“Not for Chelsea” – Pundit predicts young star will be “great player” at another club

Chelsea are struggling to find chances to use Estevao, who is increasingly linked with moves away from the club.

Former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin has been speaking about the future of Estevao, the brilliant young Chelsea winger who is apparently increasingly unhappy at a lack of game time.

Nevin has predicted that Estevao will leave before too long, given how hard it will be for him to establish himself in the first team.

Estevao may have to leave Chelsea to fulfill potential

“When he arrived at Chelsea and he played a couple of games, I thought what a fantastic, brilliant player. I absolutely, totally love him. And he’ll be a great player, but probably not for Chelsea,” Nevin said in quotes picked up by Goal.com.

“Now it’s not exactly you should leave, go now. But your career only lasts a certain amount of time and you need a lot of games under your belt. And by the time you’re 20, 21, you kind of want a couple of hundred.

“But his big problem is the system. The system and the playing staff you’ve got there, it’s going to be limited. You might end up with 30 games at the end of the season, but some of them will be for 15 minutes. And that’s not what you need. You need constant playing all the time.

“So I wouldn’t be shocked if he looks elsewhere to get a game.”

Unfortunately, it’s very hard to disagree with any of that. The lack of European football is largely a blessing for squad management, but in this case it’s potentially a disaster.

In other news…

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