{"id":733419,"date":"2026-04-17T02:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/733419\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:02:18","slug":"gary-neville-declares-arsenal-ace-is-a-manchester-united-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/733419\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Neville declares Arsenal ace is a &#8216;Manchester United player&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When discussing who he thinks could be the difference-maker for Arsenal against Manchester City on Sunday, Gary Neville declared his one to watch should have been a Manchester United player and would have been in previous eras.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s defeat to Bournemouth last time out now ensures they\u2019re not in sole control of the destiny of the Premier League title.<\/p>\n<p>Should Man City win all seven of their remaining games and overturn a small goal difference deficit, Pep Guardiola\u2019s side would be champions again. First up for City on Sunday? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/arsenal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> at the Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>It could quite literally be a title-defining clash, and with Arsenal\u2019s confidence dampened, they\u2019ll be relying on their bigger names to pull the Gunners through and secure a positive result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/declan-rice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Declan Rice<\/a> is unquestionably among Arsenal\u2019s most important players right now, and when speaking on the latest edition of The Overlap, Gary Neville spoke highly of the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd<\/a> icon insisted Rice has the ability and gravitas to be the match-winner on Sunday. Neville also let slip he was gutted his old club didn\u2019t land the Englishman when he left West Ham in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think Declan Rice is someone\u2026 when he went to Arsenal for \u00a3100m, I was gutted,\u201d <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0iW57Evrgjg&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">said Neville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s a Manchester United player. He\u2019s the player, Harry Kane, Declan Rice, that Manchester United would have always signed back in the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neville added: \u201cYou don\u2019t let Declan Rice go to any other club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a player who will win you the league, right? To me, on Sunday, he is the player I am looking at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not me putting pressure on him, by the way. This is me expecting that this is the Roy Keane moment, the Gerrard moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Man Utd did have a happy habit of signing some of the best English talent around during the Fergie years, and especially so when buying them from mid-table sides.<\/p>\n<p>Current interim boss, Michael Carrick, was famously plucked from Tottenham, Wayne Rooney signed from Everton, and Rio Ferdinand joined from Leeds, who in fairness to the west Yorkshire outfit, were higher than a mid-table team at that time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Want more breaking transfer lines from original sources? Add TEAMtalk <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=teamtalk.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>as a preferred source on Google <\/strong><\/a>to your favourites list for news you can trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When discussing who he thinks could be the difference-maker for Arsenal against Manchester City on Sunday, Gary Neville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":733420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[6648,5407,28218,204,83748,3782,220,154115,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-733419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-all-the-news","tag-arsenal","tag-declan-rice","tag-front-page","tag-gary-neville","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-pundits","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116417589915955929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}