Arsenal's Lukas Podolski watches his team from the bench during their Champions League playoff soccer match against Besiktas at the Emirates stadium in London August 27, 2014.
Arsenal's Lukas Podolski watches his team from the bench during their Champions League playoff soccer match against Besiktas at the Emirates stadium in London August 27, 2014. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger reiterated that German attacker Lukas Podolski will not head anywhere, at least not in the upcoming winter transfer window.

The out-of-favoured 29-year-old has yet to start for the Gunners in the Premier League and in the Champions League, with his longest cameo role at 13 minutes.

While Podolski has been explicit about his frustration of either being benched or totally omitted from matchday squads and has signified his intention to move elsewhere in January, the French mentor, apparently, is still not willing to let go of the former Bayern Munich man despite superfluity in attacking options.

"It is not established at all that he will leave at Christmas," Wenger told beIN Sports.

"It is me who sets the price and (the reported deal) doesn't correspond at all to his price. He is not for sale and there is no offer."

"Podolski plays a position where there is a big competition. He came very late from his holidays [after the World Cup in the summer], so he started after his team-mates and was not good physically."

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