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Midfield
33 players listed there.1 Anthony Patterson - retain
2 Niall Huggins - retain/loan out
3 Dennis Cirkin - new contract / 12 months left
4 Corry Evans - retain, influential, experienced, skipper
5 Daniel Ballard - retain, hes a monster
6 Danny Batth - retain, important experienced head at the back
7 Leon Dajaku - sell
8 Elliot Embleton - sell? i like him but feel we've surpassed his level
10 Patrick Roberts - new contract / 12 months left
11 Lynden Gooch - retain / good squad player
12 Alex Bass - depends on keeper situation, but ultimately we need someone to push patterson for the number 1 shirt
13 Luke O’Nien - new conract / 12 months left
14 Ross Stewart - hopefully signs / if not cash in as 12 months left
15 Carl Winchester - released
16 Amad - returned to man united
17 Abdoullah Ba - retain, gonna be important next year
18 Ellis Taylor - failed loan at hartlepool but has had a tough year personally. potential loan again?
19 Jewison Bennette - retain, loan may be off cards due to language barrier
20 Jack Clarke - retain although I feel he will be hard to keep
21 Alex Pritchard - influential in the run in but i feel he need to add more goals and assists to his game therefore not arsed if he stays or goes
22 Isaac Lihadji - retain, likely amad's replacement?
23 Jack Diamond - no comment.
24 Dan Neil - retain, improving all the time
25 Edouard Michut - returned to Paris. Option to buy?
26 Bailey Wright - sell
27 Jay Matete - i have a soft spot for him and i think he has potential, i wouldnt sell him, maybe another loan?
28 Joe Gelhardt - returned to leeds. would have him back.
29 Harrison Sohna - isnt gonna make it here
30 Jacob Carney - isnt gonna make it here
32 Trai Hume - most improved player? his development has been ace. first choice right back.
39 Pierre Ekwah - gonna be some player next season.
42 Aji Alese - again, i think hes brilliant and will only improve
45 Joe Anderson - loan out immediately, he needs games
anyone do anything differently?
Diallo, Gelhardt and if the rumours are to belived Michut are all back to their parent clubs.
Winchester released. Carney out of contract, apparently the club have a year option but the Echo reckon he'll be released. Likely the same for Sohna given he's 20 and has been nowhere near the first team while lads younger than him have been playing.
Diamond has another year but who knows what's going to happen there. Even without the goings on could you see him in this team? Count him out.
Matete and Wright aren't going to play regularly and only went out on loan because they don't want to be sat around. Chances are both will be back out on loan until the day comes they walk away.
Have the club given up on Dajaku? Do they give him another loan? Current one hasn't gone all that well. The thinking he could play centrally was flawed. Maybe he'll get another loan, maybe a cut price deal back to Germany, don't think he gets back in the side next season.
Taylor had a poor loan spell, has another year on his contract though so can see him going out on another. Anderson, Mowbray wants him out on loan and played anyone else ahead of him. Out on loan. Huggins looks a player but where does he fit in with everyone available? Likey a loan out for him.
That's down to 20 players.
From the players we have left I don't think Bennette, Ba or Lihadji go anywhere, not least because the issues Mowbray has mentioned integrating them to the squad don't just go away. They'd be worse out on loan at another club. At least another 6 month on the fringes of the first team for them.
Evans likely not fit by the start of the season. Bass stays to do the same thing he did this season, provide low cost backup. Embleton stays. Stewart to sign a new contract.