Crystal Palace could be ready to sell Wilfried Zaha for a bargain price this summer amid transfer rumours linking him with Chelsea.
The Ivory Coast international has just one year left on his contract at Selhurst Park, and it’s easy to imagine that that will have big six clubs keeping a close eye on his situation as we head closer to the end of the summer transfer window.
Zaha has been a joy to watch in his time with Palace, and it’s surprising he’s still at the club in a way, as he’d surely start for many big six sides, or top teams elsewhere in Europe.
Writing in his exclusive column for CaughtOffside on Substack, Fabrizio Romano says that Roma have shown the most concrete interest in Zaha this summer, though they later focused on signing Paulo Dybala instead.
Romano is less sure about the links with Chelsea, but says that Zaha should be available for a bargain fee of around £25-30million.
“There’s been growing talk of Wilfried Zaha and Chelsea in the last 24 hours or so, so I thought I’d provide an update with my understanding of the situation,” Romano explained.
In my opinion, the signing of Zaha would be a great opportunity for all the top clubs, but the reality is that so far there are no advanced negotiations yet. The only club that has made a proposal to Crystal Palace so far is AS Roma but then they invested in Paulo Dybala so the deal went on stand-by.
I believe Zaha may be available around £25-30m – a great price for a big talent who is in the final year of his contract at Selhurst Park.
Palace shouldn’t sell. Better for Wilf to stay at Palace and help them (and himself) finish 10th or above this season and then try for bigger and better things in 23/24.
One year left on his contract, i don’t think Crystal Palace will think second time if any club pay for £25-30m.
If Chelsea want him and palace are prepared to let him go then for me the best scenario is a swap plus cash for Connor Gallagher makes perfect sense well to me anyway
No way Chelsea put our Gallagher in this deal if happen, loan also not considering.
First choice sure is Aubameyang, then only Zaha, Muriel or Zapata.
great player for the palace but really can not keep a player that wants out every season palace will survive without him but do agree with Don try and get Gallagher in the deal,,,
Connor will get a few minutes here & there at chelsea.. so a swap deal makes perfect sense for all parties !
Wilf needs to play for top four club’s now, but part exchange for Connor and cash aswell.
Sad for him to go, but it’s he time to leave as want to for two seasons now.
How much extra are you going to give Chelsea for Gallagher, and I know you all meant it the other way round. Saha is a quality player and I’d love to see him at Chelsea, but Gallagher is in hot demand, with a long contract. That deal’s not going to happen. But if it did, it’d be money to Chelsea. A young guy like him against Zaha in the last year of his contract would need another £20-30m. But Chelsea want to keep him anyhow!!!!!
If Zaha is being quoted at between 25 and 30 million
any club would be foolish not to buy him
He has a decent scoring record
He has amazing strength and skills, great footwork and crosses the ball very well
Newcastle United should look to buy him, they could cash in on St Maximin
In my honest opinion you would get more end product from Zaha.
Surely a bargain buy
Good luck Wilf wherever you go
It’s very unfortunate that Chelsea are buying players at exorbitant prices but we haven’t had a reasonable financial input for the departed players.Gallagher should stay he’s a very skilled player besides our mid is in total ruins without Kante and Kovacic. We can buy Zaha and have Batshuayi in exchange for the deal then do the same with Odoi for Maximin.