Zaha is a fan of social media and all he has to do is to deny some or all of the rumours surrounding him but the fact that he hasn't speaks volumes

This!...plus don't recall him saying he wants to leave Palace only that he'd like to play CL.

Time to end this thread..just my opinion of course

I believe some people have chatted so much nonsense about Zaha this thread and I don’t agree at all with some of what you’re saying Rudi. Why is it at all stupid for him to wear a Man U kit of his friend and team mates after he had a horrific injury?

As for Zaha’s ‘petulance’ he is a highly emotional player, it’s one of the things that makes him so exciting to watch. Andros’ goal against Bournemouth is case and point of what happens when he is fired up and why he plays with his heart on his sleeve. He is fouled more than any other player in the league and isn’t protected by referees. If I were him I’d be as pissed off.

As for the other stuff about his behaviour this summer. He has done absolutely nothing wrong so far. He wants to leave, personally I think that’s absolutely fair enough in my opinion and I think he deserves a crack at a top club. Sadly for him a big enough bid didn’t come in. Still he never went in strike, he didn’t hand in a transfer request, and he personally hasn’t spoken to the media at all. Even directly asked during the AFCON he still showed respect for the club and didn’t comment on the rumours. A couple of family members made comments about his desires, desires that are fully justified in my opinion, but that’s about as far as it went.

In my opinion the only people showing a lack of respect are the fans here calling our greatest player spoilt and unprofessional based on here-say and made up nonsense along with misrepresentations of what he does on social media. I think he deserves better.

Because rival clubs may be considering buying him within the next year, and if you know football, these things come up and football fans use it against the player or rival fans. If he went to a club and had a bad run, some of the fans would bring up photos of him as a boy in a Man Utd shirt and playing football in his back garden in a Man Utd shirt. They wouldn’t care about why. It would also happen from take your pick of fans if he signs for a rival of Man Utd, which will be any of the clubs he dreams of playing for. I’ve said all of this anyway. Why do you think footballers don’t have a club, or don’t talk about it or drop it until after retirement? Jesus. Basic.

Rolling around on the floor or gesturing at refs won’t change their mind there and then. It actually makes the same more likely to happen. But what does he do? Does it over and over again. Not all clubs are like Watford so he isn’t getting hacked or maimed. He needs to come to terms with this because it damages his chances of going to a big club. They demand more professionalism. I can’t and won’t keep explaining this.

Those family members making comments in the media are actually in his team of representatives. Zaha then responded on instagram with something like, ‘Some people don’t know what they’re talking about’ and I think ‘should keep their noses out.’ If you or anybody doesn’t think that’s unprofessional then there’s not much worth saying. And what was the aim of the media comments? To pressure CPFC and Parish to sell him to Arsenal because ‘he deserves to go and we owe it to him and shouldn’t stand in his way’ after they’ve bid 50% or 40% below his market value. What happens after that? The same muppets pile up some more.

Because Zaha stays tight lipped in front of camera because he doesn’t have the media skill to say anything else or want to be recorded slipping up, it doesn’t mean that all the other stuff hasn’t happened. I was actually expecting the sulking to Parish to start once clubs got nearer to bidding £70 million. Nobody went that high and we wonder why. Instead we got the most unprofessional bollox in the press, putting pressure on the club with thousands of tv and social media Arsenal wipes using it to their advantage, and what happens? His same bellend ‘bro’ Klingons are still about to carry on.

It all just reaffirms my belief that most footballers I only pay attention to in football kit.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (05 Aug 2019 9.29am)

You're right, he didnt. But his brother, who he is very close with did however publicly plead with Palace to sell him to Arsenal