Everton, Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea are the Premier League sides said to be chasing Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha.
If Everton like a challenge, they’ve just got one.
This is a huge summer for Toffees’ majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri on the back of two years of underwhelming recruitment and big-money flops. The pressure is on to successfully reinforce an Everton side which has gone backwards since Moshiri took over at Goodison Park in 2016.
And smashing their transfer record for Wilfried Zaha would be a brilliant way to start the summer. The Crystal Palace talisman has been one of the most feared attackers in the Premier League over the last two years, after all.
But, according to The Sun, Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea, three bonafide top flight giants with massive transfer budgets, are also chasing the 25-year-old. And this is without mentioning the fact that Zaha has four years left on his current contract and Crystal Palace, desperate as they are to keep him, will probably offer fresh terms and most likely make him the club’s best paid player.
Add to this the fact that Crystal Palace value Zaha at £60 million according to The Sun, £10 million more than the fee reported last month, and Everton would have to pay a substantial chunk more than the figure they invested in Gylfi Sigurdsson last year.
And if the Ivorian international is to leave his boyhood club for the second time, why would he join an Everton side who finished 26 points adrift of the Champions League places?
The Sun reports that Everton are set to hire Marco Silva and want Zaha, who scored nine Premier League goals last season, to be a key part of his plans. But it seems that they need the stars to align if Zaha is to begin next season wearing royal blue.
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