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<\/div>\nChelsea face a defining summer as Joao Pedro\u2019s future hangs over Stamford Bridge<\/h2>\n
Chelsea are going into one of their most important summers in recent memory, and the uncertainty surrounding Joao Pedro is right at the heart of it. While the club have no intention of selling the 24-year-old, transfer expert Fabrizio Romano reports that the board feels losing him now would send the worst possible message during such a shaky period.<\/p>\n
Still, the official \u201cnot for sale\u201d sign hasn\u2019t stopped the rumours. Barcelona\u2019s Deco has already reached out to Pedro\u2019s camp, even if the player hasn\u2019t officially asked for a move yet. Former Blue Shaun Wright-Phillips didn\u2019t hold back either,\u00a0telling\u00a0Somos Fanaticos that Pedro should jump at the chance to join Barca and link up with Raphinha and Lamine Yamal in the Champions League. With Chelsea currently reeling from six straight losses and likely missing out on Europe entirely for 2026\/27, you couldn\u2019t blame any top striker for considering his options.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe it would be fantastic for Joao if he were to go,\u201d<\/em> Wright-Phillips told Somos Fanaticos of a move to Barcelona.<\/p>\n \u201cPersonally, given the way Chelsea has been run, if I were him, I would do everything to complete this transfer. \u201cPlaying at Camp Nou, alongside Raphinha and (Lamine) Yamal, 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.<\/em><\/p>\n \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. Joao has the level and deserves to be playing in the Champions League.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Pedro\u2019s individual stats this year show just how much he\u2019s been carrying the team. He has racked up 15 goals and 5 assists in 33 games, meaning he\u2019s involved in a goal roughly every 125 minutes. His non-penalty expected goals (npxG) of 0.52 per 90 puts him in the top 2% of all Premier League forwards, proving his clinical edge isn\u2019t just a fluke.<\/p>\n Manchester United have made a big decision on this injury-prone star<\/p>\n Beyond the finishing, Pedro\u2019s 77% pass completion rate and a key pass per game show he\u2019s heavily involved in the build-up, too. If there is a fair criticism, it\u2019s that he can still be a bit streaky when it comes to converting big chances, suggesting there is still another level for him to reach as a traditional number nine.<\/p>\n Chelsea have to keep him, and to be blunt, it\u2019s because he\u2019s the only big summer signing who actually worked out. Trading away their best player after just one year would basically admit the club\u2019s project is failing. Since Pedro is locked down on a contract until 2033, Chelsea have all the control they need to make him the centrepiece of their rebuild instead of just taking the money and running.<\/p>\n Big Injury Setback \u2013 Chelsea confirmed injury list against Liverpool<\/p>\n Chelsea face a defining summer as Joao Pedro\u2019s future hangs over Stamford Bridge Chelsea are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6240","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\/6240","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=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Should Chelsea fight harder to keep Pedro regardless of which league they play in next season?<\/h3>\n
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