Recent Palmer Ballon d’Or Shouts Are Reactionary – Darren Bent

Cole Palmer is not in the race to win the next Ballon d’Or award, Darren Bent has said. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, Cole does not sit alongside Lamine Yamal and Harry Kane in the world’s top 10 best players list, and the current shouts are very reactionary.

Bent added that Palmer had one goal in 14 games before the Club World Cup tournament.

His words, “I think it’s been very reactionary. You’ve got to take into account his season that’s just gone. Yes his numbers were decent, but when you compare him to last season where he was scary…

It’s going to sound ridiculous, but 16 goals in all competitions and 12 assists is still decent but his first season it was 25 goals and 15 assists. There’s levels there and I think before [the Club World Cup] he had one goal in 14, so he wasn’t his most prolific.”

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.

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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.