Pressed further on whether Estevao is capable of scaling the heights that Hazard, Robben, Damien Duff, Willian and Joe Cole once reached, Cahill added: “100 per cent, that is the level.
“Unfortunately, you won’t stand the test of time if you don’t get up there in a Chelsea shirt. But what we’ve seen so far from Estevao is that he certainly can do that. It’s just about him now to have the appetite to keep improving, to keep producing, to look at the players that we just said, but also create his own path and produce his own style of football.
“These kind of players, their job role is to create. So you look at somebody like (Cristiano) Ronaldo, for example, he’s prided himself on the numbers in terms of what he’s done in the game. Have I scored? Have I assisted? And I think this is the kind of selfish streak he’s got in him to go, ‘I need to affect the game, I need to affect the game every game I play in order to become a world-class player’.
“So, they’re the next steps for him, but we’re still talking about a young boy and he looks like he plays with a smile on his face, which is important. I’m excited about what the future holds for him.”
