Barcelona F.C forward Pedro Rodriquez has become rather frustrated with lack of playing time under boss Luis Enrique, and all but confirmed that he is heading for Manchester United.
Louis van Gaal is ready to pay the Spain star's £22million release clause to bring him to Old Trafford, so how much do we really know the Manchester United target?
1. The son of a petrol station attendant Pedro grew up playing on the pitches of a Tenerife sports centre which is now named after him.
2. The night he made his league debut he came on as a substitute for Samuel Eto'o with instructions from the bench to relay to Thierry Henry that the Frenchman had to move to a more central position. He recalls: 'I said: "Titi, the boss wants you to play through the middle" Henry looked at me as if to say "what the hell is this enano [dwarf] trying to tell me?".
3. He never knew he would be go to the World Cup in South Africa after only two seasons in the Barca first team. He was the 21st name to be called out by Del Bosque as he listened at home on the television in Tenerife with his family. Only Fernando Torres and David Villa called out 22nd and 23rd had to wait longer.
4. In his first full season, Pedro scored in all competitions and won six tournaments in the process.
5. Having played for Pep Guardiola in the B team in the Spanish third division and winning promotion in the 2007-08 season and then again for him in the senior side, Pedro is an expert on Guardiola's motivational methods.
He was part of the team that, ahead of the first leg of a third-division play-off semi-final, was shown a short film of Dick Hoyt the marathon runner who pushed his disabled son Rick in over 1,000 races so the two could compete together.
A year later he was watching another short motivational film – this time based on the movie Gladiator which Guardiola used to inspire his players before the 2009 Champions League final in Rome.
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