Pedro had long taken this decision, after finding regular game time being limited at the club.
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The 27-year-old’s future at Barcelona is unclear.
“I don’t know if it will be my last game for Barcelona“.
Speaking about the situation, Messi said: “Personally, I don’t know what Pedro is going to decide but we’ll support him whatever he does”.
“It is a complicated situation for many reasons”. It’s a question of continuity, of minutes.
Vicente del Bosque: “Pedro always delivers”.
The 28-year-old was omitted from the Catalan giants’ starting XI for Tuesday’s Uefa Super Cup clash with Sevilla in Tbilisi, with the club’s technical secretary Robert Fernandez telling TV3 that the winger had asked to leave the club. The second leg is on Monday at the Nou Camp.
Argentine Javier Mascherano added: “Hopefully he can continue here”.
“What we did has a lot of merit”.
“We lost but we were competitive throughout and we are very proud of our team”.
“When you’re leading 4-1, the opponent has nothing to lose”, he said.
Pedro’s winning contribution brought an intriguing denouement to the tussle.
“The buyout clause in his contract is not negotiable but this could be his final game”. “Rafinha, who is a great player, played instead”.
Compared: Pedro over the last three seasons.
However, even with the Brazil skipper Neymar absent on Tuesday night, he was placed on the substitutes’s bench.
Lionel Messi, who had earlier scored from two set pieces, attempted to complete a free-kick hat-trick, and Pedro tapped home the close-range rebound after a goalmouth scramble, as the below video shows.
Kevin Gameiro scored from the spot kick for Sevilla in the 72nd minute and Yevheniy Konoplyanka made it 4-all after a good performance from Sevilla.
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Neymar will still be missing against Bilbao with mumps and Pedro will again be in the frame to start but at the same time rumours continue to circulate of a move to Manchester United.
