It’s irrelevant where we have come from and whether if it grinds your gears or not, people are simply talking about the merits (or not) of one of our players.
There was NOTHING to enjoy about watching him last season or in the most recent two games. He was very poor last year and awful to watch too. Slowing the game down, side wards or backward passes with none of the flair he has built his reputation on. Exactly the same in our most recent game which, penalty aside, was probably the worst and least effective 90 minutes he’s ever played for us.
He is a sulker and a moaner and teams know how easy he is to wind up. As has also been mentioned the transfer Window circus over recent seasons has been pathetic and embarrassing. Perhaps an accurate reflection of how he is these days as a person.
Far too inconsistent, lacking in end product and has lost his electrifying pace. He’d be a bench warmer at best for any serious Champions League side.

He used to be VERY good...but isn’t any more.

Edited by Phil’s Barber (24 Oct 2020 11.08am)

I know, I know. There have been a hundred Wilfried Zaha threads. I won't pretend this one is hugely different.

Except what I think is pertinent right now is that Wilf's career is truly at its final crossroads, as evidenced in our last two games. This summer, it would seem he was humiliated by desperately pushing to leave, only to discover that nobody appeared to want him.

Then, Roy Hodgson was essentially questioning his contribution to the Brighton game.

I lost a lot of love for Wilf over the summer with the idiotic, tiresome circus of his people -- and Zaha himself (by which I mean his ill-advised Dubai thing) -- seemingly throwing himself like a drunk old man at a disco onto any would-be lover.

Then the Man U game came and he was sensational: electric movement, leadership, skill, pace and power. In short, a one-off world-class display. It appeared to reflect the ethic of a player who had worked hard all close-season to ensure he could showcase his talents.

Nobody will ever know what Wilf did or didn't do against Chelsea and Brighton: how much was him and how much was Roy's system, but what's clear is that he was essentially absent from those games. Then to have been criticized by Roy will have stung.

So now here we are.

Is he going to deliver, or is he not? If Wilf fails to deliver significantly before the January transfer window (and I mean from right now), then I think he will finish his career at Selhurst Park, wondering what might he have been. Knowing he could have done so much more with his talents than he actually did. Champions League games, championships...so much more.

So Wilf is at a crossroads. I for one hope that he moves in January because it would mean the penny has dropped that only his absolute, level best, week-in, week-out offers him a sliver of hope for the move he craves. Then we sell him for a viable fee, from a position of upper-mid-table security, that helps us to rebuild. And he gets his golden chance and the story ends well.

If not, then what does he really offer to the sort of team that he thinks he's worthy of playing for? An inconsistent, 28-year-old sulker.

I really don't think he will be able to sulk his way out of Selhurst park (to the kind of club he wants to go to): he's too well remunerated for that.

His only hope is to start playing like the talent we all know he is... starting at Craven Cottage tomorrow.

It is a binary moment in his life. I for one hope he sees it.