Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has saluted Samir Nasri's attitude despite intense transfer speculation suggesting his future may lie away from the Emirates.
Nasri only has a year left on his contract at the club, prompting Manchester rivals City and United to show an interest in the Frenchman.
The 24-year-old has hinted that he may be interested in a move away from the Emirates to fulfil his ambition of winning silverware, but played in the Gunners' 4-0 win over a Malaysia XI on Wednesday, with Wenger insisting that Nasri is still fully focused.
"He has always had a very good attitude," Wenger said.
"We are a big club with many good young players so we are confronted with many rumors and speculation. But it doesn't affect much what's happening inside the club. We have to live with that and you could see when he [Samir] played that he wasn't disturbed by that."
Despite the prospect of potentially losing one of his star players for nothing next summer, Wenger is also confident that the club’s board will back his decision to keep Nasri.
He added: "I think so, I believe that is no problem. It is a technical decision. On one hand people say I don't spend enough and when I spend people say I spend too much. It's very difficult to find the right medium."
"What is important is that the club has a good team and is in a strong financial situation. The decisions are dictated by financial restrictions but not only by that. The most important thing is that the team is right and our financial situation is right as well."
On Nasri, Wenger continued: "I believe that everybody who loves Arsenal wants all our strong players to stay at the club."
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