Arshavin considers calling time on career

Forgotten man Andrey Arshavin is pondering retiring from football at the age of 32 this summer after becoming disillusioned with the game.

The Arsenal playmaker is in the final months of the £95,000 a week contract he signed when he joined the Gunners from Zenit St Petersburg for a club record £15m in February 2009 and will not be offered a new deal.

The lack of viable alternative employers — presumably scared off by the wages he would demand — have added to Arshavin’s disenchantment and prompted him to consider pulling the plug on his career, according to reports in England.