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

[LFEE]

28 minutes ago, Sibierski said:

Trafford medical probably done months ago  

In fairness he flew from Newcastle airport so could’ve done it before he jetted off! 
 

Think we’d know by now though 

[Doctor Zaius]

Think we'll get Pedro. He wants off and Brighton are happy with him to go for the right price. 

 

I think Elanga is more important to Forest than he is to us, and as such our valuations wont be met. Hopefully we dont overpay. I think we'll come to and agreement for Trafford too - Burnley will take the money and fancy themselves to replace him. 

 

 

[LFEE]

Just now, Doctor Zaius said:

Think we'll get Pedro. He wants off and Brighton are happy with him to go for the right price. 

 

I think Elanga is more important to Forest than he is to us, and as such our valuations wont be met. Hopefully we dont overpay. I think we'll come to and agreement for Trafford too - Burnley will take the money and fancy themselves to replace him. 

 

 

I agree. Think Elanga will be the sacrificial lamb if one needed to make the deals happen.

[Ikon]

Now this is a signing that I’m massively behind. Hope it gets done. 

[Nine]

1 hour ago, Ikon said:

Now this is a signing that I’m massively behind. Hope it gets done. 

I think this is a player who is definitely at the top end of what we could realistically hope to attract this summer, it would be an incredible signing imo. 
 

He just opens up so many options for us in terms of formation and tweaks in style. Most of us probably expect him to play behind Isak which is going to be lethal in a 4-2-3-1.

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Nine

[Skeletor]

Hope we get Pedro and Trafford as they'd make a big difference to how we play. I don't think Elanga makes a difference to how we play but would make the overall squad stronger. But I wouldn't be upset if we moved on from Elanga.

[SUPERTOON]

 

[The Prophet]

Whiffs of trying to get us to up our bid like.

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by The Prophet

[Teslact]

7 hours 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

 

Don't we have an official tie-in with StatsBomb?

[Bunk Moreland]

Brighton obviously briefing about rejecting, if the other club was real surely they'd also leak their name for full effect 

[duo]

time to move on

[The Prophet]

Just now, duo said:

time to move on

 

[LionOfGosforth]

1 minute ago, duo said:

time to move on

 

The new "worrying"

[JT24]

If we lose him to Chelsea or Villa I will simply never forgive Andy Howe. 

[Weezertron]

What comings after closing in? Inching towards?

[KaKa]

59 minutes ago, Nine said:

I think this is a player who is definitely at the top end of what we could realistically hope to attract this summer, it would be an incredible signing imo. 
 

He just opens up so many options for us in terms of formation and tweaks in style. Most of us probably expect him to play behind Isak which is going to be lethal in a 4-2-3-1.

 

 

 

 

Yeah, really hoping we can tie this one up.

 

Because of the option to play him in that 10 position behind the striker, it then also indirectly improves our midfield options.

 

And so if Willock and Longstaff are still here, and not at their best, we at least have a different setup to go with.

[Collage]

 Fucking Chelsea. Just submit bids for everyone and see what happens

[Vaj]

3 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

Yeah, really hoping we can tie this one up.

 

Because of the option to play him in that 10 position behind the striker, it then also indirectly improves our midfield options.

 

And so if Willock and Longstaff are still here, and not at their best, we at least have a different setup to go with.

Yeah it would give us the option to go 4-2-3-1 or 5-4-1 as opposed to reverting to 5-4-1 no matter the opposition. For instance the Everton game I am sure we would have gone to a 4-2-3-1 with Joelinton out if we had the option of someone with the quality of Joao Pedro 

[Mikky]

3 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

Yeah, really hoping we can tie this one up.

 

Because of the option to play him in that 10 position behind the striker, it then also indirectly improves our midfield options.

 

And so if Willock and Longstaff are still here, and not at their best, we at least have a different setup to go with.

A 4-2-3-1 is very interesting as ideally you would want 1 more midfielder for rotation given volume of games 

 

In the 2

Bruno

Tonali

(Big Joe)

(Miley)

 

Longstaff Willock sold

 

10

Pedro (could do with 1,more who can also play CM)

 

Wide

Barnes

Gordon

Murohy

Elanga

 

CF

Isak

(J Pedro)

(Osula)

[johnny36]

Cant see Chelsea getting Gittens and Pedro but with Sancho not staying and Mudryks issues they could buy both

[Robbo2]

I think we'll get him, but Brighton are clearly one of the hardest clubs out there to buy from. Good at holding on for absolute fortunes the bastards

[Vaj]

1 minute ago, Mikky said:

A 4-2-3-1 is very interesting as ideally you would want 1 more midfielder for rotation given volume of games 

 

In the 2

Bruno

Tonali

(Big Joe)

(Miley)

 

Longstaff Willock sold

 

10

Pedro (could do with 1,more who can also play CM)

 

Wide

Barnes

Gordon

Murohy

Elanga

 

CF

Isak

(J Pedro)

(Osula)

I think that gives you the option to buy a development player as the final centre mid. Maybe someone like Chukwuemeka (although he appears to be staying at Dortmund) that can fill in and hopefully

decelop into a solid option over the course of the season 

[JigsawGoesToPieces]

Could go 3-4-3 / 5-2-3?

    

                    Trafford

 

          Schar     Burn     Botman

 

Tino                                             Hall

                  Tonali    Bruno

 

Pedro               Isak                Gordon

 

 

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by JigsawGoesToPieces

[OverThere]

I'm a fan of Pedro, this would be a really good signing

[timeEd32]

I'm very happy about this and also really annoyed that PSR prevented us from buying him for half the price a couple years ago.