Cole Palmer sends special message to Chelsea’s 17-year-old Brazilian wonderkid

Cole Palmer sent a peculiar connection to Chelsea’s 17-year-old Brazilian wonderkid Estêvão Willian Almeida de Oliveira Gonçalve connected Instagram.

Chelsea completed a woody for the Palmeiras teenager who is simply known arsenic Estêvão Willian, oregon adjacent conscionable Estêvão, successful June 2024.

Estêvão volition officially articulation Chelsea connected July 1, 2025 erstwhile his 18th day has passed but the youngster is already dreaming of playing alongside Palmer.

The winger has revealed that Palmer sent him a connection connected social media the time aft helium signed for Chelsea, with the Englishman labelling him arsenic a ‘star’ already.

Palmer besides told Estêvão that the duo are going to execute ‘great things unneurotic for Chelsea’ erstwhile helium turns up astatine Stamford Bridge adjacent year.

Speaking to The Guardian, Estêvão said: ‘When I signed for Chelsea, the adjacent time I scored a extremity and celebrated similar Palmer.

‘His solemnisation was trendy, precise popular. We talked connected societal media, I tagged him connected Instagram.

‘He called maine a star, I said he’s a prima too. He said we’re going to bash a batch of large things unneurotic for Chelsea.’

Chelsea person reportedly paid a €34m (£28.5m) interest to onshore Estêvão and could extremity up splashing retired different €23m (£19.3m) successful performances-based incentives.

Estêvão earned his archetypal caps for the Brazil first-team this twelvemonth and has revealed however helium made Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson ‘angry’ connected planetary duty.

‘In shooting training, I started to deed each the shots and Alisson got a spot angry,’ Estêvão added.

‘He said helium was inactive warming up, that I should hold a small bit. But I took it a spot earnestly and scored galore goals [against] him.

‘He took it each successful jest, but I anticipation that adjacent twelvemonth I tin bash again against him successful [Premier League] matches. We’ll spot a batch of each different successful England.’

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