{"id":823,"date":"2016-08-26T16:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T16:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spursforlife.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:50:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T10:50:57","slug":"spurs-chase-united-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spursforlife.com\/spurs-chase-united-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs Chase United Flop"},"content":{"rendered":"
According to the BBC, Spurs are chasing Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha<\/a>.<\/p>\n A\u00a0\u00a315m bid has been made and Palace chairman Steve Parrish’s response was hardly definitive. He didn’t tell Levy to ‘do one’, simply said “No”\u00a0with a flirtatious flutter of the eyelashes.<\/p>\n Zaha told ‘Disco Al’ Pardew that he wants out, with Champions League football and England call-ups on his mind.<\/p>\n And it leaves me distinctly underwhelmed.<\/p>\n You might argue that he went to Old Trafford too early in his career but United took a \u00a310m bath on his \u00a315m when they sold him back to Palace. It’s not a ringing endorsement to lose two-thirds of your value in 18 months or that he played more games on loan at Cardiff City than he did for United.<\/p>\n There’s nothing scintillating about signing him, nothing that makes me think, “Wow!”; he isn’t a vast improvement on the existing squad. More a Bentaleb than a Yarmalenko.<\/p>\n With just a few days to go until the window closes, are we seeing signs of panic in the air around the Lane?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to the BBC, Spurs are chasing Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha. A\u00a0\u00a315m bid has been made and Palace chairman Steve Parrish’s response was hardly definitive. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,7,8],"tags":[163,182,181],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tottenham-hotspur","category-transfers","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-transfer-gossip","tag-wilfried-zaha"],"yoast_head":"\n