Crystal Palace ‘sensation’ Yannick Bolasie is being talked up as a summer transfer prospect for Spurs, in various places online.
If you are only a recent visitor to this planet, it’s easy to understand why young Yannick looks like direct descendant of sliced bread. on the 11th of this month he put 3 goals past the an ailing Sunderland and so generated a lot of good press.
There are no two ways about it, Alan Pardew is getting a tune out of Palace.
This could be down to the fact that his new players are capable of taking and obeying simple instruction, or that Pards no longer finds himself staring a bunch of French layabouts when he walks onto his training pitches of a morning.
But the problem is, I’m not a recent visitor to earth. My spaceship landed many decades ago, and Bolaise’s last goal prior to the hat trick against the Mackems was back in September of last year.
Other issues include his age (25) and hailing from Kinshasa, there’s a good chance he’ll go missing again for the ever pointless AFCON.
Worse still, Pardew is quite rightly in no mood to start dismantling that which he hasn’t finished building.
I will sell Yannick, if someone wants to give me £40m to £60m, somewhere in there, that would be good. I will take it and we will build the team around that money. Every player has a price, of course.
All these players here are undervalued, in my opinion.”
The only box Bolasie ticks is the ‘Premier League experienced’ one, beyond that, forget it.
