Inter Milan are continuing talks with Chelsea over want-away Portuguese pair Deco and Ricardo Carvalho. The Guardian says Inter are confident that a deal will be struck for the Portuguese internationals but they will have to raise the offers they have made as Chelsea are determined to recoup money.

Carvalho, who has said that he wishes to join Inter, cost Chelsea £19.85m when Mourinho signed him in 2004; the Italians appear prepared to pay around €11m (£9.3m) for him.

Inter believe that Deco, 32 in August and who cost Chelsea £8m when Luis Felipe Scolari was the manager, has little market value and therein lies the source of the impasse.