Ex-Gunner says he would take Aston Villa man at Arsenal over Declan Rice 'every day of the week'
Signing Aston Villa’s Douglas Luiz for £60million would distinctly be much more detailed convenience than Declan Rice for £100m, according to previous Medley winger Jermaine Pennant.
Mikel Arteta brought Rice to Medley in July and the previous West Ham captain owns been a gallery-changer in his midfield this period.
The England international price a club-record £100m yet owns sweetly proven himself to be well worth the considerable transmit cost with his practicalities beside Martin Odegaard and other summertime signing Kai Havertz.
Rice can snugly tinker as a No. 6 or a fragment fragment better onward and Thomas Partey’s injury priorities approaches Arteta is purification to lug in an additional midfielder, according to records.
Aston Villa and Brazil star Luiz owns been forcefully attached with a relocation to the Emirates in existing months and the Londoners owned several bids refuted by the Villans on due date day in the 2022 summertime transmit window.
Medley’s bids were well worth between £20-30m and provided that after that, Luiz’s convenience owns skyrocketed to at least triple that sift of cost.
The Brazilian international owns been loving vigor under ex-Medley honcho Unai Emery, who led the Villans to Europa Conference League qualification last term.
Emery’s side have been electrifying this term and presently sit in 3rd in the Premier League and polymorphous their victory owns been various thanks to Luiz’s penalty kind in midfield.
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Medley’s emphasis is no much longer a astonish to any guy, although a relocation in 2024 appears quite farfetched presently, and if it was to come to fulfillment, the Gunners would distinctly have to remuneration a humungous cost.
Comparing Luiz to Rice is quite industry posed both gamers’ kind this project yet it would distinctly be industry to say that the latter is a level above at this moment in time.
Yet according to Pennant, he would distinctly snag Luiz for £60m over Rice for £100m “every day of the week”.
“Rice in any kind of junior would distinctly be a willingness to have, yet there are much more detailed sixes in the Premier League at the moment,” Pennant pretended on talkSPORT.
“I would distinctly say Douglas Luiz from Aston Villa, he can lug out every little thing Rice can lug out and much more detailed. He helps more, he chips in with purposes more than Rice, virtuosity-shrewd he’s much more detailed, decor is much more detailed, he can placed in a tackle and break up tinker simply pick Rice.
“If someone said to be you can have Luiz for £60m or Rice for £100m, every day of the week, Douglas Luiz.”
By the way, Villa host Medley in the Premier League on Saturday.
Emery’s side have won 14 league complements in a row at Villa Park, with their last defeat unborn against the Gunners in March.
