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Offered a managerial role at the imaginary "Kundan Cloth Mills" in Ludhiana - with housing, profit share, and safe passage - he seized the chance to start over.

With the courage to start over, he unloaded his bags on American soil, where the pitch was still being laid.

Chelsea aren't exactly short of riches in the forward department, but Joao Pedro may have just given himself a head start over his new attacking colleagues before Sunday's Club World Cup final.

"If everything is going to be ruined, then I'd rather my kids and I go with our home - because I don't have the strength to start over again."

Work at the Brit School and others across London is expected to start over the summer holidays.