Estêvão Willian

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That was some first touch. It's literally a requirement to become an Elite attacking player, and he's got it.. Hope he succeeds!
Similar to Endrik's amazing goal against Botafogo where he manages to "quiet" the ball because it was a bit bouncy before he took the shot. 🙂

[Arlen Correa 161]

Now he's playing in the profesional with same level he had in the U-20.

Also when you compare with other youngster from the last years, he is much better than Vinicius Junior at same age. Its a huge difference.

Vinicius would look like Pelé one game, then would be awful for a month. Estevão is much more reliable because he is good every game. 

His first touch, overall technique are much better too. His level of finiishing is vastly superior even to the current version of Vini Jr.

Of course there is some aspect of a player that you can't measure and its a subjective realm. Vinicius Jr has an infinite stamina and you see he's 100% of time trying to cause problems. Rodrygo Goes for example looks indifferent many times. We will see in the future what type of player Estevão is. Its impossible to know now.

Edited June 24 by Arlen Correa

[Milan 17,859]

Is he a teamplayer, does he make passes?

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Only signing we’ve made/will make this window that actually is exciting. Hopefully he is ready to go when he joins up. 

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On 24/06/2024 at 09:35, Milan said:

Is he a teamplayer, does he make passes?

Honestly, nobody knows that yet. Neymar was a prodigy until he "decided" to value his life style over his athlete's life--same goes for mentality.

When we sign them so young the risk sometimes goes beyond mere football.

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He looks incredible lately. I was skeptical when we were first after him but wow. 

My only concern is that he is really tiny. Which I suppose is expected since he’s only 17. But we’ve witnessed what happens with these small, super skilled players who like to dribble like crazy when Hazard was here. I’m worried that PL defenders are going to hack the shit out of him every match.

Need to get him bulked up a bit when he comes to Cobham next summer.

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He was not finished in that game.

 

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34 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

I hope they ease him in. Endrick was thrown into a high-pressure Copa America knockout game vs Uruguay where he was mostly fouled.

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9 hours ago, Strike said:

I hope they ease him in. Endrick was thrown into a high-pressure Copa America knockout game vs Uruguay where he was mostly fouled.

Yup that Brazil side got bullied big time. The coach and staff did not understand the competition with the narrow pitches.

I've been hearing from a lot of people who are claiming that Estevao has a higher ceiling than Endrik. Like I wrote before, their development as players and individuals from now on will play a bigger part; similar to how Neymar's decisions hindered his career in a number of ways. Even Neymar's initial reluctance to leave Brazil was a red flag to me... he Joined Barcelona at 21.

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There were some tweets earlier today that he hurt his Achilles, so this is better news.

 

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Uggh

 

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He’s build like a stick insect. 

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