THE naming rights for the new Lansdowne Road stadium — due to open in April 2010 — are expected to be finalised by the end of this year.

Arsenal are poised to make a major commercial announcement which is expected to net the club a multi-million pound windfall.

Eddie Jordan is believed to have agreed a price of €60m to sell his F1 team to the Al Makhtoum family, who own Emirate Airlines and, more famously, the Godolphin racing empire.