{"id":5226,"date":"2026-09-19T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2026-09-19T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:22:27","slug":"coles-path-was-similar-estevao-willian-told-to-follow-palmer-example-by-chelsea-boss-enzo-maresca-amid-talk-of-position-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=5226","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cole&#8217;s path was similar&#8217; &#8211; Estevao Willian told to follow Palmer example by Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca amid talk of position change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on Friday, Maresca said: &#8220;I think Estevao reminded me a lot of Cole when Cole was with me in the U23s at City, and when he was with us in the first team. I think Cole&#8217;s path has been similar to Estevao&#8217;s path in terms of starting wide as a winger. And then slowly, slowly you can move inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Italian head coach also admitted that the Brazil international will need to bulk up in order to thrive in the new role. \u201cThe Premier League is completely different compared to other countries in the world. If you want to play in the middle, you need to be physically prepared,\u201d the former Leicester City boss said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Cole now is like that. In the past, he needed to develop that. I see Estevao exactly in the same way.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/estevao-willian-told-follow-palmer-example-chelsea-boss-enzo-maresca-talk-position-change\/blt2c51a6a2542f75bc\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to reporters on Friday, Maresca said: &#8220;I think Estevao reminded me a lot of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}