Arsenal hero Martin Keown is confident the club's culture can bring out the best in Martin Odegaard.

The Norway captain has recently admitted he struggled to establish friendships at former club Real Madrid.

Keown commented: "It's a good start because he's obviously been in a situation where it wasn't particularly nice and he didn't feel that welcome.

"When Arsene Wenger arrived at Arsenal we were were a bit worried about whether he was going to be too nice, but I think we'd already shaped our personalities and characters by then so we didn't necessarily need to worry about that.

"Odegaard is just starting out in his career. He hardly played for Real Madrid.

"I do feel the environment needed to improve at Arsenal when you think about what was happening with [Mesut] Ozil, a lot of power there and not the greatest of role models."