Antonio Conte wants two new Chelsea signings with earnings from Oscar's transfer

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte wants to sign
a midfielder and a defender with the cash
coming in from Brazilian midfielder Oscar’s
impending transfer( which just got
confirmed) to Chinese club Shanghai SIPG.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Conte aims
to re-invest the funds in strengthening his
Chelsea team to give them further advantage
in the English Premier League title race. The
report claims that Fenerbahce’s Simon Kjaer,
Roma centre-back Antonio Rudiger, Burnley’s
Michael Keane and Monaco right-back Djibril
Sidibe are all on the Italian’s shortlist.
Apart from the above-mentioned names,
Hoffenheim’s Niklas Sule is also on the Blues
transfer shortlist, however, Sport Bild claims
that Bayern Munich have agreed a £21m deal
to sign the defender next summer.
Chelsea have been shrewd in their transfer
dealings in the summer, signing N’Golo Kante,
Marcos Alonso, re-signing cult hero David
Luiz and bringing back Victor Moses from his
various loan spells. All four players have been
integral in the London club’s rise to the
summit of the Premier League after an 11-
game winning streak.
Reports also claim that the Premier League
leaders have scouted Monaco’s defensive
midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko, while Roma’s
Belgian midfielder Radja Nainggolan, who was
rumoured to join in the summer, is still on
Chelsea’s radar.
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Oscar to Shanghai SIPG
With a host of other players also linked with
Chelsea like Paris Saint Germain’s Marco
Verrati and more recently Real Madrid’s
James Rodriguez and Arsenal’s Alexis
Sanchez, it remains to be seen what exactly
Antonio Conte does in the January transfer
window.
The Brazilian, Oscar, failed to break the
shackles of his ‘wonderkid’ tag and live up to
it after flattering to deceive a number of times
with flickers of brilliance during his time with
Chelsea. He failed to consistently make the
desired impact that many Chelsea fans had
expected of him and is now surprisingly
moving to China, possibly because of the
allure of the immense salary package on
offer.
The rumoured value of Oscar’s transfer is
believed to be in the region of £52 million with
it rising to 60 million after including incentives.
His reported salary is close to £400,000 a
week, more than four times that of his current
£90,000 a week contract at Chelsea.
The 25-year-old Brazilian’s statistics
dwindled over the seasons after a bright start
where he hit double figures for goals and
assists in his first two seasons. In his first full
season in 2012/13 at Stamford Bridge, Oscar
played 64 games, scoring 12 goals and
making 12 assists.
The attacking mid played 46 times in the
2013/2014 season, racking up 11 goals and
10 assists.
However, soon after in the 2014/15 season
when Chelsea eventually lifted the Premier
League title, he played 41 games but managed
only 7 goals and 9 assists. His performance
was overshadowed by that of Eden Hazard,
Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas.
Last season in 2015/16 he scored just 3 goals
in the Premier League and made only 3
assists. A shocking figure considering his
bright start. Perhaps, Chelsea are right in
shipping the Brazilian off with such a
ridiculous deal on offer.
It will remain another classic case of a highly
touted Brazilian player peaking early and then
fading out into anonymity.