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da apostebet： Tottenham Hotspur have backed out of the bidding for Wilfried Zaha after Crystal Palace demanded a £100million fee for the winger, per the London Evening Standard.
What’s the word?
Zaha has asked to leave Palace in the summer transfer window and the Standard claim that the Ivory Coast international has been a long-term target of Spurs.
The club attempted to sign the forward last summer but ultimately pulled out of the race following the Eagles’ £70m valuation.
He eventually signed a new contract, which runs for another four years, and Palace have now increased their asking price to £100m.
Spurs, though, are not willing to spend such a fee on a player, despite chairman Daniel Levy’s desire to back manager Mauricio Pochettino in the summer transfer window.
The club’s record signing is Davinson Sanchez, who joined the club in a £42m deal from Ajax in 2017.
Zaha scored 10 goals and laid on 10 assists in the 2018-19 season and the Standard claim that he is likely to be the subject of bids from other clubs in this transfer window.
Wise move
Sometimes, you don’t get what you pay for, and one feels that might be true of whichever club manages to acquire Zaha’s signature.
He has earned a big move before, joining Manchester United as Sir Alex Ferguson’s last ever signing as a manager, but he sank without a trace at Old Trafford.
It remains to be seen whether or not he can make the step up this time around but it is too much of a gamble to sanction a transfer worth £100m.
Palace are perhaps right to demand that kind of figure; it is likely to scare off potential suitors, with Spurs one such example.
But it would be crazy for any club to spend such money on a player who has never been anything more than a big fish in a small pond.