Cole Palmer

[Phil1]

Would of preferred him to stay as you can see that the talent is there.

Happy that hes doing well at Chelsea and showing his potential.

Probably lean towards your ft first sentence.

Second one not so much, hope he does nothing of note for the rest of his career, certainly not help a would be rival to improve.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Quality young player but he’ll never be as good as Foden.

 

[oakiecokie]

I think its more likely that many want as many local lads in the first team squad as possible... always sad to lose a local lad who's genuinely going to be a good player. Not a world beater of course but would have been great to have a Baecelona squad with 7 or 8 local lads....

Too some extent I agree with you but don`t lets compare Barco youngsters to City ones. As much as we`ve had some wonderful youngsters through our Academy IMO Barca are well ahead of us in this area. That`s NOT to say we`ve had no-one but come on lest keep a reality check on this.

 

[oakiecokie]

Quality young player but he’ll never be as good as Foden.

I think Phi is rather the exception than the rule. Bit like Giggs and yes he was at City before the Rags, but likewise he was another exceptional player at his age group and maintained that level with the Rags.
**** of a bloke but cant knock him for his footballing talent.

 

[rice10]

The lad wanted to leave so you can’t really blame anyone for that. I personally believe we should have done more to keep him but that is because I always think you should try a bit harder to get your youth players into the team. For example I will never understand the signing of Phillips and letting Lavia leave. Lavia could have easily have been given Phillips’ minutes and it wouldn’t have made a difference to us.

It’s a shame some City fans will never admit that we did wrong and will just slag Palmer off but fair play he wanted to leave and now he is in the England squad. He was easily good enough to be in our squad, you just have to look at our bench against Chelsea, only 1 attacking sub (Grealish).

All the being a United fan talk is a waste of time, I bet that wouldn’t have even come into his consideration.

 

[Silvatoure21]

The lad wanted to leave so you can’t really blame anyone for that. I personally believe we should have done more to keep him but that is because I always think you should try a bit harder to get your youth players into the team. For example I will never understand the signing of Phillips and letting Lavia leave. Lavia could have easily have been given Phillips’ minutes and it wouldn’t have made a difference to us.

It’s a shame some City fans will never admit that we did wrong and will just slag Palmer off but fair play he wanted to leave and now he is in the England squad. He was easily good enough to be in our squad, you just have to look at our bench against Chelsea, only 1 attacking sub (Grealish).

All the being a United fan talk is a waste of time, I bet that wouldn’t have even come into his consideration.

I agree on the Lavia discussion but Palmer was never going to break in as a consistent starter and that’s what he wanted.

 

[abellwillring]

Yes, but sometimes you just have to make a decision like City did when the price is right and the player wants to go. We have others in the queue who are developing and it helped with our signing of Doku, so it is what it is.

I have absolutely zero clue why so many fans were down on Palmer.. was very obvious he was an exceptional talent who would develop significantly further. We'll seriously regret selling him to a rival down the line.

I said this back in August before the move was official:

My buddy who has pretty good sources at Chelsea (hosts a big podcast on them) says he's hearing £40m + add-ons (presumably to get to the £45m). I am sick about it to be perfectly honest as I am certain he's got it in him to develop into a superstar.

The right move for him to move away either on loan or permanently, but doing it to Chelsea just doesn't make a lot of sense. I can't see him getting guaranteed minutes there this season especially with Sterling looking very good.

He's been a bit fortunate with the injuries as that insured he got into the team right away and obviously he's taken the chance in a big way.

 

[Phil1]

Yes, but sometimes you just have to make a decision like City did when the price is right and the player wants to go. We have others in the queue who are developing and it helped with our signing of Doku, so it is what it is.

I have absolutely zero clue why so many fans were down on Palmer.. was very obvious he was an exceptional talent who would develop significantly further. We'll seriously regret selling him to a rival down the line.

I said this back in August before the move was official:

He's been a bit fortunate with the injuries as that insured he got into the team right away and obviously he's taken the chance in a big way.

All that is fair but in no way means we dropped a clanger.
That insinuates that we have fucked up and made a huge error, non of which is true.

 

[WestGorton]

Good deal for City. Good deal for Chelsea. Good deal for Cole.

 

[abellwillring]

All that is fair but in no way means we dropped a clanger.
That insinuates that we have fucked up and made a huge error, non of which is true.

I think selling him to a typical title rival was definitely a clanger and I think we'll look back at the price and view it as cheap. But in general I agree it was good deal for all parties involved at the time.