Arsenal are finalising the highest-profile addition to their backroom team so far this summer with the appointment of their ‘Invincible’ goalkeeper Jens Lehmann as a first-team coach.

Significantly, Lehmann will be tasked with working directly alongside manager Arsene Wenger, assistant manager Steve Bould and first-team coach Boro Primorac with the club’s senior players.

Gerry Peyton will remain goalkeeping coach - a position he has had since Lehmann joined as a player in 2003 - with Lehmann himself due to take up a role across the entire squad.

Lehmann worked on his coaching badges at Arsenal’s London Colney training base after first leaving the club as a player in 2008 and even had another short emergency return where he made one final appearance as a back-up goalkeeper in 2011.