{"id":482112,"date":"2024-04-19T17:06:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482112"},"modified":"2024-04-19T17:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:06:35","slug":"guardiola-palmer-asked-to-leave-city-for-2-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-palmer-asked-to-leave-city-for-2-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola: \u2018Palmer asked to leave City for 2 years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cole Palmer wanted to leave Manchester City &#8220;for 2 campaigns&#8221; before his transfer to Chelsea, head coach Pep Guardiola shared today.<\/p>\n<p>Cole moved to the Blues in a 53 million dollar deal before the beginning of the season and has become 1 of the signings of the season after netting 23 goals in all tournaments, including 20 goals in the EPL.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pep Guardiola is challenged on Cole Palmer and is asked whether it was a &#39;mistake&#39; selling him \ud83d\ude2e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HJ8RXTxpmM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HJ8RXTxpmM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1781316086505361613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Manchester City boss shrugged when asked whether it was a mistake to let Palmer leave but admitted the player wanted to leave the Sky Blues long before he joined the club from Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Palmes is a phenomenal player,&#8221; Pep shared with the media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I already talked many times that I didn&#8217;t give the minutes that maybe he deserved, and now he has for another team. I understand that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Palmer is a shy guy with a lot of potential. It is what it is. Cole is performing phenomenally, so what can I say? The transfer has happened for many reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Palmer was asking for 2 campaigns to leave, and I said stay. However, he shared that he is not happy with his playing time. What could we do? I told him to stay because Riyad [Mahrez] left, but for 2 years, he wanted to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cole Palmer wanted to leave Manchester City &#8220;for 2 campaigns&#8221; before his transfer to Chelsea, head coach Pep Guardiola shared today. Cole moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20871,17183,17412,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[20872,18121,17886,677],"acf":{"announce":"Pep shared that the midfielder wanted to leave the Sky Blues.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482114,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482112\/revisions\/482114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482112"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482112"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}