2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[Gareth]

Wouldn’t surprise me if Dyballa rocks in PL this month but would shock me if it’s VP….got the makings of a type of player Ratclliffe might get to Man Ure to appease the masses

[rob_bridge]

I liked Zaha fine but, realistically, there's a reason he ended up where he did rather than at a top PL club or Juve or Bayern. A maverick talent who doesn't really play well with others. In the last couple of years, it's always been Eze who really stood out at Palace.

Agree on this

[Nunkin1965]

It's worth factoring in the Emery effect into any potential transfer as I feel he can improve any player if they are willing to listen and learn.

[Chris Smith]

It's worth factoring in the Emery effect into any potential transfer as I feel he can improve any player if they are willing to listen and learn.

Zaha is 31 though, I doubt he’s willing to change his whole approach at his age.

[Risso]

I've resigned myself to the fact that we won't be bringing anybody in this January. When you accept it you won't have to bother watching the Sky reporter freezing his nadgers off outside Villa Park, where all the lights are off and the gates are padlocked!

[Dante Lavelli]

Zaha on loan strikes me as a good deal but can we afford to jettison Lenglet or Zaniolo?

Not sure a three year contract will be paying any dividends in the third year and will also use up a lot of future salary.

[Sexual Ealing]

I've resigned myself to the fact that we won't be bringing anybody in this January. When you accept it you won't have to bother watching the Sky reporter freezing his nadgers off outside Villa Park, where all the lights are off and the gates are padlocked!

This is the correct course of action.

[Dave]

Zaha on loan strikes me as a good deal but can we afford to jettison Lenglet or Zaniolo?

Why would Galatasaray want to loan him to us?

[VillaTim]

Zaha and Dybala are both pie in the sky , i've seen no credible links and neither fit with the current approach.

[LeeS]

I don't want Zaha. He is 31. That's reason enough for me before I then ask whether he improves us. I don't think he does. Its not the type of signing I'd expect Monchi to make at all.

[Dante Lavelli]

Zaha on loan strikes me as a good deal but can we afford to jettison Lenglet or Zaniolo?

Why would Galatasaray want to loan him to us?

Fair point. Clutching at straws but they failed to get out the champions league group so they might need to trim the wage bill until next season?

[LeeB]

I've resigned myself to the fact that we won't be bringing anybody in this January. When you accept it you won't have to bother watching the Sky reporter freezing his nadgers off outside Villa Park, where all the lights are off and the gates are padlocked!

That's the way, then if we do get someone it's a bonus.

Plus it's easier to accept when we're ace as it is.

[eamonn]

Does Zaha look any happier in Turkey? Many of us suffer from bitch-resting faces but he always looks as if he's actively annoyed. His poor old comrade Jordan Ayew just looks permanently jaded with life but at -least he doesn't perma-seethe.

[Sexual Ealing]

Does Zaha look any happier in Turkey? Many of us suffer from bitch-resting faces but he always looks as if he's actively annoyed. His poor old comrade Jordan Ayew just looks permanently jaded with life but at -least he doesn't perma-seethe.

I've got one of those faces. Unless I'm doubled over, laughing my guts up, my mother-in-law always thinks I've fallen out with the wife.

[LeeB]

Does Zaha look any happier in Turkey? Many of us suffer from bitch-resting faces but he always looks as if he's actively annoyed. His poor old comrade Jordan Ayew just looks permanently jaded with life but at -least he doesn't perma-seethe.

My brother-in-law and his kids are big Palace fans and have met him a few times, by their accounts a genuinely lovely bloke off the pitch.

Zaha that is, not Paddy.