Cole Palmer | Chelsea Player

[Bosnian_fan]

I'm not sure how anyone can classify Chelsea selling Salah as a "mistake."

Nobody in the world at the same saw the Liverpool Salah in the Chelsea one, he was very average for Chelsea.

It would be like if Man Utd sold Scott McTominay and he came became, 2 years later as one of the best midfielders in World football. Wouldn't be a mistake because not a single person would have seen that coming.

Of course that would be a mistake. Or an amazing point to prove incapability of decision makers to come up with adequate decisions.

If you are as capable to judge talent as are we, ordinary fans, perhaps you are doing wrong job.

If McTominay became the worlds best midfielder, Manchester United would rightfully become a laughing stock, not just for discarding him, as that would only be a consequence of bigger problem - not being capable od judging his potential properly despite having him play huge amount of games, and not tweaking the team to suit him, so that he would become worlds best midfielder playing for Manchester United, and not somewhere else.

 

[AfonsoAlves]

Of course that would be a mistake. Or an amazing point to prove incapability of decision makers to come up with adequate decisions.

If you are as capable to judge talent as are we, ordinary fans, perhaps you are doing wrong job.

If McTominay became the worlds best midfielder, Manchester United would rightfully become a laughing stock, not just for discarding him, as that would only be a consequence of bigger problem - not being capable od judging his potential properly despite having him play huge amount of games, and not tweaking the team to suit him, so that he would become worlds best midfielder playing for Manchester United, and not somewhere else.

Sometimes some ability jumps are so surreal and unprecedented that no amount of scouting could have gotten such a yield.

Ethan Pinnock played in the 7th tier of English football, at Dulwich. At the age of 24 he was still playing in the conference league. 4 years later he would be a regular starter at a Premier League Club.

You're telling me even the best of scouts can look at a 22 year old Ethan Pinnock and "Yep he's a top quality footballer, lets get him," whilst he was on the 7th tier of English football?

Or are you saying that all the big clubs made a massive mistake because they were unable to recognise that 25 year old Jamie Vardy, playing for Fleetwood town had the ability to become PL top scorer and break the PL consecutive goals record?

 

[Poborsky's hair]

If I was a second tier team below EPL, I would always try to get some of the youngsters from top clubs. Thos boys on the verge of breaking through. There's plenty of potentially great players which will not be give time in their respective clubs.

 

[Kwabs]

Yeah and Rodri wasn't even nominated for those awards. That alone tells how reliable those voters are

As to Haaland, no. He scored lots of goals against crap teams in easy games, but on the whole was hugely disappointing throughout the season

Rodri won the Ballon D'Or because of Spain and the Euros mostly. But this is false anyway, because Rodri was nominated for the PFA award, along with Haaland.

The main point however, is that Palmer did not 'outplay' all of City's top guys last season like you are claiming.

 

[Ghirahim]

Rodri won the Ballon D'Or because of Spain and the Euros mostly. But this is false anyway, because Rodri was nominated for the PFA award, along with Haaland.

The main point however, is that Palmer did not 'outplay' all of City's top guys last season like you are claiming.

Palmer will win the Ballon d'Or eventually.

 

[Mystic_Scout]

After watching quite a few chelsea games where I particularly paid attention to his involvements, he is pretty overrated. His off the ball workrate is pretty poor. While his teammates are putting in maximum effort to win the ball back, he just does light half assed jogs, which often allows the opposition to breeze past Chelseas midfield when attacking. He also seems to be a moments player, who is quite average in terms of his general play across the 90 minutes.

I realize this is harsh as he isn't necessarily a bad player, but the "best player in the premier league" and "future ballon d'or winner" comments are just insanity as he is not on that level.

 

[Kwabs]

Palmer will win the Ballon d'Or eventually.

I mean, I really don't think so. But anything is possible, I guess.

 

[awop]

Palmer will win the Ballon d'Or eventually.

I'm certain he won't. He's very good but i don't think he will reach the necessary heights to win that award. He would also need England to win something and he doesn't even have a fixed place in the team. Tuchel has to find a way to make Palmer+Saka work.

 

[NotChatGPT]

Palmer will win the Ballon d'Or eventually.

he wont.

He will be solid for a few more seasons,
At best, and fade into obscurity.

 

[McFred]

he wont.

He will be solid for a few more seasons,
At best, and fade into obscurity.

Tend to agree - I don’t think he will improve from the level he’s at now. Completely judging a book by its cover I just think he doesn’t seem like the type of character with longevity / consistent improvement in his make up

 

[Snow]

Palmer will win the Ballon d'Or eventually.

Considering it's a popularity contest at the heart of it and Palmer is a charisma black hole I don't see how he's going to win it without doing something spectacular during a World Cup year or moving to Real or Barca.