Chelsea Flop was in front of Palmer, now he played only 192 minutes this season

In context ChelseaRecent history, the summer broadcast 2023/24 ended extremely important.

In the process spending around £ 386 millionThey brought 12 new players to the club, which funded a lot of sales, namely bringing £ 226 millionLooding nine players on permanent transfers, simultaneously release five players to free transfer.

This has been a mixed bag so far, with Christopher Nkunk, Roméo Lavia, Axel Disasi and Robert Sanchez are not fulfilling the way they hoped, like Lesley Vasmu, Djorgia Petrovic and Deid Washington still under the microscope.

However, there were already some irresistible successes from this window. Take like Moises Caicedo, Nicolas Jackson and of course, Cole Palmer.

Numbers behind the rise of Cole Palmer in Chelsea

It may seem long ago, but Palmer is signed in the 2023/24 summer transition window and was not a first -team starter immediately from off off.

His first intercourse came from the bench under Mauricio Pochettin, playing 28 minutes against Nottingham Forest, playing 27 minutes against Bournemouth playing for 22 minutes against Aston villa.

Still it didn’t take long for Palmer to become a star in Chelsea, You will perform 78 appearances for the club so farAchieving 39 goals and securing 21 assists in 6,319 minutes.

The 22-year-old is unhappy that no more assists, especially in this campaign, Have the highest XA (expected assists) in the league with 7.34which is 0.33 more than Mohamed Salah.

But in those first weeks of Pochettin, we saw a certain Chelsea star reliable in an unknown role, which could affect Palmer’s trajectory that he was not injured at the time.

Chelseaev 193-minute man

Carney Chukwuemeka signed Chelsea in a summer transition window 2022/23 Joining Aston Villa with a fee of around £ 20m. He arrived at the bridge to a very significant amount of hype, especially described the Vili Executive Director, Christian Purslow, as “Probably the best 16-year-old in England.”

Well, after moving to London, his first season at the club interfered with injuries, but still managed to make 15 first -team appearancesA total of 362 minutes.

The midfielder then started a campaign under Pochettin, which played in an attack environment/right hybrid hybrid role, Starting the first two games of the Premier League seasonplaying well against Liverpool in the opener, before he was against West Ham in the second game.

Unfortunately, Chukwuemeka suffered a knee injury in the same West HAM match, forcing him and preventing him from January 2024.

By this point, Palmer, of course, succeeded, and that is why the midfielder fought for a consistent minute for the rest of the campaign, he also interfered with more injuries problems.

Fast forward so far, the English midfielder failed to break into the first team under Enz Maresca, just playing a total of 130 minutes for Chelsea116 those minutes that arrived in the UEFA Conference League.

Due to the lack of minutes, Chukwuemeka went on loan in January window in Borussia Dortmund, where he again suffered injuries and only made 63 minutes for German clothes.

If a young offensive midfielder can collect fitness and start getting a consistent minute, he obviously has a talent for explosion, but it would be very interesting to know in the alternative universe, how the career of both players could differ that West Ham’s injury did not happen.