£20m for a championship player... Welcome to the club.![]()
"Wilfried Zaha: Manchester United set to complete £15m deal"
Interesting adding of a random five million there.
£20m for a championship player... Welcome to the club.![]()
I am really surprised at all the excitement surrounding the recruitment of Zaha. How good is he? If we were to compare him to say Cantona, Keane, Scholes or Giggs which player do you think he is closest to?
I am asking because I haven't seen him play...except in that match against us laat year![]()
I know what he meant...
Earlier you said he's be the 3rd Arsenal player to play for us, so if he has been at Palace for ten years, how long was he at Arsenal (and at what age) Matth?
As a fan of a team in the Championship I have seen him play a few times and watched the footie league show a lot.
In short:
Zaha is ok, too good for the championship but I don't see him becoming a world-beater. Will probably reach around the levels of quality of Ashley Young, I'd guess.
But I'm no expert.
"Wilfried Zaha: Manchester United set to complete £15m deal"
Interesting adding of a random five million there.
liverpool logic - let's make a transfer fee up, Zaha cost us 15 million not 20 million.
£20m for a championship player... Welcome to the club.![]()

No different to the utd claim of Henderson £20m, when he was £15m-£16m.
Still, nice to see you go a step further. We like average English 'talent', of championship quality, at a high price. Whereas you just go straight for the Championship.
Nothing wrong with being a championship player if good enough
However no one could match the catastrophic purchases of Dogleish the buffoon. It is one thing buying players who are found to be overrated and useless (and we have had our share of those!) but another causing the club to have several years of mediocrity because it is now saddled with highly paid useless players who cannot be got rid of. Henderson, Allen, Carroll, Downing anyone?
There's a big deal going on twitter that Zaha was wearing an iImogen Thomas t-shirt to his medical, it didn't look like her to be honest.

Besides Matt can anyone say they are arsed about signing a winger from championship club Crystal Palace?
I'm not. Is he even coming to us this window or is he going back on loan basically making this a summer transfer?
I have a feeling Young is off in the summer to be replaced by Young MkII the Zaha edition. We dont need more english players as we have plenty but Young hasnt worked out and would fetch a decent fee from an English club needing to increase their homegrown quota.

Besides Matt can anyone say they are arsed about signing a winger from championship club Crystal Palace?
I'm not. Is he even coming to us this window or is he going back on loan basically making this a summer transfer?
I have a feeling Young is off in the summer to be replaced by Young MkII the Zaha edition. We dont need more english players as we have plenty but Young hasnt worked out and would fetch a decent fee from an English club needing to increase their homegrown quota.
More likely it's Nani who will be off - sorry if this causes you any heartache
I can't say Zaha excites me at all - although that doesn't mean I want him to fail (for the benefit of Matth).