I don't mean this offensively to anyone, but the gap between Everton and Crystal Palace is actually really small. I eman this season it's what, 4-5 points? The season before 7 or 8. Thats how its been for about 5 years as well (with the exception being the one where we Lukaku scored 25 goals from open play). At some point you start running out of excuses, bad luck, bad managers etc and start to have to accept this is not a wonderful group of players who happen to always under perform.
If you were Palace, or I was Palace, the first question I'd be asking is "if they're not good enough for Everton, why are they good enough for us"? Thats not to say that Everton won't make a mistake with players, but in general that would be what comes to my mind. We do have some players you'd probably do well with, Keane would be a good centre back under Hodgson, even Sigurdsson would probably work wellmin a Roy 4-4-2. But you get the drift.
On Zaha though, I think he'd be an awful signing for Everton. He strikes me as Sigurdsson all over, he has a team, who are set up entirely to try and benefit him, and you don't watch him and think- there's a lad who could get better if he played in a better team. He gets all the ball for Palace, and at times looks unplayable, without really delivering a great deal of end product. He feels at home there, he's from the area etc.
You also factor in he has a long term deal, and you're having to pay for the tax on top that the lad is a hero for Palace so will cost extra and it just looks all wrong to me.
In a strange way he remind me a bit of Duncan Ferguson (not in playing style here). Physically Ferguson wouild dominate teams, and would occasionally take apart a top class team. He would singularly drag a poor Everton team through games. He loves the club, and went the extra mile etc. However once he was sold to Newcastle he never really kicked on, and even in his time here he was never prolific in the way you'd sense his ability might suggest.
It feels a re-hashed link. I certainly hope so.
