Matteo Guendouzi wants to commit to the senior France national team, despite rumours linking him to a switch of allegiances to play for Morocco.

Guendouzi recently got his first call-up to the France under-21 team, putting the pressure on Morocco to try and convince him to change his mind before playing for the senior team.

As a result, there have been plenty of rumours in recent months about the Morocco manager flying to London to speak to him, or the Moroccan Federation contacting Guendouzi’s father. The 19-year-old qualifies for Morocco through his father, but Matteo says his dream is to play for France, having done so for the youth teams for a while now.

“Since I was young, I’ve always played with the French teams,” he told French television station Canal Plus. “It’s a dream to play with the France senior team. And I’m hoping to get there, it’s a dream for me to make it happen.”

As for Arsenal, Guendouzi has seen his Premier League starts limited recently, thanks to Lucas Torreira and Granit Xhaka’s impressive partnership. Nonetheless, he’s up to 15 appearances (11 starts) in all competitions this season.

The Frenchman insists he’s happy with how things are going individually, and he just wants to focus on improving Arsenal.

“I’m very happy about my start,” he said. “After that, the most important for me is the team, we’re on a good run of 15 or 16 games without a loss, which is something we need to continue on. We’ve drawn the last three games in the league, but we’re a very solid team, and I hope we can do great things.”

Hopefully, Arsenal can get back to winning ways against Bournemouth on Sunday, in their final Premier League game before the North London derby.