Pennant has had a stop-start career with Arsenal

Linked with a number of other clubs, Pennant, 21, will be told in May whether Arsenal want to keep him.

Pennant said: "My priority is to win another contract. All I've got to do is carry on playing and training well and hopefully it'll win me a new contract.

"I feel I've got the right style of play to do well here."

Everton and Liverpool, as well as Birmingham, Middlesbrough and Tottenham have all been linked with a move for Pennant.

Pennant came to Highbury from Notts County six years ago, in a �2m deal which made him England's most expensive teenager.

He made his Arsenal debut 10 months later in the League Cup, but struggled to make a regular breakthrough and it was only in May 2003 that he scored his first senior goals for the club against Southampton.

Last season he went on loan at Leeds and he has also had a loan spell with Watford.

Pennant added: "I've had some great advice from the boss, so I think I've progressed a lot really.

"My aim now is to play first-team football for Arsenal and then that might get me into the England senior squad."

Pennant has made 24 appearances for the England Under-21 side, though his progress there has also been interrupted.

In April 2003 he was sent home by David Platt for breaking a curfew before a game against Turkey.