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Chelsea transfer news: Antonio Conte plots last-minute move for Bayern Munich ace Rafinha

Rafinha, 31, has only played 23 minutes of first-team football in the Bundesliga so far this season.

The two-capped Brazil international has just 10 months remaining on his current contract and will be allowed to leave the Allianz Arena on a free transfer at the end of the season.

However, German outlet Bild claim Chelsea are interested in securing a last minute deal for Rafinha before the transfer window closes tomorrow.

It is said Blues boss Antonio Conte is keen on bringing the defender to Stamford Bridge as he wants to provide healthy competition for Victor Moses. "I'm here to play a lot of games.

"But it does not look like that at the moment. His lack of game time is largely due to the rise of Germany international Joshua Kimmich.

But Bild say the Bundesliga champions are unlikely to offload Rafinha as they value him as a reliable back-up option to Kimmich.

Conte is determined to bring in new players before the transfer window closes and has admitted the club are 'working very hard' to try and get deals over the line.

"For me it's very important for me to continue to work and improve my players and my team," he said. "For sure the club is trying to strengthen our squad and our team, they're working very hard to do this.

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BREAKING Britain will remain under EU rule for YEARS due to 'slow' Brexit talks, warns Verhofstadt - Duration: 3:32.

Britain will remain under EU rule for YEARS due to 'slow' Brexit talks, warns Verhofstadt

The Belgian MEP, who represents the European Parliament in the EUs negotiation team, warned that the UKs relationship with Brussels is change very little during the transition period of up to three years after the country formally leaves the bloc.

He claimed the lack of time left to agree a new trade deal before the official exit date in March 2019 meant Britons would have to accept the status quo during the transition.

His remarks provoked anger from senior Tories last night amid fears that Britain will be forced to stay fully signed up to free movement for EU migrants and the jurisdiction of the EUs Court of Justice throughout the transition period.

Mr Verhofstadt spoke out about the pace of the Brexit negotiations when briefing a committee of MEPs in Brussels. He told them: "There is now, I think, more and more recognition of the need of a transitional deal.

What will be the substance of this transition deal has to be discussed.

"I think that the more and more time we lose in the coming months, the more and more it's clear that the transition period can only be the prolongation of the existing situation, of the status quo, because you cannot imagine in a few weeks' or months' time a new system." Mr Verhoftstadt expressed frustration at the lack of progress in the talks, which were continuing in Brussels.

He was pessimistic about the chances of trade talks beginning in October as previously scheduled. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has insisted talks about trade cannot begin until sufficient progress on other issues including a multi-billion divorce bill have been made.

Mr Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister, told the MEPs: "Our point of view is that first of all we need sufficient progress on the withdrawal agreement before we can enter in the discussion about the future relationship and we don't think at this moment we have sufficient progress on the issues of the withdrawal." He urged the UK Government to provide further clarity about the size of the proposed exit bill.

"Mainly what we expect from the UK side is they react to the paper the EU Commission has published on the financial settlement and the legal basis for it, he said.

"I think if it goes very slow as is the case for the moment it will be very difficult to say that there is sufficient progress when we are in October." Senior Tory MEP Syed Kamall, co-chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament, accused Mr Verhofstadt of overstepping his brief by trying to predict the outcome of the Brexit negotiations.

He said: Mr Verhofstadts role as Brexit co-ordinator is to act as a link between the European Parliament and the Commission. It is not his job to try and impose a position on MEPs.

For him to suggest, with more than a week of negotiations still to take place, that sufficient progress will not have been made by October to allow talks to begin on Britains future relationship with the EU, is premature and way beyond his pay grade.

Unless he has a crystal ball how can he predict the outcome of negotiations at which he is not even present?  These are matters for the whole Parliament to debate and Mr Verhofstadt should not try to dictate the outcome.  He needs to stop trying to do Michel Barniers job and stick to his own role as an honest broker..

Anthea McIntyre, the Tory spokeswoman in the European Parliament told the committee that workers rights would be untouched by Brexit.

She said the UK Government had been well ahead of Brussels in introducing key legislation on equal pay, the living wage and protection from carcinogens.

Miss McIntyre said: Nobody sees Brexit as an opportunity to scale down the rights and protections afforded to workers in our country.  On the contrary, the United Kingdom has been a leading light on fairness and safety in the workplace and will remain so.

Rather than trying to create problems where they do not exist, this parliament should be acknowledging that the UK has consistently led the way on workers rights and social legislation.

Our health a safety standards are ahead of the rest of Europe and our record on industrial fatalities is the best of any country in the EU apart from Malta..

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BREAKING Theresa May jets into Japan for crucial trade talks as North Korea tensions boil over - Duration: 4:13.

Theresa May jets into Japan for crucial trade talks as North Korea tensions boil over

Ahead of her departure she condemned Kim Jong Un's "reckless provocation" in firing a missile over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido to land in the Pacific Ocean.

But she insisted she had no reservations about going ahead with her planned three-day visit to Japan for talks with political and business leaders. She told reporters: "This action by North Korea is a reckless provocation.

"These are illegal tests and we strongly condemn them.

"There will be an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council later and we will continue to work with our international partners to put pressure on North Korea to stop these illegal tests." She stressed her visit to Japan gives her a chance to discuss the crisis with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe whose country feels intensely vulnerable to the nuclear missile ambitions of North Korea, just 650 miles to the west.

Downing Street added that Mrs May was "outraged" by North Korea's actions which come after the secretive communist state voiced anger at joint US-South Korea military exercises and threatened to fire missiles towards the American territory of Guam.

Mrs May's programme has remained unchanged but security issues are likely to take an even higher profile on the agenda as world leaders consider what more they can do to lessen the global threat posed by Pyongyang's military programmes.

Mrs May's visit is an unusually long one for a UK Prime Minister to make to a single country.

She hopes to use it to cement defence relations with Tokyo - seen as London's closest security partner in Asia - as well as building commercial links and laying the groundwork for a UK-Japan free trade deal after Britain leaves the European Union.

She is being honoured by a meeting later this week with Japan's 83-year-old Emperor Akihito - who in the next two years is being permitted by his government to become the first monarch in 200 years to abdicate the Chrysanthemum Throne, in favour of his eldest son.

Mrs May will also spend a significant amount of time with her Japanese counterpart Mr Abe. After sharing a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto the pair will travel to Tokyo on one of Japan's world-famous 180 miles-per-hour bullet trains.

Tomorrow THURS security will be a strong focus, as Mrs May is briefed by UK and Japanese military personnel on board her host's flagship aircraft carrier IZUMO.

She will also be the first ever European and second non-Japanese person after former Australian PM Tony Abbott to attend a meeting of Japan's National Security Council. The other major theme of the trip is UK-Japanese business.

Mrs May is travelling with 15 leading UK business bosses seeking to expand their footholds in Japan, ranging engineering giant AMEC Foster Wheeler and luxury sports car maker Aston Martin to Barclays Capital Investment, the Scotch Whisky Association and CBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn.

While in Japan Mrs May will also meet other British businesses and Japanese investors, including in a meeting of the UK-Japan Business Forum and at a banquet with Mr Abe.

UK officials insisted that Britain backs efforts to conclude a trade deal between Japan and the European Union, amid claims Tokyo has insisted that takes priority and it will not rush into free trade talks with the UK.

British sources insisted the UK had been a supportive partner in getting the EU-Japan talks off the ground and was keen to see it finalised swiftly, and that Mrs May will seek Mr Abe's agreement to ensure the EU deal can form the basis of one between Japan and the UK quickly after Brexit.

Mrs May is also expected to seek to reassure Mr Abe that Britain intends to continue its strong relationship with Japan and to ensure the UK remains an attractive place for foreign investment after it leaves the EU.

Shinichi Iida, a diplomat at Japan's embassy in the UK, said yesterday that his country's businesses looked for "clarity and predictability" about the Brexit progress, and for a transitional arrangement to enable them to "adjust to a new environment" in Britain outside the EU.

Japanese companies already invest more than £40billion in the UK and over 1,000 Japanese companies, including Honda, Hitachi, Fujitsu and Sony, employ 140,000 people in Britain.

Flagship Japanese firms such as Nissan, Toyota and Softbank have already committed to a long-term post-Brexit presence in Britain, although the UK government is under pressure from opposition parties to say what if any "sweeteners" it offered to maintain their confidence.

Ahead of Mrs May's first visit to Japan as Prime Minister, Downing Street said the trip would build on "intense engagement" between the governments in recent months.

The Prime Minister commented: "Building on our existing ties with friends and allies around the world is vital as Britain prepares for a new era outside the European Union.

"Japan has long been a natural trading partner for the UK as a like-minded nation with a shared belief in free trade and a rules-based international system, and my discussions with Prime Minister Abe will focus on how we can prepare the ground for an ambitious free trade agreement after Brexit, based on the EU-Japan agreement which I very much hope is nearing conclusion.

"As our closest security partner in Asia, we will also discuss how we can work much more closely together on cyber security, counter-terrorism and defence - more important than ever in this uncertain world.".