{"id":795602,"date":"2026-10-08T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795602\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:30:14","slug":"declan-rice-contract-arsenal-and-england-midfielder-close-to-agreeing-new-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795602\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Rice contract: Arsenal and England midfielder close to agreeing new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Declan Rice is close to agreeing a new long-term Arsenal<\/a> contract, sources have told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

The England midfielder has become a crucial player for the Gunners since his arrival from West Ham<\/a> for \u00a3105m in July 2023.<\/p>\n

His current deal expires at the end of next season but BBC Sport revealed in March<\/a> that talks over a new contract were under way with the process now at an advanced stage.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old has made 165 appearances for Arsenal<\/a> and helped the club end their 22-year wait for a Premier League title last term. <\/p>\n

Rice would receive a significant increase to his reported \u00a3240,000-per-week salary, putting him on a par with the club’s best earner Bukayo Saka, who is believed to be paid about \u00a3350,000 a week.<\/p>\n

While Rice withdrew from Thomas Tuchel’s England squad before the recent three-week camp, he has amassed 80 caps since switching his international allegiance from the Republic of Ireland in 2019.<\/p>\n

Tuchel has also previously lauded him one of the “best midfielders in Europe”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rice is expected to be involved for Arsenal<\/a> when they host Leeds<\/a> in the English top flight on Saturday (12:30 BST).<\/p>\n

The news comes after Arsenal<\/a> boss Mikel Arteta’s 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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795602","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=795602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}