17 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

Cole Palmer has done more for Chelsea in the last 2 months than Joao Felix did in his entire stint

I was someone who wanted Felix back into the Chelsea team, but I have to admit I'm happy with Palmer at the moment. The kid is excellent and a far cheaper alternative to Felix. 

17 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

Cole Palmer has done more for Chelsea in the last 2 months than Joao Felix did in his entire stint

There was room for both.

Palmer is very good and a welcome upgrade but Felix did more in a few months than Mudryk and Madueke have done combined in a year.

Teams need multiple quality attackers we'd look a lot better with Palmer and Felix than the young deadwood we give minutes to hoping they'll magically become completely different players in a year or two.

21 hours ago, dansubrosa said:

I can’t believe Man City let him go, especially being an academy player. What on earth.

It also shows how dire our transfers have been… If we signed 5/6 players with the maturity and confidence of Palmer we’d be challenging for the title now.

I would get behind the project of signing inexperienced young players if we signed 5 or 6 of the same calibre as Palmer, but the majority of the young players we signed would be a better fit for a club like Crystal Palace. No disrespect to Palace or anything, but that feels like the level a lot of our young players look capable of reaching.

Just now, Scott Harris said:

I would get behind the project of signing inexperienced young players if we signed 5 or 6 of the same calibre as Palmer, but the majority of the young players we signed would be a better fit for a club like Crystal Palace. No disrespect to Palace or anything, but that feels like the level a lot of our young players look capable of reaching.

very happy with chili so far. Could well be the bargain of our season

9 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

I would get behind the project of signing inexperienced young players if we signed 5 or 6 of the same calibre as Palmer, but the majority of the young players we signed would be a better fit for a club like Crystal Palace. No disrespect to Palace or anything, but that feels like the level a lot of our young players look capable of reaching.

Majority of them? So Enzo, Caicedo, Lavia, Gusto, Badiashile, Fofana are Crystal Palace level for you? You can't include the ones clearly designated for loan development incl. ones who were stuck here like Lesley and Washington.

9 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

I would get behind the project of signing inexperienced young players if we signed 5 or 6 of the same calibre as Palmer, but the majority of the young players we signed would be a better fit for a club like Crystal Palace. No disrespect to Palace or anything, but that feels like the level a lot of our young players look capable of reaching.

They won't play for palace, as backup for cheap sure. But as key personnel, no chance, palace will get relegated. 

Mudryk starts over Schlupp. 

Madueke on the bench over Olise. 

What a little diamond we've got.

Already I think he " gets it" . It's hard for me to define that, but it's a feeling that he is immersed in the club and the fans as if he's been here all his life and that it means a lot to him to be here.

Sounds a bit fanciful I know , and it might be a load of bollocks,  but that young kid looks to be a bit special 

Will be a great test for him against City. There is no one close to them in world football imo. 

13 hours ago, venom2011 said:

Majority of them? So Enzo, Caicedo, Lavia, Gusto, Badiashile, Fofana are Crystal Palace level for you? You can't include the ones clearly designated for loan development incl. ones who were stuck here like Lesley and Washington.

Gusto hasn't impressed me so far, he is exactly the type of player I would expect a mid table side like Crystal Palace to sign. Lavia we haven't even seen and was relegated last season. Enzo is having an underwhelming season, but he's better than what we are currently seeing. Caicedo has been up and down. Badiashile is still unknown, he's in and out of the team and just come back from a bad injury. I didn't rate Fofana before we signed him and when he did play, I thought he was bang average.

Mudryk, Madueke, Sanchez, Disasi, Cucurella, Ugochukwu, Chukwuemeka (had a positive start before getting injured) Jackson, I really don't see them being any different than what mid table teams would sign.

Enzo, Palmer and Nkunku are probably the only players we signed that I can confidently say are better or will become better than mid table players.

6 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Will be a great test for him against City. There is no one close to them in world football imo. 

He will start and has a point to prove....very curious to see what happens. Following the trend this season it's clear we play better in big games. If Poch goes with the game plan vs Arsenal. I think we will do reasonably well. Primarily because then Palmer is the focal point along with Gallagher.

I would prefer this, for me they've been the best players in terms of consistent performances this season.

Bookmark this post for when Palmer scores and shushes the bald professor for not giving him enough game time.

One of my closest friends is a city fan. He rates Palmer highly and believes not only should they not have sold him but £40m was a steal. Tbf his takes tend to be pretty spot on.

I think we may have finally balanced out losing KDB to them and considering we've picked up Nkunku too who looks the real deal I'd say we've benefitted from PSG's error in letting him go similar to us with Salah.

 

Harry Palmer

 

Emerson Lake & Palmer

Just Emerson.

Have we ever had a Lake? Not counting horrible pitches 

On 07/11/2023 at 12:14, El regreso said:

He’s the player everyone wanted Mount and Havertz to be. Head and shoulders above them and if he’s not in the England  main squad or doesn’t get picked he should go play for his grandad country Nigeria.

Isn't he from Saint Kitts heritage?

19 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Just Emerson.

Have we ever had a Lake? Not counting horrible pitches 

 

I was initially disappointed we spent so much on him instead of just using one of our youths. I knew he wasn't going to be bad cause you don't get close to City's starting XI if you are but I did not expect him to be this good so soon. 

It's also a bit worrying that City can produce players like this easily while the last attacker we had of promise was Hudson-Odi. I guess they are at the early stages of going through somewhat of a golden generation. 

Well with Mount going to Utd and Ake to City I think it evens out.

18 hours ago, Scott said:

Harry Palmer

 

Not many people know that

🤣

Deserved a call up to the England squad, but Southgate still prefers the likes of Phillips (doesn't play) Henderson (all but retired) and Rashford who has been in horrible form all season.

4 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Deserved a call up to the England squad, but Southgate still prefers the likes of Phillips (doesn't play) Henderson (all but retired) and Rashford who has been in horrible form all season.

Yea, Southgate regime is just too established now for anyone who isn’t a world beater like Bellingham to break in. Levi Colwill, Palmer etc are gonna have to wait for whoever takes over from him. It’s a clique, the treatment of Henderson a symptom of that. 

5 minutes ago, Term_X said:

Yea, Southgate regime is just too established now for anyone who isn’t a world beater like Bellingham to break in. Levi Colwill, Palmer etc are gonna have to wait for whoever takes over from him. It’s a clique, the treatment of Henderson a symptom of that. 

Southgate will probably say it's working because he got to the final of the Euro's, and the semi's of the world cup in 2018. England should never have lost that Euro final to Italy, they were the more talented side, played at home and Italy didn't even play that well. A better coach would have had Englad win that game. The world cup performances in Qatar were a bit up and down too.

We always have the wrong coach for our most talented teams. The golden generation under Sven for 6 years, then McClaren. Capello was a good coach, but by 2008, the golden generation had become poisonous and nobody could fix it. The FA are England's biggest problem.

25 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Deserved a call up to the England squad, but Southgate still prefers the likes of Phillips (doesn't play) Henderson (all but retired) and Rashford who has been in horrible form all season.

Good, thank you Gareth, long may he reign.

Now if you could continue to leave Reece out, Conor and Levi too, that would be great. 

You can take Sterling back if you want to though, no worries there.

Just now, axman2526 said:

Good, thank you Gareth, long may he reign.

Now if you could continue to leave Reece out, Conor and Levi too, that would be great. 

You can take Sterling back if you want to though, no worries there.

I do miss seeing Chelsea representation in the England first 11 though. It's hard to really back a bunch of Liverpool, Arsenal, City and ex Spud players.

6 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

I do miss seeing Chelsea representation in the England first 11 though. It's hard to really back a bunch of Liverpool, Arsenal, City and ex Spud players.

When the media and "England fans" went after JT for daring to be picked as captain ahead of Saint Steven I lost my connection to the national side