The versatile Dutchman has been linked with a switch to Highbury in the English press, but he is happy to see out the final year of his contract at his current club, and possibly beyond 2001.
"I stay," he pledged. "If the trainer wants me, it is clear.
"I rejected several English offers after the European Championships and, this morning, Frank de Boer read on the Internet that Arsenal had made an offer for me.
"But I, myself, do not know anything.
"I said to my representative that I want to stay with Barca," he added. "I only have a year left on myu contract and I already know that at Barca every year a thousand things change, but this new Barcelona attracts me.
"It is true that the club has not made any moves to renew my contract but I am not in a hurry. I like Spanish soccer it is more fun than, for example, the Italian league."
Cocu is relishing the arrival of Petit to challenge for a place in front of the back three, although the Frenchman is being tipped to perhaps fill a more defensive role with the Catalan club.
"I know that I will have to fight," he said. "But that is not new.
"The normal thing is that the team has two players for each position. I do not know Petit much but I know clearly my capabilities.
"Overmars is better on the left. From my point of view, he is a great signing for Barca."
Wenger has previously made an approach for Gabri, as revealed on planetfootball.com some time ago, with defender Carlos Puyol and Ronald de Boer also being linked in Spain with a transfer to Highbury.
