[Albion] Joao Pedro Brazilian Maestro

[Lenny Rider]

A tear in one's eye is a bit different to having decked the player of the year. JP is off.

Has it actually been established JP decked JP?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Has it actually been established JP decked JP?

I’m willing to believe Naylor there’s been an altercation. Decked was more my flowery interpretation and poetic prose

 

[A1X]

Sounds like the line spun about Caicedo for me

 

[GT49er]

Club would want £70M minimum > starting price I would think.

– Decent length of contract left
– 23 years old / prime
– Proven PL scorer
– European pedigree too
– Exceptional penalty taker
– Goals, assists and all-round game
– Brazil No.9
– General match-winning box office appeal

All being said, I hope he sorts his head out, stays and gets back to the RDZ era form + performance... because he was stellar.

All those points are valid, but IMHO they don't add up to £70M - that's blue-and-white tinted goggles territory. Good player, with a decent market value, but not that much.

That said £70m, if it was offered, may be a little too tempting to refuse.

Not so much 'a little too tempting' as 'bite your hand off' level.

 

[Doug-ees-evil]

All those points are valid, but IMHO they don't add up to £70M - that's blue-and-white tinted goggles territory. Good player, with a decent market value, but not that much.


Not so much 'a little too tempting' as 'bite your hand off' level.

Maybe a touch high, but when you compare with Solanke* £65M total fee to Spurs and even Ben White / Cucurella fees (admittedly we may be operating in a different environment now) then it's not that far off. PL strikers always command the largest fees. Suspect the reality will be £60-65M total deal (inc. add ons).
* I think Pedro is better than Solanke fwiw.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

This is the right message for the club to be sending out

 

[All Four Grounds]

It’s Liverpool who look most likely to sign him with Fabrizio Romano touting a figure of €70m / £59m but tellingly he says:

Understand Joao Pedro can leave Brighton in the summer as he’s open to new chapter of his career. Premier League top clubs aware of the opportunity for potential transfer fee around €70m, but final decision up to Brighton. One to watch this summer.

 

[WATFORD zero]

It’s Liverpool who look most likely to sign him with Fabrizio Romano touting a figure of €70m / £59m but tellingly he says:

Understand Joao Pedro can leave Brighton in the summer as he’s open to new chapter of his career. Premier League top clubs aware of the opportunity for potential transfer fee around €70m, but final decision up to Brighton. One to watch this summer.

So that's every possibility covered other than him giving up football to follow a religious calling

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Has he left yet?

 

[All Four Grounds]

So that's every possibility covered other than him giving up football to follow a religious calling

haha but it’s a bit rash of you to rule out Pedro the penalty taking Pastor! Apparently Michael Edwards is going to make a move soon:

Edwards serves as FSG’s overarching CEO of Football and his fingerprints are all over another deal Liverpool could be about to make.

The Reds are in the market for a successor to Darwin Nunez who will be sold this summer. Brighton’s Joao Pedro is a player Liverpool have admired for a long time and TEAMtalk’s insider, Fraser Fletcher, has been informed Edwards’ interest in Pedro dates all the way back to his Watford days.

Sources also told Fletcher that Liverpool are prepared to act swiftly and decisively by initiating talks over a deal before the window opens on June 1.

So we will soon know if something is in it.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I think so.

I reckon the club are paying a bit of a penalty for letting Trossard go cheap after he copped a strop. The precedent is set.

We need to play hardball with someone to keep the next badly advised starlet in line. At the very least we should refuse some bids for him to concentrate some minds

Yeah, same with Caicedo. Absolute peanuts we let him go for. And Cucurella.

 

[chaileyjem]

Albion now going a bit further in terms of clean up .
They are now "unamused" at stories er, like this one, suggestions that he's leaving and "insistent" he won't be sold. https://tbrfootball.com/brighton-is...it-would-take-to-sign-joao-pedro-this-summer/

 

[Titanic]

£100m

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Yeah, same with Caicedo. Absolute peanuts we let him go for. And Cucurella.

It's clear I think to anyone prepared to engage in a moments thought, that i'm talking about players refusing to play rather than the general amount of money we get for selling players

 

[WATFORD zero]

£100m

You wait until Todd joins in

 

[Pavilionaire]

Maybe a touch high, but when you compare with Solanke* £65M total fee to Spurs and even Ben White / Cucurella fees (admittedly we may be operating in a different environment now) then it's not that far off. PL strikers always command the largest fees. Suspect the reality will be £60-65M total deal (inc. add ons).
* I think Pedro is better than Solanke fwiw.

Solanke fee a good benchmark. Also Isak £63 mill from Real Sociedad aged 22 in 2022.

Chelsea, Arsenal all desperate for more firepower upfront, Liverpool may need to replace Nunez, even Citeh not the same without Alvarez, he'd walk into the Man Utd team too. Then there's Saudi. And it's not as if the club need the money like some others do.

 

[amexer]

Only trouble is he is not a no 9. Mot comfortable in crowded penalty area so drifts out wide where more space

 

[Justice]

I think it's just that he can be very hit & miss, he's wound fans up at times this season with his attitude, and also because I feel- and I'm sure I'm not alone here- that he's one of those players who would down tools if an offer came in that he wanted to take up, a la Caicedo.

If he stays, I'm fine with it, but he does have the feeling of somebody who, if we got offered a ridiculous amount for, it would be worth taking.

17 goals last season is hit & miss?

 

[southstandandy]

Yep l agree, stellar he most certainly was. I just hope beyond hope, that there won't be a parting of the ways.

That said £70m, if it was offered, may be a little too tempting to refuse.

Also bear in mind a likely sell on clause so we need to push for as much as we can get if he does leave.

 

[Weststander]

PL goals are the gold standard.

10 last season, 6 non-pens.
9 this season, 5 non-pens.

He’s not a £70m striker, but it’ll be fantastic if TB banks the best part of £100m.