By Chris Wright
Just a list of the 123 players released by Premier League clubs this summer – nothing more, nothing less.
In alphabetical order…
Arsenal; Thomas Cruise, Roarie Deacon, Mark Randall.
Nigel’s chips are up at Villa Park
Aston Villa; Durrell Berry, John Carew, Ellis Deeney, Calum Flanagan, Harry Forrester, Arsenio Halfhuid, Isaiah Osbourne, Robert Pires, Nigel Reo-Coker, Moustapha Salifou
Birmingham; Marcus Bent, Lee Bowyer, Sebastian Larsson, James McFadden, Mitchell McPike, James O’Shea, Stuart Parnaby, Kevin Phillips, Daniel Preston, Luke Rowe, Robin Shroot, Maik Taylor.
Blackburn; Jordan Bowen, Jason Brown, Zurab Khizanishvili, Benjani Mwaruwari, Michael Potts, Maceo Rigters.
Blackpool; David Carney, Daniel Coid, Ishmel Demontagnac, Rob Edwards, Jason Euell, Marlon Harewood, Richard Kingson, Malaury Martin, Paul Rachubka, Andy Reid, Salaheddine Sbai.
“To Galatasaray, post haste!”
Bolton; Tamir Cohen, Johan Elmander, Ricardo Gardner, Joey O’Brien, Jlloyd Samuel, Samuel Sheridan.
Chelsea; Samuel Hutchinson, Carl Magnay, Danny Philliskirk, Jan Sebek, Michael Woods.
Everton; Kieran Agard, Hope Akpan, Nathan Craig, Gerard Kinsella, Lee McArdle, Iain Turner.
Fulham; Zoltan Gera, Edward Johnson, Diomansy Kamara, John Pantsil, Matthew Saunders.
Liverpool; Jason Banton, Deale Chamberlain, Douglas Cooper, Sean Highdale, Steven Irwin (Crocodile Hunter?), Nikola Saric.
Old Paddy’s been shown the exit door at Eastlands
Man City; Javier Garrido, Scott Kay, James Poole, Shaleum Logan, Andrew Tutte, Javan Vidal, Patrick Vieira, James Wood.
Man Utd; Conor Devlin, Owen Hargreaves, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Edwin van der Sar.
Newcastle; Sol Campbell, Shefki Kuqi, Patrick McLaughlin.
Stoke; Abdoulaye Faye, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Ibrahima Sonko.
Sunderland; Michael Kay, Nathan Luscombe, Daniel Madden, Robert Weir, Nathan Wilson, Mvoto Jean-Yves, Bolo Zenden.
Woody’s out on his own, is this the end of line?
Tottenham; Jonathan Woodgate.
West Brom; Giles Barnes, Marcus Haber, Dean Kiely, Abdoulaye Méîté.
West Ham; Anthony Edgar, Holmar Eyjolfsson, Daniel Gabbidon, Lars Jacobsen, Filip Modelski, Jonathan Spector, Adam Street, Matthew Upson.
Wigan; Steven Caldwell, Daniel De Ridder, Joseph Holt, Jason Koumas, Thomas Lambert, Thomas Oakes, Francis Pollitt, Abian Serrano Davila.
Wolves; Adriano Basso, Jody Craddock, John Dunleavy, Marcus Hahnemann, David Jones, Nathan Rooney.
(List via the Press Association)
Penniless clubs of the world take note, you could actually draft yourself a fairly decent ‘Released XI’ out of that little lot…
GK – Hahnemann/Kingson
DF – Pantsil, Upson, Craddock, Garrido
MF – Gera, Vieira/Zenden, Reo-Coker, McFadden/Larsson
FW – Gudjohnsen, Carew/Benjani
…or there and there abouts.