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Spurs end interest in signing Wilfried Zaha

mawspurs

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Tottenham have ended their interest in signing Wilfried Zaha after being scared off by Crystal Palace’s asking price for a second year in a row.

Source: Evening Standard
 

Shadydan

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Zaha shouldn't have signed a new contract if he wants to get away from Palace, they're gonna struggle to get anywhere near that for him.
 

S17PUR

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Anything north of £50m for us probably isn't worth it, and anything south of £70m definitely isn't worth it for Palace. Suspect he may need to go on strike to force a move through if he's insistent on leaving this summer.
 

King of Otters

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Jun 11, 2012
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I like Zaha, but £100m? He’ll be stuck there until his contract expires if they stick to that figure.
 

DJS

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I like Zaha and reckon he'd have been a really good addition to squad but why on earth did he sign the new contract??

Really really poor decision if he wants Champions League football that badly as highly unlikely he is going to achieve that that with Palace at the moment, no disrespect to them.
 

Japhet

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Zaha shouldn't have signed a new contract if he wants to get away from Palace, they're gonna struggle to get anywhere near that for him.

Serves him right for being greedy. Can't have your cake (100k+ per week) and eat it (move on when you feel like it).
 

lilly white

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I have a bit of info from someone very close to wilf that he wants to join spurs but very unlikely to happen due to being too far apart in their demands. Arsenal have a deal on the table for him that just needs signing but he's holding out. No chance of a return to man utd, if City came in for him he knows he'll be a bench warmer so not keen as wants to be heavily involved wherever he ends up. At this point arsenal looking the most likely to meet all the criteria....
 

TheChosenOne

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I have a bit of info from someone very close to wilf that he wants to join spurs but very unlikely to happen due to being too far apart in their demands. Arsenal have a deal on the table for him that just needs signing but he's holding out. No chance of a return to man utd, if City came in for him he knows he'll be a bench warmer so not keen as wants to be heavily involved wherever he ends up. At this point arsenal looking the most likely to meet all the criteria....

CL qual might help their options.
 

John48

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At 100m too much, but as the TW deadline comes in sight & if Zaha really does want to leave & makes it clear he does maybe the asking price will come down.
 

wrd

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Zaha shouldn't have signed a new contract if he wants to get away from Palace, they're gonna struggle to get anywhere near that for him.

Usually players sign contracts as a goodwill gesture and have a gentlemans agreement in these sort of situations, I'm questioning the advice Zaha has got from his agent if this isn't the case tbh.
 

shelfmonkey

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I have a bit of info from someone very close to wilf that he wants to join spurs but very unlikely to happen due to being too far apart in their demands. Arsenal have a deal on the table for him that just needs signing but he's holding out. No chance of a return to man utd, if City came in for him he knows he'll be a bench warmer so not keen as wants to be heavily involved wherever he ends up. At this point arsenal looking the most likely to meet all the criteria....

Can't see the scum splashing out £100m!!
 

Tucker

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He’s good, but he’s nowhere near as good as what he will cost. So I’m fine with this.
 

Shadydan

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Usually players sign contracts as a goodwill gesture and have a gentlemans agreement in these sort of situations, I'm questioning the advice Zaha has got from his agent if this isn't the case tbh.

His agent should have agreed on a clause in his contract if his intention was to get away from them in the near future.
 

Thewobbler

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Zaha shouldn't have signed a new contract if he wants to get away from Palace, they're gonna struggle to get anywhere near that for him.

Players like that should have release clauses installed in their contracts. Any one would have signed for 130k a week but he should have been smarter and demanded a 60m release clause.
 

Shadydan

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And he might have agreed terms with Arsenal but there's no way Arsenal are gonna be spending anywhere near that much on Zaha.
 

wrd

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I half reckon we've put out that we have no interest so they have to lower the price but I get the feeling we won't be in for him.
 
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