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Arsenal sign high performance coach Darren Burgess

Australian rules football team Port Adelaide have announced that they have reached an agreement with Arsenal which sees high performance coach Darren Burgess join the Gunners from July.

The fitness guru, who spent two and a half years as the head of fitness and conditioning with Liverpool, is said to have been handpicked by Arsene Wenger himself.

Burgess will join up with the Gunners in July, but he will return to Australia later that month to oversee the Port Adelaide's performance programme at the end of the current campaign.

Furthermore, if Adelaide make it into the AFL Finals, Burgess will return to the club for the duration and then be back in October and November to make plans for the club and help find his successor.