{"id":587923,"date":"2026-08-18T01:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/587923\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T01:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:04:13","slug":"hes-unbelievable-michael-owen-tells-man-utd-they-should-have-signed-60m-chelsea-star-joao-pedro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/587923\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He\u2019s unbelievable&#8217; &#8211; Michael Owen tells Man Utd they should have signed \u00a360m Chelsea star Joao Pedro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United and Liverpool striker Owen has expressed his admiration for Pedro, claiming that the Red Devils should have secured the Brazilian&#8217;s signature long before he became a star at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro, who joined Chelsea from Brighton in a deal worth \u00a360m just twelve months ago, enjoyed a stellar debut campaign despite the club&#8217;s wider struggles.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1KKA5kHvsa0&amp;t=1504s\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Good, The Bad &amp; The Football podcast<\/a>, Owen explained: &#8220;I\u2019m a huge Pedro fan, I think he\u2019s unbelievable. In fact, Manchester United should have bought him about four years ago when he was at Watford. United had nobody up front for years and I thought, &#8216;That Pedro&#8217;, I love him. Him, Morgan Rogers and Cole Palmer as a front three\u2026 strange signings in Danny Welbeck and Jordan Henderson obviously.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United and Liverpool striker Owen has expressed his admiration for Pedro, claiming that the Red Devils&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4027,85,46,176549,265987,3157,2619,105,199699],"class_list":["post-587923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-j-pedro","tag-m-owen","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-x-alonso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}