None. Ship has sailed. He is obviously a top player and we will be beaten with the one that got away stick for quite a while but will mean nothing long as we keep on winning trophies and Guardiola is the biggest component of that. Wish the lad well and we move on.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
Cole Palmer
- Thread starter Mr-Mertle
- Start date
Crouchinho
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 17 Feb 2011
- Messages
- 7,307
- Location
- Toronto, bye bye blighty
- Team supported
- Tottenham Hotspur
It’s the fact that so many blues use Palmer’s sale as a stick to beat Pep and Txiki with that annoys me, using overly simplistic (to put it nicely) analysis and reasoning to make out that he would be producing in the same way with us as he is at Chelsea if we had only had the foresight, intelligence, and resolve to keep him (likely by guaranteeing playing time, which we only do for the very top players that are beyond merely “potential” stars), and claiming our overall performances would improve with him in the side over other players.
None of which evidence (or simply critical thinking) supports. But the argument still gets made, and the vitriol gets lobbed at our management, ad infinitum, no matter how many of us point out the faulty premises and incoherence inherit to them.
It's bound to happen whenever you let a player go that performs well. For the most part he's flipped players at the right time and got it spot on.
As an outsider looking in, there is no way Palmer would have them stats this season or last season with City. Palmer has the freedom of Stamford Bridge, he can mis-place a pass or get dispossessed because it doesn't matter he will make up for it.
To pass forwards you take risks, to go on runs you take risks. This is why Grealish most of his stuff is backwards and sideways, it's safe, it works and he knows his place. That's why Foden and De Bruyne in particular can do the opposite, Pep fully trusts that they can take risky plays at the right time. I just can't see Palmer playing like that in Peps system until he earns that trust. That would have taken a few years.
The move benefitted him and Chelsea, but I don't really think it's hampered your season at all. Just like it didn't last season either.
Last edited:
69FACUPfinal
Well-Known Member
More bile from SourNess in Saturdays fail.
Next stop for Cole? Real naturally, cost £150m.
As ever, the actual facts ignored
Next stop for Cole? Real naturally, cost £150m.
As ever, the actual facts ignored
Gorton_Tubster
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 2 Apr 2012
- Messages
- 16,307
- Location
- Riding the blue tidal wave.
- Team supported
- Manchester City
He's another macmanaman. Will be forgotten but somehow always revered.
Mr Kobayashi
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 1 Oct 2020
- Messages
- 17,022
If we'd kept him, we would have had to give him De Bruyne's or Foden's spot in the middle.
Think it's a bit much to expect Pep to have the foresight to know just how well Palmer would turn out.
Think it's a bit much to expect Pep to have the foresight to know just how well Palmer would turn out.
DTKOAG
Well-Known Member
Do we have any sell on or buy back with him ?
mexico1970
Well-Known Member
He's another macmanaman. Will be forgotten but somehow always revered.
It's not time for matching tattoos then?
Cheadle_hulmeBlue
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 27 Oct 2012
- Messages
- 16,921
I don’t agree with that. If we’d have kept him he would be starting on the right wing, as he did when he played for us.If we'd kept him, we would have had to give him De Bruyne's or Foden's spot in the middle.
Think it's a bit much to expect Pep to have the foresight to know just how well Palmer would turn out.
It was the signing of Doku that made giving him minutes difficult. You could argue hes a better winger
Last edited:
Mr Kobayashi
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 1 Oct 2020
- Messages
- 17,022
I don’t agree with that. If we’d have kept him he would be starting on the right wing, as he did when he played for us.
It was the signing of Doku that made giving him minutes difficult. You could argue hes a better winger
I wasn't talking about what was likely, I was talking about how to get the best out of the player. Palmer plays best in the middle.
Given how frequently Bruyne has picked up injuries, and looks likely to leave next summer, the longer term option might have been better to go with Palmer.
Although we may not have won the league last season, if we did make such a change.
Palmers numbers would warrant moving Foden out to LW or RW.
But all with the benefit of hindsight.