It was a good decision and there’s no regrets. A penalty vs us doesn’t change anything. Not every player will make it here. Chelsea once had both Salah and KDB and lost both. It’s football and it can happen. Palmer wasn’t forced out, he left on his own accord. We will have a lot of sales in future too where a certain player doesn’t really work out for us but does well elsewhere. Let’s say when Lavia finally starts playing for Chelsea are we going to have another round of meltdown over why’d we sell him and all that? Bit pointless imo. I do understand the frustration because Cole was a local boy but even then he grew up a rag just came through our ranks. Just wasn’t meant to be. Wish him luck and that’s that.
P.s. this is also a massive sign of where we are as a club now. Our influence is insane, clubs wants our talents, Cobham was raved about till 2-3 seasons ago. Now Chelsea’s best player currently is a City academy product and the second best player is ex City. The rivals will continue hatred but it’s normal when we’ve become an incredibly successful club that is well run and are the standard for European clubs around to follow.
