GK Angus Gunn - loan until May 2018 GK Remi Matthews - June 2018 GK Paul Jones - June 2018 GK Michael McGovern - July 2019 RB Ivo Pinto - July 2019 CB/RB Russell Martin - July 2020 CB Christoph Zimmerman - June 2019 CB Marcel Franke - June 2020 CB Timm Klose - July 2019 CB Grant Hanley - June 2020 DF Glenn Middleton - June 2019 LB James Husband - June 2020 LB Jamal Lewis - June 2021 DM Alexander Tettey - July 2019 DM Marco Stiepermann - July 2019 DM Harrison Reed - loan to May 2018 AM James Maddison - July 2019 AM Alex Pritchard - July 2020 AM Mario Vrancic - June 2020 AM Wesley Hoolahan - June 2018 AM Tom Trybull - June 2018 CM Louis Thomson - June 2019 LM Matt Jarvis - July 2019 RM Yanik Wildschut - July 2019 DM Ben Godfrey - July 2019 ST Josh Murphy - July 2021 ST Nelson Oliveira - July 2020 ST Cameron Jerome - July 2019 ST Steven Naismith - July 2019 ST Marley Watkins - June 2020 ST Tristan Abraham - June 2019 Loaned out Diallang Jaiyesimi (to Grimsby Town) - June 2019 Carlton Morris (Shrewsbury Town) Ebou Adams (Shrewsbury Town) Louis Ramsay (Woking) Joe Crow (Limerick) Ben Godfrey (Shrewsbury) Harry Toffolo (Doncaster Rovers) Michie Efette (Torqay United) Management Team Head Coach – Daniel Farke First Team Coach – TBA Under 23 Extra year added due to injury Giovanni Da Costa Under 23 Offered Pro-contracts Max Aarons Devonte Aransibia Benny Ashley-Seal Callum Ellesley Kieran Higgs Louis McIntosh Henry Pollock Emersson Sambu Owen Wallis Under 23 Others GK Jon McCracken ?? DF Oluwarotimi Odusina ?? MF Todd Cantwell ?? DF Joe Crow ?? GK Aston Oxborough ?? GK Jake Hallet ?? Scholars ??? CB Ben Burgess CB Nathan Fox ST Ollie Cole ST Lewis Byrne-Hewitt ST Jake Simpson Harrison Heath (Retained) LEFT Summer 2017 GK John Ruddy - July 2017 + 1 yr option RB Steven Whittaker - July 2016 CB Ryan Bennett - June 2017 CB Sebastian Bassong - August 2016 CB Michael Turner - July 2016 ST Kyle Lafferty - June 2017 CM Youssuf Mulumbu GK Declan Rudd - Extended to July 2018 CM Jonny Howson - June 2018 CM Graham Dorrans June 2019 LM/RM Jacob Murphy - July 2021 AM Tony Andreu (by mutual consent) ST Benny Ashley-Seale MF Agust Hlynsson U23's Released Summer 2017 Jamie Eaton-Collins Ray Grant Ben Killip Conor McGrandles Toby Syme ALREADY LEFT LB Martin Olsson - July 2017 DM Bradley Johnson - June 2018 RM Elliott Bennett - June 2016 AM Nathan Redmond - July 2017 (U21) AM Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe July 2017 + 1 year option CM Gary O'Neill June 2016 ST Ricky Van Wolfswinkel - July 2017 ST Gary Hooper - July 2016 + 1 year option ST Jamar Loza - July 2016 (U21) ST Lewis Grabban - June 2017 + 1 year option RB Cameron Norman - June 2016 CB Ignasi Miquel - August 2017 LB Kyle McFadden - June 2016 CB Adel Gafaiti - June 2016 LM Cameron King – 2016 Sergi Canos Robbie Brady Jake Kean CB Reiss Awuah - June 2016 AM Reece Hall-Johnson - June 2014 GK Tyler Reading - Feb 2015 LB Christian Scales
Release all those out of contract except Steer (perhaps Rudd as well unless we can get decent compensation for him). Shame if we lose Jackson for nothing but he isnt Prem standard so we should be looking to get someone else in to play with RVW/Holt and provide competition for Becchio. Non of the other out of contracts are or will ever be anywhere near Prem standard really. A couple have already left (Martin and Lappin)
I would be looking at some of the key players who are at a decent age and giving them longer contracts. I am thinking of Howson, Snodgrass, Bassong, Pilkington and Johnson. This would allow us to have stregth in rejecting bids or commanding the highest possible fee if we decided to sell.
Well what do ya know?! They bloody took my advice and released all those who were out of contract except Steer and Rudd That will have cleared up a bit of the wage bill! Now to sell Surman, Fox, Barnett, Ayala and Vaughan and replace them with a bit o quality ))))))))
You called that right On the outs. I'm not sure about Ayala. He is still young and has along contract. He seemed to be doing okay in the Championship. Perhaps another loan and see in 12 months. I imagine Vaughan will get pre-season to show his worth before a decision is made.
If we keep either Vaughan or Ayala, we must send them out on loan again as I am still not convinced by their fitness. This season was the first season Vaughan has been able to play more than 2 games in a ROW! As for Ayala, he had his injury problems again this year so, yeah, still not convinced. My preference would be to cut our loses and spend a bit of our new cash on proven players. Im not saying they have to be RVW standard but players who are better than what we have already in order to progress our squad and help move away from the relegation battle next season.
Now Francomb has been snapped up by AFC Wimbledon, only Simeon Jackson, Lee Camp and Ramil Sherriff need to find new clubs. Various other players are also effectively transfer listed according to the retained player lists; http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/...clubs-submit-retained-and-released-lists.html Gafaiti, Adel - Offer Loza, Jamar Kasheef - Offer McNeil, Ewan Offer Steer, Jed John - Offer I'm not sure what 'Offer Contract' means as far as Scholars are concerned but some of the following players have this against their names; Barker, Harry Darius Offer Contract Browne, Stephen Rhys Retained Callan-McFadden, Kyle Offer Contract Hall-Johnson, Reece Offer Contract Heath, Harrison Retained Hodd, Harvey William Retained King, Cameron Retained Lokko, Kevin Adom Retained Matthews, Remi Luke Offer Contract McGeehan, Cameron Alexander Offer Contract Morris, Carlton Retained Norman, Cameron Retained Randall, Henry Charles Retained Toffolo, Harry Offer Contract Wyatt, Ben Retained
Updated. Interestingly now Barney has been sold to Wigan and Surman is at Bournemouth for the season, we are down to a 24 man squad of over 21's. i.e. there is now a space for someone to come and join.
A couple of years back I was watching the League 1 and 2 games on the Football League show with my Dad. Pretty much every game had at least one ex-Norwich player featured. Looking at who has left in the past 2 seasons it will be the same scenario but this time in the Championship this time around. In a couple of years will we look at Match of the Day and across the European leagues and be saying he's ex-Norwich on a regular basis?
Want me to copy it into the OP for the transfer thread? Just to help keep the number of stickies down.