Inter Milan coach Luciano Spalletti has ruled out any big-money transfers by the title-chasing Chinese-owned club in the January transfer market.

Inter are third in Serie A – seven points behind leaders Napoli – as they chase a first Serie A title since 2010. But Spalletti said the club wanted their players to know they were valued and did not want to fall foul of financial fair play restrictions.

"You can say names - (Henrikh) Mkhitaryan, (Javier) Pastore, (Simone) Verdi but they’d cost 30 million euro and we don’t have that,” said Spalletti, the former Roma coach.

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