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Free Agents In The Last Year Of Their Contracts.

Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:08 am

With a week to go in the 2016/17 summer transfer window, Premier League clubs have players now in their final 12 months on contracts so is there anybody who should be instantly tied down to a new deal by your club, or is there anybody you'd want to take a cheeky punt on in the hope their club decides to cash in - even if it meant dropping a level.

All these players, as of the time Talksport compiled them (if I don't do the legwork, I can't take the blame for being wrong!), will be free agents come the end of the 2016/17 campaign and there are some big names and big experience amongst them who could clearly do a job for somebody in the Premier League still - it just depends on where they end up come next summer.

So with the caveat of not believing any of these have signed new deals yet, announced early retirement or anything like that, are there any you'd like to line up in the shirt for September? Taking out any obvious superstars that are beyond our reach, the list includes every Premier League player in the last year of their contacts, still there's some players we could realistically get?

Here is the list below, discuss.

Arsenal:
Santi Cazorla
Per Mertesacker
Serge Gnabry
Yaya Sanogo

Bournemouth:
Andrew Surman
Eunan O'Kane
Tokelo Rantie
Artur Boruc
Josh O'Hanlon

Burnley:
George Boyd
Michael Kightly
Dean Marney
Lukas Jutkiewicz
Stephen Ward
Danny Lafferty
Paul Robinson
Kevin Long

Chelsea:
John Mikel Obi
Branislav Ivanovic
John Terry

Crystal Palace:
Joe Ledley
Wayne Hennessey
Martin Kelly
Fraizer Campbell
Zeki Fryers
Hiram Boateng
Kwesi Appiah

Everton:
Arouna Kone
Gareth Barry
Tyias Browning
Conor McAleny

Hull City:
Andrew Robertson
Robert Snodgrass
Jake Livermore
Michael Dawson
Harry Maguire
Shaun Maloney
Dusan Kuciak
Brian Leniham

Leicester City:
Danny Simpson
Marcin Wasilewski

Liverpool:
Lucas Leiva
Alexander Manninger

Manchester City:
Fernandinho
Jesus Navas
Yaya Toure
Pablo Zabaleta
Gael Clichy
Bacary Sagna
Willy Caballero

Manchester United:
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Antonio Valencia
Michael Carrick
Timothy Fosu-Mensah
Sam Johnstone

Middlesbrough:
Grant Leadbitter
Emilio Nsue
Albert Adomah
Mustapha Carayol

Southampton:
Cuco Martina
Llyod Isgrove

Stoke City:
Glen Johnson
Ibrahim Afellay
Charlie Adam
Peter Crouch
Phil Bardsley
Stephen Ireland
Shay Given
Dionatan Teixeira
Daniel Blackman

Sunderland:
Jan Kirchhoff
Sebastian Larsson
Steven Pienaar
John O'Shea
Charalampos Mavrias

Swansea City:
Martin Emnes
Gerhard Tremmel

Tottenham Hotspur:
None

Watford:
Essaid Belkalem
Sean Murray
Rene Gilmartin

West Bromwich Albion:
Saido Berahino
Chris Brunt
Claudio Yacob
Craig Gardner
Rickie Lambert
Darren Fletcher
Jonas Olsson
Cristian Gamboa
Gareth McAuley
Sebastien Pocognoli
Jack Rose

West Ham United:
Adrian

Re: Free Agents In The Last Year Of Their Contracts.

Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:26 am

one or two or three or four, I would pick, but when you take into consideration there golden hellos, of signing on fee, wage testimonials etc etc, we will be recruiting from the Welsh league, and that's not a bad thing! :bluebird: anyone got any ideas from there to save our transfer committee the bus fare

Re: Free Agents In The Last Year Of Their Contracts.

Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:43 am

if we could get zlatan cazorla and jt we might finish just outside the playoffs :ayatollah:

Re: Free Agents In The Last Year Of Their Contracts.

Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:59 am

Get sanogo in :bluescarf:

Re: Free Agents In The Last Year Of Their Contracts.

Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:59 am

Reza wrote:if we could get zlatan cazorla and jt we might finish just outside the playoffs :ayatollah:
:lol: :lol:

Re: Free Agents In The Last Year Of Their Contracts.

Thu Aug 25, 2016 9:16 am

Of all those, I think only George Boyd and Frazer Campbell are realistic, although I could probably forgive Marvin Emnes for tearing us a new one every time he played us, if he was prepared to denounce his past (a bit like Jazz Richards finally did :ayatollah: ) and come over to the light side! ;) :laughing6:

Re: Free Agents In The Last Year Of Their Contracts.

Thu Aug 25, 2016 9:36 am

Tokelo Rantie
Wayne Henessey
Gareth barry, old I know still do a job
Peter Crouch another oldie may decide to drop down :laughing6:
Stephen ireland
Conor McAleny
Then I woke up :laughing6:

Re: Free Agents In The Last Year Of Their Contracts.

Thu Aug 25, 2016 9:50 am

Ivanovic would cover Declan John nicely

Re: Free Agents In The Last Year Of Their Contracts.

Thu Aug 25, 2016 10:03 am

nubbsy wrote:Ivanovic would cover Declan John nicely


And Zlatan could come off the bench for either Zohore or Fred when we're 5-0 up.

Re: Free Agents In The Last Year Of Their Contracts.

Thu Aug 25, 2016 11:24 am

davids wrote:
nubbsy wrote:Ivanovic would cover Declan John nicely


And Zlatan could come off the bench for either Zohore or Fred when we're 5-0 up.



Hmm I dunno he's getting on a bit now and I'm not sure he's got the pace...