Unsurprisingly, Ju Young Park is considering leaving Arsenal in the summer.

Snatched from under the noses of Lille, who had him sequestered in a local hotel as they were about to sign him, he moved to Arsenal as the transfer deadline approached.

Although not prolific during his time at Monaco, he had showed enough to suggest that Arsenal were getting a back-up striker who might have been able to contribute when called upon.

Fast forward to February 2012 and Park has made just five appearances for the club. Three in the Carling Cup, one in the Champions League and a grand total of 8 minutes in the Premier League.

His one goal, against Bolton in the Carling Cup, was ver nicely taken, but for whatever reason, Arsene Wenger has little faith in him and not giving him a run out when Arsenal were 6-1 up against Blackburn with over half an hour to go spoke volumes as to where he stands in the manager’s pecking order.

With just a couple of years to go until he has return to South Korea to do mandatory military service, it’s little wonder he’s unhappy – and Park’s agent revealed they’d be open to a move come the end of the season.

“If the current state continues, we will have to look at the transfer market in the summer,” he said.

He also played down reports that Arsenal had turned down an offer from Fulham to take the player on loan.

“In the English media, it was reported that Arsenal had rejected a loan offer for Park. However, this was in contrast to what we heard from Arsenal. There was no loan offer during the transfer window.”

Wenger’s reasons for not using Park remain open to speculation, with no journalist seemingly willing to ask a direct question at a press conference.

The suggestion that he was signed to sell shirts in his native country seems rather at odds with the reality that any profit from shirt sales would fall far, far below his annual salary, and even if that was the case we’d need to play him now and again for people to want to buy his shirt in the first place.

At the moment his signing is one of life’s great mysteries, like the Bermuda Triangle, the construction of the pyramids and why nobody has kicked Robbie Savage’s balls out through his mouth.