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Wilfried Zaha

Coombs

Doubtful. Who is the second wide man anyway?

Claudius

He's assuming it's Aubameyang with Nelson and Iwobi waiting in the wings

Ray

Everton for around 30m and Malcom on loan with option to buy next year for 35m. Or just Zaha.

Coombs

I don't think those are our options, though. It would probably be one of the 3, and I'm not that keen on Malcolm anyway.

To use a DKF-ism:

Zaha + Everton >>> Zaha >>> Everton + Malcom >>> Everton >>> Malcolm

flobaba

Okay, so now I’m not hearing news about this anymore.

Want.

Klaus

Coombs wrote:
To use a DKF-ism:

Zaha + Everton >>> Zaha >>> Everton + Malcom >>> Everton >>> Malcolm

Seems about right. Zaha is the only one of them who has ever played a consistently high level of football. I thought Malcom was exciting when he broke through in France but going to Barcelona at that stage of your career is just hilariously stupid. I'm not particularly keen on attempting to repair the damage they've done to him by putting a complete halt to his development.

Conversely, I was checking out a Crystal Palace forum the other day and a fairly large share of them were in agreement that they would have been relegation candidates last season without Zaha. They also acknowledged that they were playing in a way that benefits him massively though.

Ricky1985

Just look at the havoc he creates in the touch comp Flo posted above. Granted, it's against us and we're terrible, but he really is a one man wrecking crew for Palace.

I thought you said you like your attackers with a little more elegance, Flobababababa?

flobaba

Bro.

Zaha >>>>>>>>>>>>> Zero.

flobaba

This doesn’t mean I want him for 80freaking million quid though. If we can still get a good deal somehow after all this public wrangling then let’s go. If not, oh well. But yes we do need some power and pace and trickery on the wings and he clearly provides that even if somewhat crudely.

lorddulaarsenal

Emery talking about adding players who bring dimensions we don’t have. Dats Wilf!

Klaus

Or maybe he's thinking of signing a really, really fat defender who covers most of the goal without having to move.

lorddulaarsenal

Well Ricky did say he felt Musti has out a bit of weight on

Anzac

Reading reports that our last offer was either 45m up front with 10m add-ons, or 55m upfront with 10m add-ons, and both with Nelson on season loan.
45-55m upfront is nuts.

Claudius

These are big offers. The cost of players these days.

Captain

Can't wait until Emery tells him to stop dribbling and just pass it sideways to Kola.

lorddulaarsenal

Hope the club shop will sell clip on dreads

speedy

Captain wrote:
Can't wait until Emery tells him to stop dribbling and just pass it sideways to Kola.

I don't think he will, i think we'll use him to transition the ball forwards when the midfield fails which was most games this season. We we're absolutley shocking at getting the ball forwards. Most of the players we've been heavily linked to look like they'd help with that.

flobaba

Yeah Emery favors the direct route. Whenever Iwobi comes on it’s clear his instructions are to provide urgency and advance the ball towards goal as quickly as possible.

Burnwinter

flobaba wrote:
This doesn’t mean I want him for 80freaking million quid though.

This is what it comes down to. That price is bad business. £55m plus addons seems reasonable.

I don't really mind that we're engaged in protracted negotiations, the deal might get hijacked but overcooking our offers doesn't excite me.

Gazza M

whatever we buy him for will probably be a sunk cost given he's turning 27 soon. it represents us really hitching ourselves to the zaha wagon. the club must rate him very high

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