Cole Palmer may have ended up at Burnley if Chelsea had signed their first two targets, including an Arsenal outcast. Mauricio Pochettino needed convincing.
The £42.5m deal which saw Palmer swap shades of blue remains one of the weirdest in recent times. It has proven to be money incredibly well spent but the circumstances which brought it about were as curious as the sudden subsequent rise.
A report in November from the Daily Mail’s Matt Hughes said that Pochettino felt his squad ‘had enough’ attacking players of a similar profile, with director of recruitment Joe Shields, the former head of academy recruitment and talent management at Manchester City, said to have ‘convinced’ the manager the deal was necessary. It has probably ended up saving his job a few times since.
a hilariously elaborate release clause akin to that of Luis Suarez’s at Liverpool was Chelsea’s undoing He described Palmer as the ‘one name that was raised’ during squad-planning discussions in the summer who Chelsea ‘feared Manchester City would simply refuse to do business on,’ and that initial overtures were made in June during negotiations over the Mateo Kovacic transfer.
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