Pedro | Agreed terms with Chelsea

where will Pedro go?

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I agree with the most people here. If AdM leaves he will be a good replacement.
Hopefully our attacking 4 will be Rooney as striker, Mata on the 10, Depay left and AdM/Pedro right.
 
Bwuk said:
We have enough wingers at it is. I like Pedro, and would happily sell Young and replace him with Pedro, but Van Gaal wouldn't do that I don't think.
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I think you might have challenged the manager...
 
unitedbhoy said:
I didn't really mean in terms of dribbling, I mean overall quality and contribution to the team, however I would disagree with your comment regarding Griezmann, I think he is an outstanding dribbler.
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I'm not saying he's a bad dribbler, just that he's not like a Hazard/Sterling/Messi type who goes past players all the time from standing positions with his tight dribbling. Stat wise he averages 0.9 dribbles per game too. It's just not his style really.
 
Truedevil said:
@FCBarca If Pedro came to United, can you see him becoming one of the best players in the league? We need a Sanchez, Hazard type of player who can produce the goods on a regular basis, can you see Pedro doing that for us?
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I believe the players you mention have a certain profile that Pedro does not - some might dismiss his potential impact but the best teams in history always had players who influenced results without grabbing the headlines

Sometimes Pedro will be MOTM but more often than not he will impact results through helping the team. That can be through passes, pressing or goals. Guaranteed to make any team he plays in better

He's won everything there is to win and nearly all of them more than once - he's a winner & relentless worker
 
bosnian_red said:
What the feck, are people comparing Pedro to Jesse Lingard ffs? The guy played like 5 minutes in the premier league and he's soon to be 23. He's blatantly not cut out for this level.
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I think Lingard can make it as a PL player but is very unlikely to make it at United. With Pedro I get why some feel underwhelmed but I think it's who he plays for that clouds how good he is and he is actually a natural wide forward fore a front 3, rather than a winger or #10 trying to play the role.
 
FCBarca said:
I believe the players you mention have a certain profile that Pedro does not - some might dismiss his potential impact but the best teams in history always had players who influenced results without grabbing the headlines

Sometimes Pedro will be MOTM but more often than not he will impact results through helping the team. That can be through passes, pressing or goals. Guaranteed to make any team he plays in better

He's won everything there is to win and nearly all of them more than once - he's a winner & relentless worker
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Good stuff. I will be very excited if he comes.
 
Pedro for €25m is day light robbery, we may as well wear a mask.
 
::sonny:: said:
We have Pereira and Januzaj, players with much more potential than Pedro, we really don't need him and he can stay there.
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WTF you haven't been watching Januzaj lately
 
amolbhatia50k said:
What's so great about griezmann? I don't get the hype.
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Do you rate Muller? Griezmann is a bit like that imo. He rarely does anything that makes you go wow but is just consistently very good at almost everything and scores plenty of goals.
 
Mata seems the odd one out if Pedro comes

Pedro, ADM, Memphis and Rooney should be the front 4. I would pay good money to see the pace and movement of that quartet
 
Don't get all the obsession about dribbling, there are other ways to take a player out of the game. What I love most about Pedro is his team work, his selflessness and willingness to square the ball for a teammate to score a tap in and steal the headlines. There need to be more players like him
 
::sonny:: said:
We have Pereira and Januzaj, players with much more potential than Pedro, we really don't need him and he can stay there.
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Sorry to give you another notification... But. Wow. Not only more potential, but 'much' more potential.
 
unitedbhoy said:
I really like Pedro also. I think he is exactly the type of player we need. But I just don't rate his dribbling as highly as others do, especially when comparing him to masters of the skill.
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There's not many dribbling Giggsy's in the modern game though - if at all man.

The game has evolved so much over the years - especially with the advent of wing-backs; so there doesnt seem to be a need for a dribbling winger as much, because the full/wing-back & the wing-holder over-lap, so there's less distance to cover, in effect.

Di Maria to me, was as close as it gets to Giggsy & we all know how that's been workin out for us & for the fella also. It hasnt been pretty for numerous reasons.

Pedro is a modern winger, that has a canny-knack of scoring goals - not to mention his unselfishness in laying goals on a plate for his team mates too.

He's intelligent, has pace & chewing-gum ball-control & has an mantra of attack like hell & get the ball back when we lose it.

Absolutely perfect fit for United in my opinion..
 
worldinmotion66 said:
Don't get all the obsession about dribbling, there are other ways to take a player out of the game. What I love most about Pedro is his team work, his selflessness and willingness to square the ball for a teammate to score a tap in and steal the headlines. There need to be more players like him
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This, in a way it's the perfect goal in football just gets a lot of stick cause it's a "sweaty" thing to do on FIFA. But no matter if it's the school yard or Old Trafford almost everyone goes for goal themselves, putting the team first is what ultimately wins you the big prizes, I remember Suarez squaring it for Neymar against Bayern and he celebrated like he'd scored himself.
 
wiz4231 said:
I'm not saying which player is better but do you honestly believe that there is no chance that he can come to utd and not regain top form like Sanchez has done?
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He could, sure. Like I've said a lot...he is a good player. Some people are getting on like I'm saying he's a terrible player which is just word twisting.

I think it's obvious as feck he's nowhere near what he was in 2010 though. For what it's worth my opinion on Pedro v Alexis last summer before Alexis moved:

https://www.redcafe.net/posts/15708597/

It's hardly like I've suddenly changed my mind now he's been linked to Man Utd. Alexis was better then and is still better now.
 
Jeez some believe that he's better than Muller while other think he's worse then Periera. Then we laugh at Rawk.
 
Between 2010 and 2015 Pedro played around 45-50 games per season, he scored 14-15 goals and had around 11 assists per season. He did so for both club and country. To put things in the right perspective Ashley Young scored 2 goals and 5 assists last year and it was one of his finest seasons with us. In his first season with us (yeah that season were everyone was raving on how good he was). Antonio Valencia had 7 assists and scored 5 goals. While during season 2013-2014 Januzaj scored 4 goals and had 3 assists. The closest winger we had with similar stats was Di Maria who had 10 assists but only 3 goals in his name. I am carefully selecting the best season of each winger with a United shirt.

So seriously how can anyone possibly think that the signing of such player can hinder United's creativity or be a step down? FFS if we signing we would get him for 22m, 2m more than Young and around the same sum of Zaha and Bebe combined.
 
amolbhatia50k said:
What's so great about griezmann? I don't get the hype.
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Come on mate. 45 goals in the last 2 seasons and he's only just turned 24. Not like he plays for Barca or Real Madrid either. Having said that him and Pedro are just two very different players. Griezmann has been converted into a second striker now.
 
prarek said:
Come on mate. 45 goals in the last 2 seasons and he's only just turned 24. Not like he plays for Barca or Real Madrid either. Having said that him and Pedro are just two very different players. Griezmann has been converted into a second striker now.
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I suppose. I've not watched that much of him. Whenever I watch him he tends to score but not do much outside. Is his all round game really like someone like Reus or Hazard?
 
amolbhatia50k said:
I suppose. I've not watched that much of him. Whenever I watch him he tends to score but not do much outside. Is his all round game really like someone like Reus or Hazard?
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No his all round play is not as good as those players you mentioned especially this season when he's been more of a scorer than a creator. He was a better all round player at Sociedad when he played from the flanks and also in his early Atletico season. He could score as well as create then. I guess Simeone thought he needed his goals more than his creativity as Mandzukic wasn't exactly on fire in the league with 12 goals so they were heavily dependent on Griezmann's goals and he delivered with 22 league goals. So he's more of a striker than a winger, atleast for now.
 
soap said:
Dunno about that. Pedro's skillset is far more typical of a winger for sure. Pedro and Depay are quite similar so if you want different types of threat on each wing Mata offers that.
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Mata barely creates anything from the right, pops up with goal now and then. Pedro does a proper job on the wing and scores more often

Mata has been a very good left winger at Valencia early in his career, and a very good central attacking midfielder, but on the right? He's never looked like a player worth the large amounts of cash he's been transfered for. He needs to play centrally at this point - where Depay is currently playing...
 
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