{"id":795140,"date":"2026-10-07T19:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795140\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:48:15","slug":"declan-rice-contract-arsenal-and-england-midfielder-close-to-agreeing-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795140\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Rice contract: Arsenal and England midfielder close to agreeing new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Declan Rice is close to agreeing a new long-term <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> contract, sources have told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The England midfielder has become a crucial player for the Gunners since his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/65982835\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrival from West Ham<\/a> for \u00a3105m in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His current deal expires at the end of next season but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/crrx4kve5yyo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sport revealed in March<\/a> that talks over a new contract were underway with the process now at an advanced stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old has made more than 150 starts for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>, and is also a key player for England, with manager Thomas Tuchel saying this week he is one of the best midfielders in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rice would receive a significant pay increase to his reported \u00a3240,000-per-week salary, putting him on a par with the club&#8217;s best earner Bukayo Saka, who is believed to earn about \u00a3350,000 a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The news comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> boss Mikel Arteta&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/crz65j5p8l57o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new four-year deal<\/a> with the Premier League champions was announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Declan Rice is close to agreeing a new long-term Arsenal contract, sources have told BBC Sport. The England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}