Crystal Palace have had no official contact yet this summer window from other Premier League clubs for Wilfried Zaha, their leading player, and would regard any attempt now to sign the player before Thursday’s 5pm close of the window as having come too late.

Zaha, 25, who signed a five-year deal at Selhurst Park last summer, would be irreplaceable for Palace at this stage of the window, and the club would see any attempt to open negotiations as unnecessarily provocative at this late stage.

There has been no valuation placed upon him by his club because he is regarded as indispensable but any negotiations would have to start at a fee well in excess of the transfer records that currently stand at Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, two clubs understood to be interested.

While there have been many suggestions of unhappiness on Zaha’s part, Palace feel that the relationship with the player they brought back from Manchester United in 2015 remains strong and have heard nothing from those clubs thought to be interested.

Roy Hodgson has given Zaha as free a role as he can permit the player, without whom the club did not win a single point in their Premier League campaign last season.