While Craig Burley has been impressed with Chelsea attacker Cole Palmer, it does not look like he is a huge fan of one of his team-mates.
Cole Palmer has been in fantastic form this season and Craig Burley discussed the Englishman and Mykhailo Mudryk on ESPN FC.
Mudryk himself has not done too badly recently. The 22-year-old scored in Chelsea‘s 2-1 win against Crystal Palace just before their latest victory over Luton Town.
It was also his goal that took the Blues’ Carabao Cup quarter-final tie versus Newcastle United to penalties, which Mauricio Pochettino‘s side went on to win.
Craig Burley critical of Mykhailo Mudryk’s end product
This season, Palmer has come up with 12 goal contributions in the Premier League and Burley has been critical of Mudryk for not showing that kind of productivity.
On the two players, the former Chelsea midfielder said: “They spent 60 odd million or whatever it was on Mykhailo Mudryk, who is the polar opposite of Cole Palmer.
“They’re different players, but Mykhailo Mudryk is all about pace and has, at this moment in his career, basically very little end product, whereas Cole Palmer, as Don [Hutchison] said, there’s more of a guile and a balance about him and he’s all about end product.”
Mykhailo Mudryk needs to work on his end product
Burley is not wrong. After all, this is a player who signed for Chelsea last January but only scored his first goal for the club this term.
However, since that strike against Fulham, Mudryk has gone on to register in games versus Arsenal, Newcastle and Crystal Palace, so he is improving.
But given how much Chelsea invested in him, the club are going to want a lot more than that.
While Burley does not seem too convinced with Mudryk, the Ukraine international is starting to win over Gary Lineker, who recently claimed that he can see something in him.
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