Chelsea midfielder Willian has signed a new four-year contract, the Barclays Premier League club have announced.
The 27-year-old Brazilian was voted the Blues' player of the year last season, and his new deal runs until 2020.
"I'm very happy to sign a new contract with Chelsea. It's a dream to continue with this club and over the next four years I will try to help the team win more trophies," Willian said on the club's official website.
Chelsea bought Willian from Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala three years ago in a £32million deal, clinching his signature ahead of London rivals Tottenham.
The midfielder went on to become an integral part of the Blues team, helping them win both the Capital One Cup and then the Barclays Premier League title in 2015, scoring 19 goals in 140 appearances.
There had been speculation over a £50million move to Manchester United for a reunion with former manager Jose Mourinho.
Willian, though, is determined to continue his impressive displays at Chelsea under new first-team head coach Antonio Conte.
Middlesbrough are hopeful of striking a deal which will bring Valencia forward Alvaro Negredo to the Riverside Stadium.
The newly-promoted Teessiders are understood to have opened talks over the 30-year-old former Manchester City frontman as head coach Aitor Karanka looks to boost the firepower at his disposal in the Barclays Premier League.
However, the negotiations are proving painstaking with Boro seeking an initial loan agreement without taking on full responsibility for the player's existing financial package.
Discussions are understood to have been ongoing for some time and, while progress has been made, any deal remains distant.
Madrid-born Negredo scored 23 goals in his one season at City before returning to Spain to join Valencia, initially on loan and then in a £19million permanent switch.
He has managed just five league goals in each of his last two LaLiga campaigns, although his physical presence has proved a major weapon.
Meanwhile, Boro have also been credited with an interest in Negredo's club-mate Antonio Barragan, a 29-year-old right-back.
West Ham have signed England Under-20 international Ashley Fletcher from Barclays Premier League rivals Manchester United.
The 20-year-old, who has signed a four-year contract with the Hammers, spent the second half of last season on loan at Barnsley, helping the Tykes win the Johnstone's Paint Trophy and promotion from Sky Bet League One via the play-offs.
The striker was out of contract at Old Trafford and, according to West Ham, the terms of the transfer will now be finalised.
Fletcher told West Ham's website: "I am very excited to be here. West Ham are a massive club and I am just happy that I can come and further my development here.
"I think it is a club with a lot of ambition. They have a lot of good players and it was a special final season (at Upton Park). They managed to finish the campaign very well.
"West Ham are a club built on traditions of giving youngsters a run and hopefully I can get my chance as well."
England left-back Ryan Bertrand has signed a new five-year contract with Southampton.
The 26-year-old, who joined from Chelsea in 2014, is now committed to the Saints until 2021.
Bertrand joins Virgil van Dijk, Fraser Forster, James Ward-Prowse and Steven Davis in signing new contracts in recent months.
Bertrand, who has nine England caps and was in the Euro 2016 squad, made 34 appearances for Saints last season, helping them qualify for the Europa League. A year earlier, in 2014-15, he was named in the Premier League PFA team of the year.
He said on saintsfc.co.uk: "I'm very pleased. It's been a fantastic move for me since the day I came to this club and I look forward to many more successful years and really pushing forward.
"I've enjoyed my football here. I've really enjoyed the club, and the fans have been fantastic with me personally as well, so I couldn't think of any better place to play football and to keep on developing.
"The club is always thinking forward and I really want to be a part of that, and I am sure we can go on to achieve even better things."
The news represents a boost for Saints, who had to replace Ronald Koeman, now at Everton, with Claude Puel this summer.
The departures of Sadio Mane, Victor Wanyama and Graziano Pelle have been offset by the arrivals of Nathan Redmond from Norwich and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg from Bayern Munich.
Dimitri Payet is worth not a penny less that £50m, West Ham United co-chairman David Gold has said, but even that might not be enough to prise the France midfielder away from the London club.
Payet, who joined West Ham from Marseille last year, scored 12 goals in all competitions in his debut season in England and was instrumental in helping France reach the European Championship final, scoring three times.
His performances for club and country have prompted speculation about a possible move to Chelsea, Manchester City or Paris St Germain, but Gold said West Ham would be reluctant sellers even if someone matched the huge fee.
"We wouldn't even listen to any offer under £50m and even then we need to keep our best players so we just don't welcome any offers at all for Dimitri," Gold told the BBC.
"He's instrumental, he's important to us, the team is built round him and he's not for sale. He's settled in London with this family, the fans adore him and we're going to the Olympic Stadium.
"We've done everything we possibly could do. I'm hoping that will be enough (to keep him)."
Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce is losing patience over the unrealistic demands in the current transfer market with his team yet to announce a new signing in the close season.
Sunderland were on the verge of signing former Newcastle United left back Davide Santon from Italian side Inter Milan last week, only for negotiations to break down, the club confirmed.
Shortly after guiding the serial strugglers to safety, Allardyce had said he was determined to have a good close-season recruitment in order to avoid flirting with relegation for a fifth consecutive campaign.
"We need two, three or four players as quickly as we possibly can. It's been a huge demand on all our resources trying to find those players and we will continue to until we're successful," Allardyce told British media.
"The fans, hopefully, will be a little bit patient. I have to admit myself that my patience is wearing thin - very, very thin indeed - but we have to keep striving to bring in those three or four players as quickly as possible."
With the Premier League's £5.14bn domestic television rights deal set to kick in from August, Allardyce felt players were being overpriced in the market.
"The same player that cost £10m last year will now cost £20m... and the £40m ones now costs £60m or £80m," added the 61-year-old, who has been linked with the vacant England job by the British media.
"That is the unfortunate market that we are working in, and we are trying to work in that market as shrewdly as possible to get the best players and the best value for money as we can."
