Wilfried Zaha is one player set to make the headlines this summer. After captivating us for years donning Crystal Palace’s colours, the 30-year-old is tipped to leave Selhurst Park as a free agent. Several top clubs are in the running for him to join their ranks; Arsenal is one of them.
Apparently, Arteta reportedly has him on his six-man summer transfer wishlist. The Spaniard is keen to have a powerful squad next season, and he sees Zaha as an ingredient for that. Looking at Roy Hodgson’s past comments about the winger wanting to play in the Champions League, Arsenal is the club he ought to join.
“I think when the market opens up again, Wilf Zaha will again be a name on many managers’ and sporting directors’ lips, and Wilf will retain his ambition of playing Champions League football and doing things we have not been able to give him while he has been playing here,” said Hodgson some time back, as quoted by the Daily Mail.
After 7 years in the cold, Arsenal is making a comeback in Champions League football; why wouldn’t Zaha want to be there with them when they do so next season? Other than that, I bet Zaha loves what he’s seeing going on at Arsenal – the resurgence.
As Trossard jumped at the chance of joining Arteta’s project, surely Zaha, who is a self-declared Arsenal fan since childhood would jump at the chance to join his favourite club before he retires.
In the end, Arteta will be the one to make the final call on whether Zaha joins or not. If you were in Arteta’s shoes, is a free transfer for Zaha a deal you would sanction?
Daniel O
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Daniel such provocation !
NO NO AND THRICE NO as a now extinct comic used to say.
I’ve said this before and no doubt I’ll have to say it again many times, Wilf Zaha, from what I can see, is entirely unsuitable for ARSENAL (as a bloke that is). Stick will come my way, I don’t care, because it has to be said our Wilf is one of the most annoying people who ever set foot on a football pitch. He’s wasted his talent over the years and in my view would be a bad influence on our team. Histrionics, moaning, falling over after setting the tone for confrontation with opposing defenders.
Crying, sighing, forever lying that he’s been chopped down. Let’s face it, wouldn’t you love to put some large tackles on him ? The guy could have been so good, but no, he preferred to be wayward. Could go into much more detail, but better not. I’ll get slated for this by people who actually love him.
Couldn’t agree more EvGunner. I wouldn’t touch Zaha with a 10 foot barge pole, as the old saying goes.
Hello Herr Drier, my post probably sounds a bit grim, and I’m now feeling rather guilty about it, BUT Wilf always does his best to be ANNOYING, so maybe I don’t feel guilty after all. Another extremely annoying bloke is the former Lilywhites Spud boy DillyDally better known as Dele Alli. However, I read the other day that he is on his way to becoming a billionaire ! So he must be doing something right. No wonder he can’t be bothered with his football gig anymore.
Ev Gunner You post is apt, even though I doubt you have local knowledge of how ZAHA BEHAVES OFF PITCH, as I and many other Croydon residents do.
I can guarantee such a person will not be of interest, as a human being, to our club and esp not to our manager. Correctly too!
Nobody else seems interested Daniel. I tried to kick up a stink but hasn’t worked has it. When you take the time to do a long article is it deflating when no-one responds ? Well at least I did, so be thankful for that. Gawd, it’s a game isn’t it.
Vlahovic chose Juventus, locateli same, Mudryk Chelsea, Zaha maybe temperamental ,so is Xhaka,
If Arteta wants Zaha, fine, I feel he’ll be an immense improvement as CF, imagine Martineli-Jesus-Zaha, we need muscle to survive the EPL,
We can have Zaha for 2years,
longbenark, he has a talent that he hasn’t used properly. When the spotlight is on him, he just plays up. It’s all about him and his ego. I’ve never met the guy and he may be the nicest person in the world. I take your point though, if he’s good enough for Arteta so be it. My advice, though, would be to stay clear. I’m not a psychologist, but maybe he has issues. Can’t take pressure. Have you seen how many penalties he’s missed? And to waste the opportunity at Man U was pretty hopeless. I heard some things. Standing when others had the humility to take the knee, again showing off. Stay clear Arteta, stay clear I tell you.
I have local ancd certain knowledge, as to fact, of how Zaha behaves when off the pitch.
I cannot imagine MA being remotely interested in such a person, as I am SURE HE WILL KNOW, EVEN IF SECOND HAND, WHAT I and other Croydon residents have known for ages!
Suffice to say that, TRUST ME, Zaha will NOT become an Arsenal player!!
Great news there Jon and relief. I’ve said enough about what I think of the bloke so will say no more. An amazing coincidence, though, is that from ’64 to when I left my parents family home in ’74 I too lived in Croydon, on the Upper Norwood/Thornton Heath border extremely near to where Pickles the dog found the stolen Jules Rimet trophy. How”s about that then? My younger sister who died 9 years ago continued to live in the area, Purley and then other parts of South Croydon until she passed away. I went to Beulah Juniors and then Ingram Secondary Boys’ Comprehensive. The latter was such a crap school that I think they eventually closed it down. It’s a small world isn’t? Certain coincidences with Marge too. Many of us have probably got things in common that we will never know about. Probably said far too much about my early personal life. Someone’s bound to recognise me if I don’t shut up now.
As “CF”? PRESUMABLY THEN YOU MEAN AS A CENTRAL STRIKER?
What evidence can you show us for that unusual opinion, as how he has ever played as a central striker, SUCCESSFULLY??
Zaha is a season campaigner and he could make the squad of any top four side presently.
Think he too has miss the bus and am not sure how much left in those legs.
Mr G – Wilf is a seasoned CAMP PAINER.
Poor humour I know, but couldn’t resist it.
Seasoned with what – salt, pepper, onions, jerk ?
Whooops I did it again. Chronic.
P.S. Jerk as in cookery , not you G.
Saha is a handful at times, create panic in the opposition box
It would be interesting to see how many penalties he won in comparison to other wingers.
Think he misses his chance to join Arsenal when Unai Emery tried to sign him.
Gunsmoke, “SAHA” already plays for Arsenal , unlike ZAHA, who plays for PALACE.
DIFFERENT PLAYERS AND SPELLED DIFFERENTLY TOO
I meant SAKA of course and not SAHA, who is yet another player, now retired, who used to play for Fulham and for MAN UTD.
Knew you meant our beloved Saka 🙂
You two, that’s an unwittingly funny series of posts. Comedy classic. The morphing of ZAHA, SAHA, SAKA. Mind you they may be the same man as they are never seen in the same place at the same time. Very confusing understandably. ha ha (or HAHA another player maybe?)
Daniel- it’s really cooking now.
They won’t get Zaha. They should. Just get him