Brazil's Oscar is
close to becoming the latest summer signing for Chelsea after Tottenham
decided to pull out of negotiations. Photograph: Edu Andrade/Getty
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Chelsea
are confident of completing the £25m signing of Oscar, the precociously
gifted Brazil and Sport Club Internacional midfielder, as they continue
their summer of bold transfer moves.

Internacional have lined up a
deal for Paulo Henrique Ganso of Santos to replace Oscar, and, although
they maintain that nothing has been signed with Chelsea, a deal to take
the London club's outlay on new players past £60m is close.

Tottenham
Hotspur had an interest in Oscar but walked away from negotiations at
the weekend, perhaps when it appeared that Chelsea were ready to gazump
them.

Roman Abramovich, the Chelsea owner, has already funded the
£32m signing of Eden Hazard from Lille and the £7m capture of Marko
Marin from Werder Bremen; two young and sought-after attacking
midfielders, and Oscar ticks similar boxes.

The 20-year-old is a
right-footed playmaker who can operate in any of the advanced midfield
positions in the 4-2-3-1 formation that is favoured by the Chelsea
manager, Roberto Di Matteo. He is noted for his speed and technical
ability and he has made his mark at full international level, starring
in the Brazil squad that recently played friendlies against Denmark,
Mexico, Argentina and United States. He has played 70 times for
Internacional, scoring 19 goals. Oscar has been included in the squad
for the London Olympics.

The Chelsea squad already has a Brazilian
flavour, in the form of Ramires, David Luiz and Lucas Piazon, and
Abramovich could add to it further with his pursuit of Hulk, the Porto
striker. A £38m fee has been agreed in principle between the clubs but
there are complications related to Hulk's third party ownership, and
over who will pay the monies owing to his investors.

LoL. Abramovich is full of dirty money. 25 millions for ....Oscar? 

i'll clean bench for 10 millions as summer job if he will sign me!

LOL  I thought U write " I ll clean 10 millions ass as summer job..."

Let them keep spending can't wait for the fair play rules to kick them out of the ucl

is he really worth that much?
he's good and all. got a lot of potential.
but 30 millon pounds. thats a lot.

@mun_utd,

1. Money is overthrowing the nature of football nowadays
2. It's Chelsea. Abramovich would spend every penny on everything.

@Heisinburg
i guess.
currently, all I want in this transfer market this summer fo United is them too sign Lucas Moura.
Munich also signed a beast player called Shaqiri. 

yes, I made a post about that a few months ago. I'm really happy about that.

25m?! Does Abramovich knows something about negociating?

can someone tell me who is Oscar and why he is valued for 25 mil?

let them keep spending.. They are setting an example to Man city.. Shit teams only know how to buy glory with money.. 

@WhatTheHell:
Oscar is a strong attacking midfielder. He's 20 years old but he's already been given Brazil's #10 shirt (that really should tell you all you need to know about how highly he is rated). This kid is talked up ad naseum by South American scouts. He could become quite a star.
Personally, I think it's a bad move for his development for a few reasons: 1- Brazilians tend to have a hard time adjusting to life in England when they come straight from Brazil, 2- He's jumping straight into a high-profile club that has a rep for being quite ruthless when it comes to young players. Their primary target is to win and I'm not sure how much emphasis they will place on player development. 3- Who's place is he going to take? Chelsea have Mata, Marko Marin, and Hazard who all prefer to play that role.

well he has got potential. and i heard  jesperkyd say something about fair play rules? what are the fair play rules? 

I think it worked out quite well in the end :)

^^ It did. Oscar was a brilliant buy.

@quikzyyy
@Mladen @Heisinburg now what you say about oscar is he an overpriced or not

LOL at the comments :D, but you can't blame them, nobody knew Oscar in Europe