According to several reports, Chelsea are ready to involve Ross Barkley and Michy Batshuayi in a swap deal to sign the former Chelsea player Declan Rice as deal seems to come through.
Meanwhile, West ham boss David Moyes has speak about potential interest in Rice this summer, and he certainly hasn’t completely shut the door on any departure admitting that ‘even the biggest clubs sometimes sell their best players’ in an interview yesterday.
Moyes said to The Evening Standard: “I’m confident he will be here [next season] because he’s under contract,” Moyes said of Rice’s future. “But like anything else, whatever club you’re at even the biggest clubs sometimes sell their best players because they get the right value.
“But my intention is not to sell Declan at all, my intention is to keep him. But we can’t stop other clubs making offers, but the truth is we’ve had no offers or nothing, nobody has come to us.
“He’s a really good player and I see him helping us, and I hope he sees what we are trying to do. We’re going to try and add better players and add things to it which would make him excited about being at West Ham in the future.
“If somebody then turns up and offers you a bundle-load of cash then that’s a club decision, but if you sign a five-year deal anywhere… if you sign a five-year deal with your company then you know you’re probably there for five years, it’s no different for football players unless somebody comes along and poaches you.
“My plan is, you know what I think of Declan, I think he is a future captain of West Ham going forward. When Mark Noble comes to an end then hopefully it will be Declan Rice, so we’ve no intention of letting him go. If it does come it will need to be the Bank of England money.”