[Albion] Joao Pedro - How good is he?..

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

Still feel myself he’s a little under the radar (which isn’t a bad thing!)
Personally wouldn’t swap him for any other PL striker (with the exception of Haaland & Salah (if you catergorise Mo as an out and out striker)
JP is box office, skilful, great finisher and a real personality. Love him.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Brilliant - this is his year.

£90m - £100m next summer sadly….

 

[junior]

Enjoy it while it lasts. He'll be next summers £100 million sale to Chelsea.

I wonder who is his succession plan?

 

[Pevenseagull]

44 appearances 22 goals.

 

[227 BHA]

Enjoy it while it lasts. He'll be next summers £100 million sale to Chelsea.

I wonder who is his succession plan?

Georginio Rutter

 

[DJ NOBO]

Last season his goal tally was inflated by his pens.
Now his dribbling, finishing and positioning are improving game by game.
He will end up far superior to the player you see today.

 

[Lifelong Supporter]

It's all about his finishing for me. If that continues to improve he'll move to the top of the charts and yes next summer we'll be unable to keep him. That will be fair enough. it's the way it works in today's football world. It looks like we are already seriously looking for his replacement.

 

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

44 appearances 22 goals.

1 in 2 at Premier League level. Can’t be bad.

 

[mothy]

Georginio Rutter

Butter doesn't score goals

 

[Hiheidi]

It looks like we are already seriously looking for his replacement.

Conrad Harder is off to Lisbon, so not him.

 

[superseagull1994]

Enjoy it while it lasts. He'll be next summers £100 million sale to Chelsea.

I wonder who is his succession plan?

Goodnight imo

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Good to see him demanding better support from the other players. It’s very early days with this new squad, some of whom need to stop trying too much to do it all themselves. It all looks very hopeful.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Last season his goal tally was inflated by his pens.
Now his dribbling, finishing and positioning are improving game by game.
He will end up far superior to the player you see today.

It irritates me when a striker scores goals and someone says oh, but it includes penalties. This isn’t personal DJ NOBO because many people do it.

Goals are goals regardless of how they go in, from the spot or a wicked deflection off a defender’s bum.

 

[Justice]

Under the radar he’s already on yesterday’s opponents wish list.

 

[227 BHA]

Butter doesn't score goals

I can’t believe that!

 

[Triggaaar]

It irritates me when a striker scores goals and someone says oh, but it includes penalties. This isn’t personal DJ NOBO because many people do it.

Goals are goals regardless of how they go in, from the spot or a wicked deflection off a defender’s bum.

I'm on the 'but it includes penalties' side. It's harder to score from open play than it is from a penalty. It's really good to have someone capable of putting penalties away, but comparing overall scores between someone who does take them, and someone who doesn't, is misleading.

 

[Zeberdi]

Still feel myself he’s a little under the radar (which isn’t a bad thing!)
Personally wouldn’t swap him for any other PL striker (with the exception of Haaland & Salah (if you catergorise Mo as an out and out striker)
JP is box office, skilful, great finisher and a real personality. Love him.

Agree completely.

However, I think he would already have been within the radar of most scouts in the EPL as he played for Watford in the Championship for 2 ½ years and had a rep for a being a skilled pen taker as well as having great attacking instincts but that’s why we broke our transfer record at the time by paying £30M for him. He developed a lot last season scoring more goals in open play and his fee (of at least £100M) will reflect that if we sell him on.

Arsenal were reportedly interested at the beginning of the window but maybe after yesterday, that wouldn’t go down well with the Arselickers .

Interesting to cf Welbeck with Pedro (notwithstanding difference in roles) - with Minteh and Mitoma behind them, both will score a lot of goals this season (maybe Welbeck has a higher xGI?) but on the transfer market, Pedro is far more valuable - much younger, versatile (can play a 9, 10 and inverted LW) and of course, a very reliable pen taker.

Next to Mitoma, he’d probably be our most expensive player on the transfer market if anyone came knocking.

 

[MJsGhost]

I'm on the 'but it includes penalties' side. It's harder to score from open play that it is from a penalty. It's really good to have someone capable of putting penalties away, but comparing overall scores between someone who does take them, and someone who doesn't, is misleading.

This.

Something like 75-80% of penalties are scored, so being the designated penalty taker will skew scoring stats over someone that doesn't have a 75% chance of a goal handed to them on a plate every 8-10 games.

That's not to say it doesn't take balls and technique to take and score a penalty, but when comparing a penalty taker and a non-penalty taker's stats, it should be taken into account.

 

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

I'm on the 'but it includes penalties' side. It's harder to score from open play that it is from a penalty. It's really good to have someone capable of putting penalties away, but comparing overall scores between someone who does take them, and someone who doesn't, is misleading.

You still need to score them it’s never a guarantee he just happens to be exceptionally good at taking them.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

These are a good player.