Cole Palmer has already named his best player in the world ahead of Ballon d'Or awards

The Ballon d'Or victor volition beryllium announced connected Tuesday nighttime with Chelsea prima Cole Palmer 1 of the 25 contenders to beryllium named the world's champion subordinate of the past year

Cole Palmer has named Kylian Mbappe arsenic the champion subordinate successful the world arsenic the Frenchman looks to triumph his archetypal Ballon d'Or title.

Mbappe left PSG successful the summer having fired them to different Ligue 1 rubric to articulation Real Madrid. He is 1 of the contenders to beryllium handed the Ballon d'Or trophy, with the victor being announced connected Tuesday.

Among those hoping to triumph are England stars Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka, Phil Foden, Declan Rice and Palmer himself. The Chelsea prima enjoyed a superb archetypal play with the Blues, earlier scoring successful the Euro 2024 final.

He has already won the PFA's Young Player of the Year award, which was announced successful September. Speaking astatine the time, the 22-year-old appeared to uncover his clip for the Ballon d'Or title.

Palmer was asked by Goal who the champion subordinate successful the satellite is. At first, helium said: "Either Vini [Vinicius Junior] oregon Mbappe." After being pressed for a definitive answer, helium replied: "Mbappe."

Palmer was besides asked to sanction the champion subordinate helium had ever played with, the champion English subordinate successful past and the champion passer, among different categories. He was past told to sanction a caput to caput victor betwixt each one.

Mbappe reached the semi-final stage, with Lionel Messi beating him. Messi would extremity up the winner, with Palmer picking the Argentine implicit Cristiano Ronaldo successful the final.

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Mbappe is successful contention to decorativeness successful a beardown position, having netted six La Liga goals successful 9 appearances since joining Madrid. France's show astatine Euro 2024 whitethorn harm his candidacy though, arsenic good arsenic PSG's nonaccomplishment successful the Champions League during his clip astatine the Parc des Princes.

Instead, it is expected that Vinicius, Bellingham and Manchester City's Rodri volition beryllium battling it retired for the apical 3 positions. Vinicius is the dense favourite with the bookmakers to scoop the award.

It is the archetypal clip since 2005 that neither Messi nor Ronaldo person been nominated. Palmer volition anticipation for a precocious decorativeness having scored 22 Premier League goals and nottched 11 assists past season.

He has already made 9 extremity contributions this word successful his 8 appearances successful the apical flight. But helium volition apt decorativeness towards the little fractional of the rankings erstwhile they are announced.

Also successful the moving from the Premier League is Arsenal duo William Saliba and Martin Odegaard, and City brace Erling Haaland and Ruben Dias. England skipper and Bayern Munich prima Harry Kane besides makes the shortlist.

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