The decline of the Premier League’s last great dribbler

In the world of football, having great talent is not synonymous with hitting it big and being a star. At all times there are many cases that show the same fact, players like Robinhowith a gift of dribbling and class, which was far from predicted at the time.

One of the players that falls into this range of what could have been and wasn’t is Wilfried Zahawho this summer packed his bags and headed to Galatasaray after spending his entire professional career playing in England, where as much as he wanted to, he was unable to pull on the shirt of a great when he was at his best.

It is not because there is no interest. In contrast, the Ivorian is in the pool of Arsenal in recent times and also sounded for Manchester Unitedclub where he was formed, but the Crystal palace It became a prison of sorts for him, demanding his commitment after becoming his home when as a teenager he failed to make it through the Old Trafford youth academy as a ‘red devil’.

Certainly none of these big teams dared to make a move because Zaha something seems to be missing. Not dribble, of course. He spent several seasons as the most unbalanced footballer in the Premier League, with the highest dribbling success percentage and also the most tries. But it lacks something else, the goal. The essence of every attacker. In the season he scored the most, it was 15, but he usually did not score more than ten. And if at least one assistant’s numbers are added to the low numbers, his football is in question, but that’s not the case either.

Finally, after years of rumors about his future, Zaha He ended up leaving Crystal Palace at the age of 30 and far from wanting to continue his dream of success in England, he accepted an offer from Galatasaray, a step back in his career. Time and its stagnation have not been kind to some of those extremes which are especially strange. The one who dribbles.