Angry Zaha set to demand move after claims United U-turn
Sat Jan 18, 2014 11:02 pm
Manchester United outcast Wilfried Zaha will consider handing in a transfer request if he is not allowed out on loan by David Moyes.
Relations between the Zaha camp and United have hit an all-time low after a complaint from Cardiff City that United had moved the goalposts over a proposed deal for the winger.
A series of heated discussions involving United chief executive Ed Woodward and Zaha’s representatives then followed and ended abruptly with the telephone being slammed down.
Cardiff, managed by former United legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, believed they had reached agreement with United in principle to sign
Zaha on loan.
They were then told on Thursday that the player may no longer be available because of injuries. Woodward confirmed the situation in a phone call but then cut the conversation short as tempers were raised.
Moyes has since told Zaha that the possibility of a loan spell remains — but only if Nani and Ashley Young recover from knocks.
The United manager says he will assess the situation again after Wednesday’s Capital One Cup semi-final second leg against Sunderland.
Moyes believes that makes sense from the club’s point of view but Zaha is deeply unhappy at the possibility of remaining out in the cold at the Premier League champions and has not travelled for today’s game at Chelsea, saying he’d stay behind and train rather than go with the team as a spectator.
Decision: David Moyes (above) clearly doesn't favour Zaha, who wants to be loaned out of United+5
Decision: David Moyes (above) clearly doesn't favour Zaha, who wants to be loaned out of United
The England Under-21 international, who earns about £30,000 a week, has yet to start a league game for United and has been relegated under Moyes to sixth-choice winger behind Adnan Januzaj, Antonio Valencia, Nani, Young and Danny Welbeck.
As his frustration mounts, Zaha feels Moyes is singling him out unfairly for criticism in training and has told friends he has been on the receiving end of four-letter outbursts from
the manager.
In one incident, he was left badly upset when Moyes gave him a tongue-lashing after a pass was held up by surface water, only for team-mate Shinji Kagawa to make the same mistake and escape scotfree.
The player also felt neglected when untrue internet stories about an affair between him and David Moyes’s daughter Lauren were ignored by the club, and he felt he had to reject the claims on his own
Twitter account.
Zaha has endured a miserable season with United after agreeing to sign for their previous manager Sir Alex Ferguson in a £15million deal last January, having just made his England debut under Roy
Hodgson.
While on loan at Crystal Palace, the 21-year-old was stunned to learn Ferguson was retiring, to be replaced by Moyes, who does not share the former’s enthusiasm for
Zaha’s ability.
With the pair barely on speaking terms, Zaha is deeply disillusioned.
His World Cup prospects, once very promising, have disappeared altogether, although Gareth Southgate continues to pick him for England Under-21s.
Zaha has played just 167 minutes for United — mostly in the Capital One Cup — and, if Moyes sticks to his guns and keeps the 21-year-old at Old Trafford beyond February 1, there could be major repercussions.
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Relations between the Zaha camp and United have hit an all-time low after a complaint from Cardiff City that United had moved the goalposts over a proposed deal for the winger.
A series of heated discussions involving United chief executive Ed Woodward and Zaha’s representatives then followed and ended abruptly with the telephone being slammed down.
Cardiff, managed by former United legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, believed they had reached agreement with United in principle to sign
Zaha on loan.
They were then told on Thursday that the player may no longer be available because of injuries. Woodward confirmed the situation in a phone call but then cut the conversation short as tempers were raised.
Moyes has since told Zaha that the possibility of a loan spell remains — but only if Nani and Ashley Young recover from knocks.
The United manager says he will assess the situation again after Wednesday’s Capital One Cup semi-final second leg against Sunderland.
Moyes believes that makes sense from the club’s point of view but Zaha is deeply unhappy at the possibility of remaining out in the cold at the Premier League champions and has not travelled for today’s game at Chelsea, saying he’d stay behind and train rather than go with the team as a spectator.
Decision: David Moyes (above) clearly doesn't favour Zaha, who wants to be loaned out of United+5
Decision: David Moyes (above) clearly doesn't favour Zaha, who wants to be loaned out of United
The England Under-21 international, who earns about £30,000 a week, has yet to start a league game for United and has been relegated under Moyes to sixth-choice winger behind Adnan Januzaj, Antonio Valencia, Nani, Young and Danny Welbeck.
As his frustration mounts, Zaha feels Moyes is singling him out unfairly for criticism in training and has told friends he has been on the receiving end of four-letter outbursts from
the manager.
In one incident, he was left badly upset when Moyes gave him a tongue-lashing after a pass was held up by surface water, only for team-mate Shinji Kagawa to make the same mistake and escape scotfree.
The player also felt neglected when untrue internet stories about an affair between him and David Moyes’s daughter Lauren were ignored by the club, and he felt he had to reject the claims on his own
Twitter account.
Zaha has endured a miserable season with United after agreeing to sign for their previous manager Sir Alex Ferguson in a £15million deal last January, having just made his England debut under Roy
Hodgson.
While on loan at Crystal Palace, the 21-year-old was stunned to learn Ferguson was retiring, to be replaced by Moyes, who does not share the former’s enthusiasm for
Zaha’s ability.
With the pair barely on speaking terms, Zaha is deeply disillusioned.
His World Cup prospects, once very promising, have disappeared altogether, although Gareth Southgate continues to pick him for England Under-21s.
Zaha has played just 167 minutes for United — mostly in the Capital One Cup — and, if Moyes sticks to his guns and keeps the 21-year-old at Old Trafford beyond February 1, there could be major repercussions.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... z2qnIBq8lI
Re: Angry Zaha set to demand move after claims United U-turn
Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:26 am
Good man. 
Re: Angry Zaha set to demand move after claims United U-turn
Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:34 am
Isn't zaha dating moyes's daughter? Maybe that's why he doesn't play him cause he knows what zaha does to his daughter.. Go on Wilfred 