Including the Bournemouth game, hes been involved in 3 of our last 5 goals.

The season before last was his most successful one for us.

This season 3 goals and 4 assists may look bad, but that's still 25% of our goals this season. Then add all the times hes been fouled and we got a free kick and scored, played a pass to a player that's made an assist, or freed up space for someone else.

He's are most marked and fouled player yet pretty much all out goals come down the left had side.

We can't rely on him to produce magic each week in order to give a reprieve to Roy's dour negative tactics. Our record on replacing star players is awful, as is Hodgson's (£35m for Andy Carroll).

Zaha isn't the person we should be hounding out of the club.

Like last season just gone? He was poor. All those back passes as soon as he received the ball. Often only one man on him. Then the occasions when pva is free on an overlap, Wilf ignores him and loses the ball into his marker. Or the January period when he protected himself. Football has changed. Keeping problem people doesn’t work any more, especially at their value and the opportunity cost in having them still around.

Hrolf, he sulked like I said he would and you disagreed. Now you’re saying he won’t again. I wasn’t completely right because I said sell at £60-65 mil, but we only received the Arsenal bid of £45 mil spread over 750 transfer windows. We won’t ever hear of anything near £65mil now. What has made me laugh though are the people ssyiwe should’ve sold, but conveniently forgetting the only bid from Arsenal. Parish would’ve looked a right tw&t and been lynched by fans, and more than a few flying pies at half time.

The only benefit to hanging onto zaha is if we get bought out by mega spenders while he still puts in 5 or 6 out of 10 performances. That was your strategy last season and I don’t see much happening there. His worth financially and on the pitch continues to fall while we struggle to overhaul the squad. The whole football world see this.

What is your current price you’d accept and refuse for a player losing interest in putting in these limp performances? It was £100 mil last summer.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (12 Aug 2020 12.02pm)

I think this could be a bit of deja vu.

Poor decision making, poor end product, inconsistent...lets sell him to Everton for £40m if they come back in...Wilf can do a "Bolasie" and get found out and then shipped out.

To be fair to Bolasie, he got a major injury early on.

Was he? By his standards maybe.
All things are relative. You obviously are one of these people who don't realise what you had till it's gone.

I'm not getting into the annual sell Zaha squabble so let's just see what happens.

Was he? By his standards maybe.
All things are relative. You obviously are one of these people who don't realise what you had till it's gone.

I'm not getting into the annual sell Zaha squabble so let's just see what happens.

2016/17 season he was ranked as the 16th best player in the league with a 7.38 rating.

2017/18 season he was ranked as the 14th best player in the league with a 7.38 rating.

2018/19 season he was ranked as the 20th best player in the league with a 7.21 rating.

2019/20 season he was ranked as the 55th best player in the league with a 6.98 rating.

whoscored.com

If it's the Zaha from the three previous seasons, I'd fight tooth and nail to keep him. I didn't want him to go last summer.

If it's the 19/20 Zaha, and that's all he feels like doing from now on, I'm fairly happy using his wages and transfer fee to give a couple of other players a go. If the last 8 games are anything to go by, him playing at that form and no investment elsewhere sends us down so if the club feels confident that's all we'll get from him, it doesn't feel quite as risky.