Cole Palmer: Martin Keown predicts Chelsea ace will leave club despite contract renewal - 'What have I signed for?'
Published 27/03/2025 at 12:17 GMT
Cole Palmer may regret signing his new Chelsea deal, Martin Keown believes, as the TNT Sports expert predicted that the England star will leave the west London club in the near future. Palmer's current Chelsea contract is set to expire in 2032, but the lack of improvement on the pitch could force him to look elsewhere, the former Arsenal defender has claimed.
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Martin Keown believes Cole Palmer will leave Chelsea "in the next couple of years" after The Blues' form spiralled in the second half of the Premier League season.
After a tricky campaign under Mauricio Pochettino in 2023/24, as Chelsea scraped a sixth-place finish, things started brightly for Enzo Maresca this season with the club second behind only Liverpool on Christmas Day.
But they have since slipped 21 points adrift of the runaway leaders and find themselves in a battle for the top four, with fifth place likely securing UEFA Champions League football.
The west Londoners have outlaid record numbers in a couple of heavy-spending transfer windows, but on the pitch, things still seem a tad stale.
TNT Sports expert Keown has made a bold claim about Palmer's future, despite the 22-year-old only recently putting pen to paper on a new whopping nine-year deal.
"Palmer's probably wondering, 'Hold on, what have I really signed for?' I could see him leaving that football club in the next couple of years," Keown predicted on the Premier League Breakdown Show.
"They beat Southampton, beat Leicester, you expect to beat those teams, as soon as they have to play anyone of any calibre, they lose."
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Chelsea lost three games on the bounce in February as they suffered defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion twice - once in the league and once in the FA Cup - as well as Aston Villa.
They responded with four wins on the spin, beating relegation contenders Southampton and Leicester City, while moving past Copenhagen in the UEFA Conference League last 16.
But they returned to losing ways after a loss to Arsenal at Emirates Stadium before the international break, their seventh game without a win against The Gunners.
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Injuries contributed to 'really flat' performances
Lucy Ward described Chelsea's recent performances as "really flat", but also cited the team's injury problems as a cause for their dip in form.
"Chelsea have struggled with the injuries. Cole Palmer has been brilliant and then [Nicolas] Jackson got injured, [Noni] Madueke got injured, and that little right-hand side and that little relationship between those three has really affected them," she told TNT Sports.
"All Premier League teams you can talk about injuries, but Chelsea, when he [Maresca] was consistent with his selections, and then in the Conference League he'd have a completely different XI.
"And it worked because the Conference League XI, a couple of them got into the Premier League XI and it started to work. And then, the injury to Jackson started the downfall."
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