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Daily Mirror
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Tom Blow

Sir Alex Ferguson's "player of potential" and how he fared 10 years on from Man Utd move

There are some footballers who will always be associated with a certain club.

The names Tony Adams or Arsenal, Jamie Carragher of Liverpool and Ledley King of Tottenham spring to mind. One current player who has a similar affinity with his club is Wilfried Zaha. The Ivory Coast international is Crystal Palace's greatest ever Premier League player after keeping the Londoners in the division for eight-and-a-half seasons.

Zaha's association with Palace is so strong that it is easy to forget he once played for Manchester United. It is exactly 10 years to the day that Zaha, now 30, agreed to join the Red Devils from boyhood club Palace at the end of the 2012/13 campaign.

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