🚨Fabrizio Romano drops £59m transfer bombshell Newcastle United ‘choose to be the highest bidder for Brighton Player
Liverpool and Newcastle are among the sides showing interest in Brighton striker Joao Pedro, talkSPORT understands.
🚨Fabrizio Romano drops £59m transfer bombshell Newcastle United ‘choose to be the highest bidder for Brighton Player
The Brazilian would be keen to move to a bigger club this summer if Brighton agree to sell him.
Pedro has missed Brighton’s last four games with the most recent due to a training ground fight
Pedro has been dropped for Brighton’s final two games of the season after a training ground row with teammate Jan Paul Van Hecke.
Sources have told talkSPORT the incident is not being reviewed internally as an attempt to force a move.
Brighton would be looking to make a hefty profit on the then-club record £30million they paid Watford for Pedro.
As previously reported in talkSPORT’s Transfer Notebook, Brighton slapped £100m price tags on Pedro and teammate Carlos Baleba in April.
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The duo are expected to be the next Brighton stars to make mega-money moves from the Sussex coast.
But after announcing a record turnover of £222.4m for the 2023/24 season, thanks mainly to Moises Caicedo’s £115m move to Chelsea, owner Tony Bloom is under no financial pressure to sell.
Sources close to Bloom say he values Pedro and Baleba in the same bracket as Caicedo, who fetched a British record fee.
The Brazilian striker hasn’t enjoyed a great season, though, with just ten goals and six assists for the Seagulls, while he has had just 20 shots on target across the entire campaign.
