Palmer Was Still Dangerous Even When His Form Dropped – Shaun Wright-Philips

Former Chelsea and Manchester City winger Shaun Wright-Phillips has come out to blast Cole Palmer’s critics. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he doesn’t believe Palmer fell off towards the end of last season, because even though his goals dried up, he was still creating lots of chances for his teammates.

Shaun added that it is natural for the form of footballers to drop every now and then, but that doesn’t change the fact that Cole is a dangerous player.

His words, “I think it’s mad to say that Cole Palmer trailed off last season. I just don’t see it. I think people say it because he wasn’t scoring, but he was still creating the same amount of chances as when he was finding the back of the net himself. I don’t think he tailed off, I think it’s natural that players’ form will ebb and flow. You have those patches where everything goes in, just like there are spells where nothing will go in. Don’t forget, he can do all the work just as he always did in terms of assists, but even then he’s reliant on his strikers putting the ball in the back of the net.

I think he’s still dangerous, because he can damage you in the final third, and in his own third he has that passing range to set up a goal from deep. The way he’s playing, he’s always a threat. I think Cole Palmer’s reputation is going to blossom again when he’s linking up with Liam Delap.”

WOW.

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The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.

On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.

The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.