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The Wilfried Zaha Thread
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 EddieMac  05 Mar 20 7.56am |
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Originally posted by Spiderman
His point was Wilfs replacement MAY have done better/same/worse than Wilf. No-one knows as it didn’t happen. Irrelevant if there is/is not a wide midfielder with better stats The whole discussion is hypothetical. No one knows what would have happened without Wilf and right no knows how we will do when he leaves.(Unless your mystic Meg). There are millions and millions of probabilities and it is all guessing. Edited by EddieMac (05 Mar 2020 7.57am)
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| mattteo 05 Mar 20 8.14am |
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Originally posted by EddieMac
The whole discussion is hypothetical. No one knows what would have happened without Wilf and right no knows how we will do when he leaves.(Unless your mystic Meg). There are millions and millions of probabilities and it is all guessing. Edited by EddieMac (05 Mar 2020 7.57am)
That's not really millions of probabilities.
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| Eaglecoops CR3 05 Mar 20 9.46am |
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Should have sold Wilf last year, used the money to buy a decent right back and St Maximin and still money left over to line the pockets of our generous US benefactors. If Wilf goes at all in the Summer I doubt there will be enough left over to buy like for like replacement by the time Manure and our owners have had their fill.
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| Midlands Eagle 05 Mar 20 10.03am |
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Originally posted by Eaglecoops
Should have sold Wilf last year, used the money to buy a decent right back and St Maximin and still money left over to line the pockets of our generous US benefactors. We sold our right back in the summer and didn't bother replacing him so what makes you think if we'd sold Zaha that we would have replaced him
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| Eaglecoops CR3 05 Mar 20 11.28am |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
We sold our right back in the summer and didn't bother replacing him so what makes you think if we'd sold Zaha that we would have replaced him True. Depressing but true.
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| EddieMac 05 Mar 20 12.09pm |
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Originally posted by mattteo
That's not really millions of probabilities. I don’t agree it will be very bad if we don’t get a new player as good as Zaha. He will be forgotten very quickly and that’s how it goes in football. I don’t remember a single person all season wishing we had AWB back. Life goes on and teams adapt. We may not sign a player as good aaa a Wilf or maybe we will. Wilf may not even leave. Like I say, it is all hypothetical and I wouldn’t worry yourself too much about it.
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| EddieMac 05 Mar 20 12.11pm |
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Originally posted by Eaglecoops
Should have sold Wilf last year, used the money to buy a decent right back and St Maximin and still money left over to line the pockets of our generous US benefactors. If Wilf goes at all in the Summer I doubt there will be enough left over to buy like for like replacement by the time Manure and our owners have had their fill. One made up article in the press about us being interested in signing Maximum and all of a sudden he is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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| Eaglecoops CR3 05 Mar 20 1.33pm |
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Originally posted by EddieMac
One made up article in the press about us being interested in signing Maximum and all of a sudden he is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I've watched a lot of matches he has played in this year. He turned around an FA cup win on his own and has looked dangerous whenever he has played, even though it is in a poor and boring team. I wouldn't say he is the greatest since sliced bread but I do see him as a suitable replacement for Wilf. It wasn't one made up article, there was a lot of press speculation about him wanting to come to the PL for a long time and he was seen as a possible natural replacement for Wilf. Because we didn't sell Wilf, any interest we had in him faded away and he went to Newcastle. If Wilf is going I would have him here in a heartbeat.
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eagleman13  On The Road To Hell & Alicante 05 Mar 20 2.16pm |
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Originally posted by EddieMac
One made up article in the press about us being interested in signing Maximum and all of a sudden he is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Was this the supposed falling out with Bruce, training ground row, that most players have every week & the BBC delighted in reporting?
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taylors lovechild  05 Mar 20 3.07pm |
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Originally posted by mattteo
Really??? Give me please some names of wide midfielders in the Premier League who have contributed to 8 goals this season or 20 goals the previous season. I know you weren't asking me, but according to Wiki, Sarr has 5 goals and 3 assists in the PL and he's only appeared in 18 matches, Dwight McNeil has 2 goals and 5 assists in 28 games, Cantwell has 6 goals and 2 assists in 28 games, while Wilf has 3 goals and 3 assists in 28 appearances. I didn't even include players who play in clubs who are above us such as Traore (4 goals/7 assists) and Harvey Barnes (4 goals 6 assists) or any of the wingers from the bigger clubs. For all the criticism levelled at Pepe at Arsenal he has still scored 4 and assisted 6 in 23 matches in an underperforming team. The Wilf of last season would be almost impossible for us to replace, the Wilf of this season maybe not so much. Wilf has been the most exciting player I've ever seen in a Palace shirt but for whatever reason, intentional or not, he has been playing within himself this season. More cynical fans may suggest it is either to protect himself from injury or to help force a move, but personally I think he has struggled mentally to come back from his disappointment at not getting a move. It would be awful for him and us if he stayed and he got worse.
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Ian-VI  Vicenza 05 Mar 20 3.13pm |
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Originally posted by mattteo
Really??? Give me please some names of wide midfielders in the Premier League who have contributed to 8 goals this season or 20 goals the previous season. I'm not telling you who's better, who's worse or whatever, what I'm telling you is that saying we scored 30, one player scored 15, so without him we'd have scored 15 is simply wrong and makes no sense. Either you played all season with 10 players, or someone else would have played in his place.
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| EddieMac 05 Mar 20 5.26pm |
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Originally posted by Ian-VI
I'm not telling you who's better, who's worse or whatever, what I'm telling you is that saying we scored 30, one player scored 15, so without him we'd have scored 15 is simply wrong and makes no sense. Either you played all season with 10 players, or someone else would have played in his place. Exactly
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