Barcelona have Chelsea\u2018s Jo\u00e3o Pedro on their short list for the summer. <\/strong><\/p>\n On May 6th, Sport Witness covered claims from Spain of Barcelona interest in the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n Last Friday, Barcelona sporting director Deco had a meeting with the Chelsea star\u2019s agent in London.<\/p>\n The same source stated he could watch the striker in the FA Cup final, which the Blues lost to Manchester City on Saturday.<\/p>\n A day later, the west London club confirmed the appointed off Xabi Alonso as their new manager.<\/p>\n Monday\u2019s edition of AS reports on Deco\u2019s meeting with the Brazil international\u2019s agent in London last Thursday.<\/p>\n During this meeting, Barcelona found out the Camp Nou move seduces Jo\u00e3o Pedro, who is keen on joining them. The other message was the operation is almost impossible because of the high price, and the Club World Cup winners don\u2019t want to sell.<\/p>\n If the new manager decides to retain Pedro, the operation will become more complicated for Barcelona. On the other hand, Chelsea could sell him for a high price if Alonso were to sanction a move.<\/p>\n The manager returned to management since leaving Real Madrid in January. He had a disappointing spell with Los Blancos, where he also had a deal with player issues.<\/p>\n In order to avoid the Real Madrid nightmare at Chelsea, AS believe the coach could let Pedro leave as he doesn\u2019t want to have disgruntled players in his squad. Alonso has been stung by player power at Madrid and will want everyone pulling in the same direction.<\/p>\n Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez is Barcelona\u2019s main target but Atl\u00e9tico Madrid are refusing to sell him to a direct rival. Therefore, the focus seems to be on the former Watford man, but it won\u2019t be easy to take him away from Chelsea.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, WinWin report Barcelona and Real Madrid are closely monitoring Chelsea youngster Ibrahim Rabbaj. His agent informed them the two La Liga giants\u2019 scouts are keeping an eye on the 17-year-old.<\/p>\n Sport relay that and add both Barca and Real Madrid could make approaches when he turns 18 years of age in January 2027.<\/p>\n In his debut season at Chelsea, Jo\u00e3o Pedro managed 20 goals and nine assists from 49 matches.<\/p>\n He has a contract until 2033, and Transfermarkt value the Brazilian at \u20ac75m, the highest of his career.<\/p>\n The long contract puts the Club World Cup winners in a comfortable position when dealing with any potential transfer negotiations.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barcelona have Chelsea\u2018s Jo\u00e3o Pedro on their short list for the summer. On May 6th,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Barcelona seduces Chelsea man<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Both Deco and the La Liga winners now have to wait, especially because of Xabi Alonso\u2019s appointment. He has to make a decision on whether or not to hold on to the frontman.<\/p>\nPedro\u2019s stats, contract and value<\/strong><\/h2>\n