up, leading them to start becoming disruptive and trying to force a move through- particularly to only one preferred destination. That will also lower the price somewhat.

But I agree if Grealish was 100m and Maguire 80m, it puts Rice firmly in that bracket if not even above it slightly. Grealish dazzles sometimes or can be invisible. Rice runs every game he plays.

Bowen I think we’d ‘only’ get 30-35 mill for. Should he wear an England shirt while still a West Ham player, then you can probably slap 50m plus on him as a price tag.

dealcanvey 3:00 Wed Dec 29
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The more I think about it if Rice won’t sign a new deal would keep him until his contract is up rather than sell for 100 plus million.

He’s irreplaceable imo.

Pagey 3:10 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

It’s inevitable that Rice will leave one day as he needs to be playing at the very top level. Even if we qualified for the Champions League, a player of his stature needs to be challenging to win it, not just be in it. He knows that, his agent knows that and the club know that.

With that in mind, we need to ensure that we get as much money as possible for him and have some sort of replacement lined up. He can’t be directly replaced but the money could be used to strengthen the team/squad elsewhere if possible.

As for Bowen, he’s worth way more than £30-35m. We paid just over £20m for him so it’s not like he’s suddenly become a great player. He was a brilliant prospect when we signed him and now he’s shown that he can do it in the Premier League. The bidding for Bowen should start at around £45-50m if anyone is seriously interested.

Ideally we’d keep them both and continue to build but they will both have ambitions, especially Rice. It’s great to have a lot of decent players for once instead of journeymen and makeweights.

Sajmo1 3:16 Wed Dec 29
Re: Rice & Bowen Values

All depends on what we could do with the money we'd get for the 2 of them. If we get 50m for Bowen and Moyes and Newman can find a suitable replacement for half of that then it's good business. However with the investment from Kretinsky I wouldn't sell neither of them unless they really want to leave

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