Arsenal up their offer with player-plus-cash bid for Wilfried Zaha – but it's still not enough

Wilfried Zaha

The Gunners failed with a £40 million bid for the Ivory Coast international earlier this summer as the Selhurst Park club hold out for £80 million.

The Independent has reported that Palace have turned down Arsenal’s latest proposal of a deal worth £55m, £10m of which would be dependent on clauses, as well as sending Reiss Nelson on loan.

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Alasdair Mackenzie is a freelance journalist based in Rome, and a FourFourTwo contributor since 2015. When not pulling on the FFT shirt, he can be found at Reuters, The Times and the i. An Italophile since growing up on a diet of Football Italia on Channel 4, he now counts himself among thousands of fans sharing a passion for Ross County and Lazio.