Wilfried Zaha has another chance to shine at Old Trafford this week in a way he couldn’t when he was a Manchester United player. The winger, now 30 years old, will face his former club in the…
Wilfried Zaha has another chance to shine at Old Trafford this week in a way he couldn't when he was a Manchester United player.
It wasn't long before Palace had agreed to sell their superstar winger, who was just 20 at the time, to the Red Devils, with Zaha returning on loan for the rest of the season to help the Eagles win promotion to the Premier League. "I went through so much with United, with England. There were rumours that the reason I wasn’t playing [many games] for United was because I slept with [then manager] David Moyes’ daughter, and no one [at the club] attempted to clear that up.
Despite wanting to return to Palace on loan, Moyes shipped Zaha to ex-Man United star Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Cardiff. But Zaha's career didn't improve there, either, with him recording just one assist as the Bluebirds went down bottom of the league. However, his return to Palace, first on loan and then permanently, saw his career come back to life. In total, he recorded a whopping 90 goals and 76 assists in 458 appearances for his boyhood team and is very much seen as one of the club's greatest ever players.
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