Eze to spurs?

These things happen. We did the same to QPR for Eze, Reading for Olise and Blackburn for Wharton.

He won us a trophy and will have his name etched into our history forever. Can only wish him the very best for future and thanks for giving us the best day of our palace lives.

Only regret is that we we didn't plan ahead and have the Eze replacement like we did with Zaha. Perhaps Esse is that player. Massive shoes to fill.
 
This would be sweet. Ebs seals Conference League qualification for us with a hat-trick and gets a proper send off at Selhurst tomorrow (showing all the pundits who got excited by a wave on Sunday how it’s actually done!) Meanwhile he joins a team challenging for the Champions League Cup and we get an extra £8m! Win-win!
 
I think we all ought to be a little philosophical about this. Obviously it's rubbish losing such a good player and one who is so likeable, however:

- A few years ago we rejected a £70m+ bid for Zaha from Everton. At the time I was delighted because he was our only dangerous player. However, a couple of years later he left on a free. We were terrified at the time that he was the only reason we were staying up but considering the players we've bought and how we've evolved since he left, perhaps we should have had faith in ourselves to reinvest that money. Same for Olise really, that felt like the end of the world too.
- Our recruitment record is exceptional. Obviously there's always misses but there's been far more hits. I have complete faith that we will replace him well and I think the recruitment team have earned that trust.

In an ideal world he'd stay, we'd build the squad up more and try to aim higher but we don't have that kind of money. Let him go, challenge for trophies and let's see who ends up becoming the next indispensable player that we don't want to lose.
 
We're all sounding very certain that this is happening now...is that fair to say?
Whereas Spurs was all clickbait clickbait.
Why are we all so certain this is happening? Just checking as I'm in a different time zone so may've missed something!
 
sprites said:
We're all sounding very certain that this is happening now...is that fair to say?
Whereas Spurs was all clickbait clickbait.
Why are we all so certain this is happening? Just checking as I'm in a different time zone so may've missed something!
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BBC reported it, usually means it's happening.
 
Canterbury Palace said:
I think we all ought to be a little philosophical about this. Obviously it's rubbish losing such a good player and one who is so likeable, however:

- A few years ago we rejected a £70m+ bid for Zaha from Everton. At the time I was delighted because he was our only dangerous player. However, a couple of years later he left on a free. We were terrified at the time that he was the only reason we were staying up but considering the players we've bought and how we've evolved since he left, perhaps we should have had faith in ourselves to reinvest that money. Same for Olise really, that felt like the end of the world too.
- Our recruitment record is exceptional. Obviously there's always misses but there's been far more hits. I have complete faith that we will replace him well and I think the recruitment team have earned that trust.

In an ideal world he'd stay, we'd build the squad up more and try to aim higher but we don't have that kind of money. Let him go, challenge for trophies and let's see who ends up becoming the next indispensable player that we don't want to lose.
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Good post, only I’m not sure the everton bid of £70 mil happened. I think it was actually more like £45 mil.
 
Canterbury Palace said:
I think we all ought to be a little philosophical about this. Obviously it's rubbish losing such a good player and one who is so likeable, however:

- A few years ago we rejected a £70m+ bid for Zaha from Everton. At the time I was delighted because he was our only dangerous player. However, a couple of years later he left on a free. We were terrified at the time that he was the only reason we were staying up but considering the players we've bought and how we've evolved since he left, perhaps we should have had faith in ourselves to reinvest that money. Same for Olise really, that felt like the end of the world too.
- Our recruitment record is exceptional. Obviously there's always misses but there's been far more hits. I have complete faith that we will replace him well and I think the recruitment team have earned that trust.

In an ideal world he'd stay, we'd build the squad up more and try to aim higher but we don't have that kind of money. Let him go, challenge for trophies and let's see who ends up becoming the next indispensable player that we don't want to lose.
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The Director of football at Everton confirmed publicly several months later that despite fairly widespread media reporting at the time that there never was an Everton bid of £70 million for Zaha.

The bid we turned down was the Arsenal one because it wasn't enough money (I think it was maybe £40 million, but open to correction) & they wanted to pay over instalments, when we turned it down they went out & wasted 72 million on Pepe.
 
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