Reports suggest the Gunners will pay £10.9m for the 26-year-old on a four-year contract worth £100,000 a week.
Arsenal's Per Mertesacker, a Germany team-mate, said Podolski has asked him about life at Emirates Stadium.
He 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 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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