Wilfried Zaha blasts former Crystal Palace teammate as he reveals 'this is why I don't have football friends!'

The Frenchman earned his first call-up to the French team for the recent World Cup qualifiers and opened up on his time with Zaha.

He revealed to L'Equipe: “At Crystal Palace, right at the start, when I wasn’t even playing, I spoke about the France team in the dressing room and I had team-mates like Wilfried Zaha who were laughing.

“They said that I was mad to think about the France team when I wasn’t even playing at Crystal Palace, but I responded saying that it was my objective and that I simply had to play to show what I could do.”

After seeing the comments, 32-year-old Zaha was left fuming.

He took to social media to address the comments made: “My head’s on fire. I have to clear up this Mateta situation. Because he doesn’t want to. I spoke to him and he doesn’t want to, he’s okay with it.

“This just shows me, all the time I played for Crystal Palace, people watching me, it’s clear that they weren’t happy for me.

“Because I never made anyone feel like ‘s**t’. I never… everyone knows me. The only time on the pitch is when I’m passionate and all that stuff.

“It’s disgusting when I see someone that I thought was a friend do that.

“The conversation that was had was his chances of playing for France way back when he wasn’t playing for Palace and there were 10 players that he had this conversation with.

“And as friends we laughed it off, but we were joking around. That it’s going to be difficult, especially with Benzema, all these different players playing in those positions.

“I swear to you, 10 Crystal Palace players were there when this conversation was had.”

Visibly angry, the now MLS winger continued, “Wouldn’t you be shocked if this person has made out that there’s some sort of hate from me? Why would he say my name? When there was 10 people. Is it because Zaha is the biggest name?

"I do not understand, it’s disgusting. I’ve never hated on anyone. So now I’m getting messages, ‘oh you’re not laughing now about Mateta’. I couldn’t care less, well done to him.

“I even congratulated him publicly on his Instagram, on his posts. So to hear that story come out, it’s like what the f**k?

“Did you dislike me the whole time? For you to come out with this, your come up story, I’m going to use Zaha as my come up story.

“It’s nasty, man. It is nasty. This is why I don’t have football friends. This is why I keep myself to myself because how’s he gonna do that?”