{"id":14099,"date":"2025-07-02T09:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/joao-pedro-signs-for-chelsea-stellar-reinforcement-arrives-for-60m\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:24:05","slug":"joao-pedro-signs-for-chelsea-stellar-reinforcement-arrives-for-60m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/joao-pedro-signs-for-chelsea-stellar-reinforcement-arrives-for-60m\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo\u00e3o Pedro signs for Chelsea: Stellar reinforcement arrives for 60M"},"content":{"rendered":"Chelsea has finalized the signing of Joao Pedro, coming from Brighton &amp; Hove Albion, as announced by the clubs.\n\nThe 23-year-old footballer has signed a six-year contract with the Stamford Bridge team and could make his debut in the Club World Cup quarter-final match against Palmeiras on Friday.\n\nSources indicate that Pedro chose to join Chelsea, despite Newcastle&#8217;s interest.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0701%2Fr1513444_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Jo\u00e3o Pedro ha hecho el cambio de la costa sur al oeste de Londres.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Jo\u00e3o Pedro ha hecho el cambio de la costa sur al oeste de Londres.<br>Warren Little\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Everyone knows this is a great club with a great history. They had brilliant players in the past and have brilliant players now. So I&#8217;m excited to join and you know that when you&#8217;re a Chelsea player you have to think about one thing: winning.<\/p><cite>Jo\u00e3o Pedro<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nPedro, who was trained at Fluminense in Brazil, arrived in English football in 2020, spending three years at Watford before shining at Brighton.\n\nAt the Amex, Pedro scored 30 goals and provided 10 assists in two years, in addition to having played three matches with the Brazilian national team.\n\nHe is expected to compete for a starting position with the also newly arrived Liam Delap.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea has finalized the signing of Joao Pedro, coming from Brighton &amp; Hove Albion, as announced by the clubs. The 23-year-old footballer has signed a six-year contract with the Stamford Bridge team and could make his debut in the Club World Cup quarter-final match against Palmeiras on Friday. Sources indicate that Pedro chose to join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5205,220,5206,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-14099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-brighton","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-joao-pedro","11":"tag-transfer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}