Sunderland are finalising a deal for Internacional striker Ignacio Scocco.
Scocco should arrive at Sunderland later this week.
His father told Argentine radio: "Today he is more likely to go to Sunderland. River [Plate] and Newell's [Old Boys] asked for him, but the amount that Inter wants no club in Argentina can pay that money."
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