Why Chelsea are currently already breaking their promise to new summer signing

Chelsea are already breaking an alleged promise made to one of their new summer signings right now.

That is at least according to former Blues defender Jason Cundy, who believes based off some info he received, Chelsea are so far at least, not sticking to their word with one new player.

EXCLUSIVE! Cole Palmer now has NEW injury and will be out for a set time!

So far, new signing Estevao Willian has come in and played as a winger rather than in the 10 position. Enzo Maresca has been using the likes of Cole Palmer, Joao Pedro, and Facundo Buonanotte in the 10 role over Estevao.

There may well be an exception to this on Saturday when Chelsea face Brighton because Cole Palmer is injured, Pedro will have to play as a 9 as basically the only proper option they have left up there to start big games at least, and Buonanotte cannot play against his parent club being only on loan from Brighton.

Other than that, it looks like Estevao will be FOURTH choice to play as a 10 if everyone is fit.

But Chelsea apparently promised him he can play as a 10 when he signed for them.

Cundy on Estevao

Estevao Willian takes on Calvin Bassey. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

In quotes picked up by SPTC today, Cundy said on Estevao:

“If you’re after creativity and guile, someone like a Cole Palmer, Estevao ticks a lot of those boxes.

“I remember speaking to Tim Vickery when he signed originally for us, and one of the reasons he signed for Chelsea is that he was promised he can play, or would be looking to play that number 10 position, which he believes is his favorite position.

“When Cole went off against West Ham in the warm-up, he came in and he went on the right-hand side, because we had Neto behind Delap.

“Then, of course, there was an option to put him in when he came off, Delap, when he picked up that injury. He hasn’t really featured in there; he drifts in and finds himself in there.”