You're basing this on his performances at Chelsea.Disagree completely, you can tell a rare player by the way he addresses the ball, receives with confidence, head up 'scouting' options - compare to Lewis' more frantic, hurried approach...the real player was always Palmer, balance first touch..etc game play would have come but we lost a rare talent lets be honest - anyone who has played can see his weight distribution when receiving the ball on half turn is impeccable, he can go both ways within half a yard of receiving it...rare ..very rare
Was it he didn’t want to go out on loan or Pep didn’t want him out on loan? Either way, he didn’t want to stay and fight for a place.
You're basing this on his performances at Chelsea.
This fucking thread just keeps going round and round in circles.
He's gone ffs !
It should be closed. There is nothing more to discuss on the matter. Everyone is a winner, apart from Chelsea who aren’t winning anything anytime soon.This fucking thread just keeps going round and round in circles.
He's gone ffs !
I agree to the fact that Pep doesn’t give many Academy players much of a chance, while bringing ones in. In fact Foden is more an exception to the rule. It was always going to come and bite us back that one day, one of these players would shine at another club. However, I don’t think Pep or whoever, would say they made a mistake with Palmer. He’s left and that’s that.He stayed and fought for 3 seasons hanging around the first team, going into his 4th season “in” the first team he wanted to know he was gonna play regularly or go on loan. I can’t understand how City fans are convincing themselves that was unreasonable? McAtee did the same last season, insisted on going on loan to play and the club let him.
If the club and fans expect 18 year olds as good as Palmer to hang around on the promise of a couple of league cup games a season while we buy first team players in their position until they’re 22 then 90% of them will leave. Given only the best 2/3 of each year group are even good enough to be around the first team like that, we’re gonna get an academy graduate come through every 5 years at best.
When Palmer left I said it would be a very expensive mistake for the club but it would be worth it if they learned their lesson because we’ve got a lot of kids 15 and up who have as much talent but likely won’t stick around for years and years to get their chance.
Pep has a tendency to underrate academy players without experience, but he also doesn’t want them on loan, which is putting them in a catch 22. Whether it’s with Pep or after he’s gone, the club needs to find a better way of transitioning players from the academy to the first team if they want a core of academy grown players in the team as they’ve repeatedly said they do because it won’t happen with the current rate of one kid coming through every 5 years or so.
Was it he didn’t want to go out on loan or Pep didn’t want him out on loan? Either way, he didn’t want to stay and fight for a place.
His point was the false narrative that Palmer would be providing the same production with us as he is at Chelsea.Obviously?! We (fans and the club) judge 99% of players on their performances for other clubs so I’m not sure how this is the gotcha you think?
We didn’t sign Doku, Nunes, Gvardiol etc on performances for City did we?