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I'm tired of Wilf's petulance. His attutide is wrong and I think it's effecting his play. It seems that he turns up thinking he is great and that he should automatically be scoring goals but he isn't.

He needs to work hard and put his head down.

I do believe he can play better then he is playing now, but at the same time I don't think we should doom monger about what will happen when we inevitably sell him.

Lets hold our horses and see what happens, it's impossible to predict and if he really wants to go we're going to have to let him go anyway.

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I anticipate a spate of Zaha transfer stories up to the January transfer window.
In the last week he has been linked with Chelsea and Man Utd.
Apparently he has given notice to his agent but cannot appoint a new agent until the notice is served.
I’m sure there are potential agents promising him a move and planting stories to demonstrate their influence with a view to becoming his new agent.
Wilf has cut a frustrated and distracted figure this season.
When a player is no longer committed history tells us they eventually get their wish for a move.
The only question for me is whether it’s January or the summer.

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Fund rebuild!!!

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Whether we like it or not football is business. Wilf is an asset the club has. He is in his late 20's now and will probably not develop further than what he is now, certainly not at our club, but might around a better squad of players and coaching staff. His value from here onwards will only depreciate.

In the summer I certainly did not want him to go, last season we were completely reliant on him. but, this season Roy has molded us into a more cohesive (all-be-it more negative) unit. We are not as reliant on Wilf as we were. Will we be relegated because we sold him? (Many said we would be after selling AWB). Probably not. Will we reinvest any money made off of him into viable acquisitions? Probably not, not while the club is in a stagnent financial situation as we are.

If the offer is right we should, and probably will take it. It's smart business sense.

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Yes you're right our football recently does suggest we would not miss him half as much as last season, whether that is down to Zaha himself or the way we are playing is debatable though because he appears lost to me, the quicker he does go means our club can move on and we need to move on the sooner the better, we do not need players who are not happy ..it could bring everything crashing down.

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didn;t read that post A few pages back....but I couldn't disagree more.
at ManU he'd be competing directly against Rashford...who Plays the same position - Left side of a front 3. Martial is their middle man (but they realistically need a better one) meaning That they have Rashford, Martial and James who would all be competing for the Same spot Wilf Plays in.
That and there's a good chance that OGS isn't gonna be there next year, it'll be like Groundhog day Again for Wilf. Move to a club under 1 manager, then another comes in and may not like him. He can;t afford that anymore.

I think both Arsenal( and maybe Spurs) are Ideal for him. He's an Arsenal style player through and through. He Dribbles, links up pretty well, is exciting, gets Fouled a lot(and Fouls a lot) has little end product and prone to the odd sulk!

Edited by CrazyBadger (13 Nov 2019 11.15am)

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"