Apart from Ramires, there are also other players being tracked by Inter to bulk the midfield. Gazzetta dello Sport emphasises: “The competition for Ramires is made up of Thomas Partey and Yves Bissouma, the first is from the class of 1993, a Ghanaian international who plays for Atletico Madrid. Bissouma, 21 years of age, is a Malay international from Lille – it reads -. For either of them, however it will take a large amount of money (unless they decide to organise a swap deal using Brozovic or Joao Mario) which at the moment Inter do not have due to various reasons. Vidal? For now it is just a dream: still zero signals from Bayern. However, interestingly Inter are also monitoring Godfred Donsah, the 21 year-old Ghanaian of Bologna, which would mean he would not count towards the non-EU citizens count for Inter.”

Ramires is the easiest deal to complete due to the good relationship between Suning’s clubs (Jiangsu and Inter) but he is considered a last resort if no one else is available.