Germany striker Lukas Podolski will join Arsenal for the start of next season for an undisclosed fee, his current club Cologne have confirmed.

Eric-Maxime Choupo-Moting is likely to remain a Hamburg player until the end of the season after his transfer to Cologne failed to go through due to a problematic fax machine.

Former Bayern Munich and Germany goalkeeper Oliver Kahn is one of the candidates to become the new general manager at Cologne.