Well I can see the Oscar deal being done myself, Internacional are keen to cash in on Oscar to free up his place in the team for Ganso who they're signing from Santos. All rather complicated but the 55% shareholder in Ganso is buying Santos' share in the player for around £5 million, they will then try to transfer his contract to Internacional with a fee probably in the region of £6 million. Santos are pretty much cutting their losses on him, he's on a big contract and he's spending half of his time on the injury table. The emergence of Felipe Anderson pretty much seals Ganso's fate, Porto tested the waters in January with a 8 million buyout on the 45%, if they offered that again Santos would take it but even Porto don't appear keen.
I'm pretty confident Oscar will be sold to someone this summer, it's clear Chelsea are identifying another central playmaker option along with a winger (Moura/Schurrle/Moses).
I do find it bizarre given the options in the central attacking position already, along with Piazon who is the future playmaker of the Chelsea team, but the only conclusion I can reach in regards to the reports that a fee is agreed between clubs this morning is Chelsea see him as an option in the attacking 3 behind a striker and also potentially a deeper playmaker.
I'm not too sure anyone will go in for Modric, Chelsea are smart enough to realise he's not worth upwards of 35 million pounds and there is more fiscally responsible in the long term options out there.
The lack of movement at RB is pretty staggering, think it reflects on the real lack of options out there at the moment. If Van Der Wiel took his career a bit more seriously over the past 2 years it would be a shoe in for me that he'd join but where he's at at the moment I just can't see it. Maicon just will not happen especially in the world of FFP with the money you'd have to tie up in him it's just a non starter, Debuchy is the only hyped RB available out there.
Vitor Gomes tailed off last season Pereira's already moved to Valencia, the lack of options is definitely a concern if we were to want a RB.
But I mean this summers targets shouldn't really surprise everyone, it was well known last summer Chelsea tried to sign Sanchez for the attacking right position and Alvaro Pereira along with failed bids for Modric and others.
The targets this summer are the same as the last which in my book shows the change in emphasis at the top of Chelsea from 6 years ago where they would have paid 15-20 million on Marin last summer instead of being patient. Like I said I expect Oscar to be sold to Europe, whether or not it comes to be Chelsea I can't say for sure. Moura is one people should keep an eye on, his agent came out with some quotes blowing smoke up Chelsea/United to try and bait Inter into upping their offer but the stories this morning are all about Chelsea and United 'delegations' holding talks about Moura.
I think the reality in Brazil is, if they are ever going to get big money from Europe for their players it will be now before the UEFA rules fully kick in. The market in Europe is just readjusting to FFP so the clubs aren't sure what to sell players at the best bets for players this summer is from Brazil. The likelihood is clubs like Sao Paolo/Internacional will never get 20-30 million pound offers for their players within the next 3 years at least so it does make good sense to sell them now especially when they know they can replace them for a fraction of what they sell them for.