He was nearer a starting place at the best team in europe than the chaos at Chelsea , their scatter gun transfer policy is devoid of any direction ,Pochetino is a decent manager but it could take him two seasons to sort out the wheat from the chaff at that club.
Signing players on 8 year deals on big money contracts will come back and bite them in the arse , in a couple of years time they will not be able to move players on , the failures will just sit on their deals and count their money.
Palmer has chosen the wrong club , he is probably on £5m a season for seven seasons with an option of an extra year , where is the motivation ? , not questioning his character but he is guaranteed multi-millionaire status before he kicks a ball , like most of their players the money is in their pockets , guaranteed.
He would only have got 3 or 4 year contract with us and he would have to work his arse off to get 20/30 games a season in a Pep team , genuinely hope it works out for him but i have my doubts