PALMER: CALL-UP SHOWS MY TOUGH DECISION TO LEAVE CITY WAS RIGHT

COLE PALMER believes his agonising decision to leave boyhood club Manchester City for Chelsea is paying off, after he was named in the England squad for the first time.

- Dan Kilpatrick

Palmer, 21, joined the Blues in a surprise £42.5million summer deal and capped a fine start to life in London with a 96th-minute equaliser against his former club on Sunday, immediately followed by a call-up to Gareth Southgate's England squad.

The rangy forward will be aiming to make his senior debut in Friday's game against Malta at Wembley or the visit to North Macedonia on Monday, as England wrap up qualifying for next summer's European Championship.

Palmer revealed he deliberated non-stop for "a couple of days" after Chelsea's approach and decided to make the move for the sake of his career.

He said: "It was a big move for me, I'd never been out of Manchester, not even on loan or anything like that, so to move down there on my own was a big thing eat.

Well M&S FOOD"When I first went down there it was difficult, I was staying in a hotel, but now I have settled in more and