Wilfried Zaha Officially Ask To Leave Crystal Palace

Wilfried Zaha has officially handed in his request to leave Crystal Palace in a bid to force through his move to Everton before the window closes on Thursday night.

Arsenal and Everton are two teams linked to the Ivorian but Gunners can be considered to be out of the race as they last week completed a deal for Lille's winger Nicolas Pepe for £72 million instead.

Toffees will have to step up their bid for the winger having had their initial offer of £70 million plus James McCarthy and Cenk Tosun rejected as Palace who are looking at nothing less than £80 million for the player.

Palace's demand has been described as "disillusioned" by a sports pundit from  David Craig who told Good Morning Transfer on Tuesday that the club "will not consider any offer less than north what Manchester United paid Leicester for Harry Maguire."

Since Zaha is bent on leaving the club, Palace reportedly are going after CSKA Moscow's striker Fedor Chalov with a £23 million offer to make up for the Ivorian's exit.