West Ham midfielder Jack Wilshere says he would've signed a new contract with Arsenal if Arsene Wenger had chosen to stay.

Wilshere ended his 17-year stay at the club in the summer when he left to join West Ham after not getting assurance of first-team football under Unai Emery.

"If Arsene had stayed I would have stayed because of the influence he had in my career and the trust he had in me. He gave me the armband and respected me a lot," he told the Islington Gazette.

"So, I had pretty much agreed to stay. And then he left and that changed things.

"Arsene had said to me previously "stay and fight your way back into the team" – because I knew Arsene and knew he had trust in me, I knew I could do that and fight my way into the team."