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title: "Crystal Palace: Fans love Roy Hodgson’s reaction to journalist"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/crystal-palace-fans-love-roy-hodgsons-reaction-to-journalist/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Tommy Joyce"
section: "Crystal Palace"
published: "2019-08-12T19:35:38Z"
modified: "2019-08-12T19:35:38Z"
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# Crystal Palace: Fans love Roy Hodgson’s reaction to journalist

**Despite the fact the transfer window is over, it seems the Wilfried Zaha saga is refusing to go away for Crystal Palace.**

When asked whether he was concerned about January considering there have been links with Zaha moving away from the club ([The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/aug/09/football-transfer-rumours-wilfried-zaha-chelsea)), his response was particularly blunt and comical.

He said (via [@LukeTyr](https://twitter.com/LukeTyr/status/1160276308154298368) on Twitter): “I’m in August for goodness sake. I don’t know what’s going to happen in September yet and you’re asking me about January; I don’t give January a thought so you’re asking the wrong man if you’re asking to get someone concerned about January – I’ll start worrying about January on December 31st.”

Zaha was subjected to mass speculation throughout the summer and had been linked with a move to a new club with both Everton and Arsenal [reportedly](https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1160365/Wilfried-Zaha-transfer-news-Napoli-Arsenal-Everton-Crystal-Palace) interested. Everton stepped up the biggest offer which even pushed Zaha to hand in an official transfer request ([The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/aug/07/crystal-palace-tell-everton-they-will-not-sell-wilfried-zaha-for-less-than-100m)) to move away from the club.

Palace managed to hold onto their star man, with the reasoning being that there was no offer deemed big enough to capture him ([Evening Standard](https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/crystalpalace/wilfried-zaha-valuation-justified-as-toothless-crystal-palace-start-campaign-with-bore-draw-a4210476.html)).

The Eagles have since gone on to play their season opener against Everton of all teams at Selhurst Park, where they fought out a 0-0 draw in which Zaha came on for the last 25 minutes.

Here are some of the best responses to Roy Hodgson’s response below…

> Roy loves it doesn’t he? I’d love him to turn to one of them and say,”Are you some kind of mug?”.
>
> — Robert Bailey (@Bunglebob66) [August 11, 2019](https://twitter.com/Bunglebob66/status/1160618194433925120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://twitter.com/ola\_cpfc/status/1160623297765302278?s=20

> On the ball
>
> — LEE KAVANAMUSIC (@LEEKAVANAMUSIC) [August 11, 2019](https://twitter.com/LEEKAVANAMUSIC/status/1160607758401626114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://twitter.com/rob9boy/status/1160626026097053703?s=20

> Solid as a rock.
>
> — Martin Hayes (@MartinH4) [August 11, 2019](https://twitter.com/MartinH4/status/1160629345758666752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> The first few seconds are brilliant..the look on his face..like a naughty school kid
>
> — Lee Garnett (@Lee25791) [August 11, 2019](https://twitter.com/Lee25791/status/1160646042083385344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Roy loves it doesn’t he? I’d love him to turn to one of them and say,”Are you some kind of mug?”.
>
> — Robert Bailey (@Bunglebob66) [August 11, 2019](https://twitter.com/Bunglebob66/status/1160618194433925120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)