How Cole Palmer is 類似の to the late, 広大な／多数の／重要な George Best... and here's why the Chelsea 星／主役にする should （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Phil Foden to the Footballer of the Year award

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いつかs, まっただ中に the waves of data and 分析 which seem to 溺死する 同時代の football, you wonder whether there is still space for the genuinely 予期しない. The player who arrives out of a （疑いを）晴らす blue sky and 配達するs to a level no-one foresaw.

It was like that with George Best, called up to the Manchester 部隊d first team for a home match with West Bromwich Albion?61 years ago, and such a 捕らえる、獲得する of 神経s that Matt Busby 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d him as ‘reserve’, to 保存する him from 行う／開催する／段階 fright, when scrawling out the team-sheet in ballpoint.?

The then 17-year-old was 納得させるd that this 選択, in the days before 代用品，人s were used, must be some 肉親，親類d of 罰. He made his debut, of course ? and so invincibly that Busby later wondered aloud whether what he 観察するd had been a dream. A 経営者／支配人 never really knows until the white line is crossed and the first whistle blown.

No-one is comparing Cole Palmer with that 広大な talent but the surprise 構成要素 is much the same. Th e player last week 述べるd by Pep Guardiola?as ‘shy’ has 供給するd this season’s 最高の iridescence in ways which transcend the grey data.?

Numbers tell us that Palmer’s 29 goal/補助装置s are bettered by only?Aston 郊外住宅’s Ollie Watkins. That his 配達／演説／出産 of a goal or 補助装置 every 75 minutes is best in the 分割. That he has been 伴う／関わるd in 46 per cent of his 味方する’s 首相 League goals - more than any other player.

Cole Palmer has enjoyed a 素晴らしい debut season since moving to Chelsea last summer

The Man City 学院 卒業生（する） has shone にもかかわらず 存在 part of a struggling Chelsea 味方する

His surprise ascent to 即座の stardom is 類似の to that of the late, 広大な／多数の／重要な George Best

But the individual moments 急に上がる above all that. The の近くに 支配（する）／統制する and 40-yard diagonal pass 選ぶing out Mykhailo Mudryk from the touchline at 郊外住宅 Park last week. The forthright （人命などを）奪う，主張するing of the ball to despatch his fourth goal against Everton from the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, where he not 行方不明になるd in 13. The ball rolled through a forest of 脚s, into the 逮捕する, at Old Trafford, 配達するd against the direction of his 早い travel into the box.

It would have been something to 達成する all this as part of the 星雲 of talents and 広大な self-belief at Manchester City, the club which decided to 解放（する） him last summer, but to do it まっただ中に the drudgery which has followed Chelsea?around for most of this season is something else.?

Players in that wonderfully gifted City 味方する are justifiably fancied to be 栄冠を与えるd Player of the Year by the Football Writers’ 協会 and Professional Footballers 協会 next month. Phil Foden leads the PFA award 半端物s, followed by Rodri. But Palmer, at the age of 21, is the one who has truly 急に上がるd, 始める，決める the football conversation alight, transcended every 期待. Those others can’t 持つ／拘留する a たいまつ to him.

There is 非，不，無 of the insecurity in Palmer which 最終的に led Busby to 捜し出す help for Best, telling him he should ‘go and see somebody’ rather than 脅迫してさせる him with the word ‘psychiatry.’ (Best was 怪しげな of the individual with dark-でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れるd glasses who was peering at him and 辞退するd 臨床の help. ‘He looked at me in a funny way and then jotted something 負かす／撃墜する…’ he later 関係のある.) Palmer’s 広大な self-確信して manifests itself in the 肉親，親類d of 態度 which is not 正確に／まさに endearing to some who 遭遇（する） him but, on the flip 味方する, it 産む／飼育するs that 焦点（を合わせる） and 乗り気 to 試みる／企てる the outrageous.

West Ham thought they had his 署名 wrapped up and Chelsea only moved for him after a 取引，協定 for 水晶 Palace’s Michael Olise fell through. Yet something 重要な was said after Chelsea’s evisceration by 兵器庫, with Palmer absent, last week, when Mauricio Pochettino was 直面するd with his own 需要・要求する that the young player’s チーム仲間s should be too proud to 許す the team to become ‘Cole Palmer Football Club.’ The 経営者／支配人 認める: ‘He is the only player we have. A playmaker who links all the lines in the team.’ An 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 査定／評価. Nooner foresaw this.

Palmer's former boss Pep Guardiola 述べるd him as 'shy', but he is 極端に self 確信して

Palmer has truly 急に上がるd and transcended every 期待 始める，決める upon him over this season

It is why he deserves to 辛勝する／優位 out the likes of Phil Foden for the PFA Player of the Year award

While Mohamed Salah was busy trashing the way he will be remembered by Liverpool last 週末, Palmer was noisily 伴う／関わるing himself a いっそう少なく self-吸収するd 肉親，親類d of 論争 with Chelsea’s coaching staff. He had taken 問題／発行する with the 審判（をする）ing 決定／判定勝ち（する） which had cost Chelsea a late 勝利者 and no-one, 含むing assistant coach Jesus Perez was go ing to get in his way.

‘Off the pitch, I’m just 静かな,’ he told Mail Sport’s Adrian Kajumba earlier this year. ‘Keep myself to myself. But when I go on the pitch, I change. The switch just flicks. I don’t know why.’ Only three players - Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Andy Gray - have been 同時に 指名するd the PFA’s Player and Young Player of the Year. Palmer has comfortably earned a place in that company.

England fans should be careful what they wish for?

Fabio Capello didn’t see how ridiculous he looked when he arrived by 事前の 任命 to speak to a group of us at the Laureus awards in Madrid last week.

Unfathomably, he took umbrage before a word was spoken and made to leave, was 説得するd 支援する, decided to leave again, and when a 同僚 said ‘leave, then’, decided to stay.

He proceeded to trash Jordan Pickford and question England’s defence, having already expounded on England's 国家の football characteristic of ‘氷点の’ in big tournaments, 暗示するing its players are temperamentally weak.?

Incredible to 解任する, looking 支援する now, that this was the £6million-a-year 経営者／支配人 universally believed to be England’s saviour before the 最終的に 悲惨な 2010 World Cup.?

Those who have no time for Gareth Southgate are 平等に 確かな that some sophisticated new supercoach will 救助（する） England from the football which has taken them to a Euros final and World Cup 半分-final. Be careful what you wish for.

Fabio Capello was on strange form when speaking at the Laureus awards in Madrid last week

首相 League's reach knows no bounds?

I’ve spent five days walking a section of the Camino de Compostela in northern Spain, searching for 静かな, 静める and perhaps the meaning of life. The first two certainly materialised.?

It was beginning to seem like a million miles from football’s sound and fury when I walked through a Galician hamlet in the middle of nowhere and saw this. The?首相 League is truly everywhere.

I saw this 尊敬の印 to City 星／主役にする Rodri when walking through a Galician hamlet in northern Spain

Klopp's Salah 衝突／不一致 puts him in hallowed company

Jurgen Klopp’s touchline 論争 with Mohamed Salah puts him in hallowed company.?

（頭が）ひょいと動く Paisley, the most successful Liverpool 経営者／支配人 of them all, even incurred the wrath of the Kop for 代用品，人ing the popular, 水銀の and unhappy midfielder Craig Johnston in the 69th minute of a home game against Sunderland in March 1982, a few months before 発表するing he was stepping 負かす／撃墜する.?

Jurgen Klopp’s touchline 衝突／不一致 with Mohamed Salah last week puts him in hallowed company

Paisley was unmoved - an arch-competitor to the very last, who felt that he saw things that the Kop did not see. He had guided the team to three European Cups and a fifth league 肩書を与える was 切迫した that March but he had no time for 感情.

Neither does Klopp. Therein lies the real significance about last Saturday.