Cole Palmer | Chelsea Player

[Himannv]

The next Mason Mount!

 

[duffer]

Chelsea are lucky in that they’ve got no real direct rivals they can’t buy from. We’ve got 2 for example.

Spurs refused to deal with us for Modric after we'd agreed a deal with the player.

 

[trailertrash]

Absolutely unfathomable that this guy was sitting on the bench for basically the whole Euros. Well played England.

 

[padr81]

Chelsea robbed us. They owe us another £105m at least.

 

[CloneMC16]

Why the hell did City let this guy go? He's unreal.

 

[Hulme91]

Did he even play a full half of football at the Euros? Southgate is a literal terrorist

 

[InfiniteBoredom]

Utd fan as well, it’s actually pretty sad when you think about it, we could’ve had him if we paid City the amount money.

 

[UnrelatedPsuedo]

He’s the most exceptional by the basics footballer I’ve seen in a long time.

He’s not yet at that level, but he reminds me of Kaka. Just quietly does absolutely everything in the most natural way imaginable. He takes penalties, dribbles, passes, and quietly goes about defensive work with zero fanfare. And scores plenty of course.

Kaka did it with flowing black locks and an athletic frame. Palmer looks like a crack addict that needs a good meal. But they’re very similar footballers in terms of applied talent.

 

[PoTMS]

Meh, we've got much maligned Mason Mount.

 

[Bale Bale Bale]

On for the elusive double hattrick?

 

[TheBigLewandowski]

The next Mason Mount!

Cant believe the diferences in price & quality. Hopefully we turned a corner targetting youth players of our opposition with that young Obi striker from Arsenal

 

[sullydnl]

Selling him looks one hell of a mistake on City's part.

 

[Judas]

Utd fan as well, it’s actually pretty sad when you think about it, we could’ve had him if we paid City the amount money.

Could we? I very much doubt City would have sold to us.

 

[ekestubbe]

Spurs refused to deal with us for Modric after we'd agreed a deal with the player.

Aren't clubs supposed to agree terms with the club first, and then talk to the player? The other way around would be tapping up and I don't blame the owning club for being pissed about it (like with Liverpool and Southampton over Van Dijk).

 

[Dazzmondo]

Hopefully some day we'll see him in a Utd shirt

 

[mavradal]

Best player in the league.

Bit of a stretch but definitely the best AM this season.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

What a footballer.

 

[Atheist]

Seems like a big blemish from Pep. They spent double the money on Grealish when they had twice the player within their ranks.

 

[Ayoba]

Hopefully some day we'll see him in a Utd shirt

No chance. He signed a context extension with Chelsea till 2033.

 

[Judas]

Pep would have made him fecking dull.

 

[UnrelatedPsuedo]

Aren't clubs supposed to agree terms with the club first, and then talk to the player? The other way around would be tapping up and I don't blame the owning club for being pissed about it (like with Liverpool and Southampton over Van Dijk).

Tapping up is a misnomer.

It’s always;

1. Club talks to agent
2. Agent talks to player
3. Player responds
4. Club talks to club

We talk about tapping up, but it’s rare for a club to try and buy a player that hasn’t indicated he’d like to move.

Save for a club in financial trouble that will just accept a bid and pitch it to the player afterwards. ie the player doesn’t want to move, but the club wants the money.

 

[duffer]

Aren't clubs supposed to agree terms with the club first, and then talk to the player? The other way around would be tapping up and I don't blame the owning club for being pissed about it (like with Liverpool and Southampton over Van Dijk).

In the real world, no club has put an offer in for a player in the past 20 years without getting the go-ahead from the player (via their agents or an intermediary) first.

 

[Bastian]

Hopefully some day we'll see him in a Utd shirt

I'd love that too, but the nine year contract probably means that won't happen.

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

I'd love that too, but the nine year contract probably means that won't happen.

They’d sell their grannies if it helps balance the books sooner than later.

 

[Bastian]

They’d sell their grannies if it helps balance the books sooner than later.

Yes, but hardly the player who is the difference between them being a chaotic club going nowhere and a club that will likely finish top 4.

 

[InfiniteBoredom]

Could we? I very much doubt City would have sold to us.

They sold him for what? £40m. Pep is also pretty well known for not standing in a player’s way. If we had offered the £60m package we did Mount for him, I reckon they would’ve taken it.

To be fair, summer before last hardly anybody would’ve predicted this meteoric rise for him, and Mount was the bigger name, but profile wise he’s a better fit for us.

 

[thisisnottaken1]

The kid is so good. feck the Glazers for destroying our club. He would have been here had it not been for them.

Pep would have made him fecking dull.

Absolutely.

 

[Solius]

Spurs refused to deal with us for Modric after we'd agreed a deal with the player.

Yeah maybe that one’s your most difficult.

 

[horsechoker]

I think people need to rewrite history to make him come here by a lot. I'd argue we were closer to Haaland and Bellingham than him. If you change the past enough we'd have had Sterling and Foden too.

I'm not sure how we let Endrick go to Madrid when his hero is Bobby Charlton.

 

[DOTA]

Pep would have made him fecking dull.

He is dull. Very good though.

 

[TenonTen]

He will be better than Foden and Saka(if he isn't already). He has ice in his veins.

 

[Someone]

They’d sell their grannies if it helps balance the books sooner than later.

Palmer is the player they're building the team around now, and he's on a contract for life basically. He won't be sold unless declines significantly.

 

[desertegil]

Tapping up is a misnomer.

It’s always;

1. Club talks to agent
2. Agent talks to player
3. Player responds
4. Club talks to club

We talk about tapping up, but it’s rare for a club to try and buy a player that hasn’t indicated he’d like to move.

Save for a club in financial trouble that will just accept a bid and pitch it to the player afterwards. ie the player doesn’t want to move, but the club wants the money.

Step 1 is against the rules. The buying club or any of its representatives are not allowed to talk to the player or any of his representatives (like his agent). That's why "tapping up" happens. The buying club engages a third party (typically a lawyer) to relay communication between buying club and player's representatives unofficially to avoid being sanctioned.

 

[P-Ro]

Missed two sitters. Needs to be better.

 

[UsualSuspect]

Spurs refused to deal with us for Modric after we'd agreed a deal with the player.

Pains me to this day.

 

[thisisnottaken1]

If the kid keeps this up, he’ll end up in a conversation for the best ever English players.

 

[Orc]

Scary thing about today is that he could’ve scored 2 more goals that were sitters for him and had about 3 assists. He was outrageous today.

 

[Ghirahim]

Cole Palmer scores... again. Will he hit 30 goals this season?

 

[Castia]

Crazy to me that City casually had this level of player in and around the reserves/first team before selling him. Ridiculous to be honest.

 

[Ghirahim]

Crazy to me that City casually had this level of player in and around the reserves/first team before selling him. Ridiculous to be honest.

I think now Guardiola regrets seling him. He's world class at this point. Best midfielder in the leegue last seson.