The Ivory Coast international has been told to snub interest from elsewhere and commit his future to the Eagles <\/p>\n
Wilfried Zaha should stay at Crystal Palace and snub interest from Everton and Tottenham, according to defender Joel Ward.<\/p>\n
Goal understands that the Toffees are considering a \u00a350 million ($65m) bid for the Ivory Coast international, though they are wary of competition from the likes of Spurs, Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zaha enjoyed an excellent 2017-18 season, scoring nine times, his most productive campaign as a professional.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n And Ward believes he would be best served by staying at Selhurst Park, due to the positive impact he has on his team-mates.<\/p>\n Speaking after Palace’s 3-1 pre-season win over Oxford United, in which Zaha scored, Ward said: “We all know how important he is for us and we’d love to keep him and that’s what we need.<\/p>\n “We need Wilf to lead the line of attack and to show what he can do because he has done that time and time again for us and he’s a key part of this squad.<\/p>\n “He’s a character, he’s a winner and he wants to succeed and he wants to win as does every single member of the squad.”<\/p>\n Zaha has also been lauded by Jeffrey Schlupp, who insists that he is “irreplaceable” for the Eagles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “Wilf is Wilf and he’s got the X-Factor,” he said.<\/p>\n “He’s irreplaceable. Every time he goes out on the pitch, he does his bit and it’s great to have him in the team.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ivory Coast international has been told to snub interest from elsewhere and commit his future to the Eagles Wilfried Zaha should stay at Crystal Palace and snub interest from Everton and Tottenham, according to defender Joel Ward. Goal understands that the Toffees are considering a \u00a350 million ($65m) bid for the Ivory Coast international,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n