Roberto Cartos: “Souza? He’ll deliver, he’s top class” | OneFootball

Roberto Carlos, former Brazil international and iconic left-back, spoke in the mixed zone at the “Portugal Football Summit” about Souza, FC Porto’s new signing on loan from Tottenham. Without making comparisons, he highlighted the player’s quality and assured: “He is a top-level player.”

The former Brazil international assessed Souza’s arrival at FC Porto with confidence in the impact the footballer could have on the pitch. For Roberto Carlos, his time at Santos helps explain Porto’s decision to sign him, but it is the player’s individual quality that underpins the expectations.

Asked to evaluate Souza, Roberto Carlos dismissed parallels with other players and focused his answer on the qualities that brought the Brazilian to the blue-and-white club.

“I don’t like making comparisons. He came to FC Porto because he has quality,” he said. “He is a player who performed extremely well at Santos, it was a great signing. I am absolutely certain that he will deliver what is expected of him on the pitch; he is a top-level player.”

The former Brazil star’s reading is clear: the signing is not based only on potential, but also on the level he has already shown. Roberto Carlos did not present success as an automatic certainty, but he made his conviction unmistakably clear about Souza’s ability to live up to what FC Porto expect from him.

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