AS Monaco winger Thomas Lemar is happy to encourage the January interest of "big clubs".

The France international turned down offers from Arsenal and Liverpool on transfer deadline day - and remains on their radar.

For his part, Lemar isn't shutting the door on anything.

"Everything that happened before is no longer in my head. I'm just focused on my season with Monaco. It was agitating, but on my side I was rather calm. Since I was more focused on the France squad, I did not see much of what was going on (on deadline day)," he said.

"It's flattering and if I want the big clubs to be there when the mercatos come, it's up to me to continue working."