Barcelona sporting director has had “meetings” with Chelsea star ahead of potential summer transfer

Barcelona sporting director has had “meetings” with Chelsea star ahead of potential summer transfer Barcelona are interested in Joao Pedro, and we’re getting more and more chatter about the potential deal this week. If you enjoy Chelsea News coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content. This is a story we expect to see a lot of, especially now that Chelsea are going to miss out on Champions League football.

The Blues are going to be in serious financial difficulty, and will have to sell players. That could include players they actually want to keep – like Joao Pedro. Barcelona get serious about Chelsea striker Rumours about Barcelona being interested in the Brazilian have been around for a while, but they’ve really gone up a gear in the last few weeks.

Catalan paper Sport go in depth today with a long piece about how realistic a deal is. Barca sporting director Deco has been to watch the forward in person several times, and think he has the qualities to “explode” at the Camp Nou. He has spoken with members of the Brazilian’s camp, and has even had meetings with them over the last two months.

Barcelona think he would cost between €80m-100m, making him affordable for them this summer. In other news… JP’s deal was just the sort Chelsea need to be doing more of – proven Premier League players who can improve the first team right away. Xavi’s candidacy for the Chelsea job seems over before it really began.