{"id":5934,"date":"2026-05-08T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:29:14","slug":"shaun-wright-phillips-backs-29-g-a-chelsea-forward-to-leave-stamford-bridge-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5934","title":{"rendered":"Shaun Wright-Phillips Backs 29 G\/A Chelsea Forward To LEAVE Stamford Bridge This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong>Former Chelsea winger Shaun Wright-Phillips thinks Joao Pedro should jump at the opportunity to leave the Blues and sign for Barcelona this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reports<\/strong> in the Brazilian press claim that the 24-year-old has been identified as a transfer target for the La Liga giants, and Wright-Phillips says he \u201cwould do everything\u201d to get out of Stamford Bridge, considering the state the club is currently in:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it would be fantastic for Joao if he were to go. Personally, given the way Chelsea has been run, if I were him, I would do everything to complete this transfer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying at Camp Nou, alongside Raphinha and Lamal, would be great for him. He would score many goals, since we have already seen what he did in a team that wasn\u2019t as good as this Chelsea team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were Joao Pedro, I would want to play in the Champions League, and I can\u2019t see Chelsea qualifying for any European competition. Jo\u00e3o has the level and deserves to be playing in the Champions League.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Those are harsh words from Wright-Phillips<\/h2>\n<p>Such comments from an ex-player won\u2019t go down particularly well with supporters, but the fact is that many of the club\u2019s top players have become unsettled following events in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of stability will leave many wondering whether they should go. Hiring a new manager as soon as possible would go some way to steadying the ship.<\/p>\n<h2>Pedro is one of the last players Chelsea should sell<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1077040118\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>The majority of the squad have massively underperformed over the course of the 2025\/26 season, but that is not an accusation you can level at the Brazilian international.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro has scored 20 goals and contributed 9 assists in all competitions, which is an outstanding return. He is one of the few in the first-team squad who should be unsellable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about the Chelsea First Team Squad for 2025\/26 here<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea winger Shaun Wright-Phillips thinks Joao Pedro should jump at the opportunity to leave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5934","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\/5934","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=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}