Estevao Willian arrived at Stamford Bridge this summer season amid loads of pleasure, however Chelsea now imagine one other teenager may comply with in his footsteps.
The Brazilian, who scored towards Enzo Maresca‘s facet for ex-club Palmeiras on the Membership World Cup, is being tipped for an extremely vibrant future.
Regardless of being simply 18, Estevao already boasts seven senior caps for the Brazil nationwide facet, and bagged his first purpose for the five-time World Cup winners in a 3-0 victory over Chile of their final spherical of qualifiers.
By doing this, Estevao grew to become the youngest Brazil goalscorer in a aggressive match since footballing icon Pele.
For Chelsea, the brilliant younger ahead has already made three Premier League appearances and notched his first help for the west Londoners in a 5-1 demolition of West Ham on the London Stadium.
He is additionally poised to seem within the Champions League after being named of their official squad for the league section — travelling with Maresca’s males to face Bayern Munich on the Allianz Enviornment this week.
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Chelsea’s finest performers within the Premier League to date |
Common match score |
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6. Tosin Adarabioyo |
7.20 |
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7. Pedro Neto |
7.10 |
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8. Estevao |
7.04 |
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9. Enzo Fernández |
7.03 |
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10. Robert Sanchez |
6.79 |
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through WhoScored |
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All eyes at the moment are on the dazzling teenager, who has been referred to as the most effective expertise to come back out of Brazil since Neymar.
“Estevao is the most effective participant to have emerged from Brazilian soccer since Neymar. You watch him and also you fall in love,” the top of Palmeiras’ academy, Joao Paulo Sampaio, instructed BBC Sport final yr.
“He already impresses together with his approach however, like Neymar at this identical level in his profession, he has not but matured bodily and isn’t as robust as Endrick, so he may nonetheless develop quite a bit.
That is what amazes everybody and makes them suppose that he’ll attain a a lot greater stage.”
Nonetheless, as Estevao continues to seize headlines together with his potential, Stamford Bridge chiefs are satisfied they will quickly have the subsequent “greatest factor” as nicely.
Chelsea satisfied Dastan Satpaev may very well be their subsequent Estevao
That’s in keeping with journalist Simon Phillips, who instructed his Substack that Chelsea anticipate massive issues from Dastan Satpaev — who’ll be part of Maresca’s facet subsequent summer season as soon as he turns 18.
Again in February, Chelsea agreed a £4 million deal to signal Satpaev from Kairat Almaty, which is a document switch payment for the Kazakhstani first division.
Now, these inside the membership imagine he truly may very well be the subsequent Estevao.
“Chelsea imagine they could have one other Estevao Willian on their fingers by way of the subsequent greatest factor rising up within the recreation,” Phillips wrote.
“Blues sources imagine that Estevao will quickly change into a £200m participant and the membership have a lot perception in him. We’re not but listening to the identical feedback about pending new striker Dastan Satpaev, however the membership do maintain enormous perception in him additionally and suppose he may very well be a participant in the same class of the rising stars that Estevao is in.”
Curiously, Chelsea’s religion in Satpaev is backed up by Fabrizio Romano.
Fabrizio Romano says Chelsea actually fee Satpaev
The dependable switch journalist, talking after Chelsea put pen to paper, revealed that BlueCo truly beat a German membership to the teen’s signature and are satisfied he is received “particular” abilities.
“Chelsea is all the time engaged on future abilities,” Romano stated on YouTube.
“They imagine this 16-year-old striker, who they signed, Dastan Satpaev, has particular abilities,” he instructed his YouTube channel.
“They beat a German membership that supplied extra and received him £3.3 million, with add-ons included.”