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Barcelona have identified Chelsea striker Joao Pedro as a potential replacement for Robert Lewandowski. <\/p>\n
The Polish international is expected to leave the club at the end of his contract this summer. <\/p>\n
Julian Alvarez is Barcelona\u2019s primary target, but Atletico Madrid are unwilling to sell him.<\/p>\n
Alvarez\u2019s current deal expires in 2030, but Atletico are willing to offer him an improved contract until 2032 to avoid an exit. <\/p>\n
Only a huge transfer fee could change Atletico\u2019s stance, but Barcelona\u2019s financial situation complicates matters.<\/p>\n
According to Marca, Barcelona have set their sights on Brazilian international Pedro.\u00a0The 24-year-old joined Chelsea last summer in a deal worth \u00a360 million. <\/p>\n
He has enjoyed an impressive debut campaign, bagging 14 goals and eight assists in 32 Premier League games. <\/p>\n
Pedro has mainly been utilised as a striker this season, but he can also play as a left winger or a second striker. He is known for his work rate, intelligent movement, dribbling skills and finishing ability.<\/p>\n
Chelsea could consider offers for Liam Delap or Nicolas Jackson in the upcoming transfer window. <\/p>\n
Delap has endured a difficult debut season after joining from Ipswich Town, starting just 11 times in the English top-flight. <\/p>\n
Jackson has impressed with his displays for Bayern Munich, but they have opted not to make his loan move permanent. <\/p>\n
Stats from Transfermarkt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barcelona have identified Chelsea striker Joao Pedro as a potential replacement for Robert Lewandowski. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","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\/3515","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=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}