Unai Emery insisted Mesut Ozil's lofty wage will have no impact upon his Arsenal team selections and refused to give assurances over the playmaker's future in the January transfer window.
Ozil signed a three-and-a-half-year contract extension in February, which runs until June 2021 and is worth a reported £350,000 per week.
Developments on the field have not been so kind to the 30-year-old in 2018.
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He announced his retirement from international football following Germany's dismal World Cup campaign and has struggled for form and fitness under Arsene Wenger's successor Emery.
Ozil was left out of the squad for Wednesday's 2-0 Carabao Cup quarter-final defeat to Tottenham for tactical reasons and, although Emery confirmed he will return to the squad to face Burnley on Saturday, he has not started a Premier League game since November 11.