Stoke City chief Tony Scholes remains confident of Asmir Begovic penning a new deal.

Scholes believes they can match the 27-year-old's ambitions.

"Clearly Asmir is a terrific goalkeeper and we are very keen to keep him at the club," he told The Sentinel. "I think when you've got extremely good players it is only natural that there will be speculation about their future.

"These players are also very ambitious and I include Asmir in that. He is a very focused, very talented and very ambitious young man.

"He wants to make sure he can play at the very best levels his abilities will enable him to and to have a very good and successful career in the game. We hope that we can fulfil all of those things at Stoke City."