Declan Rice isn’t worth £100million to West Ham — it’s probably in the region of double that.
And there lies the problem. It’s a Harry Kane deal. Rice will want to go this summer, but what his suitors want to pay bears no relation to his value to his current club.
We saw that on Saturday. West Ham were going to lose to Kidderminster Harriers of National League North until Rice was introduced at half-time. And although that is not indicative of their fate without him — West Ham, minus Rice, are not a sixth-tier side — his influence is great enough to be the difference between a tilt at a European place and the bottom half, or even a relegation skirmish.