Cole Palmer has lifted the primary main particular person prize of his profession after the Chelsea ahead was named PFA Younger Participant of the Yr.
Palmer, 22, was named by his fellow professionals as the most effective younger participant of final season after scoring an unbelievable 22 Premier League targets and notching 11 assists.
He collected the PFA award from Blues legend Gianfranco Zola at a ceremony on the Manchester Opera Home on Tuesday.
The England ahead, who left Manchester Metropolis for Chelsea in the summertime of 2023 for £42.5 million, proved to be top-of-the-line signings of final yr and lit up an in any other case dismal season for the Blues.
Highlights included scoring a hat-trick to grab a last-gasp win over Manchester United in April after which plundering 4 targets in a 6-0 hammering of Everton.
Palmer scored all 9 penalties he took for Chelsea within the Premier League final season.
The one participant to attain extra instances from the spot in a single season is famous Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard, who struck 10 penalties within the 2009-10 season.
Chelsea misplaced their first recreation of the season towards Palmer’s former aspect Manchester Metropolis. They go to Wolves on Sunday amid a backdrop of chaos already, with Raheem Sterling hitting out on the membership for not being included within the squad towards Metropolis and Enzo Fernandez controversially being named captain regardless of his involvement in Argentina’s racist chanting after the Copa America ultimate.
