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Arsene Wenger has rubbed Ian Holloway, manager of Crystal Palace and Gollum lookalike, up the wrong way by admitting his interest in making Wilfried Zaha an Arsenal player. Asked years ago on Soccer Saturday who would play him in a film, the eccentric Holloway suggested the Lord of the Rings character, and he is continuing the analogy with his obsession about his precious, the £20 million rated winger.

“Why is he talking about my players? I don’t think that’s right and proper, with the greatest respect.

“I don’t think anybody who manages any other club should actually admit who he likes and what he should be doing. .......Read the full article here

Reports today suggest that Roberto Mancini will start the bidding in January with a £15 million offer for The Arsenal transfer target, Wilfried Zaha. If this is true, then we will have to wait and see whether Arsene Wenger will be given the money to compete with Manchester City, and whether Crystal Palace will stick to their word and rebuff any offers.

The news that Arsenal have signed a lucrative new sponsorship deal with Emirates airlines means that Wenger will have plenty of money to spend in January, as Ivan Gazidis has promised that the cash will not be swallowed up by the board. Wenger, however, might see anything over £15 million as too much for Zaha, talented though he is. Having money and being willing to blow it are two different things, and Wenger is well known for being a shrewd dealer. .......Read the full article here

The hype surrounding the young Crystal Palace player, Wilfried Zaha, is reaching epic proportions. Arsenal fans out there should just sit back, relax and watch the circus, because there is more chance of Nicklas Bendtner beating Ronaldo and Messi to the Ballon D’Or than there is of Arsenal signing Zaha in January.

I like the kid, he is a very good player and should have a bright future ahead of him. He is, however, only 20-years old, has not played 100 league games in the second tier of English football yet, and has just been given his first international cap in a friendly, as an 83rd minute substitute. Oh, and Palace are talking about £20 million. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal have been linked incessantly with a move for the young Crystal Palce player, Wilfried Zaha, in recent weeks. Palace chairman is making all the right noises but I think they are resigned to losing the youngster, they just want to make sure that they get the maximum amount of compensation possible.

The new manager of Palace, Ian Holloway, has been raving about Zaha, despite only being in charge of him for two minutes. If you are trying not to sell a player, you don’t go around telling everyone how good he is. Managers will often say that a player has still got alot to learn, or is a work in progress, but there are stories in the papers today comparing Zaha with Messi and Ronaldo. That is a sales pitch if ever I heard one. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal are one of a number of Premier league teams who are looking at the Crystal Palace youngster Wilfried Zaha. The 19-year old is also attracting interest from Chelsea and Tottenham, but Palace are either trying to put off buyers or seeking alot more money than he is currently worth, stating that around £20 million is the price tag for a player untried in the top division.

Arsenal are reportedly planning an opening offer of around £9 million in January, but if Palace are going to hold out for double that, the Gunners may switch their focus to a player who has already proved his worth in the Premier league, Adel Taarabt of QPR, according to the Daily Mail. .......Read the full article here

It was reported in the summer that Arsenal, along with Tottenham, Manchester City and Chelsea, were all highly interested in poaching the England U21 striker Wilfreid Zaha from Crystal Palace, but the Championship side vowed to keep the Ivorian-born hitman at the club as long as possible.

Now it has been revealed that the Arsenal Chief Scout Steve Rowley was at Palace’s 2-1 win over Leicester City this weekend, and the Gunners are still hoping to bring the 19 year-old to the Emirates in January. .......Read the full article here

If I was Arsene Wenger I would have two sets of scouts running. One set would look for players that Arsenal are really keen on, the other would pick substandard players for Spurs to waste their money on. Tottenham don’t need scouts, it seems, they just wait for the media to tell them who Arsenal are interested in and jump on the bandwagon.

Arsenal, along with Liverpool and Manchester City, have been watching the 19-year old Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha and, with the Theo Walcott contract saga still unresolved, the Gunners are thought to be the most likely club to bid for him in January. Andres Villas-Boas is like the kid at school who is always tagging along when he’s not wanted and has turned up late and unwanted to the party again. .......Read the full article here

I know there is alot of money in football these days, but if £11 million is now cheap for a 19-year old winger from the Championship then things have really got out of hand. Arsenal are reported to be keen on Wilfried Zaha from Crystal Palace, possibly as a replacement for Theo Walcott if he leaves, and that is the price that has been quoted.

The Palace manager, Dougie Freedman, has told the press that any team that did pay that price for the England under-21 international would have done a very good deal.

“I know he is worth more than £11 million. You are getting him cheap if you get him for that. .......Read the full article here

Behind the scenes at Arsenal must be a place where a less than firm handshake could spell disaster. If Theo Walcott thought that he was involved in the sort of bargaining where you name a price double what you want and walk away offended when you know all along that you will accept much less. then he is in for a shock.

After Peter Hill-Wood went public today stating that Arsenal have a wage structure and will not alter it for anybody, reports claiming that Arsenal are sizing up possible replacements for the winger/striker. Crystal Palace youngster Wilfried Zaha is being tracked by Arsenal, and other Premier league teams, and could be seen as a direct replacement for Walcott. .......Read the full article here

Crystal Palace are suffering from big financial problems lately and have come close to being put into administration this season, so their chairman Simon Jordan is willing to let Arsenal have the England U19 star Victor Moses at a cut-price £1m this January.

Today’s Daily Star says that Arsene Wenger tried to buy Moses in the summer, but Jordan was holding out for a massive £5m for the winger, which Wenger refused to pay as he is unprove at Premiership level.

Now that Jordan realises he needs some instant cash-flow, he is willing to drop his price for Moses to just £1m, with another £2m in performance-related bonuses if he makes it to the top at the Emirates. .......Read the full article here