Thomas Partey has been involved with a move from Emirates Stadium. last season.
Party's future was shrouded in uncertainty this summer, amid talk of a potential exit from the Emirates Stadium.
Al-Ahly has been linked with Party, but the Ghanaian midfielder is believed to be reluctant to move to Saudi Arabia.
It remains to be seen if Arsenal will sell if an offer comes in that is acceptable to both club and player, but Arteta insists he plans to keep 30-year-old next season.
Asked if he expects Parti to stay, the Arsenal manager replied: “Yes. Every time I spoke to him and talked to him, he was ready to stay with us. For me, there is nothing there at all.
“Thomas Partey is a very important player for us and for me, and we want him in the team, that's for sure.”
Arsenal broke their transfer record by signing Declan Rice from West Ham this month for £105m, but Arteta says the England midfielder and Partey can play together and their presence creates more competition for him.
“They can play together. It was part of my plans,” he said. “If you want to improve the squad and become more quality, we need players who can play together, and we need players in the same positions who have to fight for their places, which we have not had in the last few years. We want to improve on that and that's why we brought in Declan as well.”
Arteta said his team had a hard lesson to learn after losing the title race to Manchester City. Photo: Getty Images/David Price
Despite holding the top spot for 248 days last season, Arsenal, who will take on Manchester United at New Jersey's Metlife Stadium on Saturday as part of their US pre-season tour, crashed out in the final seven weeks of the campaign as Manchester City claimed a third title in a row.
But Arteta believes his team needed to go through this difficult lesson in order to grow and is convinced they will learn lessons from it.
“I think what happened last season was probably necessary to learn the lessons you learned. learn how to become better, be successful and achieve what we want,” he said.
“So this is part of this road and this journey. We know the difficulty of the league and the opposition we have, but I'm sure they won't want to play against us.”
Arteta believes next season the Premier League will be more competitive than ever. “Of course it will be harder because the level will go up, the teams will get better and the league will get stronger, so it will only get harder,” he said.
“We have to get better, play better and do better than last year, and this is what we are working on now.”
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