Reading FC sign Portuguese teenage star
18-year-old Tomas Esteves signs on a season-long loan.
Reading Football Club has signed 18-year-old full-back Tomás Esteves on a season-long loan move from FC Porto.
Esteves is currently in his homeland with the Portugal Under-20 squad and will remain on international duty until he arrives at Bearwood Park to train with his new teammates in the middle of next week.
Reading manager Veljko Paunović said:
"Tomás is a young, talented, versatile full-back, full of promise, potential and a real hunger to succeed. He will add good competition for places amongst our squad and I am delighted he has agreed to join us at Reading. "
Portuguese International
Esteves came through the youth ranks with Porto to win the UEFA Youth League in 2019, starting in the same side as Wolves’ new teenage striker Fábio Silva to beat Chelsea in the final in Switzerland.
Tomás broke into the first team at Estádio do Dragão last season; given the number 2 shirt last summer he made his debut in a Taça da Liga victory last year before earning his Primeira Liga bow in Porto’s draw with Clube Desportivo das Aves in June.
A Portuguese international from an early age, Esteves played for the Portugal Under-21s a little more than a year ago - despite being only 17 years of age.
Esteves will take the number 2 shirt at Reading.