Emi Martinez says his priority is to stay with Arsenal.

The Argentine goalkeeper, however, insists he wants to be playing regularly this season.

Martinez told Marca: "What I hope, as I said, is to continue at Arsenal. My idea is that, but obviously I want to be playing.

"If I have returned so many times (from loan) it is because they continued to trust that I could be their number one. If they had told me 'look, you have no future here', I would have gone to another club. Now what I wanted has been fulfilled, and I hope to continue succeeding at Arsenal."

On breaking into the Argentina squad, Martinez continued: "I work to achieve it, playing for the national team is the dream of any footballer.

"I don't know if I will be able to start, it will be the coach's decision, but what I know is that I want to continue competing well to earn that opportunity."