Rice speculation rumbles on…Zzzzzz

Italian Journolist Nicolo Schira has suggested Chelsea are working to close a Declan Rices deal suggesting talks ongoing with  West Ham after a supposed rejected a bid of €50M + add-ons.

The journo suggested on social media that the midfielder has already agreed on personal terms for a 5-year contract.

The Twitter post comes less than 24 hours after the unreliable Indy Kaila told his 314,000 followers that Chelsea have made a stunning £50m bid for Declan Rice with West Ham open to the idea of selling the player for around £55m – £60m later challenging David Gold and Karren Brady to prove him wrong.

Yet another Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano also took to social media to say “Chelsea have not made any official bid yet for Declan Rice. Talks on with his agent – but now it’s time to sell/loan out players, then Chelsea will open talks on next days with West Ham. West Ham insists they won’t sell Rice but the player is pushing to join Chelsea.”

West Ham continues to insist their star player is not for sale there have been no bids and no enquiries but it is the transfer story that refuses to go away.

Manager David Moyes repeated this mantra at a recent press conference adding it would take ‘ bank of England’ amount of money to change his mind.

Why Italian journalists would know more than those in London close to the two Premier League clubs is a puzzling part of their claims.