The Chelsea midfielder Ramires is set to join the Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning and could be followed out of Stamford Bridge by the France striker Loïc Rémy as the champions gear up for a busy final week of the transfer window.

Ramires, an £18m signing from Benfica in 2010, has not started a Premier League match under the interim stewardship of Guus Hiddink and was not included among the substitutes for the draw with Everton and Sunday’s win at Arsenal.

The Brazil midfielder signed a four-year contract at Stamford Bridge in October but, having slipped down the pecking order, is now being offered a deal of the same duration by Jiangsu.

The Chinese club, who are coached by the former Chelsea player Dan Petrescu, will pay an initial £20m for the 28-year-old. Their squad are at a training camp in Málaga, and Ramires could link up with his new team-mates in Spain before they return to China.

Ramires, capped 52 times, has started only seven league games this season, the last of which was the 2-1 defeat at Leicester that proved to be José Mourinho’s last match as the manager.

He may not be the only departure from Chelsea in the final week of the window, with Rémy’s suitors having been offered some encouragement the striker may be made available for permanent transfer at around £10m. He has started one Premier League game all season – and seven since joining from Queens Park Rangers for £8m in the summer of 2014 – and has been agitating for a fresh start elsewhere for some time.

Chelsea were reluctant to lose the player mid-season, particularly as that would leave Diego Costa as their only fit and available striker with Radamel Falcao, on loan from Monaco, injured. Yet they believe they are close to securing Alexandre Pato from Corinthians on loan for the remainder of this season with a view to a permanent deal for a player who scored 63 goals for Milan over a six-year spell. Pato’s arrival would allow Chelsea to invite offers for Rémy.

Crystal Palace and Newcastle United are both keen on securing the striker, who scored 14 goals in a loan spell on Tyneside two seasons ago, while Swansea City are also monitoring his availability.

Palace’s urgency to secure a forward has intensified after Connor Wickham was charged with violent conduct following an incident with Tottenham Hotspur’s Jan Vertonghen on Saturday. The £6m signing from Sunderland is facing a three-match ban after the incident was reviewed by the Football Association’s video panel. Their instinct would be to secure Rémy on a permanent deal than take Emmanuel Adebayor, who has not played since last May, on a six-month contract.

Chelsea will also sanction another wave of loan departures for their fringe and young players before the cut-off with Christian Atsu, underused by Bournemouth over the first half of the season, having signed for Málaga. Bertrand Traoré is attracting interest from Hamburg and Marseille, while clubs have expressed a desire to take Patrick Bamford and Charly Musonda until the end of the season.