Pedro Rodriguez

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Spoiler:

http://twitter.com/FCBarcelona_cat/status/606421537974042625

Not sure if serious.

Pedro Rodriguez has signed a contract extension with Barcelona that will run until 2019 and boast a release clause of €150 million.

According to Goal.com

IMO not bad as MSN gonna Start most of the games. Who will come here to get benched?

Also on the homepage now:

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/football/first-team/detail/article/pedro-renews-contract-until-30-june-2019

Anyway i thought we gonna sell him..have to deal with this.Hopefully he will get back to 2009-11 form.

I'm amazed he renewed from his own viewpoint. He didn't look too happy this season and publicly talked about his lack of playing time. Guess he didn't get any offers from top clubs and prefers the Barca bench over playing time at clubs like Inter. No way he would have renewed if clubs like United or Arsenal were after him.

Going to have to watch this man flail around the pitch untill his career is over arent I

I knew he was fronting about leaving, he doesnt want to go anywhere.

Still feel we should have signed someone else. Yes, that man wont get a ton of playing time if Neymar, Messi and Saurez are fit...but if he could also play a Rakitic-esque midfield cum right wing role too, there would be time.

David Silva, Di Maria type of player. Obviously it wouldnt be either of them, but that kind of player positionally.

Didn't expect this at all. I'm pleasantly suprised tbh. Being in the shadow of MSN ain't that bad it seems.

The Franchise wrote:Going to have to watch this man flail around the pitch untill his career is over arent I

There is still hope. His contract was running out next summer. With the transfer ban he was staying anyway. At least they made sure he isn't leaving for free like Alves (if he doesn't renew) and he can still be sold next summer.

On one hand no one significantly better than Pedro would want to come to play second field.
On the other hand if he had any ambition in him he’d want to try his luck elsewhere.
I still think that he can be converted in RB at least for the easier games

That's surprising but I'm happy. We will be able to enjoy this fantastic player and Barça legend for a further season and he will be able tooutscore the likes of Ronaldinho and Stoitchkov.

Ideally, we should sell him next season though. We'll see what happens.

Fußball wrote:I'm amazed he renewed from his own viewpoint. He didn't look too happy this season and publicly talked about his lack of playing time. Guess he didn't get any offers from top clubs and prefers the Barca bench over playing time at clubs like Inter. No way he would have renewed if clubs like United or Arsenal were after him.

Seems to be the case. All the noise about possible departure was a negotiating tactic. He can't really 've it any better over at another club, whatever the stature, for it will only further expose his limitations, and he's aware of that. Staying at Barca means rub shoulders with football's crème de la crème, be paid well, and retain the (false) reputation of being talented yet sacrificing for the greater good of the club. Whilst also seeing the ignorant non-barca fan go "Wish we had the amazing Pedro in our team".

I'm amazed at how anyone could be surprised at this. Did anyone think we would actually sell him?

Apparently he has a 120M release clause

yay

He is a good sub for the front three. Cant complain if he is going to play similar amount of times as he has been playing since Suarez was allowed to play.

Someone mentioned converting him into RB. He appears to have the work-rate, but does he have enough of defensive positional awareness?

would rather keep him then sell him for 15m tbh.

windkick wrote:Apparently he has a 120M release clause

yay

It's 150

À bout de souffle wrote:

Fußball wrote:I'm amazed he renewed from his own viewpoint. He didn't look too happy this season and publicly talked about his lack of playing time. Guess he didn't get any offers from top clubs and prefers the Barca bench over playing time at clubs like Inter. No way he would have renewed if clubs like United or Arsenal were after him.

Seems to be the case. All the noise about possible departure was a negotiating tactic. He can't really 've it any better over at another club, whatever the stature, for it will only further expose his limitations, and he's aware of that. Staying at Barca means rub shoulders with football's crème de la crème, be paid well, and retain the (false) reputation of being talented yet sacrificing for the  greater good of the club. Whilst also seeing the ignorant non-barca fan go "Wish we had the amazing Pedro in our team".  

Awful post.

Also, wanted to commend Pedro's 2 minutes in the Champions league final = 1 assist. Good decision making and tempo from Pedro to leave Neymar on a 1vs1.

We had like 3 other similar situations that our other forwards managed to screw up, especially Neymar and Suarez.

Just so À bout de souffle knows. free_cat is the BB of Goallegacy.

We should sell Neymar and Suarez and use 2 forwards = sergi and pedro with messi as a right midfielder

Fußball wrote:

The Franchise wrote:Going to have to watch this man flail around the pitch untill his career is over arent I

There is still hope. His contract was running out next summer. With the transfer ban he was staying anyway. At least they made sure he isn't leaving for free like Alves (if he doesn't renew) and he can still be sold next summer.

Fußtradamus strikes again.

Pedro (27) renewed because his contract expired next year. If a good offer comes, both club and player don't rule out exit. [ser]

Hope is Pedro to stay, considering we can't sign there isn't a better option. Even if we could sign, there isn't a better option in terms of quality, adaptation and willigness to be a rotation player.

i would of sold pedro for vietto on a heartbeat.
or another promising youth player.

although keeping pedro isn't too bad either but eh he's not getting younger and already peaked

When Benzema, James or Bale arent playing well or are injured...Madrid will bring Isco, or even Jese.

We going to bring Pedro?

Cant convince me we cant improve on that area.

You seriously would decline if Madrid offered to swap Isco or Pedro? I dont believe you

The Franchise wrote:When Benzema, James or Bale arent playing well or are injured...Madrid will bring Isco, or even Jese.

We going to bring Pedro?

Cant convince me we cant improve on that area.

You seriously would decline if Madrid offered to swap Isco or Pedro? I dont believe you

Isco is a midfielder, who would play at Iniesta's place in our team, and Jese is not any better than Pedro right now (not even in the foreseeable future after his injury). Their other option is Chicharito who is also quite meh and doesn't play in the same position as Pedro.