Pep Guardiola’s ultimatum caused a bitter Man City star to leave

Cole Palmer revealed the conversation with coach Pep Guardiola before he officially left Man City.

Cole Palmer has proven to be an excellent signing for Chelsea, after moving to the club from Manchester City for £42.5 million last summer. And now, this 21-year-old talent has officially spoken out about that shocking transfer case.

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Cole Palmer is considered an interesting discovery of coach Pep Guardiola at Man City. But he left the Etihad team to join the Stamford Bridge team in a surprising deal. Now, Cole Palmer has revealed that he never wanted to leave Man City forever, but his conversation with coach Pep Guardiola changed his career. yours.

Cole Palmer graduated from Man City’s youth academy, he was at the club from U-8 level and scored 6 goals After 41 appearances in the Green Man 1 team. The 21-year-old also scored for Man City in the Community Shield and European Super Cup at the beginning of the season, before surprisingly joining Chelsea less than a month later.

The Blues spent £42.5 million on Man City to sign Palmer, who said he initially wanted to go out on loan to get more playing time, before Pep Guardiola gave him an ultimatum that turned things around. .

When asked if he was surprised that Man City was willing to sell him to Chelsea, Cole Palmer shared in the Daily Mail (UK): “Yes. At first I didn’t want to leave. I said, I wanted to go on loan and play for a year to get ready to play for Man City’s first team more. I want that because I didn’t play much for Man City last season.

But then Pep Guardiola said “you will stay or you will be sold” and yes, I was sold. I was a bit confused, why didn’t they let me leave on loan, but then I said I wanted to go to Chelsea and I’m very happy that it happened that way.”

Cole Palmer said Chelsea is in the process of completing its project when compared to Man City, the team that has won the Premier League five times in the past six years and completed the treble history last season. Cole Palmer is currently one of Chelsea’s key players under coach Mauricio Pochettino.

Cole Palmer added: “People can see quite clearly the two clubs are at different stages. One team is working on the project and one team has completed the project. Our project is a young project. There are a lot of young players and I think I would be a great fit for the project. I think I definitely have more responsibility than what I had at Man City.”

In his first season at Chelsea, Cole Palmer is currently the club’s top scorer, with 8 goals in 16 Premier League matches. Coach Mauricio Pochettino compared Cole Palmer to former star of Real Madrid Angel di Maria.

Chelsea’s Argentine strategist Mauricio Pochettino said: “In the position that Cole Palmer plays, he is left-footed, as well as having qualities and some similarities, Cole Palmer has like Angel Di Maria.potential

Angel Di Maria is a world champion, he was at Paris Saint-Germain with us (when Pochettino led leads PSG) and is a great player. Cole Palmer has the ability and potential to get close to Di Maria’s level over time. Cole Palmer is still a long way off, but this is the type of player who can link up, can create play, has the ability to score goals, create assists, that’s the same type of player as Angel Di Maria.

Of course, Cole Palmer performed very well at Chelsea from day one. He’s adapted very well to the club, to his team-mates, to life at Chelsea, and yes, that’s great, because you always expect this player to perform well, but he’s struggling. did very well.”