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My brother was in Sao Paulo last month, they were absolutely raving about him saying he's going to be a star.

He looks good, but I always thought if Neymar was going to come here when he was 18 when all the media was screaming he was Chelsea bound back in 2011-2012, I had a feeling he would've struggled quite a bit. It's a totally different league and climate to adjust to at such a young age, a lot of pressure and expectation. Going to Barca was the right move for him at the time.

Not saying he's going to flop, just how many Brazilian wonderkids have came straight to the Premier League and smashed it? Oscar and Gabriel Jesus were pretty good but that's all that comes to mind when I think about it.

There's been many Brazilian wonderkids over the years, Endrick, Roque, Lucas Piazon, Adryan, Anderson, major hype, all struggled. Not going to expect wonders from him and believe he's going to fix the problem, it would be a good idea to still secure a top player on the left flank before the season kicks off.

 
No, he'll take a season to integrate, learn the system, responsibilities, adjust to new country, weather, language. Football will be his escape, but so much change for someone so young will take time.
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1 season is too optimistic.

Estevao is 18 coming from Brazilian league. I have 0 expectations of him next season, my only hope for next season is that he can get good playing time and he can improve and that is it.

 
Estevao already looked young and small in his first start for Brazil which is more than natural and expected. I would have thought Strasbourg is the step he should take first...

 
I have no idea what to expect. If the hype is real and he’s good enough he’ll play. Look at Yamal.

Let’s not put pressure on him and expect him to be our main man. If he stays they think he’s ready then a few cameos from the bench. A CC game etc. let him get settled, we may see more of him after Xmas.

He’s Brazilian, he will want to be in their WC squad even at his age.

We won’t know until he gets his first minutes exactly where he is in his development. Exciting really, a bit of a throw back to old signings before highlight reels etc where you signed a player and had no idea what you was getting. I know we have an idea but u know what I mean, how good is he/can he be?

I’ll never forget Dave Mitchell’s debut, it didn’t take us long to work out what we’d got that day I can still hear the laughter.

 
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He is not going to come in and be great. He just isn’t. My worry is that many fans and even the owners don’t seem to get that. It will take a year just to bed in culturally and start to adapt to the vastly different PL. And even more time to get himself up to speed physically. He will most likely be doing this while trying to fend off near constant media and fan criticism “thought you were better than Neymar!?” We need to have people to step up and take the pressure off, AND fans that will put their arms around d him and shield him. We don’t really have either.

 
First 10 minutes in and his movement is outstanding, he's not been picked up at all, tracked right, central, point. Made a great run into the box as the ball was carried by a team mate left. Ball was behind him but he got a shot off that went wide.

The game looks like it's on 1.5x speed, hectic and manic.

Very telling that his team mates seem desperate to get the ball to him as often as possible.

 
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He looks so positive ,head up and driving forward ...we'll soon knock that out of him ,he'll learn sideways and backwards is always best

 
Much like Paez he’s made a terrible terrible career choice joining us and should be looking for an my possible ‘out’ in his contract he may have.

Far too attack minded and positive both in and out of possession.

 
Have heard so many good things about this lad and obviously have high hopes for him.

Looking at the last couple of video clips, he looks okay but certainly no jaw-dropping "wow" moments. Let's hope he is managed well as I can see him struggling in the PL (if he ever gets a chance).

 
On another day could have got an assist or two. I remember on one occasion he played in a good pass to their striker, I think, only for him to mess it up.

I'm not sure I would have given him player of the match but he was okay overall. Made tons of mistakes but also tried to make something happen every time he got the ball. Also noticed he doesn't really work hard off the ball so that might be an issue if it's a common thing.

 
When people posted estavao highlight in the past, it is hard for me to judge because the one that stand out more is how bad Brazilian league defending standard is 😵‍💫😵‍💫

This is a better highlight. I want to see how defender physicality impact his game and it looked like the answer quite a bit. It is normal for 19 year old.

 
If Maresca can somehow find the means within himself to get out of the way and let the players play football, we could be in for a treat with Estevao, Palmer, Delap and a left winger on the same level next season.
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The frustrating thing is that Maresca saw how good we were before he managed to straitjacket the team into his preferred ( and only) way of playing.

 
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