The silly summer season has well and truly kicked in and the latest player to be linked to a move to Arsenal is Paris Saint-Germain's nineteen-year-old sensation Mamadou Sakho. Sakho has been tentatively linked with a switch to the Emirates since February, although speculation over his future has intensified in recent .

Andrey Arhsavin has been bestowed one of the greatest honours any footballer, or indeed sportsperson, can receive. Again. Following his impressive performance against Finland in Helsinki on Wednesday, the 28-year-old schemer was handed back the Russian captaincy permanently. The former Zenit man wore the armband in the Finnish capital due to .

Sir Alex Ferguson was set to coach Arsenal after the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, if former Scotland, Aberdeen and Manchester United goalkeeper Jim Leighton is to be believed. Leighton, who was part of the Scotland squad coached by Ferguson during the '86 World Cup, told BBC Radio Five Live Ferguson .

Arsenal have agreed a fee of €13m (£9.6m) to sign Belgian central defender Thomas Vermaelen from Ajax according to Dutch sports publication Sportweek. Sportweek conducted an interview with Vermaelen's agent Søren Lerby, in which the former Denmark international confirmed that his client's switch to Arsenal is on the verge of .

Here we go again.... "Arsenal sign star striker" "mega deal imminent" "Wenger swoops for star" These will be just some of the headlines we will see this summer as the transfer window swings open and the rumour mill goes into overdrive. Now I keep telling myself not to look at Newsnow and believe .

Former Arsenal custodian Jens Lehmann is set to make his first foray onto the silver screen next year, after being cast as a talent scout in upcoming football film Themba.

Based on the novel of the same name by German-Dutch writer Lutz van Dijk, Sycholt's film follows eleven year-old Themba (whose name means hope) as he journeys from a poor background to playing for Bafana Bafana, the South African national football team.

If you spend enough of your time reading Arsenal forums or any of the plethora of Arsenal blogs on the world wide web, you're likely to have noticed that the opinion of many online Gooners is that their beloved club is skint. Thankfully, they're wrong. Arsenal raked in the dough yet ...