Declan Rice

So those players were saved.

Rice had a night completely off.

Saka never came on.

Um, you know, he got Ifa Ibrahim on, he got Theo Julian on.

And the funny thing is, someone had, had sent me a message, and I apologize for not remembering who.

It was in our Discord, so, like, major apologies.

But they, they kinda hypothesized that with Rice now playing more on the right-hand side and Bruno being in there, you know, it's an opportunity to free up some of the responsibility from the Odegaard role.

And Odegaard, as we've observed, is playing higher.

Yeah.

Rice, injury.

"Saliba's injury." Everyone, everyone's got injuries, and they get to stay at home.

No one says anything.

... and we're like, "Here we go again."

Yeah.

Rice injured.

Uh, it's, it's, it's getting out of control now.

I'll just throw him in, and he's a wing back as well, so it works.

Midfield, Declan Rice, no doubt about it.

He's a £105 million player apparently.

Uh, he's a £45 million right back is what he is.

Um, Declan Rice, and I will put next to him...

Hmm.

Guti.

Neymar is in, Di Canio's out.

He seems to not be able to...

In the same way we talk about Declan Rice, one of his superpowers is his ability to sense danger.

He knows when, okay, the ball's on this side, but that attacker over there is gonna attack that space there.

So before that ball even goes over, I'm gonna block that space off.

So I just think, you know, a start with Bruno, so I, I would give it to Bruno.

J- James, I mean, why has it gotta be Miles that drops out?

Um, I, I think Declan Rice has had an unbelievable start to the season, and I think because he's so good, we've not really, it's kind of gone quite under the radar.

I think Declan Rice since he's come back, well, since he's come back, I mean, obviously had the World Cup where he was pretty good.

And that's the challenge for the rest of them.

It's, you know, who can get Declan Rice off the pitch a bit quicker? Is it Zubermendy? Because I think he's looked really good every time he's featured this season, Zubermendy.

Give us a great 90 in the Carabao, which I think he did Tuesday evening.

Let us get deck off at 65.

Were you pleased to hear that Urien news?

I'm still cautious about whether Timber can start this weekend.

I think there's been one, maybe even two games where we've had to use Declan Rice against Brighton in the past.

Dec will be looking at this being like, why is it every time I have to mark Mitoma? It's mad.

Midfield.

Declan Rice, no doubt about it.

He's a £105 million player, apparently.

He's a £45 million right back, is what he is.

Declan Rice, and I will put next to him Hmm.

Gooty.

Gooty's wildly overrated.

I said on the show on Monday, there's only one player right now that Arsenal fans should panic and should go into total meltdown about if they get injured immediately.

It's not Declan Rice.

It's not Bukayo Saka.

It's not Saliba.

We did it in reverse.

Right.

And then that Declan Rice signing that that was just that took us to another level.

You know, every single time you want that happening.

I think that they've got these senior players like to go into this dressing room is great for Marley and Max, I think.

If you look at the players in there, Declan Rice, Saka, Odegaard, Bruno, Marino, like proper, proper players, great pros, one stuff.

The environment is so good for these guys.

And I think for Marley, yeah, the composure he's showing to play centre-back in that team is crazy.

And I think going into it, so again, stat attack, if you want to call it that, Martin Odegaard and Pascal Gross are the two top creators from open play in the Premier League so far this season.

So I think those two will have a really interesting battle when they're on the ball.

But also from a historical point of view, I think... to Simon's point, the rivalry, it actually goes back to, I think, Fabian Herzl's first month in charge of Brighton when Declan Rice got sent off at the Emirates and he had a go.

And since then, it feels like Arteta's kind of had it in for him, basically.

I noticed they like doing that.

The ball gets played to Declan Rice.

He ends up playing the ball across to Bruno Guimaraes.

And, I mean, he just leathers that ball.