“I know you want Chelsea but don’t go” – Former Arsenal midfielder tells star player
Former Chelsea and Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Petit has urged West Ham midfielder to snub Chelsea and join Arsenal instead.
The England international is set to leave West Ham at the end of the season and has been linked with a summer move to Chelsea.
Petit told Compare.bet: “He’s a leader, a warrior, he wants to win every game and has great desire. He has a great future in front of him and already has loads of experience at such a young age.
“He has to be very careful about his next club though. I know that Chelsea wants him, but if I were Declan Rice, I wouldn’t go to Chelsea, I would go to Arsenal.
The two clubs are going in different directions with the way Arsenal is playing. If I was a player linked with Arsenal and Chelsea, I would choose Arsenal because the first thing I would look at it is ‘what’s the identity of the team?’ and you can see with [Mikel] Arteta it is very clear what the identity is, he has a really precise idea of what they are doing and they are all playing for him, which isn’t true of Chelsea at the moment.”