Chelsea and Arsenal hero has picked the Stamford Bridge club sensastion Cole Palmer as far more skillful than the Gunners’ star Bukayo Saka and Manchester City’s Phil Foden.

The three England internationals have been very influential in their club’s campaigns this season.

Fabregas was playing a game where he had to pick between Saka, Palmer and Foden in a number of categories.

Each player won a number of categories, but, interestingly, when it came down to pure skill, Fabregas picked Palmer over Foden and Saka.

“Skill?” Fabregas was asked.

“Palmer,” Fabregas said.

Indeed, while Foden and Saka are incredible talents, we’ve seen something from Palmer this season that we haven’t seen from Foden or Saka.

Palmer has single-handedly put a team on his back and been something of a one-man army at times this term, while Saka and Foden are more cogs in well-oiled machines rather than being mavericks who take matters into their own hands.

Of course, there’s no saying that Saka or Foden couldn’t have had a similar effect if they were in Palmer’s shoes, but based on what we’ve seen this season, we’d probably say that Palmer is the most skilful of the three players.

Frank Lampard hailed the performance of Cole Palmer after the Chelsea star shone against his former club, despite another bitter Wembley defeat.

The England international left his boyhood club in the summer in search of regular first team football having, according to Pep Guardiola, been asking to move for two years.

Palmer has firmly established himself as one of the most exciting talents in England following a goal-laden campaign which sees him rivalling Erling Haaland for an unlikely Golden Boot.

The 21-year-old produced another spellbinding performance at Wembley but ended up on the losing team as City progressed to the final following Bernardo Silva’s late winner.

In spite of another bitter defeat, Lampard saw more encouraging signs from Mauricio Pochettino’s emerging side, especially in the display of Palmer.

He told the BBC: “They’ve put in some good performances against the top teams. They did it twice against Manchester City, they did it against Arsenal, they did it against Aston Villa in the FA Cup.

“There’s a good organisation and desire. Over the course of the season they’ve lacked consistency but today you can look at a good all round performance and see those little shoots of positive things and Cole Palmer has just strolled around this pitch and owned this game to a degree.

“He’s the man who you want in front of goal because he was the one giving all the passes today. There were lots of positives today but in this situation the transitional sqauad they have let’s give them time and see if they get better.”

Lampard later added: “Cole Palmer came into a club that is in a difficult moment. Maybe it has worked well for him as it has made him stand out, but it is not easy to arrive with such confidence and quiet arrogance.

“Today is another box ticked for him. Wembley, high pressure, against Man City, can you perform again at the high level? And he has just done it.

“The fact he has hit the ground running so quickly is amazing and there is no telling how far he can go for Chelsea and England.”

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