Cole Palmer 'wouldn't pass' to Man City player in training and Pep Guardiola let them both go within two years

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Cole Palmer would not ever walk to a Manchester City teammate during his clip astatine the Etihad and Pep Guardiola has overseen some players leaving the club.

Palmer came done the younker squad ranks astatine City and made his elder debut backmost successful 2020.

The attacker was portion of the City squad which won the treble successful 2023 aft claiming the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup.

His past enactment successful a City garment was netting the equaliser successful the UEFA Super Cup against Sevilla, which Guardiola's broadside won 5-4 connected penalties pursuing a 1-1 draw.

In September 2023, Palmer was transferred to Chelsea for an wide interest of £42.5m - a terms which appears to person been a bargain successful the modern transportation market.

Palmer has established himself arsenic a cardinal subordinate astatine Stamford Bridge and scored 43 goals successful 97 games crossed each competitions for the London club.

The 23-year-old has helped Chelsea triumph some the UEFA Conference League and the recently expanded FIFA Club World Cup, the second of which concluded past weekend.

Palmer scored doubly successful a 3-0 triumph successful the final implicit Paris Saint-Germain, with summertime signing Joao Pedro besides connected the scoresheet, arsenic Chelsea won the Club World Cup for the 2nd time.

Cole Palmer successful enactment for Manchester City. (Image: Getty)

When helium was astatine City, Palmer was the lone young subordinate astatine the nine who did not walk to legendary midfielder Kevin De Bruyne when helium called for it.

Former City defender Joleon Lescott told the High Performance Podcast: "Pep knew Palmer had thing peculiar due to the fact that helium doesn’t walk to De Bruyne erstwhile helium asks for the ball.

"Pep knew helium got property due to the fact that successful grooming if young lads travel up, and past Kevin shouts for the ball, adjacent if it’s not connected [for a pass], they would effort to walk to him.

"Cole doesn’t bash that. If there’s thing amended connected for Cole and the team, that’s what’s happening, not that Kevin needs the ball."

Palmer has impressed since joining Chelsea (Image: Getty)

And arsenic things person transpired, Guardiola has present overseen some Palmer and De Bruyne's departure from the Etihad Stadium, with the Belgian playmaker since joining Serie A champions Napoli connected a escaped transportation this summertime upon the expiry of his City declaration aft it was not renewed.

After moving from Wolfsburg successful 2015 for a reported £55m, De Bruyne went connected to nett 108 goals successful 422 City appearances crossed 10 seasons for the club.

De Bruyne's trophy haul successful that clip included six Premier League titles, 2 FA Cups, 5 League Cups, the Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.

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