Chelsea’s star man Cole Palmer has revealed he wasn’t even going to join the club, but admitted he got persuaded to in the end.
Palmer was a surprise signing on deadline day in the summer window of 2023 as the Blues paid Manchester City £42.5m for his services.
The signing was met with a mixed reaction, but what followed next nobody would have predicted in their wildest dreams.
Palmer reveals he wasn’t going to join Chelsea
After starting his first few games on the bench Palmer worked himself into the starting the line-up and didn’t look back.
The 22-year-old took the Premier League by storm and had a breakout season in which he scored 22 goals and provided 11 assists.
He was rightly named Premier League Young Player of the Year and has picked up what feels like almost every individual award going.
The England international has been tipped as a future Ballon d’Or winner by club legend Gianfranco Zola, which is quite some praise.
Palmer has picked up where he left off last season with seven goals and five assists from 11 league games as he looks to better his feats of the previous campaign, and Pat Nevin has claimed there aren’t many better players in the world than him.
Despite having a whole host of attacking quality it still feels like Palmer is the main man and the thought of being without him is a worry.
However, there was a chance Palmer may not have been a Chelsea player at all and he revealed in a recent interview he wasn’t going to join club.
“I wasn’t even gonna go [to] Chelsea. I got persuaded. I remember training on a Wednesday at City in the afternoon, and the news was ‘they’re trying to agree a fee’,” he told GQ Magazine.
“Every time the ball went out I’d ask the kit man or the doctor if they’ve agreed the fee yet.”
It’s not worth thinking about what things would be like if Palmer hadn’t joined the club and it would be interesting to see how different it would have been if he hadn’t.
Luckily for Chelsea fans they have many more years of Palmer to look forward to after he signed a two year contract extension earlier this year, keeping him at the club until 2033.
