Daily Mirror

Wilf deal’s Siss of life

- BY SIMON BIRD @SimonBird_ BY ADRIAN KAJUMBA

PLAYERS BROUGHT IN THIS SUMMER FULHAM Issa Diop (Toulouse) £22.5m Jean Michael Seri (Nice) £25m Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea) £7m Maxime Le Marchand (Nice) £5m Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) Free HUDDERSFIE­LD Andriy Yarmolenko (Dortmund) Ben Hamer (Leicester) Free £17.5m Terence Kongolo (Monaco) £18m Fabian Balbuena (Corinthian­s) Ramadan Sobhi (Stoke) £5.85m £3.6m Juninho Bacuna (Groningen) £2.25m Felipe Anderson (Lazio) £35m Jonas Lossl (Mainz) £2.25m WOLVES Erik Durm (Borussia Dortmund) Free Benik Afobe (AFC Bournemout­h) NEWCASTLE £12.5m Martin Dubravka (Sparta Prague) Willy Boly (Porto) £10m £3.6m Raul Jimenez (Benfica) Loan Ki Sung-yueng (Swansea) Free Rui Patricio (Sporting Lisbon) Free Kenedy (Chelsea) Loan Leo Bonatini (Al-Hilal) £3.6m WEST HAM Ruben Vinagre (Monaco) Ryan Fredericks (Fulham) Free Undisclose­d TOTTENHAM and Everton are plotting part-exchange bids for £60million-rated Wilfried Zaha.

Long-term suitors Spurs are unwilling to meet Crystal Palace’s valuation of Zaha but are ready to offer a player, possibly Moussa Sissoko, to try to bring the headline fee down.

Everton are ready to give Palace the chance to re-sign former Selhurst Park favourite Yannick Bolasie, who they value at around £15m.

Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund are also lining up a big-money bid for the Ivory Coast internatio­nal but West Ham are understood to have baulked at Palace’s valuation.

Zaha is keen to move on but still has four years left on the £100,000-per-week deal he signed last summer.

The 25-year-old wide-man has turned down Palace’s offer to make him their highest earner on £125k a week and talks have been shelved.

 ??  ?? Benitez briefing his players in training in Ireland
Benitez briefing his players in training in Ireland
 ??  ?? IN DEMAND Zaha has four years left on his contract
IN DEMAND Zaha has four years left on his contract

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