João Pedro: NUFC "close-in" on transfer with negotiations at an advanced stage (Chronicle)

[Fenham Mag]

Reckon a medical will be mentioned by the COB today, either Pedro or Trafford.

 

[JT24]

11 minutes ago, Fenham Mag said:

Reckon a medical will be mentioned by the COB today, either Pedro or Trafford.

 

Aye, I have a feeling it’s a Ornstein agreement reached/Fab here we go kinda day. 

[Nine]

Gotta love how these threads have gone from ‘worrying’ to mass excitement in the last 24 hours 

[Nine]

2 hours ago, Thumbheed said:

Isak, Gordon, Pedro and Elanga on the counter would be terrifying for any defence in the world.

 

 

And then you consider Trafford baiting the press and hitting an accurate pass up field.. beautiful 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Nine

[LFEE]

20 minutes ago, Fenham Mag said:

Reckon a medical will be mentioned by the COB today, either Pedro or Trafford.

 

Trafford in Ibiza and Pedro in Brazil so doubt it.

[christ]

49 minutes ago, Sibierski said:

Guess we’ll be moving more into a 4-4-2 shape out of possession which we have seen at times with Gordon when up alongside Isak.

 

Wouldn’t be shocked if Pedro ends up in a similar role to Joelinton, as in moving more into a central midfield, but then a better player in final third. 

 

Having Pedro would open up quite a few tactical options as well as allowing us to rotate.
 

He could work in our existing 433, gives us the opportunity to play 4231 or go two up top. 

 

I can see why he’s such an attractive signing. He solves a lot of potential problems.

[mouldy_uk]

Press conference, Friday 3pm?

 

 

 

 

That’s an old forum joke btw 

 

[madras]

2 minutes ago, LFEE said:

Trafford in Ibiza and Pedro in Brazil so doubt it.

Wasn't Bruno's medical in Brazil ?

[LFEE]

4 minutes ago, madras said:

Wasn't Bruno's medical in Brazil ?

 
Good point 👍🏻

[John P]

Found this interesting from The Transfer Flow newsletter a couple of weeks ago. They took a look at some additional stats for Joao Pedro as he's a bit of a hybrid striker/attacking midfielder:

Suggests that he's fairly unique as someone who both gives and receives a high amount of line-breaking passes in his position. Could really see it working with him playing just behind Isak and being the link between him and Sandro/Bruno

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by John P

[kingxlnc]

If we get JP that closes the door on Xavi Simons I guess...
It was nice to dream

[Fenham Mag]

8 minutes ago, madras said:

Wasn't Bruno's medical in Brazil ?

 

We can get Trafford on the first Jet2 flight to Newcastle too.

[Fenham Mag]

Just now, kingxlnc said:

If we get JP that closes the door on Xavi Simons I guess...
It was nice to dream

 

Too much ego for me.

[Bunk Moreland]

10 minutes ago, John P said:

Found this interesting from The Transfer Flow newsletter a couple of weeks ago. They took a look at some additional stats for Joao Pedro as he's a bit of a hybrid striker/attacking midfielder:

Suggests that he's fairly unique as someone who both gives and receives a high amount of line-breaking passes in his position. Could really see it working with him playing just behind Isak and being the link between him and Sandro/Bruno

 

 

 

Sounds absolutely perfect for what we need

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Sexual, I'm in. 

[TRon]

1 hour ago, Joelinton7 said:

Honestly sick of the double speak from our journalists. Advanced negations but not, closing in on a player but £10m apart. If you’ve got nothing stfu.

 

 

This is a bit annoying like. 

 

Closing in with £10m apart in valuations and the player still on his hols suggests there's still a fair way to go like. I guess it just depends if you believe that line that the club is confident they can get this done. 

[Lotus]

@John P

That does sound extremely useful tbf.

 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Lotus

[The College Dropout]

1 hour ago, joeyt said:

 

What’s the evidence for thinking we don’t have the money for both?

[Mazzy]

If we've bid £50M for him and Brighton "want closer to £60M" that sounds fairly reasonable. You'd hope that the difference of £6/7M could be negotiated pretty easily over the next week or so.

[Sibierski]

53 minutes ago, LFEE said:

Trafford in Ibiza and Pedro in Brazil so doubt it.

Trafford medical probably done months ago  

[Novocastrian]

Not been seen in Greggs yet? 

[sushimonster85]

1 hour ago, JT24 said:

Aye, I have a feeling it’s a Ornstein agreement reached/Fab here we go kinda day. 

 

Technically we've already had the Romano 'here we go' on Pedro... was just back in 2022. 

[elbee909]

What about Brett Emerton

[ExiledGeordie]

Thinking about it he makes perfect sense in terms of more of a target man and different looks formation wise. But also if we’ve played CL then have an away game or home match a few days later start this lad and we’re still looking good. 

[SteV]

2 minutes ago, elbee909 said:

What about Brett Emerton

Runs a pub in Gosforth since moving out the Jesmond Dene Hotel.