5 players who were sold for ridiculously cheap fees

#4: Wilfried Zaha - £3m

Player of the Month for April 2018, Wilfried Zaha has probably already paid back his £3m transfer fee!

Recently named Premier League Player of the Month for April 2018, Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha is supposedly a man in demand, with reports suggesting everyone from Manchester City to Tottenham and Liverpool are interested in signing him. The fee that’s been bandied around is somewhere around £50m – and if Palace were to sell for that type of money they’d be making quite the profit.

Why? Because when they re-signed him from Manchester United in the winter of 2015, they only paid a paltry £3m for the winger. That was a crazily low fee even before he’d re-established himself at Palace given United initially paid £10m to bring him over from Selhurst Park. Of course at United, Zaha was never given a fair chance under David Moyes despite being highly rated, and he only played two Premier League games for them.

Since he’s moved back to Palace though, he looks like the bargain of the century. His amazing performances this season – 8 goals and 3 assists in Premier League action – have largely helped keep Palace in the Premier League and that alone has probably more than paid back his tiny transfer fee. Realistically, United are probably kicking themselves that they let the Ivory Coast international move for such a cheap amount.