{"id":8750,"date":"2023-11-15T17:13:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T11:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/15\/englands-new-emerging-star-cole-palmer-says-chelsea-move-paying-off\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T11:43:25","slug":"englands-new-emerging-star-cole-palmer-says-chelsea-move-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/15\/englands-new-emerging-star-cole-palmer-says-chelsea-move-paying-off\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s new emerging star Cole Palmer says Chelsea move \u2018paying off\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cole Palmer says his surprise move from Treble winner Manchester City to Premier League rival Chelsea is already paying off after he earned a first England call-up.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer scored for City in the Community Shield in August and again in the UEFA Super Cup but joined free-spending Chelsea in a deal worth up to \u00a342.5 million ($53 million) on transfer deadline day, September 1.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old forward has scored four times and provided four assists in 11 appearances since arriving at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>He was called up to Gareth Southgate\u2019s England squad after injuries to James Maddison, Callum Wilson and Lewis Dunk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happened fast, to be fair,\u201d Palmer said at a press conference ahead of England\u2019s final two Euro 2024 qualifiers, referring to his move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to someone at Chelsea and I was speaking to my dad, but I really didn\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/la-liga\/jorge-de-la-vega-take-over-chief-executive-officer-la-liga-2024-oscar-mayo-pardo-deputy-ceo\/article67535547.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jorge De la Vega to take over as Chief Executive Officer of La Liga <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just thinking about it for a couple of days, like near enough every minute of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then I just thought for my career and stuff I have to go and try and get regular game time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a big move for me. I\u2019d never been out of Manchester, not even on loan or anything like that, so to move down there on my own was a big thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A combination of injury and competition at Manchester City restricted Palmer to just seven starts last year as the club won the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would always be grateful to City boss Pep Guardiola for launching his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho knows what would have happened if I had stayed,\u201d he added. \u201cMaybe I would have played more, maybe not. But I think the decision that I made to go to Chelsea so far is paying off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palmer said he was enjoying working with Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino, whose team are 10th in the Premier League table after an inconsistent start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people told me how he is with young players,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver since I went to Chelsea I can see it, so I\u2019m enjoying working with him and excited to carry on working with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has given me the confidence and licence to go where I want on the pitch, where I feel I can use my strengths, so I\u2019m grateful for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>England, who have already qualified for the Euro 2024 finals in Germany, host Malta at Wembley on Friday before facing North Macedonia away three days later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palmer scored for City in the Community Shield in August and again in the UEFA Super Cup but joined free-spending Chelsea in a deal worth up to \u00a342.5 million ($53 million) on transfer deadline day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}