Moyes’ pal predicts favoured Rice deal

Sam Allardyce and David Moyes go way back as managers and friends with the former Hammers boss appearing to know exactly how the Scot works on and off the pitch.

That’s why it is worth paying attention when BFS decides top open up on what is likely to outcome in the Declan Rice saga over the next few days or perhaps weeks.

Like many others Allardyce see Kalvin Phillips as the key player in what happens next in a transfer deal which has occupied the headlines for months.

Mind you, that’s not a hard one to work out given Moyes bid £40 million for Phillips last summer and now has a realistic chance of getting him second time around.

And that is precisely how Allardyce sees things working out claiming that knowing Moyes as he does it looks something of a given.

Speaking on the ‘No Tippy Tippy Football Podcast’, former Hammers boss thinks current  Moyes will be swayed by getting a solid replacement in return.

He said: “If I know Moysey, there would have to be a player in the deal for him and that would mean it would be easier for the club who is buying him because they wouldn’t have to pay David Sullivan’s (asking price).

“It would be over £100million in total but it would be so much under that player and that player’s value would take that deal over £100million and David would get somebody he really needed.”