80 | Cole Palmer - 2021/22 Performances

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he's at the stage of his career where foden was around a year younger than palmer right now i'd say
 
Cole Palmer is already a Premier League player after watching him for the past few years it's obvious, sometimes I look at talents like Smith-Rowe at Arsenal who looks promising in his own right, then look at Palmer and think he's already better I don't like jumping the gun but I'd be very surprised if Cole Palmer never plays for England.

He's ready now for the Prem he just needs patience and he'll be an important squad member for the foreseeable future, no need for loan moves to teams who play inferior football he learns far more training with world class players every single day.

Can't wait for him to get game time with Phil even if it takes time and for other kids to start coming through, it's gonna happen at some point we're gonna have our own blumasia In the next decade it's the master plan.... Along with some world class additions I think half the squad will be homegrown by 2030.
 
The next star off the academy production line , he didnt look out of place against Bruge and scored a lovely goal , if we can keep Pep for another 3/4 years our academy players are going to form the nucleus of our team at this rate.Just bringing one academy player in a seaosn is going to save us millions in the transfer market , the great thing about Foden& Palmer is they are boyhood blues and support the club , so they are not going to get their heads turned by football agents.
 
It's worth remembering that we don't need Palmer to be Foden for him to be a world class player. Mahrez doesn't have Foden's ceiling and never has IMO, yet he literally won PFA player of the year once and is one of the best wingers in world football. I'm not even sure Grealish does have that ceiling either. Yet if Palmer reaches either Grealish or Mahrez's level, which I personally feel he has the potential to do, then we've just made a £100m player from the academy, which is fucking wonderful.
 
Can't fucking wait to see 3, maybe 4 academy graduates starting for us. The media, I'm sure, will be wanking all over it.......
 
twosips said:
It's worth remembering that we don't need Palmer to be Foden for him to be a world class player. Mahrez doesn't have Foden's ceiling and never has IMO, yet he literally won PFA player of the year once and is one of the best wingers in world football. I'm not even sure Grealish does have that ceiling either. Yet if Palmer reaches either Grealish or Mahrez's level, which I personally feel he has the potential to do, then we've just made a £100m player from the academy, which is fucking wonderful.
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This. Foden is a benchmark but an obscenely high one. Foden is a £200m player.
 
Palmer will likely take a little less time to grow into a first-team regular than Foden did for three reasons:

- Part of Foden's gradual introduction was about waiting for him to bulk up, but Cole is already pretty tall and therefore likely to get to the physical standard of the league faster
- Palmer's a good two years older than Phil was when he broke through
- Foden was competing for minutes with De Bruyne, Silva, Gundogan and Bernardo originally- if we're honest, Mahrez and Jesus aren't going to be as hard to compete with, especially as the former is going to AfCoN soon
 
Dare I say he reminds me of mcmanaman when he was good at liverpool. He has a great future ahead of him. Really hope we manage to integrate 2/3/4 of these promising youngsters.
 
Looks as if he has been earmarked to get the Foden treatment. Exciting.
 
So, how well is Palmer actually thought of at the club? He's looked good so far and scored a couple but then so did Brahim Diaz...

There was a huge buzz around Foden when he came through but Palmer's not quite so well thought of, so what are we realistically thinking? Future star? Squad player? Another club lower down in the league?
 
Stickwell said:
So, how well is Palmer actually thought of at the club? He's looked good so far and scored a couple but then so did Brahim Diaz...

There was a huge buzz around Foden when he came through but Palmer's not quite so well thought of, so what are we realistically thinking? Future star? Squad player? Another club lower down in the league?
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Haha, is this a serious post ?

You're not a City fan, or you wouldn't have asked such a stupid question.
 
Stickwell said:
So, how well is Palmer actually thought of at the club? He's looked good so far and scored a couple but then so did Brahim Diaz...

There was a huge buzz around Foden when he came through but Palmer's not quite so well thought of, so what are we realistically thinking? Future star? Squad player? Another club lower down in the league?
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Gives me a very different feeling to Brahim. Think his problem was he tried to play the same way against grown men as he did against inexperienced kids. Always wanted to dribble through defences instead of pass. Cole plays with a lot more maturity and is a better finisher too.
 
Stickwell said:
So, how well is Palmer actually thought of at the club? He's looked good so far and scored a couple but then so did Brahim Diaz...

There was a huge buzz around Foden when he came through but Palmer's not quite so well thought of, so what are we realistically thinking? Future star? Squad player? Another club lower down in the league?
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The thing about Diaz is that a spaniard is always likely to be tempted to go back (especially if it's Real Madrid of all teams)

I think Cole himself will be more patient as long as he is in around the squad considering he is already at the top team in his own country, and the club will be patient with him because of his roots. He has the potential to become good enough Imo, but if he is not developed enough to warrant a squad place when he is 23-24 I think we will help him get a club somewhere else.

I also agree with those above saying Palmer has looked a level above Diaz in senior football at the same age
 
Fwiw I believe Diaz has really come into his own in Italy, so it's not the worst benchmark for Palmer to aim for initially.

Although they're different. Diaz and Sancho just felt like 2 very immensely talented players in a strong academy. Palmer and the other local lads (like Foden) seem to have a more Pep way of playing on top of the talent.
 
mccity said:
Fwiw I believe Diaz has really come into his own in Italy, so it's not the worst benchmark for Palmer to aim for initially.

Although they're different. Diaz and Sancho just felt like 2 very immensely talented players in a strong academy. Palmer and the other local lads (like Foden) seem to have a more Pep way of playing on top of the talent.
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Both never got the chance to really show if they were up to it.
 
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