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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ToffeeTim said:
It's not hard to work out why palace are desperate for him to stay.

He's just signed a contract last year too which was a completely daft move if he wants to progress his career.

I don't see how a deal can be done here. And the player himself can't really complain because he didn't need to extend his last deal. Sounds like he got some poor advice.
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Or it was the massive wages mate.
 
Alan Whittle said:
The price is £80m. So £65m upfront is not the full amount.
Zaha is central to keeping us out of the bottom 3. We have no deals lined up that require us to sell Zaha. What would we do with the dough with 3 days to go?
Armed insurgents are massing at Thornton Heath to ensure this doesn't happen.
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Mate mirallas and Bolasie will keep you up.
 
LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Totally agree mate, they should let him join us so he gets too play regular Champions league footy, and win a load of trophies.
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We should have let Baines go to United when Moyes said the same about us, after he stayed he declined pretty fast and was ravaged with injuries.

Palace are an injury to Zaha away from relegation, a team that size can’t have all their eggs in one basket.
 

Can see him handing in a transfer request on deadline day. Then he will be gone between 60 and 70 million. Possibly even one of Mccarthy or Niasse going to them as a sweetener.
 
Overheard brands on the phone with palace:

Brands: ‘we want zaha’

Palace: ‘£80m or no deal’

Brands: ‘It doesn’t work like that; il give you mcarthy, cenk and niasse and you pay us £10m’

Palace: ‘yes sir’
 

jimmythenut said:
Can see him handing in a transfer request on deadline day. Then he will be gone between 60 and 70 million. Possibly even one of Mccarthy or Niasse going to them as a sweetener.
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He’ll lose his percentage of the fee if he does. Be interesting to see how keen he is to get away.
 
Bluewolf said:
What??? Fullham could of been 3-0 up in the first half. They missed some absolute sitters and that sessegnon hit the woodwork from a sitter as well.

They were wide open all game I thought and played some good football at goodison. That was their problem they were conceding to many goals and weren't scoring enough.
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Sorry I meant at their place....
 
Alan Whittle said:
How's that? He's been told and any interested club has been told he can go for £80m. Everton, Arsenal and anyone else are stalling "the boys" career by not stumping up the asking price.
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Yes it's a difficult situation but I'm not sure the easy statements of Palace being in the wrong are helpful. The lad signed a long term deal with Palace, who are now in a very strong negotiating position as a result and are exerting it accordingly. He was happy enough to sign for the extra money, so unless some sort of gentleman agreement accompanied it (or a formal clause) Palace are well within their rights.

The difficulty is that his value to Palace and his value to other teams is greatly different. I don't think I'm being disrespectful to suggest he was probably the key difference between survival and relegation over the past couple of seasons. Maybe he will be again next season? So his value is enormous, before you even get into the sentimentality of him being a captain and local lad etc.

That is weighed again his value to others being different. For Everton, he would likely be our best player, or very close, but probably at a similar level to Sigurdsson, Digne, Richarlinson etc. While there has been a lot of talk of bids coming in, nothing has come from Dortmund, Arsenal bid around the mid 40's before moving on and paying 70+ on another player. Everton's bid of around the mid 50's at present is the best deal. I'd go as far as to say we are almost bidding against ourselves.

All of the above is exacerbated by what seems an unusually large sell on clause in the deal. I do feel for Palace though, I've seen somewhere the American owners are getting a bit twitchy. A deal of say 60 million, cut off the sell on fee leaves you with around £48 million and 3 days to spend it. You could sign say Tosun and McCarthy which would be the best part of £25 million and 1 other. I can see why for Palace, when you are talking the difference between relegation or a mid table finish the option of keeping Zaha seems preferential.

A lot will come down to the lad and how the club know him. How will he perform if he is kept there if there was some agreement he could go? Thats the big question really. We had similar with Lookman last season, he had a negligible impact and was sold at lower than we could have got last summer. It's wrong to say he will completely throw toys out of the pram, but will he go the extra mile as he used too? If he doesn't what might his impact be in the dressing room, if things get difficult? These are all factors that only Palace can answer.

I don't really envy Palace at all in this situation. Seems like lots of things are going on. My gut is you might buckle next week, as I sense Hogdson may struggle to manage Zaha if he is unhappy at his treatment.
 
catcherintherye said:
Yes it's a difficult situation but I'm not sure the easy statements of Palace being in the wrong are helpful. The lad signed a long term deal with Palace, who are now in a very strong negotiating position as a result and are exerting it accordingly. He was happy enough to sign for the extra money, so unless some sort of gentleman agreement accompanied it (or a formal clause) Palace are well within their rights.

The difficulty is that his value to Palace and his value to other teams is greatly different. I don't think I'm being disrespectful to suggest he was probably the key difference between survival and relegation over the past couple of seasons. Maybe he will be again next season? So his value is enormous, before you even get into the sentimentality of him being a captain and local lad etc.

That is weighed again his value to others being different. For Everton, he would likely be our best player, or very close, but probably at a similar level to Sigurdsson, Digne, Richarlinson etc. While there has been a lot of talk of bids coming in, nothing has come from Dortmund, Arsenal bid around the mid 40's before moving on and paying 70+ on another player. Everton's bid of around the mid 50's at present is the best deal. I'd go as far as to say we are almost bidding against ourselves.

All of the above is exacerbated by what seems an unusually large sell on clause in the deal. I do feel for Palace though, I've seen somewhere the American owners are getting a bit twitchy. A deal of say 60 million, cut off the sell on fee leaves you with around £48 million and 3 days to spend it. You could sign say Tosun and McCarthy which would be the best part of £25 million and 1 other. I can see why for Palace, when you are talking the difference between relegation or a mid table finish the option of keeping Zaha seems preferential.

A lot will come down to the lad and how the club know him. How will he perform if he is kept there if there was some agreement he could go? Thats the big question really. We had similar with Lookman last season, he had a negligible impact and was sold at lower than we could have got last summer. It's wrong to say he will completely throw toys out of the pram, but will he go the extra mile as he used too? If he doesn't what might his impact be in the dressing room, if things get difficult? These are all factors that only Palace can answer.

I don't really envy Palace at all in this situation. Seems like lots of things are going on. My gut is you might buckle next week, as I sense Hogdson may struggle to manage Zaha if he is unhappy at his treatment.
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Great post that.
I think that Wilf has been told quietly that he can go either in January, if our start is adequate, or at the end of the season. It is also somewhere between possible and likely that some communication has taken place with Chelsea about a future deal. With respect, they have a couple of players that have been on loan at Palace previously who would be welcomed back with open arms by the Palace management and fans. ( Bats and RLC).
The Americans, who are significant, but minority share holders are looking to bale out and our ground renovations ( new main stand) are mysteriously on hold. We desperately need to continue to receive the EPL shilling or we may implode. That is why we need to hang on to Wilf a bit longer.
 

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