Id love Rice but think West Ham will price him too high. He’d cost us more than we paid for Bruno.
In total yes, certainly. Though it might about the same outlay if we offset the potential Lingard fee.
Personally I'm more keen on AC Milan's Franck Kessie. He's more technical than Rice as we saw from the games against AC in the Europa. He's a couple of years older than Rice at 24 but that's still a great age. He's been at AC for 4 years now and might be up for a move and a pay rise, while AC won't ask the exorbitant money W.Ham will ask for Rice.
I think we could get Kessie for £40-45m (AC bought him for £21m) whereas Rice will probably cost us that, plus another ~£20m offset from Lingard.