Lukas Podolski hints he may leave Arsenal to play more regularly. • Podolski: ‘If I don’t have competition a change must occur’ • World Cup winner has played 90 minutes just once this season. He was not involved in the opening four matches of the season following Germany’s successful World Cup in Brazil, and has been an unused substitute four times in Arsenal’s last eight matches. He has come on for the last few minutes of the Premier League games against Leicester City and Aston Villa and the Champions League defeat at Borussia Dortmund and has only played an entire match once – Arsenal’s 2-1 home defeat against Southampton in the Capital One Cup last week. He did not feature in Arsenal’s 4-1 win over Galatasaray in the Champions League on Wednesday where again he was an unused substitute and has yet to find the net this season. “We will have to see. But it is certainly something one has to think about,” he said when asked if he would see out his deal with the club for whom he has scored 28 goals in 73 appearances. As far as his career with Germany is concerned, Podolski said it was not the first time he has seen little action at club level but kept his place in the squad. Podolski made only two appearances for Germany in Brazil – playing for the last eight minutes against Portugal in their opening group match and the first half of their last group game against the USA, and was an unused substitute in the final when they beat Argentina. “I have been with Germany a long time and have gone through phases where I did not play a lot at club level but was convincing with the national team. That is no problem,” he said. -TH
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:10:00 +0000
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