What happened: Declan Rice spoke to Amazon ahead of Arsenal's Premier League trip to face West Ham, calling his former club one that 'gave me everything' and crediting it for taking a chance on him after Chelsea released him as a teenager. Rice singled out former managers David Moyes, Slaven Bilic, and Manuel Pellegrini, who handed him the West Ham captaincy before his record-breaking 2023 transfer to Arsenal.
FC·May 6, 2026 10:08 AM ET
Rice credits West Ham as Arsenal return looms: 'Without West Ham, there's no me'
Arsenal star honors boyhood club before reunion.
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