Pedro Returns to Barca to Say Goodbye to Team-mates 24Hours After Scoring for Chelsea | SEE PHOTOS

Chelsea are a massive club that win trophies like Barcelona...I don't regret my decision, says Pedro as he returns to Spain to say goodbye to Barca team-mates.

 

Spain international and Chelsea's new signing, Pedro Rodriguez was given a rapturous send-off by his former team-mates on Monday at Barcelona's training ground as he said goodbye after ten years at the club.

 

 

Leo Messi, Neymar and Gerard Pique were among the over 20 players who crowded into the press room and applauded their former team-mate as he brought to a close a career that has seen him win 20 trophies alongside them.

 

 

The players also whistled when reporters asked Pedro if he felt it was a betrayal to join Jose Mourinho – a question he neatly side-stepped speaking only of the welcome he had been given at Chelsea and the conversation with the Portuguese coach that persuaded him to move to London.

 

 

He said: 'There were some big clubs in for me. There was interest from [Manchester] City and United but it was Chelsea that moved the quickest and were the most decisive. It's a massive club. They win trophies just as Barca and I don't regret the decision at all. I like what Mourinho told me when we spoke. He said that he wanted to make the club stronger and that I would be able to help him do that.'

 

Pedro was accompanied by his wife Carolina and their two-year-old son Bryan who shouted 'Papa' throughout the farewell press conference and played on the floor at Messi's feet with the Argentine's son, Thiago.

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