Cole Palmer

At 21 Palmer just wants minutes and he was never going to get them here, we were more likely to sign a player who would sit above him in the pecking order, it was the same for Sterling eventually.

You get a feeling for players who Pep just doesn't click with. Palmer was always one of them and it seems he didn't want to wait it out.

You have to remember that it took Pep a few years to warm to Foden who was willing to wait. I don't think Lewis would of gotten the minutes either had Cancelo not buggered off last year.

Palmer might do good things but so what, good luck to him, I don't think we'll miss him much.
 
Tolmie scores said:
Pal i understand that, BUT it feels from the outside that all young academy players would benefit from long term career advice ..as in you want to be a first teamer in the best in the world but the age of say 25 you need to be developing year on year 21 - 23 or 24...do not expect regular first team football...as the team you want to be in are the best club team in the world!!! Can players take that...tough hard work for years before say 25...tough ask but we are talking about getting in the best 11 club team in the world!! Amazing achievement to get in that..
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Agreed but I’m pretty sure our staff point out to young players what their suggested pathway is. They did with Phil & despite the idiotic media pundits screaming for him to go out on loan, he stayed & improved.
By all reports, & despite Pep pointing out that with Mahrez going, he’d have chances - Palmer wanted more - to play every week. So he went
 
Tolmie scores said:
Agreed but i bet his attitude made it easier for a public display of saying we want him to stay = pushes up the price. Maybe what should happen is a proper look at the academy in terms of what they are there for, if it is the Chelsea develop and sell on model fair enough, but that is pretty soulless
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Rico, Phil & Oscar ????
 
inbetween said:
You have to remember that it took Pep a few years to warm to Foden who was willing to wait.
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No it didn't, Pep constantly praised him, but he was told that he had to wait until he was consistently good enough to play regularly, which he did, and I'm sure Pep was telling Cole the same, much as he will be with Rico.
 
Has anyone considered that Palmer could only have reached his potential by leaving? A bit like De Bruyne at Chelsea who also made a downward move to become a proper leader and a better player, etc. Maybe Palmer had to go down a level first because he never would have made it in the specific environment we have at City. Doesn't mean we made a mistake, doesn't mean Palmer's not good enough.

It just means things are going right for him at Chelsea in a way they weren't going right for him at City. He probably needed a different sort of responsibility, a change of scenery, a different manager, etc. For what it's worth, I do think he'd reached his ceiling at City and was never going to become a proper first-teamer, and it will be interesting to see where his career goes from here and whether Chelsea improve.

So far he's scored four penalties and played well in a few games for a team in 10th who are being given a bit of slack cos they're a work in progress. What happens when it comes time to win trophies, to be the difference-maker in a cup final, to be the man who slices open a parked bus defence? Different tests will come in time and we'll only know by the time he's 25, 26, etc. whether he's going to deliver on his potential.
 
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