Seat Stealer
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- Jun 23, 2012
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So where is Joao off to.?...............It aint gonna be here.
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[Albion] Joao Pedro, Where next?
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It's such a massive decision: career and potential glory, or so much money you can feed half of Brazil.
Pros: Money, crowds are only about 40 people, so he can get them up individually if needed.
Cons: Top flight career is essentially dead, kiss goodbye to the Brazil national team, it's the main centre for sports washing, crowds are only about 40 people.
In all honesty, if the Saudi Crown wants him, I'd much rather he go to Saudi than to their outpost up north.
el punal
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It depends whether he can take off his shirt, twirl it around, and chant “Yerksheer! Yerksheer!” all at the same time.
el punal
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So what did happen? Did JP lamp him one, give him verbals, chop him down at the knees? So much intrigue - someone please reveal.
I don't get why the general feeling in our fanbase seems to be happy to get shot of him. I think he's class, and he's got us out of a hole many times. I will be very sad to see him go. He's a brilliant player.
Justice
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Can’t really read anything into those last few games nice to win although most of those sides were done for the season. What was worrying Liverpool and Spurs wasn’t great until Mitoma came on before that point we weren’t very good.
GT49er
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I think it's more a general feeling that he's going, just that. So, if that's what is going to happen, OK, shrug shoulders and get on with it. As others have said, we've had some good results without him.
Justice
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I’ve read he’s not even that good on here
In all honesty, I suspect it's an element of self-protection against his seemingly inevitable departure. There was a time earlier this season when I genuinely thought he was totally unplayable: quick, powerful, motivated and direct, with an eye for a killer pass. He's a phenomenal talent with room to improve. I don't think any of us want that version of the player gone.
However, if (and it's an unsubstantiated "if") he doesn't want to be here, and we can't/won't convince him to stay, then yes, I do want him gone, and for a tasty transfer fee.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
As long as he's OK at football, his performance on NSC is of lesser concern to me.I’ve read he’s not even that good on here
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Hove / Παρος
How big are the crowds usually?
If you believe the numbers.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Crawley get way more
Would be superb if we could ship him off to Saudi. There's definitely some recency bias from some of the detractors, he is an excellent player that we absolutely do not want going to our rivals. The prospect of a midfield of Tonali, Guimaraes and Joao Pedro (with Joelinton as another option) would be best avoided.
Agree re Mitoma (would be a far bigger loss than Pedro IMO).
Disagree re the games.
You can only play what’s in front of you.
Fairly certain Wolves would not want to lose at home, remembering they had been on a good run.
I thought the same but I was equally frustrated by him as he seems to only show that kind of control when we're winning/drawing. I think he starts to get frustrated and lose the shape of the team by trying too much himself.
It maybe could have been coached out of him with another season but I won't miss him if he wants to leave.
Southern Scouse
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If the barcodes want JP, that can only mean you’re preparing to lose Isak to the Reds. Can you handle the loss?First I'm hearing of this. Someone should look into that then.
Thanks for the replies. Remember Ben Foster always saying that he's some boy and going to be incredible player. Was never that impressed with him when we were in for him from Watford, so probably always had that view of him. See he's a good penalty taker (so is Isak), but 5 non penalty goals didn't jump out to me.
He'd defiantly receive a warm welcome to the club by our current Brazilians Bruno and Joelinton.
Can see that he's a similar profile to Isak, in that he's capable playing all across the front line and comfortable in wide position. Reading between the lines from sources of varying reputations, seems that Howe wants to play more of a 4-2-3-1/4-4-2 next year. Few months ago it was reported that we'd been tracking Gyokeres before he'd actually shot to prominence, and Howe thought he'd be best to get even more from Isak (Swedish connection I guess).
Regarding the fees being asked - no problem with clubs asking the moon on a stick from us - we'd do the same, to be expected and has to be factored into our recruitment. So far we've got far better value to quality in the players we've got from Europe. Whilst our recruitment has been near faultless all round - Tonali, Bruno, Isak, Botman have all been pound for pound incredible buys from Euro market. Why I've been reticent at thought of us spending out these big fees on Pedro or Elanga this summer, was same really with Gordon fee back in Jan 23.
Bound to be a few players that come into the PL this summer that become the next set of £50M, 70M, £100M transfers in 12-24 months. Be nice if we were in those recruitment markets rather than being blindly focused on whats on our doorstep. Like Bournemouth and you guys are doing I guess
Nobby Cybergoat
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Or it could mean they are beefing up their squad for the expanded European competitions?