Estev\u00e3o was one of the standout names in Chelsea\u2019s victory over Barcelona at Stamford Bridge. The young Brazilian forward \u2014 for whom the London club paid \u20ac45 million fixed plus \u20ac16.5 million in variables \u2014 shone with an impressive performance and a stunning goal against the Catalan side, who were very interested in signing him during his time at Palmeiras but never took the final step to complete the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Sport<\/em>, Barcelona closely monitored Estev\u00e3o\u2019s progress, but when it came time to make a decision, they ruled out signing him for sporting reasons (he plays in the same position as Lamine Yamal) and financial ones (his price was extremely high amid the club\u2019s complex economic situation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This Wednesday, the player\u2019s agent, Andr\u00e9 Cury<\/strong>, confirmed this in an interview with Cadena SER<\/strong>, also admitting that the young talent has a \u201cspecial affection\u201d<\/em> for the Catalan club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cury said: He added: The Brazilian\u2019s agent clarified that \u201che now has a contract and is enjoying his time at Chelsea,\u201d<\/em> but also made clear that \u201che has special feelings for Barcelona.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Estev\u00e3o was one of the standout names in Chelsea\u2019s victory over Barcelona at Stamford Bridge. The young Brazilian forward \u2014 for whom the London club paid \u20ac45 million fixed plus \u20ac16.5 million in variables \u2014 shone with an impressive performance and a stunning goal against the Catalan side, who were very interested in signing him …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5349,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions\/5349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cWe spoke with Barcelona about Estev\u00e3o in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. We kept offering the player because we believed he had a great future, but Barcelona, financially, were not in a good condition.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe people in the technical department always approved the deal, but Deco was very limited because the club\u2019s financial situation did not allow the operation to go through.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n