Someone on here who claims to know him or his family said something about not wanting your daughter bringing him home. Whether true or not I have no idea.I don’t think he has a bad attitude either, but there is something about his personality that I can’t put my finger on. Admittedly, I’m not an expert on him so I feel like those who are may rightly disagree. But when I see interviews and such with Doku, Rico, and even Bobb, they just have a different energy/feeling to me that I think convey some of the positive attributes you mention above. A lot of eagerness. I get less of that with Palmer.
It wasn't that "he wanted to leave" though, he demanded playing time from Pep or to go out on loan. Pep is never going to bow to demands from any player. He was told he either awaits his chance and keeps showing his worth in training and cameos or we sell him. Not really relatable to Bernie.Clanger, absolutely not but i said at the time I think it's far too cheap for him, and we will likely look back on it as a poor deal and be able to see how he could fit into our side had he stayed and im still of that opinion.
The "he wanted to leave" line doesn't hold up for me, bernardos wanted to leave for years, but hasn't, we convinced walker to stay this summer, we could easily have kept him but chose to cash in. I don't think we will ever be kicking ourselves for not having palmer in our squad at any point but I do think we will be kicking ourselves for selling him for £45 million.
The only time it ever even comes close to being a potential clanger is if we start struggling with home grown and club trained quotas which seems really unlikely.
You can take the boy out of Wythy... \0/I think the most pressing question is why with all that money and all the nice restaurants in Chelsea is he still eating at Nando’s? lol
I'd agree but it is great to see succession planning in the first team. Laporte, Gundogan and Mahrez all going left gaps but they have been filled with Gvardiol, Kovacic and Doku. For me 2 are for the long term with Kovacic short term cover in the middle due the lack of impact Phillips has made and the continued emergence / development of Stones in this "sweeper" style position while we all wait to see if McAtee can come back into the fold with us as a genuine first team squad member next season or we go back to market / plan B. Palmer a casualty of this philosophy it seems, in Pep we trust.The team was stronger last year, Gündogan is a big loss.
Pochettino will coach that out of him unfortunately.I thought he was Chelsea’s best player last night. He looked like the only one who knew how to play football.
I thought he was Chelsea’s best player last night. He looked like the only one who knew how to play football, the rest looked like headless chickens.