AFC Telford a platform for Eusebio Bancessi
Winger Eusebio Bancessi has been challenged to earn a Football League deal as he prepares for his AFC Telford United debut.
The 20-year-old has arrived on a month's loan from Wolves with a big reputation from their under-21 side.
Guinea-Bissau-born Bancessi, who was snapped up by Wolves from Benfica in 2013, has wowed fans of the New Bucks Head-based reserves.
His pace, power, trickery and goals which have earned him the occasional place in Kenny Jackett's squad.
One clip from an away game at Newcastle has been watched again and again on You Tube.
But Bancessi, who has played mostly wide right, hasn't yet lived up to his stunning potential.
It's something Scott Sellars, Bancessi's under-21s coach at Molineux, is keen to see him fulfil.
And former Leeds, Newcastle, Blackburn and Bolton winger Sellars believes Bancessi can be knocking on the door of clubs much higher up the pyramid.
But that's only provided if he does well at the New Bucks Head, where he will be in familiar company with goalkeeper and fellow Wolves loanee Harry Burgoyne.
Sellars said: "He's 20 and he needs to be playing real football. Hopefully, we'll be saying somebody else will take him higher up the league – that's the challenge for him."
Bancessi soon took the place by storm after arriving from Portugal and was top scorer for the Under-21s in his first season, 2013-14.
He followed that with a four-match loan spell for Cheltenham in League Two last term.
But with an early struggle to grasp the English language followed by the death of his father last season, he has struggled to maintain that impressive start.
Sellars said: "Personally he's had a really tough time. His father passed away last year and that was really tough for him and affected him in a lot of ways, which is understandable.
"Also, I think the club's got better, which has been difficult for him – when Eusebio was getting into it we were a League One club.
"There's been recruitment of a lot of wide players which has made it difficult for him."
Bancessi is under contract to 2017, with the club holding an extra year's option.
The Portuguese powerhouse is needed at Telford, with Izak Reid still striving for match fitness after a long-term injury and Johnny Gorman out of favour.
And Sellars has urged the youngster to make the most of his opportunity to go back and challenge to earn a loan move in the League.
He said: "He's got to kick on now. He's getting to an age at 20 where he's got to start saying to Kenny 'I'm worth keeping on.' Other players have had opportunities and taken them.
"If I'm truthful of Eusebio – and he'll probably admit it – when he's gone with Kenny and had the opportunity, he's probably not taken it.
"There's still time, he's 20 so he's still developing. With what he's got, his pace and power, there's something there."