Cole Palmer receives shock Chelsea exit message as Todd Boehly gives Pochettino sack warning
After an incredible debut season at Chelsea, Cole Palmer is expected to be the focus of a lot of transfer rumors this summer. However, the 20-goal attacker shouldn’t leave the Stamford Bridge team in pursuit of Champions League play.
That’s the opinion of Joe Cole, the legendary player for Chelsea, who has pushed Palmer, 21, to take the helm at the west London club and guide the next generation of heroes. After making a big-money transfer to Manchester City last summer, Palmer has been a bright spot for Chelsea during a difficult season. However, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is under scrutiny for his decision to sell the player, who is a serious candidate to win the Premier League’s top scorer.
Palmer could go on to emerge as a star for England at this summer’s European Championships and Chelsea could cash in the player and make a hefty profit this summer.
Yet Cole insisted Palmer should grasp the chance to be a talisman for the club as they aim to get back to winning ways.
“First of all, you have to credit Cole Palmer for taking the opportunity to leave Man City when he did and taking his chance at Chelsea,” Cole told TEAMtalk at a TNT Sport event.
“He could have looked at the way Phil Foden’s career has gone and followed that. He could have played 20 games a season for City and built it up from there, but Cole Palmer had a hunger to play football every week.
“Of course, it was a step down to leave the Treble winners and join a club like Chelsea in a time of transition, but he’s taken the chance.
“He’s been extraordinary. He’s lit the place up and if I were in his shoes, I’d want to be the face of the rebirth of Chelsea Football Club as a global force.
“I would stay, of course I would. Chelsea will get back to the top sooner rather than later. They have the finances and the desire to do that, so I’m sure it will happen and Palmer can be the leader of that.”
Joe Cole wants Chelsea, Pochettino to learn from mistakes
Cole went on to suggest Chelsea need to learn from their ‘massive mistakes’ on and off the pitch this season and he believes the club’s hierarchy needs to take a share of the blame for the team’s failings on the pitch after some disastrous transfer deals.
Manager Mauricio Pochettino is under huge pressure in a job that proved to be beyond his predecessors Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter and last season’s interim boss Frank Lampard, but with TEAMtalk now exclusively confirming Chelsea’s plan to stick by him, Cole has explained why another change of manager will not solve Chelsea’s woes.
“Huge mistakes have been made over the last three years, no one is denying that,” added the former England star who won three Premier League titles with Chelsea.
“Decisions have been made over the last three years that have had nothing to do with Pochettino, had nothing to do with Frank [Lampard], Graham Potter or Thomas Tuchel.