Cole Palmer to Liverpool is starting to feel REAL

Liverpool might just be able to make a move for Cole Palmer happen. This one is starting to feel real.

Chelsea reporter Simon Phillips wrote last week that Liverpool have enquired about Cole Palmer. Manchester City, the club which sold Palmer to Chelsea, have done the same.

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It suggests there’s talk in the air that Palmer might be on the move. That’s not something anyone would have predicted six months ago but here we are - the Premier League’s top sides believe there’s a chance, even just a slim one, that the playmaker moves on this summer.

Now, Phillips made it clear that he isn’t saying Chelsea will sell. It would take an enormous amount of money, of course, and either a belief that their team is better without Palmer or a willingness to put off the fruits of their rebuild for yet another year.

We imagine UEFA Champions League qualification will play a major part there. If they miss out, the rebuild will continue and holding onto Palmer is suddenly of less importance.

And you know what? Things are pointing in that direction. It’s starting to feel a little real.

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Cole Palmer on the move?

Chelsea are linked with a series of attacking midfielders right now. Players who would take up an incredibly similar role to Palmer’s.

There’s River Plate’s wonderkid Franco Mastantuono. Caughtoffside report that Chelsea are pushing hard to sign him and that’s something reported all over the place, in truth.

Mastantuono is the most exciting prospect in Argentina right now, playing wonderfully at senior level despite only being 17. Real Madrid are also interested and Liverpool have been linked.

But the same outlet also believes Chelsea are after Kenan Yildiz. The teenager would cost a lot of money but it appears Juventus may be forced to negotiate this year if they miss out on the Champions League.

They’d need cash and selling Yildiz would unquestionably be the best way to get it.

So when you factor in Premier League PSR and the game-time promises Chelsea would have to make to these players, the idea of Palmer leaving becomes a lot more real. It’s difficult to believe either player would pick the Blues if they’d sit behind Palmer in the pecking order, in fact.

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A deal between Chelsea and Liverpool certainly isn’t close and we might be clutching at straws a little here but it’s starting to feel a lot more possible. It’s one to watch this summer, even if it’s not one to get excited about just yet.