Matthieu Flamini will be joining AC Milan

The 24-year-old Matthieu Flamini has told his Arsenal team-mates that he will be joining AC Milan, who is rated as one of Europe’s best centre midfielders, has not signed an extension to his Gunners contract that runs out in June, and his manager Arsene Wenger has been resigned to losing him. An April 30 deadline had been set by him for a decision to be made "either way," but with Flamini refusing to put pen on paper, the slimmest of hopes have now disappeared.