With a transfer fee of £105 million. with declan rice, what you have is a home grown player. someone who understands the premier league, understands the nature of competition. there was probably an english player tax, if you want to put it that way. if it was a foreign player transferring in, we might have been talking about an £80 million transfer. i think it also draws a line in the sun for arsenal in the sand for arsenal football club in terms of their ambition and the progression that they ve seen over the last few years, they are a serious player. it s been almost 20 years since arsenal won the league, coming so close in may will have only intensified their hunger to return to the top. this season, rice will be wearing a different strip and arsenal hope holding a different trophy. staying with football, there is one breaking news story to tell you. leonel messi has signed for mls side