Since the start of the 2023/24 season, no player have had more goals involvement in the English Premier League than Cole Palmer. The England attacker have two more than Manchester City's Erling Haaland. Considering the fact that Cole Palmer was deemed surplus to requirements at Manchester City which made them allow him join Chelsea last year's summer, do you think Pep Guardiola and the management of Manchester City is now regretting the decision to allow him go or not? Would he have been this prolific if he had remained at Manchester City?
I don't think Pep Guardiola or Manchester city's management is regretting not signing Cole Palmer because his team is still performing very well and Erling Halland is also a goal scorer so the only thing that would have made Pep Guardiola regret not signing Cole Palmer would have been if his team are not performing well or if he didn't have a striker who would match up Cole palmer's goal scoring record and if not for the 4 goals Cole Palmer scored on saturday, Erling Halland would have been the top goal scorer yet. But seriously Cole Palmer did a wonderful job for Chelsea last Saturday because scoring 4 consecutive goals in a row in either halves is a record kept by only few players in the history of football which are Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Jermain Defoe, Sergio Aguero and now Cole Palmer.
Regret or not in the end it's about compatibility and it can't be denied even though for now Palmer always shows his best performance at Chelsea but that doesn't mean Pep will regret it because in the end he also knows the situation that happened especially in Manchester City also filled with some great players so it could be that Palmer would not be as good as today when he remained at Chelsea.
Pep has had a long career and in the end he knows whether he will fit or not with Palmer so when it cannot be forced then why do it because currently Palmer and Pep also have their own path.
Palmer is now very good at Chelsea even though it is not accompanied by his club which still has some problems but at least with him there, Chelsea looks a little better, on the other hand for Pep he will also not regret it because it will only waste his time especially for now there are still a lot of players he can use so he already knows what he has to do without having to regret letting Palmer leave Manchester City.