ESTEVAO CRISIS IN CHELSEA: THE BRAZILIAN WANTS TO LEAVE

According to Foot Mercato's report; highly striking developments are being experienced about the future of 19-year-old winger Estevão, who stepped foot in London with massive expectations as the huge hope of Brazilian football, on the front of Chelsea. The talented star's London adventure under the management of technical director Xabi Alonso started in a quite complicated way and full of disappointments. The young Brazilian, struggling to adapt to the technical delegation's system since the beginning of the season and constantly remaining in the background in the rotation, could stay on the pitch for only 163 minutes in official matches until now. This limited time was definitely not enough for the 19-year-old footballer transferred with huge hopes to display his potential and created a massive unrest on the player's front. The peak point of this tense process and the last drop overflowing the glass happened in the Carabao Cup struggle. In this critical match where Chelsea said goodbye to the cup by being eliminated against Liverpool, despite the team's most important attacking weapons Cole Palmer and João Pedro not being in the squad, Estevão could not find even a single minute of playing time. Xabi Alonso not giving a chance to the Brazilian star despite these massive deficiencies in the attacking line literally destroyed the player's morale. It is voiced loudly in the press that the talented winger, feeling a serious discomfort from being trapped on the bench and his career coming to a pausing point, will apply to the management through his manager and request to leave definitively if the current situation does not improve rapidly. The future of Estevão, breaking away from the team a bit more with every passing day he cannot wear the jersey, seems definitively tied to the technical decisions to be made in the coming weeks.

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