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Gary Neville claims Arsenal star Declan Rice is \u201cdone\u201d after his insistence to the contrary after defeat to Manchester City on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Gunners midfielder was picked up by Sky Sports cameras telling captain Martin Odegaard \u201cit\u2019s not done\u201d while sitting on the Etihad pitch after Erling Haaland\u2019s winner secured three points for City in the crunch title clash<\/strong>.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Ten outsiders who will help define the Premier League title race between Arsenal and Manchester City<\/strong><\/p>\n City boss Pep Guardiola was impressed by Rice\u2019s comment and the \u201cresilience\u201d it proved Arsenal have.<\/p>\n He told <\/i>: \u201cI saw it (on Monday) and it shows what Declan Rice means. That\u2019s the Arsenal mentality, we\u2019ve faced it in the Premier League these (past) seasons and in the Carabao Cup, how competitive they are.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOtherwise they can\u2019t have done the season they have done in the Premier League being there and being unbeaten in the Champions League, as you have Mikel (Arteta) but also these type of players that follow the message.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd in the bad moments, they have the resilience (to say) we are there, we are there. That is a good example for us what we\u2019re going to face in the six games, five games (for them) in the title race.\u201d<\/p>\n Roy Keane<\/strong> and Gary Neville weren\u2019t as convinced, with the former stating on The Overlap:\u00a0\u201cPep said he loved the Declan Rice clip saying \u2018it\u2019s not done\u2019, do you think Declan was in control when he was saying that or was it just emotion and hope?\u201d<\/p>\n Arsenal hero Ian Wright responded: \u201cWhatever he was feeling at the time, if I\u2019m the opposition watching that, I\u2019d be thinking \u2018they\u2019re not done and he\u2019s their main guy’\u201d.<\/p>\n Keane interrupted: \u201cNo, no, wow.\u201d<\/p>\n Neville, in agreement with his former Manchester United colleague added: \u201cNo, if I was watching Declan Rice nearly in tears, and saying it\u2019s not done, I\u2019d be thinking you\u2019re done. \u2018It\u2019s not done, It\u2019s not done.\u2019 I look at him and think he\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n Wright clarified: \u201cThis is what I\u2019m trying explain, if Pep shows them that, the Man City players will be saying \u2018we\u2019ve got them\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Neville then remarked: \u201cIt\u2019s a good response, I\u2019m just saying I didn\u2019t feel confident \u2013 I\u2019m a big fan of his and I said potentially last week that he would grip that game.\u201d<\/p>\n Keane brutally interjected: \u201cAnd did he? Did he?\u201d<\/p>\n Neville responded: \u201cNo I thought Bernardo Silva and Rodri got a grip of that game.\u201d<\/p>\n Keane finished:: \u201cExactly, exactly. You have to win that middle of the park battle.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE: Roy Keane says \u2018tidy\u2019 Arsenal midfielder not \u2018enough\u2019 as Andrea Berta finds two replacements<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n