Chelsea Star on Verge of Joining Exclusive Premier League Club

With 46 league strikes to his name, 2025 Ballon d’Or nominee Cole Palmer is on the verge of joining an exclusive club, one that contains some highly illustrious members.

Previously, only 24 Premier League midfielders have reached a half-century of goals in the English top-flight and becoming the 25th by this season’s end is well within the England star’s wheelhouse. Let’s not forget that in September 2024, the talented schemer put four past Brighton in a remarkable one-man demolition, while earlier this year he notched an impressive hat-trick at Molineux to down Wolves.

With the ability to score multiple goals in a single fixture, Palmer will be eying up the remaining games of this season to reach the landmark feat. What will help his cause too is a recent upturn in form after finally shrugging off a groin issue that hampered him for much of this campaign.

Analysing the midfielder’s scoring stats since joining the Blues in the summer of 2023 for £42.5m also leads us to believe that he will join the 50-club sooner, rather than later.

In 123 appearances for the Chelsea, across all competitions, Palmer has converted every 182 minutes, nigh-on a goal every other game. He has additionally assisted on 32 occasions, proving time and again that he is his team’s main attacking threat as they seek top-four finishes and silverware.

Scoring 50 Premier League goals is of course a tremendous achievement in its own right, but when we highlight other midfielders who have reached this figure it really contextualises its significance.

Both Danny Murphy and Cesc Fabregas ended their careers on a half a century, the former needing 417 Premier League appearances to reach the notable tally, the latter 350.

It is perfectly reasonable to assume that Palmer has many more years of top-flight creating ahead of him and already he has these two in his sights, along with Juan Mata, James Milner and Christian Eriksen, who each reside in the mid-50s.

Further up the list – indeed, topping it for midfielders – we find Frank Lampard, a player widely and rightfully feted for his goal-scoring brilliance.

Yet, after 123 outings in the Premier League, Lampard had scored only 17 times. The same number of outings as Palmer is on now, but with almost two-thirds fewer goals.

This leads to another reasonable assumption: that before the player hangs up his boots far off in the future he could conceivably become the most prolific midfielder in Premier League history.

First though, there is a meaningful landmark to reach, one that is well within Cole Palmer’s grasp.