- Mail Sport revealed in 2021 that Man City had approached the liberation of Palmer
- Palmer finally went for £ 42 million in 2023 and has prospered playing for Chelsea
- Listen now: Everything is starting! With the Premier League probably ensuring five places in the Champions League, are we rewarding mediocrity?
Cole Pale has opened for the first time at Manchester City almost freeing him when he was a teenager and insists that he did not want to leave the club permanently in 2023.
The city's senior academy staff was not going to offer the Forward scholarship, favoring their departure, just for director Jason Wilcox to veto the decision.
Mail Sport revealed the story in 2021, with the financial package of Palmer and the duration of the contract significantly less attractive than his companions, and the England's international has admitted that the height contained it.
“The coach had a different way to see it,” Palmer said in the Lions of England: a new generation in Prime Video. 'Until that coaches would like until that moment. They would play me no matter how small it was.
Palmer's father, Jermaine, admitted that Palmer could not deal with the physicality of the academy's football before a growth that altered his career.
“Cole was two years old, children under 15 to 16 years, where I was little,” said Jermaine. 'I had a new coach that was more about rhythm and power. They didn't get too well and he fought.
Cole Palmer admits that he did not want to leave Manchester City permanently in 2023
England's international has prospered since Stamford Bridge moved
Palmer was almost released by Man City when he was a teenager due to concerns about his height
'The children were larger, older. They were breaking it all the time. They measure a bone in your hand, which tells you how big you will be. They said I was going to have five feet nine.
'And then he almost let him go around the city. Adequate brutal. I simply thought there is no way for him to have five feet nine: he would be one of the smallest of the family. We have everything about my size and I thought that if it was like me I would grow when I arrived at 16. And then we will know how big it will be. ''
In a conversation with Jermaine, Palmer said he did not believe he grew up, and it was also firm that the transfer of £ 42 million to Chelsea, 'the best decision' of his career, was not something he promoted.
“I was so inflexible for years that I wasn't going to go,” he said. 'I have never moved from Manchester. I really didn't want to go. (But) you are a little discouraged in the city, why don't I have the opportunity to play? You only know when you are ready to play.
I am grateful. I have no idea what I would do if I weren't a footballer. Actually zero idea. When growing with Wythenshawe, everyone does football or drugs. There are two paths. I love football so much. You don't get there without graft, right?
Jermaine added: 'He thought he would be in the city all his life. I really didn't want to leave. I wanted to lend out because I knew I wasn't going to play much. But they rejected a loan. Then he said he would have to leave.
England Lions: A new generation is available exclusively on video prime on Saturday, March 15.