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Chelsea very impressed with £100m Brighton player with Liverpool also big fans
- Exclusive from Graeme Bailey
Chelsea and Liverpool have enjoyed superb seasons so far and will have high hopes in terms of getting their hands silverware this season.
Now, with the January transfer window edging eve🌜r closer, the Blues and the Reds may well be looking to bring in some reinforcements.
As two of the biggest clubs in the Premier League, Chelsea and Liverpool can compete for s𓆉ome of the best players in the world.
Both clubs have now set their sights on a player who has been shining at Brighton & Hove Albion.
Brighton want £100m for Joao Pedro amid Chelsea and Liverpool interest
TBR Football understands that Brighton would demand close to £100million for star striker Joao Pedro, but🃏 they have n🐼o plans to let him leave in the near future.
Pedro has been on of the sta🦋rs of the Premier League so far this season with seven goal contributions from his seven starts.
He missed m♏ost of October through injury, but he has returned to action and form in the last month.
Still on💜ly 23, Pedro is held in huge regard by a number of sides from across Europe.
TBR Football can now reveal that Pedro’s list admi🐼rers is ♋large.
Newcastle United are long-term admirers, indeed they t🧸ried and failed to land him from Watford before Brighton, and the North East giants remain k༒een on him.
However, th൲e number of clubs who are keeping close tabs on Pedro has grown exponentially this t✅erm.
TBR Football understands that Liverpool have watched him closely and is held in high reg🎀ard by Reds chief Richard Hughes – who liked him during his time at Bournemouth.
We can also reveal that Chelsea – who are looking to added another striker to their ranks in 2025 – have been impressed with Pedro’s progress❀ at Brighton.
Paris Sain▨t-Germain and Bayern Munich are also admirers of Pedro, and we understand Brighton🅺 are fully aware of the increased interest.
However, they are comfortable knowing that they have him contracted to 2028 👍and they always believed the Brazilian international.
As they have ওproven on more than one occasion in recent year, Brighton will only allow a player to leave o👍n their terms.
They achieved £100million from Chelsea for Moises Caicedo last year, and we are told by🍬 sources that to land Pedro, it would take a similar amount.
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What Pedro could bring to Chelsea and Liverpool
Adrian Clarke rece🦩ntly wrote ꦐan in-depth scouting report about Pedro on the .
“Joao Pedro has the versatility to operate in different a൩reas of the forward line,” he began.
“He is quiꦰck and bright with his movement, possesses an eye for a 🐟pass and can also dribble past players with ease.
“Si♔nce joining Brighton though, it is his intuition which has improved the most.
“Joao Pedro has become a natural poacher having developꦜed a real🎀 eye for where the ball might fall inside the box.”
Clarke then wrote: “There is no doubt that Joao🃏 Pedro has one of the coolest temperaments among Premier League forwards.
“He consistently displays an ice-cool nerve from the penalty spot, scoring all but oneꦡ of his five spot-kicks in the Premier Lea💟gue.
“And this season he is translating tha🔥t quality into his op꧒en-play finishing too.”