In a list of names to have played less than 600 Premier League minutes but scored four or more goals there isn't much to look upon. Aleksander Isak's fast start with Newcastle stands out, he was signed for over £60million last year and has a strong record behind him from Spain. Callum Wilson has made a fine start in the north east as well, bagging seven in 10 games despite not starting regularly.

Then there's Evan Ferguson, boosted by his hat-trick against the Magpies earlier on this season, but now sidelined with injury. Diogo Jota has four at Liverpool too and has only started seven times. Tagging along with the rest and going at the second highest goals contribution per90 of them all is Cole Palmer.

The now England senior international has four goals already - all from the spot and in more important scenarios than the last - with a smattering of assists as well. Of those with more than five starts in the entire league, to eliminate the small sample size - although it is still quite a small selection to read from - Palmer has the seventh best goals and assists per90 in the by these metrics and is just 21.

He's also the second youngest on the list, only Jeremy Doku is younger, and nobody other than Isak has done it in fewer games. When taking into account that all six contributions have come in the past six weeks and five games it is even more impressive. Since starting his first game for the club on October 2 he has only failed to record a goal or an assist in two games. He has scored and assisted in the same game twice already.

His impact is getting bigger and the correlation between strong performances with him on the pitch for both club and country now grows. Even before moving to Chelsea he scored in the Community Shield against Arsenal, coming from the bench, before also scoring again just days later in the Super Cup for Pep Guardiola's men.

The first three games of his Chelsea career, all from the bench, saw Mauricio Pochettino's men go goalless. In the six league games since they have scored 16 times including four in a game on three occasions. Even on his international debut the Three Lions had the ball in the net twice within a matter of minutes of him coming on, though Declan Rice's third was then disallowed.

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It is not necessarily down to Palmer, he didn't have much involvement for England but showed some nice touches regardless, but his two-touch nature, movement and sense for a game is having unignorable results. Whether he scores or assists is seemingly a moot point right now because his teams are in good form.

In fact, when Palmer starts games he has only lost six of 32 in his entire professional career - one loss in 11 for England Under-21s included. In those games are 11 goals and 10 assists.

His influence on games also comes when there isn't direct output to track. In a graph of the Premier League's best progressive passers (per9) and key passes (per90), Palmer is the second closest to being in the top right corner. In essence it means he is amongst the best at both skills.

Casemiro, Oliver Norwood, Alexis Mac Allister and Enzo Fernandez are the only players that rank higher for progressive passes per90 but none of them make half as many key passes per90 as Palmer. In front of him on that scale is Frank Onyeka and Julian Alvarez. Onyeka, one of Brentford's stars in midfield, makes nearly half the progresses passes per game though and Alvarez is four times worse off on this scale.

The only player to be higher on both accounts than Palmer is Bruno Fernandes. Manchester United's captain has been struggling to match his high standards so far this season in terms of output, he has has just three goals and two league assists from over 1,000 minutes, but has been dictating the attacking play regardless.

Most of the moves under Erik ten Hag need to come through him if they are to really find a cutting edge and his record speaks for itself. In four and a half years in England he has 47 goals and 35 assists in 133 games, a stellar record for an elite player. The fact that Palmer is rivalling him on these underlying metrics is evidence of just how good Chelsea's £42.5million man has been.

Most had expected this sort of praise to be sent the way of Christopher Nkunku after his sensational record in Germany but an injury to him before the season even began has left Pochettino scratching for answers. Had it not been for Nkunku's four month spell on the sideline Palmer may not have been even looked at. Every cloud, as they say.