Arsenal’s incoming sporting director Edu would like the club to sign Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha this summer, according to reports.
The Eagles’ £80m asking price may, however, push them towards cheaper alternatives like Bournemouth’s Ryan Fraser and Ajax’s David Neres.
Fans on Twitter are split over whether the Gunners should go all in and sign Zaha this summer:
Not for £80million but he’s the perfect skilful and powerful winger we’ve been missing
— Its a geordie thing. (@connorwp) 16 May 2019
Only for 35 – 40 million ??
— Surin Hirani (@surin96) 16 May 2019
Rather spend the money on defence
— Adam (@ACS0108) 16 May 2019
Not at the price they asking for,40m would be a good deal or 20mil plus iwobi
— dean young (@deanoyoung81) 16 May 2019
Palace will demand a super high amount for him so nah. If we’re in Europa next season why not go in for Diego Lainez from Real Bet is? Young and super talented and hed be pretty cheap too. Just a thought
— Dan Chapman (@ElDanMan86) 16 May 2019
He is an upgrade to anything we have on the left wing.
— Sir. Aludah (@DjAludah) 16 May 2019
We are desperately lacking wide players, we could definitely use someone like Zaha
— OnlyArsenalFC (@OnlyArsenalFC1) 16 May 2019
Most definitely would, he still has growing potential and in a more offensive side I believe his turnover would be way better
— EPL Centric (@EplCentric) 16 May 2019
We desperately need a good winger, zaha will do just fine
— Nishant (@Nish_arsenal) 16 May 2019
It makes more sense to work on saka and willock rather than spending 80 mil on zaha
— sourav roy (@souravr34485789) 16 May 2019
There’s no doubt that the Ivorian international has improved immeasurably since his time at Manchester United, but Arsenal have a limited transfer budget.
Zaha would certainly be a perfect fit for what they are looking, a fast, skilful winger, but the only way they could afford him is if they offload other star names first.
In addition, considering the Gunners’ major flaw was defence rather than in attack, you have to think that any funds would be used to fix that glaring weakness first before looking at other areas of the pitch.
