By PHIL THOMAS
ARSENE WENGER will fight Roberto Mancini to sign England new boy Wilfried Zaha.
Crystal Palace star Zaha was a Gunners fan as a lad and Wenger hopes that will tempt him to the Emirates instead of Mancini’s Manchester City.
SunSport revealed last week City have made the first moves to sign Zaha, 20, who won a shock call to the national squad for the recent friendly in Sweden.
But Arsenal sources insist Wenger is confident of a January transfer window deal even though Zaha has two years left on his Crystal Palace contract.
Gunners hope an initial bid of just over £10million, plus a variety of achievement-based add-ons, will do the trick.
Zaha had been tipped as a likely mover at the end of the season, with Spurs and Liverpool also interested.
But Wenger is confident and, though he is not keen on loaning the player back to Palace for the rest of the campaign, he would not rule it out entirely to clinch the deal.
