RUSSELL BRAND has begged Declan Rice to stay at West Ham and become a legend like Sir Trevor Brooking.
Rice, 23, has been in sensational form once again this season, leading to admiring glances from elsewhere.
Chelsea are interested in bringing the midfielder back to Stamford Bridge after releasing him aged 15, while Manchester United have also been linked.
Comedian Brand, however, has urged Rice to stay where he is most beloved.
He told talkSPORT: “Don’t go Declan, stay! Be the Trevor Brooking of our time.
“Don’t go the route of of everyone. Stay with the heart, become a hero.
“We love you Declan. I know Chelsea was your first love and it’s obvious they’re going to come calling.
“But we love you more. You can be everything to us.
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“You’ve learned at the tutelage of Mark Noble, be his apprentice, be everything.
“Be (Alan) Devonshire, (Frank) McAvennie, Paolo Di Canio, be all of them rolled into one! Stay Declan, we love you!”
Rice recently opened up on his ambition to win the every trophy possible.
He told Gary Neville on The Overlap: “The main one for me is that I don’t want to have a career where I’ve not won anything.
“I’ve grown up seeing all these top players win all the big trophies, like yourself, winning the Premier League so many times and the Champions League.
“Me as a football fan, and also as a player, I want to win the best stuff. I want to win the Premier League, I want to lift that trophy.
“I want to win the Champions League, the FA Cups, the League Cups, even stuff with England, I want to win it all.”
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