[Albion] Joao Pedro Brazilian Maestro

[Lever]

Similar to NSC. If we banned everyone who had been a bit of a twat once or twice, there'd only be about seven people posting.

And I wouldn't be one of the seven.

Neither would I.

Thank you for raising a smile......

 

[chickens]

I guess this one is entirely open to interpretation.

The way I've seen it, based on multiple away games this season where Pedro was the first one down the tunnel without applauding the fans (notably Palace), the attempted elbow vs Brentford (H) and then the successful elbow vs Brentford (A), the failing to even show his face at the players do, the altercation with JPvH all amounts to the fact that clearly Pedro is a bit of a temperamental character who very much sees himself at times as the main event.

Obviously none of us are privy to the circumstances behind the bust-up, nor do we know a great deal about how he is seen by his peers at the club, but it would not shock me one bit if it were to come out that he isn't the most popular player at the club.

Like I said, it's one for interpretation. The way I see it is that it would not be out of character for Pedro to have kicked up a fuss behind the scenes to get a move away.

A shame if so, some people mature faster than others, but it would be disappointing for a player already in their mid twenties to be giving it the full “Kevin and Perry” approach.

Unless a player gets their head right, they’ll fail wherever they go, and just keep on burning bridges.

You’re linking a lot of separate incidents and forming a pattern from them, we all look for patterns that corroborate our views. It could be as you say, but we don’t know.

The last thing a Brighton player needs to do to get a move is act like a dick. We accept that all our players have a price, it just needs somebody to meet it. His move will come. I personally think he could/should do at least one more season with us. He’d be a better player at the end of it.

If he’s determined to go now, he won’t achieve that by acting the bellend, he’ll achieve that via his agent persuading a club to offer us a price that we can’t say no to. No bellendery required.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

FWIW, Troy Deeney (I know, I know, but bear with me) was SIGNING his praises on this week's edition of the official pod. Not just as a player, but as a human being – saying that the two of them had a nice chat before a game a few weeks previously and Joao Pedro was asking about TD and his family, etc, etc. There was also an extended chat between TD and Paul Hayward about learning from Welbz and continuing to improve next season.

What does all of that mean? Maybe nothing, especially because I take what Deeney says with a pinch of salt – especially given some of his team of the week selections! But it doesn't sound like the club want to get rid of him (the chat wasn't done in a 'talk him up to add to the transfer fee way) and – as I've said before – no-one knows the full story about everything that has happened with Joao Pedro in recent weeks and months.