Transfer Rumour Zaha with poll

How do you feel about Zaha joining?

  • Sign him ! He's exactly who we need to qualify for Champions League!

    Votes: 273 28.5%

  • On the fence with this one..

    Votes: 384 40.0%

  • Swerve he's an overrated turd

    Votes: 302 31.5%
  • Total voters
    959
  • Poll closed .
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Alan Whittle said:
Mate, flirt? We've fed bottles of Prosecco to, made inapropriate intimate suggestions to, shared a taxi with, spent the night with and snuck off early for a Maccy D's breakfast from relegation.
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I thought your positions were low but the last 2 years were 12th and 11th respectively so I've pretty just made that up in my head I thought Palace were relegation fodder every season tbh, Apologies good sir.
 
Alan Whittle said:
Mate, flirt? We've fed bottles of Prosecco to, made inapropriate intimate suggestions to, shared a taxi with, spent the night with and snuck off early for a Maccy D's breakfast from relegation.
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The one thing is, you've had experience of it and come out the other side. I've seen it with Everton in the 90's, and a bizarre arrogance developed that we were immune to relegation and would always come through (rather than just being a bit fortunate at certain moments). I look back on those times and quiver now and can't imagine how I held it together, but through it all I never really felt we would go down.

Those things matter in a ground and fan base. It stops absolute panic setting in. There are still some good players in the squad, but he could really do with getting Benteke right. Even if he's just a handful again.
 
catcherintherye said:
Yes it just seems a perfect storm really. From Hodgson not really knowing how to utilise centre forwards (and hasn't he sold Sorloth?) to seemingly the American backers becoming quite twitchy and not maybe fronting as much money, to Wan Bissaka going early in the window to the 25% sell on fee.

It sounds difficult to say but hard to see a good outcome for Palace in this now. I think you may get one or 2 in if Zaha goes tomorrow, but probably not as much as you may have got even a week ago. At the same time, if he stays I think it will be difficult to repair the relationship. Zaha seems a temperamental character and I'm not sure Hodgson would be able to easily handle him if he's frustrated.

In truth I don't think Everton have come out of it wonderfully either. We're going to end up paying close to the asking fee, when we've spent much of the last week bidding against ourselves. It's also the sort of signing we've been cautioned against. I think there's more than a little panic our end, at missing out on Malcolm & Neres.

£70+ million seems an enormous price. I've always rated him when I've seen him play, but for that sort of money you want someone to be contributing 20+ goals & assists in the league per season(as a minimum) so lots of pressure on Zaha.

I hope Hodgson can pull Palace together after this. In a strange way he's probably sa good man to have at the helm for you guys now. He's seen it all before and seems good in a bit of a crisis. I doubt he'll be too fazed (as a younger manager might be) and he's probably the stoic sort who can bludgingly work towards 45 points, which I'd suggest might be the height of the ambition at this stage for Palace.

After that there will be some serious questions. I worry a bit for Palace that they may by going down the Stoke/Charlton route, where there was a desire for improvement in league performance and style too quickly and they lost their way a bit. We will see, this one could go either way.
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Yep, true, all of that. It's not exactly a surprise. Wilf leaving Palace was more likely than Amanda Holden ditching Les Dennis. You think we might have planned for it. There will be some whispering in the ear about Chelsea, one more season, blah de blah.
We'll see. Palace. Another transfer window, another cack up.
 
matty1878 said:
What your take on all this mate? And what you think will be the outcome
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Wow good question buddy. It appears a bit of a rare moment where Brands has been led a bit, and has lost a bit of control. I think the initial plan was to exploit the situation with a lower offer and Palace stayed relatively firm. In truth, they'd probably wish they'd have taken what, £60-65 million yesterday and been able to have 2-3 days to spend it than selling tomorrow.

The transfer request is a big move, it means that much of the financial incentives due to Zaha go and perhaps more importantly burns lots more bridges between Zaha and the club. It's a lot harder to row back for him now, even if he wanted too.

I am not sure Everton will want to massively improve the offer of £70 million. They are strengthened with this request. You may see a similar offer re-submitted and Palace may blink. Maybe a different payment structure.

I'm not really in favour of the transfer mate. It's a high fee for a lad with not great numbers. The question will be, with better players can those numbers get better? Thats quite likely but also a risk, and one I'd rather not have at 70 million.

On whether it happens, flip a coin. It's chaos. Utter chaos. 70 million pound deals being decided in 24 hours. Very hard to predict how people operate on that basis.
 
Lelouch said:
I thought your positions were low but the last 2 years were 12th and 11th respectively so I've pretty just made that up in my head I thought Palace were relegation fodder every season tbh, Apologies good sir.
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No worries mate. We always think we've done worse than we actually have mainly because we're 15th - 18th between September and the end of March.
 
Alan Whittle said:
Yep, true, all of that. It's not exactly a surprise. Wilf leaving Palace was more likely than Amanda Holden ditching Les Dennis. You think we might have planned for it. There will be some whispering in the ear about Chelsea, one more season, blah de blah.
We'll see. Palace. Another transfer window, another cack up.
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I think (from the outside) thats the most surprising thing to me. Why not sign Batshuaiyi? Sign 2 or 3 lads. If anything use the Wan Bissau money to do so, then you expect Zaha to go. It reminds me a bit of when Rooney left Everton. There was no plan. We turned down £50 million from Chelsea earlier in the summer (leading to our CEO Trevor Birch leaving) to accept 30 million (trip paid) on deadline day.

If they wanted the Chelsea deal, I'm surprised they didn't try to set it up informally. Pay a loan fee for say Loftus Cheek and Batshuayi, have pre-agreed prices for them and Zaha which click into place next summer. On the face of it the values sort of match up.
 
Connor said:
22 minutes.
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What do you think C, any big juicy stories coming out

I'm on holiday currently and for the last 4 days I've been logged onto here.

Not gonna lie, I'm having a boss holiday and loving all these links so hope we have a cracking day tomorrow, one of those days that really gets us all thinking we can give it a proper good go this season, whether that be in the cups or pushing for 4th/5th
 
Alan Whittle said:
No worries mate. We always think we've done worse than we actually have mainly because we're 15th - 18th between September and the end of March.
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Strange that there is so little reinvestment from you guys? You have an amazing fanbase, jumping and singing for 90 mins, have just pocketed 50 mill on AWB, and are close to relegation almost every year. And now recruiting freebies and bargains? Is it old debt catching up, resignation/greed from the owners, or planning to move stadiums? Seems weird given the current financial climate with tv deals and all?
 
maccavennie said:
What do you think C, any big juicy stories coming out

I'm on holiday currently and for the last 4 days I've been logged onto here.

Not gonna lie, I'm having a boss holiday and loving all these links so hope we have a cracking day tomorrow, one of those days that really gets us all thinking we can give it a proper good go this season, whether that be in the cups or pushing for 4th/5th
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No idea Mac, just 17 minutes till potential UMBARGOES
 
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