Arsenal have agreed a deal to sign Germany striker Lukas Podolski from Cologne, BBC Sport understands.
Reports suggest the Gunners will pay £10.9m for the 26-year-old on a four-year contract worth £100,000 a week. 
Podolski scores Germany's second
Podolski will have to pass a medical and agree personal terms before the move can be completed in the summer.
Arsenal's Per Mertesacker said: "He has sent me a number of text messages and I have told him this is a great place to work and Arsenal are an amazing club."
Cologne manager Stale Solbakken admitted last month he could lose Podolski to Arsenal.
Big-spending Russian clubs Lokomotiv Moscow and Anzhi Makhachkala are also understood to be pursuing Podolski but the striker said recently that money was not his prime concern.
"Money is not the most important thing for me," he told German newspaper Sport-Bild. "What is crucial is the development of my game."
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