Chelsea will hold crunch talks with Napoli in the next 24 hours to try to bring their Uruguayan hitman Edinson Cavani to Stamford Bridge, The Mirror reports

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis revealed he plans to meet Chelsea this week.

Mourinho, seemingly stymied in his attempts to land Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski, has urged the Chelsea hierarchy to now do all they can to recruit Cavani.

Cavani is now the most accessible after Dortmund blocked Lewandowski and Atletico Madrid’s Radamel Falcao joined Monaco.

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Tottenham are the only club making serious moves for Atletico Mineiro star Bernard, says the player's agent.

Spurs sent representatives to follow the Brazil's Confederations Cup opener against Japan, but he failed to make it off the bench as his team won 3-0.

Andre Villas-Boas is keen to sign the 20-year-old this summer, but was thought to have to fight off interest from Borussia Dortmund and Porto.

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New Inter coach Mazzarri has alerted Morgan de Sanctis on a possibility that the Napoli goalkeeper joins him at the new club should Samir Handanovic be sold.

Handanovic has a €20 million price tag put on him by Inter but he has been sought by clubs such as Real Madrid and Monaco, who have money to spend.

Mazzarri wants experience at the back as he seeks to rebuild an Inter team which is out of European competition after a disastrous end to the season, and De Sanctis fits the bill.

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Russia coach Fabio Capello is reported to be close to leaving his post to sign for Paris St Germain to replace Carlo Ancelotti, who is set to move to Real Madrid. The Spamiards are willing to pay up to €7 million to release the coach they want to replace the departing Mourinho.

Should Capello move on, it is likely that he is substituted by Roberto Mancini, who was unceremoniously fired by Manchester City before the end of the past season.

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Rino Gattuso, former Milan player, has been officially named as Palermo coach.

The club will be playing in the Serie B this season.