Former Crystal Palace boss Ian Holloway believes Wilfried Zaha would still be a Manchester United player if Wilfried Zaha had not retired.

Zaha is at the centre of a transfer saga this summer, with Arsenal and Everton both being heavily linked with his signature.

"Wilfried Zaha is the most talented person I've ever seen with a football," he told The Sack Race. "He can make the damn thing sing. I'm not exaggerating. The Crystal Palace players would put music on in the dressing room and Wilf would dance with the ball at his feet, all in time with the beat.

"If you look at Cristiano Ronaldo when he first went to Man Utd, I felt Wilf would be able to do that with the guidance of Sir Alex Ferguson. I actually rang the great man myself. Crystal Palace had just beaten Peterborough, managed by Darren Ferguson, who saw the winning goal that Wilf helped create for us from one of their corners. It was absolutely outstanding.

"The trouble for me was Wilf was out of contact with his agent so he was a fish that was being chased by sharks. They all wanted a piece of him, and it was impossible to control. His mind was going. He's so pure, he's like white snow. All he wanted to do was get better.

"From my point of view, the only thing that went wrong for Wilf is that Sir Alex retired that summer, because I wanted his experience. Wilf didn't believe that he was as good as I believed he could be.

"He always wanted the ball but he had to learn how to give it to someone else, and then sprint. He didn't realise how important it is to make off-the-ball movements."