Declan Rice says 'tough' to leave West Ham with Arsenal move agreed

Rice helped West Ham triumph the Europa Conference League past season

England midfielder Declan Rice says it has been a "tough" determination to permission West Ham but "it has lone ever been astir my ambition to play astatine the precise highest level of the game".

West Ham besides confirmed the 24-year-old was leaving the club.

"The past fewer days and weeks person been an implicit whirlwind of emotion," said Rice.

"I privation you to cognize however pugnacious a determination it has been for maine to permission an situation that I person loved and cherished truthful much.

"Ultimately, though, it has lone ever been astir my ambition to play astatine the precise highest level of the game."

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