Cole Palmer shows true colours as he admits what he did with Man City medals

Cole Palmer has already won much trophies than astir players bash successful their careers, but that does not mean the Chelsea midfielder is perpetually looking backmost astatine his achievements

Cole Palmer has admitted that helium casts his medals to 1 broadside - his mother's, that is.

The Chelsea and England midfielder is already a Champions League, FA Cup and Premier League victor with Manchester City and was adjacent to winning the European Championship with the Three Lions past summer. It's rather the medal haul for a subordinate who lone precocious turned 22 years old.

He already has much silverware than astir Premier League players, contempt his vocation being successful its infancy. However, alternatively of looking astatine his gongs and reminiscing backmost to times much successful, Palmer keeps his medals retired of show and retired of mind.

The midfielder alternatively hands them to his parents erstwhile helium is finished admiring them. It's the cleanable encapsulation of his winning mentality and however determined helium is.

In an interrogation with GQ Magazine, Palmer was asked what helium does with the medals and trophies helium wins. He said: "I springiness them to my mum. I wanted to restock.

"Clear them retired truthful I tin banal up again. The feeling you get erstwhile you win… you conscionable privation it again. You don’t privation to halt and ne'er get that feeling again.”

Palmer volition beryllium aiming to adhd much medals to his and his mum's postulation aft a trophyless archetypal play successful westbound London. The Blues person started highly powerfully successful Europa Conference League, portion they beryllium 3rd successful the Premier League array - albeit already 9 points down league leaders Liverpool.

Last season, Palmer added a Carabao Cup runner-up medal to his postulation and was adjacent to reaching a 2nd FA Cup last successful his career, but the Blues mislaid to his erstwhile nine successful the semi-final astatine Wembley. However, the metallic medal successful the European Championship would person stung much than immoderate different setback successful his career.

Palmer began the last successful Berlin connected the bench, but was introduced for Kobbie Mainoo successful the 70th minute. Three minutes later, helium pounced onto a fantastic layback from Jude Bellingham to occurrence a precise decorativeness into the bottommost right-hand country from 25 yards out.

Reminiscing backmost connected that peculiar moment, helium added: "It each happened truthful fast. Obviously, I’ve watched it each back, the highlights and that… but it’s 1 of those things that happened truthful accelerated you don’t truly retrieve it.”

Last year, Palmer watched his erstwhile broadside triumph a 4th consecutive Premier League rubric and scope the aforementioned FA Cup final, wherever they would beryllium beaten by Manchester United. His £42.5million determination to Chelsea successful the anterior summertime was a astonishment astatine the clip fixed the gulf successful the clubs' fortunes.

However, helium insists helium made the close decision. When asked wherefore helium near City, helium said: "I conscionable knew I wasn’t going to play arsenic overmuch arsenic I wanted to.

"Even erstwhile I was going to England [camps] with younger property groups, you had players determination who were playing successful the league each week. And you’re looking astir thinking, I tin play successful the league.”

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