Iwobi winning the long game
There was a sliding doors moment for Alex Iwobi on the final day of the summer transfer window in 2019 when he joined Everton instead of Wilfried Zaha but while Blues have long considered the Crystal Palace talisman to be ‘one that got away’, their alternative signing – born again under Frank Lampard – might finally be seen to be winning the long game.
It’s understood that owner Farhad Moshiri personally led the chase to try and tempt Zaha to Goodison Park but an eye-watering offer of £70million plus James McCarthy and Cenk Tosun which would have smashed the club record fee of £45million paid for Gylfi Sigurdsson two years earlier, still wasn’t enough to prise the Eagles star away from south London, with Selhurst Park chiefs demanding £100million.
