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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":"

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