The prediction about the player Guardiola let slip away: “He could be worth 240 million euros”

Pep Guardiola He met her in the last game, City of Manchester He will have to go into the winter transfer market to try to reverse a poor run of results, the worst the Catalan coach has suffered in his entire career.

While at the Etihad they wonder what is happening to the current Premier League champion, there is a ‘run run’ that grows in Manchester and reaches London, where the beloved English fan now lives: Cole Palmer. A player who lets escape Pep Guardiola for not seeing what it takes to be a starter with ‘sky blue’ and in 2024 He broke Chelsea’s all-time record for goals in the same year with 26 without even being a striker.

Palmer It is now, then Mohamed Salahthe best player in the Premier League. His talent is beyond debate and after putting the ‘blues’ on his back last season, which was not easy, he is now the leader of the third placed team in England, who are having a very different moment despite having two. game without winning.

Palmer was so good that some dared to predict what might happen to him in the future. At only 22 years old, such a legend of Manchester United Jaap Stam He ensured that the Chelsea footballer could be the most expensive in the entire history. “It could cost 240 million euros a day while it’s being built”the Dutchman said of the Englishman, who seemed to love leaving Stamford Bridge 47 ‘kilos’ for him almost a season ago.

For now, The record is still held by Neymar Jr., for whom Paris Saint-Germain paid 222 million euros to get him out of Barça in the 2017/2018 season. And the second one was also signed by the Parisian team that year, when they got Kylian Mbappé for 180 ‘kilo’. “It’s incredible to see him at Manchester United. As a fan of the club, he probably wants to do it too,” Stam daydreamed about it, although knowing that “in his current state of form, no club can able. to pay him.”