man scores 4 penalties and folks are talking about his potential lolz
What is this thing that Palmer was a City reject and they didn’t want him? He wanted to leave, and unless it’s Bernardo Silva, City let people who want to leave go.
It’s a similar situation to when Frank Lampard moved on to became a city legend
This makes zero sense.
Had he been able to displace one of Grealish, Mahrez, KDB or Bernardo I doubt City would have sold him.
Chelsea put 40m on the table, daft to say no and by all accounts the lad wanted to go anyway and City don’t keep players that don’t want to be at the club.
so dramatic lmao
It’s not that City didn’t believe. They’re just a more polished and stacked team that’s actually winning trophies, they don’t have the luxury of rolling out their young players every week.
When people praise Brighton, they seem to praise their scouting only. I think what people miss is that Brighton has always had a clear strategy and pathway for young players. They always loan them out early to progress in easier leagues, then provide a very clear pathway to first team minutes and give them plenty of opportunities there. The very best teams in the world have much less opportunity to test out young players and give them opportunities when they are chasing silverware
The richest clubs in the world do not need to test out young players. Why do that when you can buy young players after they have proven themselves elsewhere?
I see someone else has watched the TIFO video on Brighton
Yeah just a lad leaving to get game time. Fair play to him. Pep can’t play all the youngsters as much as they need as he’s under pressure to deliver results. He’s helped shape him into a highly promising lad so again, fair play! Englands gain as he looked really good yesterday with Sterling.
He aint better than Silva, Doku, Alvarez, KDB, Grealish. So it was a good trade for all sides.
He’s better than grealish and foden. Rest sure, he’s younger than all of them though
man i support chelsea and even i can’t support that take. grealish and foden are unreal, palmer definitely has the ceiling potential tho
Mate don’t disrespect Foden and Grealish like that. Palmers a decent player and a good kid, but he’s nowhere near their level yet.
Tbf Doku hasn’t shown anything this season to warrant that. Palmer has been better than him imo but the others you’re right. Doku doesn’t seem that good when I watch him. Granted I haven’t seen a lot but the little I’ve seen has been unimpressive
Ffs doku is fucking terrifying defences left right and centre. You can tell you’ve not seen much of him. Palmer is a good player. Still very raw.
Doku has been a breath of fresh air. One of the most direct attacking players I’ve ever seen. He has some work to do on playing a bit more within Pep’s system, but he’s been pretty great and pretty quickly so. He just played a game where he got like 3 assists.
1 goal 4 ass.
Crazy numbers. He’s been so powerful at drawing in and beating defenders that break down stubborn defences.
not just that, i’d rather see Oscar Bobb get game time.
This is exactly why Man city win the title every year, their rejects become stars in other clubs
This is true
At the same time, kovacic who was deemed not good enough for a terrible chelsea side becomes a regular for Manchester city
The comments on here when we signed him
Didn’t pep say that Palmer asked to leave?
He looks like a good player, but all of his goals have been penalties. No way would he get in City’s team. Still great business by them
He’s an ugly fucker tho
Why is everyone acting like we forced him out of the club Pep literally wanted him to stay but he doesn’t force players to stay when their not committed this literally would’ve been his breakout season with Mahrez leaving he obviously just didn’t want the slow integration so went to Chelsea where he would be promised game time wrong decision imo but don’t say Pep didn’t believe in him that’s cap
Don’t see how it’s the wrong decision when he’s already made more minutes for Chelsea than he has for city over 2 seasons. Fair play to the kid for going where he can play instead of sitting on the bench like Phillips.
Phillips sits on the bench because he’s utter dogshit
Don’t be silly, you can still insult him without making stuff up.
Exactly, he’s a good young player with potential but he needed consistent minutes to continue developing and he was never going to get that at City while we’re competing for everything. We’d have preferred a buyback or to loan him if possible but equally you’re not going to say no to £40M+ for a fairly unproven youth player.
Man City cagoule have given him the game time he wanted. How’s it a wrong decision hes not getting game time and showing how good a player he is
Nah you forced him out. Everyone knows Pep was planning to give a world class talent 15 games
Yeah like… if he stayed at City he wouldn’t be starting as much but he’d be getting chances and people would still be starting to sing his praises as a breakout player
Breakout season ? Cmon its Pep. There is no way that he would get enough minutes to have breakout season.
Glad to see him do well but that wasn’t the question. Where is he gonna break the City lineup? Correct, he wasn’t.
Plus he needs a haircut.