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Nico O’Reilly celebrates along with his Man Metropolis teammates (Picture by Carl Recine/Getty Photos)
David Ornstein has praised Manchester Metropolis for retaining maintain of a high younger expertise who might nicely be the subsequent Cole Palmer.
Talking on a podcast with the Athletic, Ornstein steered Man Metropolis managing to maintain Nico O’Reilly regardless of efforts from Chelsea to signal him.
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Chelsea notably signed Palmer from Metropolis when he was a comparatively unknown teenager, however he ended up exploding with some world class type upon his transfer to Stamford Bridge.
It stays to be seen if O’Reilly will go down an identical path, however it appears Chelsea clearly felt this was one other Metropolis raid that may be value doing, with Ornstein even suggesting he appears like somebody with the potential to be Palmer ‘mark 2’…
@David_Ornstein believes that holding onto Nico O’Reilly was Manchester Metropolis’s greatest switch window resolution.#MUFC pic.twitter.com/TjMk8JIF9Q
— The Athletic | Soccer (@TheAthleticFC) February 8, 2025
O’Reilly might now have a transparent pathway to breaking into Pep Guardiola’s first-team if the membership have been that eager on retaining him, so will probably be attention-grabbing to see if he will get extra enjoying time quickly.
To this point, the 19-year-old has solely made six aggressive video games for the membership, and solely a kind of has come within the Premier League.
Nico O’Reilly might have been a superb signing for Chelsea
Nico O’Reilly in motion for Manchester Metropolis (Picture by Alex Pantling/Getty Photos)
Chelsea followers will little doubt be upset to study that their membership have been within the combine for such a extremely rated expertise however couldn’t get a deal completed.
In some ways, it additionally appears prefer it might find yourself being a little bit of a waste of O’Reilly’s potential, as he’d most likely have been extra more likely to get common enjoying time at Chelsea.
The west London giants actually launched Palmer’s profession after he was neglected by Metropolis, so maybe the England Beneath-20 worldwide would have completed nicely to go down an identical path.
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Metropolis now absolutely have to make extra use of their tremendous crop of academy gamers or they are going to inevitably lose extra of them like they did with Palmer, and it might be a giant increase for various their Premier League rivals.
