https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5803409/2024/09/30/erik-ten-hag-ineos-job-manchester-united/
From The Athletic's Nick Miller:
Extraordinarily, saying that Palmer ‘scored four goals before half-time’ (which nobody has ever done before in the Premier League) undersells what he did against Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday. He scored four goals in 20 minutes. Twenty minutes! And he could have had more.
It would be needlessly obtuse to argue that those goals weren’t the best part of his performance, but he also came up with a couple of utterly outrageous sweeping passes — one to set up Noni Madueke, another for Nicolas Jackson — that would have been the highlight of any other day, and the sort of balls you don’t play unless you’re at the absolute peak of confidence.
He doesn’t seem to feel pressure. He doesn’t seem to be fazed by something like a shift in position: he was brilliant from the right last season, he’s arguably been even better in the middle this term. He doesn’t seem to be affected by the rolling chaos of Chelsea. He doesn’t seem to be affected by anything, really.
Chelsea are much better than most expected but they’re not in the Champions League and they’re probably not going to challenge for the Premier League title.
So the question that will be pertinent soon, if it isn’t already, is this: Is he too good for Chelsea?
Palmer has an absurdly long contract, so it would take quite an offer for someone to buy him, but if Chelsea don’t make the top four this season, there will be a few clubs queueing up to ask them, ‘How much?’
by zurairi
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The Athletic is such garbage
The bias is just absurd at this point. What’s funny is that they end up tagging the piece to the Chelsea page when really it’s a hit piece. Why would any Chelsea fan want to read that garbage?
Modern journalism is all click bait shite. It’s regressed to the level of celebrity gossip and I wouldn’t care what any of them think. They simply want to justify their pitiful existence.
It’s not an unfair question to pose in the event we don’t progress (which seems very unlikely based on what we’ve seen so far).
>Palmer has an absurdly long contract, so it would take quite an offer for someone to buy him, but if Chelsea don’t make the top four this season, there will be a few clubs queueing up to ask them, ‘How much?’
Someone tell me a team that needs a player in his position and can afford him, I can’t think of one?