Former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin believes that Cole Palmer is a world-class participant and expects a giant season from the England attacker this yr.
The 23-year-old was instrumental in Chelsea’s Membership World Cup success earlier this month, scoring twice and laying on an help within the Blues’ 3-0 victory over Paris Saint-Germain within the last, as he took residence the Golden Ball award for the match’s finest participant.
This got here on the finish of a marketing campaign through which he didn’t fairly attain the heights of the earlier season when Palmer started his Stamford Bridge profession in type, scoring 25 targets after his transfer from £40million transfer from Manchester Metropolis.
Pat Nevin on Cole Palmer’s ‘world class’ case
That is one thing that former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin has picked up on. “The comparability between Cole Palmer and Zinedine Zidane was high quality a yr in the past,” Nevin instructed Examine.wager.
“It wasn’t high quality final yr. However it could possibly be high quality once more. Look, he’s positively a world class participant. He is nonetheless very, very younger.
“Bear in mind again within the Euros and it was all about numerous different gamers, Cole gave the impression to be sitting on the bench. And I used to be pondering, ‘What are you doing? Why are you doing that?’ He ought to be on.
“It would not matter who’s the attractive participant. It is who’s doing the enterprise. I feel nearly any staff on the planet could be very, very pleased to take him. That’s the definition of a world-class participant.
“He is proper up on the stage. So Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, do not evaluate anybody with that as a result of it is not truthful.
“However the subsequent stage beneath, I feel he is fairly shut there already as it’s, however he must do it yr in, yr out. And final yr was fairly a yr.”
Nevin, who was ranked at no.23 in FourFourTwo’s checklist of Chelsea’s best-ever signings, believes that the Blues’ switch exercise this summer season will find yourself benefiting Palmer and aiding this job of delivering on a extra constant foundation.
“What is going on to assist him this yr is the gamers round him,” Nevin continues. “Estevao and Jamie Gittens, they’re most likely going to make it a bit simpler for him and all people else getting stronger.”
