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Gabriel Barbosa and Joao Mario ready to sign for Inter

Both players arrived in Milan today and will undergo medicals tomorrow.

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Two of the most talked names during this summer's transfer market, Joao Mario and Gabriel Barbosa have just landed in Milan to undergo medicals tomorrow - according to Gianluca di Marzio - and should finally join Inter really soon.

Here are photos of Gabriel Barbosa's arrival at Malpensa airport, welcomed by an incredible crowd of excited Inter fans.

Inter's official account wanted to remind that Joao Mario is also coming to Milan to complete his move to join the Nerazzurri.

It's a very important and successful day for Inter no doubt. With these moves Suning wants to send a clear message to the fans: they want the club to be relevant again and they are not afraid of spending loads of money to achieve that result.

Anyway, it looks like there are two caveats to these signing. Gabriel Barbosa, as expected, will not join Inter until January 2017, after the end of the Brasileirao, and will remain with Santos in the meantime. Joao Mario will join the team right now but he won't be included in the Europa League squad. We don't know the numbers for these deals but we will keep you updated here and/or on our official Twitter account, Serpents of Madonnina.

I don't know about you, but I'm incredibly excited by these signing. Yes, we should improve our defense and it should be our number one priority at the moment, especially after the disastrous performance against Chievo. In fact, I hope (and I assume) that after closing these deals Piero Ausilio will make other moves involving full-backs and centre-backs.