Matty Cash is already targeting his next Nottingham Forest contract after insisting he never paid any attention to pre-January 'paper talk'.
Cash signed a new three-and-a-half year deal last week, days after being linked with Everton, but the 22-year-old says his future at the City Ground was never in doubt.
"I'm grounded as a person. I've signed this new contract but I already want the next contract," he said.
"That's the person and I am it's the family I've got. I'm always grounded, working hard and that's how you get through life.
"I don't listen to any of that (talk). I'm a Forest player and I want my future to be here.
"I wanted to get a new contract. I didn't listen to paper talk."
Cash revealed the process of agreeing the new contract had been an easy one even though he is highly ambitious.
He is eager to play top flight football soon, but with Forest fourth in the Championship, he is confident he will achieve that goal with the Reds.
"I'm really happy about (the new contract). They told me a couple of weeks ago I would be offered a new contract and I was delighted," he said.
"It's what I want. I love it here. The club are going up. They want to go into the Premier League and I want to go there.
"We're really happy. We just had a few conversations.
"This is the place I want to play my football."
Cash has spent the vast majority of his 116-game career in Nottingham as right winger, however, he was converted to a right-back as soon as Sabri Lamouchi took over in the first week of pre-season.
He admits he had some teething problems, but feels he has made rapid strides and is now far more comfortable in the position.
"I have come on this season. Every day in training the manager demands off me," he said.
"He's given me different ideas on how to play the position. I'm listening and taking every game as it comes.
"Every game is a new challenge. One v one, when you first start in a position it's like a new job, you feel unsteady.
"It's different wingers. I have to keep adapting."
