{"id":1534,"date":"2026-08-18T19:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:28:54","slug":"i-believe-in-myself-chelsea-new-boy-joao-pedro-reveals-ballon-dor-dream-opens-up-on-rejecting-newcastle-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I believe in myself&#8217; &#8211; Chelsea new boy Joao Pedro reveals Ballon d&#8217;Or dream &#038; opens up on rejecting Newcastle transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>Speaking to The Evening Standard, Pedro said: \u201cIt would be a dream one day to win the Ballon d\u2019Or. I believe in myself. Everything is possible. Maybe it can happen. Big clubs from England have brought the top strikers from Europe this summer. It will be interesting to compete with them for the Golden Boot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian also explained why he rejected Newcastle, albeit without directly naming them as potential suitors: \u201cWhen I was in Brighton, I was missing London a little bit. I had a chance to move to another club, but I chose Chelsea because it\u2019s in London, it\u2019s a big club, and I knew in my head it was the right move.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/chelsea-new-boy-joao-pedro-reveals-ballon-d-or-dream-rejecting-newcastle-transfer\/bltf9fb7a00b2ed9177\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to The Evening Standard, Pedro said: \u201cIt would be a dream one day to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}