Arsenal and France international defender Gael Clichy is undergoing a medical at Manchester City and he has been a regular in the Arsenal defence in recent seasons.

The 25-year-old full-back who joined the Gunners from French club Cannes in 2003, is out of the contract at a Emirates Stadium next summer and he has reportedly told Arsenal he wanted to leave last month, and had been linked with Liverpool and Roma.

The City are rivals for his signature, with the deal reportedly worth £7m and the arsenal boss Arsene Wenger faces an anxious time with playmaker Cesc Fabregas again being linked with Barcelona and the Midfielder Sami Nasri has also been tipped to leave the club, and is thought to be a target for both City and Manchester United.

The Gunners, who return for pre-season training this week ahead of a tour of Malaysia and China, have been strongly linked with a move for Bolton defender Gary Cahill and Wenger recently claimed that it will be late into pre-season before there is significant movement in the transfer market and the We are in a waiting period, everybody is waiting, said the Arsenal boss in an interview with Alsace TV.

International career for Gael Clichy has earned caps with all of France's youth teams for which he was eligible and he was a late participant at under 15 level under coach Luc Rabat and he made his youth international debut on 13 March 2001 in a 3–0 friendly win over Italy.

Clichy appeared in 10 matches as France attempted to qualify for the 2002 UEFA European Under 17 Football Championship and he made his debut with the team on 19 September 2001 in its opening league match of the season for a 1–0 win over Yugoslavia  for a qualifying for the UEFA-sanctioned tournament.

Uefa president Michel Platini opposes technology for a euro chief reckons additional refs have rid the game of most errors

Michel Platini claims the introduction of technology would be bad for football, suggesting the use of additional referees is sufficient in the bid to rid the game of high-profile errors and he says, does not want to see any change beyond the use of additional referees.

England were denied a clear goal in their World Cup defeat to Germany last summer of a Frank Lampard's drive hit the crossbar and came down a yard over the goal-line before bouncing back into play and that was along with a series of other controversial incidents in international games has led to renewed calls for goal-line technology to be introduced.

Fifa has begun running trials to test of a accuracy of goal-line technology but Platini insists Europe's governing body will strongly oppose any moves for it to be introduced and "In my opinion, technology isn't good for football," he told Spanish newspaper Marca.

International career for Michel Platini having first attracted the attention of a national team selectors in the Coupe Gambardella tournament and Platini was selected for the French junior team but, injuries prevented him from playing and he made his first appearance for a French national selection playing for the French amateur side on 26 September 1973 and the Platini began his military service in summer 1975.

Kenny Dalglish won't discuss targets and the he is not worried about quiet start to the summer

Kenny Dalglish has insisted Liverpool will continue conducting their transfer business in a appropriate manner and will not publicly chase players and he was expected to be movement in and out of the Anfield this summer as Dalglish puts his plans in place for what the club hope will be a more successful 2011/12 campaign.

The Reds have been linked with a large number of players since the end of last season and  apart from signing midfielder Jordan Henderson, have so far been quiet in the market and he has played down suggestions that he should be worried about not bringing in many reinforcements during the early part of the summer.

Pre-season has not started and We don't begin until Monday, but obviously transfers are part of football and you get people moving in and moving out of a dalglish told Sky Sports News after receiving an honorary degree from the University of a Ulster in Northern Ireland and Dalglish Staying quiet on transfer business but does not believe fans should be worried.

We are not going to a speculate on the any players we have or any players anyone else has on there has been plenty of a talk in the newspapers and if you read them and believed them and we'd have a squad of about 300 next year.