Cole Palmer is the under-spoken, yet lethal, sharpshooter taking the Premier League by storm – and is now on everyone's lips as he leads the scoring charts alongside a certain Erling Haaland in his debut season at Chelsea.
Now he's thinking a few steps ahead, which seems to be something that has always been second nature to the 21-year-old both on and off the pitch.
As he takes his seat on the sofa in one of the rooms in the cottage near the entrance to Chelsea’s Surrey training ground during our interview back in January, Palmer checks first to see if this is an interview being recorded on camera, information that would allow him to adjust his approach if he felt necessary.