Wilfried Zaha

[Special Juan 28,090]

#Chelsea are interested in Wilfried #Zaha. Talks ongoing with #CrystalPalace that asked €80M to sell him. Marina Granovskaia is working to lower the price and could offer Michy #Batshuayi as counterpart. #transfers #CFC

 

Nicolo Schira reporting this, get it done Chelsea.

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

12 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

#Chelsea are interested in Wilfried #Zaha. Talks ongoing with #CrystalPalace that asked €80M to sell him. Marina Granovskaia is working to lower the price and could offer Michy #Batshuayi as counterpart. #transfers #CFC

 

Nicolo Schira reporting this, get it done Chelsea.

First they said £80m but if it's in euros that's £67.8m which is much closer to his real worth. Plus Marina will do her magic and lower it even more and Michy... We can get a good deal 👍

#inmarinawetrust

[Special Juan 28,090]

Just now, NikkiCFC said:

First they said £80m but if it's in euros that's £67.8m which is much closer to his real worth. Plus Marina will do her magic and lower it even more and Michy... We can get a good deal 👍

#inmarinawetrust

One of our strikers would be an ideal make weight for this deal if she can get this done.

I'd have Zaha in a heartbeat, I think he would do fucking wonders here.

[Vesper 30,083]

2 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

First they said £80m but if it's in euros that's £67.8m which is much closer to his real worth. Plus Marina will do her magic and lower it even more and Michy... We can get a good deal 👍

#inmarinawetrust

I have never seen it quoted in euros. £80m has been the price for ages. Would make zero sense for an English player to be quoted in euros for another English team. Due to the fact he turns 28yo 3 months into next season, anything over £50m (I say £40m but I will toss on a £10m homegrown intraleague transfer tax to be grudgingly realistic) is a pure ripoff. If you transplant his stats onto another EPL winger his age then there is almost no way that winger's price of £80m would not be laughed out of the pub. £80m would make Zaha the second most expensive incoming EPL transfer ever, trailing only Pogba. It is madness considering his age and his historical outputs IMHO. He is not some singularly rare missing link type for a top 5 club looking for a fine-tuned final puzzle piece to aid in a treble attempt (like Willian was for Barca in summer 2018, due to his hardcore defensive trackback and wing play needed to balance off some frailties they had.)

£80m Zaha is a luxury buy for a team like us who are still 2 or 3 seasons away from entering peak zone. A little over 2 and half years from now Zaha will be 30yo.

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Vesper 30,083]

7 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

His agent trying to pull the old 'look at all the men looking at the fit bird you could have if you just would commit to spending some quid on her' trick.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

I very much doubt Bayern want him

Mirror reckon Zahavi has been hawking him to Spurs too, but no way in hell are they paying big money

Thought we'd sign him but if Palace refuse to budge full stop, think he may have to wait until summer

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

Dont think Bayern would be the greatest move for him either. He would be more able to compete with Gnabry, Coman, Muller than Callum when he was linked but it would still be interesting to see if his inconsistent end product would hinder him there like I feel it would here.

[Chelsea_firstlove 178]

He vs 10 men Arsenal. Shit player. Bayern my ass.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,799]

Cat napping through the CP game. How the hell were we ever linked to Zaha? There is nothing outstanding about this guy. How did they come to a valuation over £60M? What about him deserves that price?

[OhForAGreavsie 6,057]

On 29/02/2020 at 1:53 PM, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Cat napping through the CP game. How the hell were we ever linked to Zaha? There is nothing outstanding about this guy. How did they come to a valuation over £60M? What about him deserves that price?

There was a press conference during the winter window where Frank dismissed any links to Zaha. That was, and is, a relief. I'm on record as saying I trust Frank's instinct on players. If he had any interest in Zaha I'd have had to reassess that.

[Strike 7,474]

Ship has sailed. Everton at best now