“Was always a sense” – As Conor Gallagher continues to prove himself, his brothers words in 2020 come to light

Chelsea midfielder Conor Gallagher has had a superb start to the Premier League season on loan at Crystal Palace.

The youngster has been rated by Who Scored up the top alongside Paul Pogba as the best performing central midfielder in the league so far, which is certainly quite something.

He almost stayed with Chelsea this summer but a decision to loan him out for his progression was certainly the right one and so far it is being rewarded.

Blues fans were impressed with his performance once again last night as he helped his team get a point against high flyers Brighton and Hove Albion, and an article from The Athletic from November 2020 started surfacing once again in a timely reminder.

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They were speaking to Conor’s brothers in an extensive interview, who said they always sensed that Gallagher would make it as a professional football.

“To us he’s our little brother,” laughed Josh Gallagher. “Mum still runs his bath when he’s home.”

“Conor’s not the biggest but he’s very lean and I think he gets his competitiveness from us boys. Even now we still have a play fight and beat him up a bit, and we still kick him around in the garden.

“He’s always been competitive and he’s always been a bit fearless. If you put him on a trampoline when he was younger he was doing backflips and he could have quite easily taken up gymnastics. He just had that fearlessness so he didn’t mind doing backflips off this and that and I think he’s taken that into his football…

“You could see Conor was talented but he was no different to how we were when we were younger with that hunger, desire and will to win. We all had that, but as we got older there was always a sense that Conor might make it.

“He got offered a scholarship because they wanted to give him a chance but it wasn’t until he started playing under-18s on his scholarship and was going in every day that we realised, ‘My god, he’s really kicked on’.

“That’s when we thought, ‘I think we’ve got a player here’.

“We just saw him playing out there and it was more progressed, more tactical and you could see he was really getting it and matching up physically.

“He was stronger and fitter. He kicked on from being in and out of the youth team to becoming captain in the second year, he played in the FA Youth Cup, then England Under-17s and won the World Cup, then he kicked on with England and he’s now in the under-21s.”

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