I agree. We see especially how much Palmer has shined like a star at Chelsea after leaving Manchester City at the beginning of the previous season. Chelsea are also good this season.I think Palmer's condition can be a reason to encourage young players who can't find the playing time they want at Manchester City. I think Alvarez will show a very high level performance at a different team.
I think we keep mixing some things terms of playing time, Guardiola does what's best for the club and the squad at large, we all always talk about his heavy rotation policy and almost playing different starting XI every 2-3 matches, he's the only coach with which you can easily say all players gets some level of significant playing time, with even Chelsea that Palmer went to, how many players had to keep rotting on the bench ? even when we all know they're not terrible enough to not deserve some playing time, the thing is that these players from an individual stand point wants to play every time, I mean they're all human after all, and it will always come at the cost of other players too, so I'm really fine with each players seeking greener pasture or more playing time elsewhere, at end of the day you can only field 11 players at once.
I didn't want to criticize Guardiola. He is already doing the best he can to build the right squad. However it wasn't very possible for Alvarez to find so much chance to play while he had Haaland ahead of him. Therefore it was good for him to be transferred. I just wanted to say that Palmer's last season performance must have encouraged the players who want to leave Manchester City.
I pretty much understand, the game is the game, but then how many players have we seen willing to take a fast road out and ended up not even being able to find their foot in smaller clubs, maybe because I support Barcelona and I've seen a lot these kids (Bojan Krkik and Dennis Suarez are always the first names that pops to my head, really) simply because they've played in some really fantastic system that made it quite easy for them to shine in a lot of games even as 20-15 minutes cameos they believe they're are the next real deal and needs to step out of the shadows of the likes of Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets and/ or Messi who are said to be always taking all the credits, and in less than a few years you kind even find their names on the Europe radar, while most of them are now in their very late 20s or even 30+ now and most of the time I think they're usually just being railroaded into those decisions, to me if the pay is pretty better then by all means go for it, for these clubs, it's just usually what's best for them at the end of the day, but when they pay aren't any better, and you get to play more but at the end of the day learn a lot less in terms of the caliber of players you're around and all that.
