Santi Cazorla has yet to be offered a new deal by Arsenal but wants to remain with the Gunners beyond his current contract, which expires at the end of the season.
Cazorla, 31, who started in Arsenal's 2-0 win over Basel in Wednesday's Champions League group game, is in his fifth campaign with the North London club.
"I hope I can stay here and continue to play," he told Cadena Ser. "I am happy here. What a player wants is to play and to feel important. Fortunately, since I arrived at Arsenal, I've had the confidence of the coach [Arsene Wenger] and of my teammates. I've played a lot of minutes. In the end, that is what every player wants."
Cazorla moved to Arsenal in the summer of 2012 after one season at Malaga and has made a total of 177 appearances since then, scoring 29 goals.
He has scored two goals and set up two more in five Premier League starts for the club this season.
"I'm very happy here," he added. "The club has treated me very well. I'm in a great club and I'm playing minutes which is what I want. If I didn't play, then I would consider leaving but that is not the case. I have this season left under contract and we will see what the club decides regarding my future. I will also decide what is best for me."
Asked if Arsenal had offered him a contract extension, Cazorla said: "No. I don't have any news from the club in that respect. My focus now is on playing and to be able to enjoy playing football following a season when I had lots of [injury] problems."
Injuries limited Cazorla, who established himself in Spain at Villarreal before leaving for Malaga, to just 15 Premier League appearances in the 2015-16 campaign and cost him his place in Spain's Euro 2016 squad.
A Euro 2008 and 2012 winner with Spain, Cazorla missed his country's triumph at the 2010 World Cup because of a hernia problem but did play two years ago at the World Cup in Brazil.
He was not included in new national team coach Julen Lopetegui's first squad last month but hopes to return to the fold.
"I had some knee issues and Achilles tendon problems at the end of last season and it was right that I wasn't included in the Euro 2016 squad," Cazorla said. "It's always difficult to digest to be left out of the Spain squad. Fortunately, I'm well now and I'm enjoying myself. I'm playing a lot more with my club. But I always have hope that I can be back in the Spain squad."