{"id":659183,"date":"2025-09-04T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=659183"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:24:18","slug":"estevao-chelsea-tipped-emulate-vinicius-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/04\/estevao-chelsea-tipped-emulate-vinicius-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Summer Arrival Tipped to Emulate Vin\u00edcius Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following their promising end to the 2024\/25 season, Chelsea<\/a> went on to win the Club World Cup in style. The West London club were active throughout the summer transfer window, signing players such as Jamie Gittens, Liam Delap and Jorrel Hato. Joao Pedro also moved from Brighton to Stamford Bridge and recently sat down for an exclusive interview with The Standard<\/a>, praising Est\u00eav\u00e3o, who arrived at Chelsea this summer, after agreeing to join the club in 2024.<\/p>\n

Chelsea\u2019s Busy Summer Transfer Window<\/h2>\n

Joao Pedro Praises Chelsea Newcomer Est\u00eav\u00e3o<\/h3>\n

The Chelsea summer transfer window was anything but dull. Players came and players left, but Enzo Maresca noticeably updated the team’s attack, with Cole Palmer mostly carrying the team during the 2024\/25 season. Joao Pedro has slotted into the number nine role at Stamford Bridge with ease, scoring two goals in three Premier League matches, which came after his impressive performances in the Club World Cup.<\/p>\n

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In the exclusive interview with The Standard, Pedro was asked what makes Est\u00eav\u00e3o so special: \u201cMate, he\u2019s from the street. You can see he is natural. Tosin [Adarabioyo] said to me: \u2018Jo\u00e3o, wow. Est\u00eav\u00e3o is amazing\u2019. Playing for Brazil and Chelsea at 18, oh my God. He\u2019s going to be like Vin\u00edcius Jr.\u201d<\/p>\n

Est\u00eav\u00e3o Qualities<\/h3>\n

It\u2019s difficult to disagree with Pedro. Est\u00eav\u00e3o is brilliant at shifting his body weight and changing direction with speed. He has shown impressive vision for someone still so young. He\u2019s a joy to watch when one-on-one with opposition defenders. He is capable of dropping deep to pick up the ball and cause havoc, or run in behind to stretch the opposition.<\/p>\n

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Despite his youth, he has already shown a high work rate in games, which is a great indication of his attitude. It\u2019s clear that Chelsea have acquired a prestigious talent, and it\u2019s going to be fascinating to watch how the 18-year-old progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following their promising end to the 2024\/25 season, Chelsea went on to win the Club World Cup in style. The West London club were active throughout the summer transfer window, signing players such as Jamie Gittens, Liam Delap and Jorrel Hato. Joao Pedro also moved from Brighton to Stamford Bridge and recently sat down for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":655642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,30,28],"tags":[7508,32456,2995],"class_list":["post-659183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-news","category-transfers","tag-chelsea-news","tag-estevao","tag-joao-pedro"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659190,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659183\/revisions\/659190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}