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EXCLUSIVE: Graeme Souness insists Declan Rice CAN handle his eye-watering £105m price tag but believes his goal average of two per season 'is not good enough'

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Graeme Souness has backed Declan Rice to live up to his £105m price tag, but admitted that the midfielder 'should get more goals' after moving to Arsenal.

The 24-year-old left his boyhood club West Ham in July and has started each of the Gunners' first three league games of the season, securing two wins and a draw.

Souness compared Rice's experience as a midfielder arriving with a big fee to his move to Liverpool in 1978, and backed him to succeed in North London.

Speaking to Mail Sport's special transfer edition of It's All Kicking Off, he said: 'It's not Declan's fault that someone has paid £105m for him.