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Cole Palmer admits Champions League winners’ medal means nothing to him and he ‘doesn’t feel like he won it’
COLE PALMER is already a Champions League winner.
But to the ambitious young star, the medal he picked up as a non-playing substitute in Manchester City’s 2023 triumph over Inter Milan doesn’t mean a lot.
During what turned out to be his final season at City, he made his only start in the competition in a dead rubber group game against Sevilla.
For the rest of the campaign, including the final in Istanbul, he sat on the bench as a no doubt frustrated observer.
Palmer, now 23, said: “I always say, I don’t feel like a Champions League winner, if I’m being honest.
“It doesn’t really mean anything to me.
“People say it, but I weren’t involved.
“Obviously I played in the group stage and stuff like that, but it’s not the same, is it?
“I’ve not threw the medal away! I’ve still got it, but it’s not like I feel like I’ve won it.”
Palmer thoroughly earned the winner’s medal he received for Chelsea’s Conference League triumph last month.
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He gave a second-half masterclass as the Blues came from a goal down to beat Real Betis 4-1 and become the first club to complete a full set of Uefa trophies.
But it’s a competition that Palmer and Chelsea hope to have left behind for good.
For the club’s status and bank balance, the victory over Nottingham Forest that guaranteed a return to the Champions League after a two-year absence, was far more important.
Palmer said: “Everyone at Chelsea wanted to be in the Champions League.
“No disrespect to the Conference League or whatever, but Champions League is the biggest competition.
“We finished well. We had some tough games
“We had that little spell in the season where we weren’t too great.
“Everyone was saying they’re not gonna get Champions League and that.
“So to get it was good. Getting that at Forest was a relief”
But Palmer’s display against Betis will have been something of a relief to him, even if he would not put in quite those terms.
It was a timely return of the Cole Palmer who had made himself into one of the world’s biggest young stars
Because after picking up where he had left off in his stunning debut season for the Blues, scoring and creating goals for fun, the second half of the 2024/5 campaign was a tough one.
As the run of games without a goal or even an assist grew longer and longer, it looked like Palmer was feeling the pressure.
His spectacular transformation from City youth player to Chelsea’ main man created expectation, and he was not living up to it.
Even the famously cool young man was just a little concerned.
Palmer said: “I know myself players will go through it. I’m not stupid.
“But then you go into Chelsea and you do that from a jump, and then you go into a dip, you just think, ‘What’s going on?’.
“I don’t mind. Obviously I did mind, but I didn’t think it was the end of the world.
“I just think it was one of them things when things weren’t happening for me.
“I went on a bit longer than I thought it would go on. But I spoke to people about it and they explained it was going to happen.
“But they said that when I get out of it, I’ll be an even better player than what I was before I went in it.”
Which would be great news for Chelsea and for England.
Although Palmer is very much the Blues’ key man, at international level he has a fight on his hands to be the creative hub of the team.
Which feels even stranger because he is one of only four England players to have scored a goal in a major final.
For most of Euro 2024, Three Lions fans were crying out for Palmer to be given more of a chance to inject some life into Gareth Southgate’s struggling team.
And when he was brought on in the final against Spain, he grabbed a brilliant equaliser.
Palmer recalled: “An occasion like that if you think about it, it might get the better of you. So I just try not to.
“I was just getting ready to come on like all the other games I came on, try and make an impact.
“I thought, ‘It’s the final, the last game, we’re losing, I’ve got nothing to lose’. Well, we did, the biggest game of our career, but you know what I mean.
“So yeah, that’s what I was trying to do.
“At the time, I didn’t really realise how big that goal was. It was only when the tournament finished and I went home and looked back.”
But it’s about looking forward now, for Palmer, Chelsea and England.
Real Madrid star and Champions League winner Jude Bellingham is the man in possession of the No 10 role for England.
If both he and Palmer start Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Andorra, the Chelsea man could find himself out wide.
But at least next season, he will be playing in the same European competition as Bellingham and the biggest stars of the game.
And trying to earn a medal for real.
DELAP BREAKOUT
COLE Palmer is delighted that former Manchester City team-mate Liam Delap has opted to join the Blues.
The pair, who grew up together in the City Academy, will be reunited at Stamford Bridge after the Blues confirmed they had completed a £30m deal with Ipswich for centre forward Delap.
Palmer said: “I’m excited to play with him. I was messaging him asking If he was coming and that.
“I played with him at Under 18s, 21s. We went to the first team together.
“He’s a great striker, one of the best in the Premier League. You can see from last season.
“So I think he’ll help us a lot and hopefully score lots of goals.”
Amy Childs in Towie feud as two cast members aren’t invited to her wedding
AMY Childs has snubbed two Towie castmates as she puts together her wedding guest list, The Sun can exclusively reveal.
The reality TV favourite, 34, still intends to tie the knot with fiancé Billy Delbosq despite the pair reportedly postponing their nuptials due to some “last minute changes”.
But two Towie stars won’t be watching her say “I do” when it eventually does take place.
A source said: “Amy has said all her Towie family will be invited to her wedding with Billy, bar two cast members.
“Although she said she isn’t naming names it’s clear to everyone who knows who those two cast members are.”
Her cousin Harry Derbidge’s ex-boyfriend, Joe Blackmore, and his former BFF, Junaid Ahmed, will be notable absentees.
It follows a huge rift after Joe struck up a romance with Junaid following cheating allegations and his subsequent split from Harry.
The insider continued: “While they’ve done their very best to make amends and try and reintegrate back into the cast fold, Amy has drawn her line in the sand and made her position very clear.
“She and Bill filmed an explosive scene with the pair last year and since then have very much kept their distance.”
The last series ended with an emotional Joe and Junaid having make up talks with Jordan (Brooks) and Sophie (Kasaei) as they were invited to his 30th birthday bash.
Harry previously revealed he and Joe – who has a son from a previous relationship – had started planning their wedding and had even discussed having more children.
Speaking to Closer, he said: “He has moved in and we live together now… it’s going really good. We talk about loads of things.
“We have planned our futures and I know that will be me forever.
“We want to have kids one day and get married.
“We will just run away to Vegas. We will see Elvis Presley and do it.
“Me and Joe always talk about a Vegas wedding and about surrogacy. If we never worked out, I would be so sad.”
But the happy ending never played out and the relationship came to an explosive end after Harry confronted Joe about messages he’d found between him and Junaid.
‘I’m not a robot’ – Cole Palmer’s mum tells him to be ‘more smiley’ but Chelsea star is ‘laid back’ like his dad
COLE Palmer admits his mum wants him to cheer up and show more emotion.
But the Chelsea and England star says it takes something like a disaster on PlayStation for him to lose his famous cool – and even then only behind closed doors.
Palmer, who is preparing for England’s World Cup qualifier against Andorra, said: “My mum says to try and be a bit more involved and a bit more smiley and energetic and that.
“Me and my dad are just too laid back, I think.
“My dad says: ‘He’s just like me, so just leave him alone.’
“When did I last get angry? I don’t know, maybe when I played PlayStation or something.
“I’m not just a robot like you think I am and don’t show no emotion.
“When there’s no cameras and I’m on the phone to my mates and I’m doing stuff I enjoy doing…
“Off the pitch I’m like this but then on the pitch…it’s like a switch.
“I’m just being myself.”
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Palmer is so chilled that he can fall asleep at an F1 race.
England boss Thomas Tuchel took the squad to the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday and the Chelsea playmaker revealed: “It was good.
“I went to the one in Abu Dhabi not long ago. But I fell asleep at that one. I don’t know what it was.
“This one, I was awake.”
Palmer’s “Cold” celebration and style of play make him an idol to young fans, regardless of which team they support.
The Chelsea playmaker said: “When you see kids and that doing what they’re doing and saying that, it’s nice.”
Palmer is typically calm about his growing celebrity.
But the born and bred Mancunian Palmer, who left Manchester City for the Blues in 2023, still finds living down south a challenge.
Palmer previously commented on southerners being grumpy and said: “They’re all still moody. They’re all still like that.
“I think because it’s so busy, they’re all stressed and that. It must be a southern thing.
“I don’t live central. Sometimes I go into central London, but I couldn’t live there.”
Tottenham squad set to be boosted by return of league winner who hasn’t played for club in nearly TWO YEARS
MANOR SOLOMON is set to be given a second chance at Tottenham.
The Israeli winger, 25, has become a forgotten man in N17 after spending the season on loan at Leeds.
But he proved to be a huge hit at Elland Road, netting ten goals in 41 appearances as he helped the Whites to promotion back to the Premier League.
Leeds are keen to sign him permanently, while there are believed to be other suitors in the Premier League interested in Solomon’s services.
But SunSport understands the North Londoners are minded to bring him back into the first-team fold over pre-season with the ambition of keeping him next season.
That is despite all the uncertainty around the managerial position at Tottenham.
Former Fulham loanee Solomon joined Tottenham on a free transfer in 2023.
That is after he left Shakhtar Donetsk following Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine the year before.
His first campaign was blighted by a hamstring injury, limiting him to just six Spurs appearances.
Solomon’s last game for Tottenham was back in September 30, 2023.
Now everyone at Spurs are currently waiting with baited breath over whether Daniel Levy will back or sack boss Ange Postecoglou.
It is understood the latter is more likely, despite the Aussie delivering Spurs their first trophy in 17 years with last month’s Europa League triumph.
Thomas Frank and Marco Silva, of West London rivals Brentford and Fulham respectively, are among the candidates to succeed Postecoglou if he is sacked.