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If Arsenal are willing to stump up the valuation then let's talk about it. Until then this is a non story in my opinion.

An initial bid of £40m????.. Do me a favour. Problem Arsenal have is they don't have the money. They aren't getting Champions league football and they are also in danger of dropping out of the 'top 4' cluster of clubs... Well they have already dropped out of it if you ask me.

If Wilf wants to get the hump then that's tough. He needs to remember he has a price and £40m certainly isn't it.

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Problem is, if your expectation of a replacement is another player of Zaha's standard...it doesn't exist.

If Zaha is good enough to play for a top 6 side and go for £80m, then we need to sign a £80m player who is good enough to play for the top 6. Why would that player go to Palace? I'd imagine we'd be competing with Chelsea and United for starters. I don't think we'd even get anywhere near a Ryan Fraser type.

Realistically we'd have to be looking at a Reiss Nelson type, a player who has the potential but isn't there yet. On him, sure, he wants to stay at Arsenal. Will he want to when (and in this scenario they have) sign Zaha and he's now one more player down the list which also includes Aubameyang, Lacazette, Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi....? It's a question we'd need to ask.

Otherwise, you take a player in their prime who isn't as good, but upgrade a couple of other positions while you're at it. That means you're probably looking at a Perez, Redmond, Antonio, Iwobi... with maybe a Batshuayi and take a punt on the next Maddison.

Ideally, yeah Zaha does stay. But if he we get the bid and he's otherwise going to kick the toys out the pram and play like crap, unfortunately we've put a lot of eggs in his basket the last few years and as you say, we can't afford for him to not perform. In that case, we have to get that impact elsewhere.

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Precisely. What a w@nker.

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We all knew the day was coming and as much as we have done for Wilf he has repaid it in many ways.
The important thing is to get the right money asap.
I am hoping that SP will tell Arsenal and any other Club that might be interested that there is a deadline and unless the deal is done by then forget it until another window.
We as a Club don't need this to drag on - it will unsettle everyone and we need the money to buy and integrate new players ready for the start of the season otherwise there is no point in letting him go yet.
If he has to stay another 6 months he will still work his socks off for us and frankly whether he wants to go or not he must wonder what The Arse are up to valuing him at £10m less than AWB - I would be insulted if I were Wilf!

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Let us remember when we sell Wilfried Zaha 25% will go to Manchester United so a sales price of £80m will be net £60m to Palace (less any agents cut). Lets hope the Gunners have the money and are not firing blanks.

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Sadly I can only see this ending one way now.

It's all very well saying the player should stay and honour his contract but the reality is that it becomes unsettling for the rest of the squad knowing that Zaha is there against his will.

We can't and shouldn't offer him another pay rise to stay and in any case it's apparently not all about the money.

And the special relationship that I thought and hoped was there between Wilf and the fans, for me anyway, is tarnished and won't ever be the same.

So let's just try to screw every last pound out of Arsenal, who as I suspected, have a little more than £45m as their summer budget.

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