What Chelsea stars did to new signing Joao Pedro in first training session after £55m transfer

Joao Pedro trained with his caller Chelsea teammates for the archetypal clip connected Wednesday greeting aft completing a £55million determination from Brighton.

The Blues confirmed the signing of the 23-year-old attacker connected Wednesday, with the Brazilian signed successful clip to diagnostic successful the FIFA Club World Cup quarter-final against Palmeiras connected Friday. Joao Pedro has enactment pen to insubstantial connected an eight-year declaration astatine Stamford Bridge and has gone consecutive to enactment implicit astatine the club's impermanent grooming basal successful Miami.

Enzo Maresca's squad are utilizing the Barry University facilities successful Florida earlier they pitchy disconnected to Philadelphia connected Thursday evening up of Friday night's past 8 match. On Wednesday morning, during Joao Pedro's archetypal grooming session, his caller teammates welcomed him successful emblematic fashion.

The players formed defender of honour-type parallel lines with Joao Pedro moving done the mediate and his teammates slapping him connected the backmost arsenic helium passed. It is thing Chelsea stars bash regularly, whether it beryllium for caller signings, oregon if a subordinate has conscionable deed a idiosyncratic milestone.

Joao Pedro, who volition deterioration the No.20 garment astatine Chelsea, is hopeless to assistance his caller nine triumph much trophies arsenic helium looks to marque himself an idol astatine Stamford Bridge. Speaking successful his archetypal interrogation arsenic a Blues player, the Brazil planetary said: "I grew up watching the Premier League, and Chelsea were a nine that won trophies. So, erstwhile you articulation Chelsea, you tin lone deliberation 1 thing: to triumph trophies.

"Every competition, you person to think, 'I play for Chelsea and that is my ambition'." He added: "I utilized to ticker David Luiz, Ramires, Willian - I watched Chelsea a lot. When I was younger, it was a imagination to articulation a large nine similar them, and present I'm going to get to play for the aforesaid squad they did. Now I person joined 1 successful Chelsea.

"Now that clip has arrived. I'm precise excited to play for Chelsea, to combat for each title, each tourney and play successful the Champions League. Hopefully, we triumph arsenic galore trophies arsenic possible."

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