Arsenal to step up recruitment drive

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will step up his summer recruitment drive ahead of the start of pre-season training next week.

However, he will do so in the knowledge that reported target Juan Mata is happy at Valencia.
The Gunners have so far only confirmed the arrival of promising young defender Carl Jenkinson in a £1million deal from Charlton.
However, Wenger is keen to further bolster a squad which again failed to deliver a trophy last season, imploding on all fronts after a shock defeat to Birmingham in the Carling Cup final at Wembley.
Arsenal are expected to push through a deal for Bolton's England defender Gary Cahill, with unsettled Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner a possible makeweight to help match differing valuations.
Lille suggest Arsenal are yet to formalise their interest in £10m-rated Ivory Coast forward Gervinho, whose preferred destination is the Emirates Stadium, and Argentina youngster Ricky Alvarez is another on Wenger's radar along with Bayer Leverkusen's Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal.
The addition of Southampton starlet Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is expected to be confirmed at the start of July ahead of Arsenal's Far East tour, which will include games in Malaysia and China.
However, Spain midfielder Mata maintains his only focus is on achieving more success at Valencia rather than making a £20million move to the Gunners.
The 23-year-old is planning to take some time off after helping the Under-21s win their European Championship in Denmark.
He told SuperDeporte: "I just want to disconnect. I am not thinking about my future at the moment.
"My contract runs until 2015 and let's hope my next trophy is with Valencia."
Arsenal, meanwhile, have yet to make any official comment, as they did last summer, on the continued speculation over whether captain Cesc Fabregas will return to boyhood club Barcelona.
The Premier League side are understood to have rejected one cut-price £27million offer, but the European champions are expected to return with an improved deal - offering a player exchange as a sweetener - for the Spain midfielder, who has appeared disenchanted with life at Emirates Stadium following another campaign which promised much but failed to deliver.
Should Wenger, however reluctantly, finally allow Fabregas to leave, that could pave the way for Samir Nasri to pen a new long-term deal and take over in his preferred playmaker role at the heart of the Gunners side next season.
Full-back Gael Clichy is also out of contract next summer, with Liverpool and Roma possible destinations should the Frenchman decide to move on.
While keen to bring in fresh talent, Wenger will also look to sell some of Arsenal's underperforming fringe players, with AC Milan said to be ready to offer Brazilian midfielder Denilson an exit strategy.