Stuart Pearce has lavished praise on Declan Rice with the West Ham coach once again comparing him to his former teammate, Roy Keane.
Pearce played with Keane during the Irishman's formative years at Nottingham Forest and has made a direct comparison between the former Manchester United captain and Rice when the pair were both in their early twenties.
It is not the first time Rice and Keane have been put in the same sentence, with Keane himself declaring Rice "way ahead of me when I was 22," at the start of the season.