• Forward set to feature against club who tried to buy him• Luka Milivojevic signs new four-year contractRoy Hodgson is planning to utilise Wilfried Zaha against Everton in some capacity on Saturday despite admitting the Ivory Coast forward “is not jubilant” at the prospect of facing the club who tried to sign him.
Repeated attempts to force his departure this summer eventually came to nothing on Thursday, with Marco Silva’s side failing to match Palace’s valuation of the 26-year-old. Having been sent home early on transfer deadline day after Hodgson admitted he had “beef” with the owners, Zaha trained with the rest of the Palace squad on Friday and the former
England manager said he was expected to be available for selection. “I can’t say to you that he is delighted with the situation because it’s not the outcome he wanted. The outcome he wanted was to be sold and leave the club,” he said. “We did not want that. When I say we, I mean the coaching staff and the players. That was the last thing we wanted. We wanted him here with us. For me as a coach and the playing staff, we wanted the player rather than the money.”