Not true. If his name wasn’t Wilfred Zaha he would have been watching most of our games this season, rather than playing.

I am a bit bemused by Roy’s comments “ That we cant make Zaha like Palace” On Sky sports. My answer to that is “Yes you can “ it’s all about style of play, ambition in moving forward signing players and building a team around its playing strengths. If a, or player/s love playing with a team It gels you get the best out of the them.
Roy has done a fantastic job in keeping this club head above the water over the last few seasons now we need to invest big time in younger players Possibly a new manager with more modern training methods we seem to be doing this off the pitch with the new training ground but we need invest on the pitch to show more ambition as a club.

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My thoughts as well. Also as Casual said earlier, if his name wasn't Wilf Zaha he may well have spent most of the season on the bench watching the games.

And replace him with who?

Zaha hasn't wanted to be here all season. The ship has sailed and the team are fed up with the moping. If you watch any of the matches the team have had enough and it is clear through the fact they pass him the ball and say do something then without really supporting him (as he is arrogant about his ability).

He is an exciting player but his attitude and temperament have been poor this season (I get the fact that getting tackled so often must be infuriating but if there are 3 players around you that means there are two players free somewhere just find the pass and move).

The way he has acted has harmed the team spirit which is what made us tough to play against and defeat.

The difference between a world class player and a good player is vision. I am also very much of the belief that if he wasn't Zaha he would have been benched by Roy.

Wilf can beat four men then will fluff the cross or misplace a pass hence why larger European clubs really haven't materialised any interest with a firm offer.

It is sadly time for him to go, he will always be one of our own and a legend at the club (personally my favourite palace player I have ever had the pleasure to see). There is no point having someone at your club that doesn't want to be there and it is visible through their performances. I remember when Punch went off the boil and was dropped for three or four games and came back on fire, we have never done this to Wilf which has led to him losing his hunger, what makes this worse is the facet that he is probably the first name on the team sheet every week.

I just hope he is ready to be benched for substandard performances and for increased scrutiny elsewhere owing to a sizable transfer fee.

If he does go good luck Wilf and thank you for everything.

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Seems to be the first summer where there's clear intentions from both sides to sell. Only problem is finding a buyer (who's willing to match our value- I imagine we've lowered that considerably since last season) after what was a pretty poor season for Wilf.

As I've said before the best scenario imo is to find a club open to exchanges. Then we'll instantly fill needs and not be sitting on what I'd assume to be a well published transfer fee that other clubs would then hold us to ransom over knowing that we got 30m,40m,50m etc for Wilf.

If Chelsea became interested I'd enquire a swap for Bats + C.Gallagher etc.

We'll see what happens...I just hope it's sorted early but as always I expect it to drag on the whole window.

Agree with a lot of that. Where it gets interesting is timing . Even in a normal window Palace have been useless in getting things done early. Even less time than usual This time round, can we really hold out to much hope for the kind of business most of us including Roy, knows to be needed actually gets done?

Has he put in a new transfer request or does the old one still stand?

The worry for me is if, as seems likely, Zaha is still with us next season, what sort of attitude will he have and will the manager, be it Hodgson or someone else, be brave enough to drop him.

The assumption that money received from Wilf's sale will fund new player(s) is rather dodgy isn't it?

I have now sufficient funds to last me the rest of my life. Provided I don't buy anything.