{"id":14972,"date":"2026-07-07T06:33:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2026-07-07T06:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:33:40","slug":"calum-mcfarlane-press-conference-live-chelsea-season-xabi-alonso-injury-news-and-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=14972","title":{"rendered":"Calum McFarlane press conference LIVE &#8211; Chelsea season, Xabi Alonso, injury news and Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div tabindex=\"0\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Barcelona sporting director Deco has refused to rule out the La Liga champions making an offer to Chelsea for Joao Pedro in the upcoming summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Blues forward, who signed from Brighton last summer for a \u00a360million package (\u00a355m plus add-ons), has been a revelation in his debut season at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Joao Pedro has scored 20 goals in all competitions this term &#8211; and was unsurprisingly handed the club&#8217;s Player of the Season award prior to the win over Tottenham on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It comes as no shock, then, that the Brazil international is attracting interest from Europe&#8217;s biggest clubs. Barcelona, sources say, are indeed interested in Joao Pedro in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"image-group\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX false\" data-testid=\"imageembed-33959478\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"33959478\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"image\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joao Pedro of Chelsea in FA Cup Final action\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 458px, (max-width: 615px) 615px, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.football.london\/article33959478.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/0_Joao-Pedro.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.football.london\/article33959478.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458b\/0_Joao-Pedro.jpg 458w, https:\/\/i2-prod.football.london\/article33959478.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_Joao-Pedro.jpg 615w, https:\/\/i2-prod.football.london\/article33959478.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/0_Joao-Pedro.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"Joao Pedro of Chelsea in FA Cup Final action\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Joao Pedro of Chelsea in FA Cup Final action<cite aria-label=\"Image: 2026 The FA\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-credit__wlx1W\" data-testid=\"caption-credit\">(Image: 2026 The FA)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona sporting director Deco has refused to rule out the La Liga champions making an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14972","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\/14972","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=14972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}