Out of Contract Championship Players

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Out of Contract Championship Players May 7, 2019 20:23:42 GMT

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Post by stoatey on May 7, 2019 20:23:42 GMT

This summer there are several Championship Players who are out of contract and they include:

Aston Villa
Mark Bunn, Tommy Elphick, Alan Hutton, Mile Jedinak, Micah Richards, Jed Steer, Glenn Whelan.

Birmingham
Tomasz Kuszczak, Michael Morrison, Viv Solomon-Otabor.

Blackburn
Craig Conway, Paul Downing, Ben Gladwin, Jayson Leutwiler, Jack Rodwell.

Bolton
Mark Beevers, Will Buckley, Clayton Donaldson, Lloyd Dyer, Jack Hobbs, Mark Little, Craig Noone, Gary O'Neil, Josh Vela, David Wheater, Ben Williams, Marc Wilson.

Brentford
Yoann Barbet, Lewis Macleod, Josh McEachran, Moses

Bristol City
Frank Fielding, Stefan Marinovic, Niki Maenpaa, Eros Pisano, Jamie Paterson, Antoine Semenyo.

Derby
Efe Ambrose, Nick Blackman, Craig Bryson, Jacob Butterfield, Ashley Cole, Bradley Johnson, David Nugent, Marcus Olsson, Alex Pearce, Kelle Roos.

Hull
Fraizer Campbell, Evandro, Marcus Henriksen, Will Keane, David Marshall, Ondrej Mazuch, Robbie McKenzie, Liam Ridgewell, James Weir.

Ipswich
Tom Adeyemi, Luke Chambers, James Collins, Simon Dawkins, Josh Emmanuel, Dean Gerken, Jonas Knudsen, Jordan Spence, Grant Ward.

Leeds
N/A

Middlesbrough
Stewart Downing, Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, John Obi Mikel.

Millwall
Jordan Archer, Tom Elliott, Lee Gregory, Tom King, David Martin, Conor McLaughlin, Steve Morison, Ryan Tunnicliffe.

Norwich
Todd Cantwell, Timm Klose, Ivo Pinto.

Nottingham Forest
Juan Rafael Fuentes, Stephen Henderson, Jamie Ward.

Preston
Andy Boyle, Michael Howard, Tommy Spurr, Tom Stead.

QPR
Jake Bidwell, Jordan Cousins,Grant Hall, Joel Lynch, Angel Rangel, Pawel Wszolek.

Reading
Callum Harriott, Anssi Jaakkola, Paul McShane, John O'Shea.

Rotherham
Laurence Bilboe, Alex Bray, Anthony Forde, Akeem Hinds, Joe Mattock, Joe Newell, Darren Potter, Lewis Price, Jon Taylor, Ryan Williams.

Sheffield United
Paul Coutts, Martin Cranie, Conor Washington, Jake Wright.

Sheffield Wednesday
Almen Abdi, George Boyd, Gary Hooper, David Jones, Kieran Lee, Marco Matias, Frederik Fisker Nielsen, Connor O'Grady, Liam Palmer, Fraser Preston, Daniel Pudil, Keiren Westwood.

Stoke
Charlie Adam, Darren Fletcher, Jakob Haugaard.

Swansea
Wilfried Bony, Leroy Fer, Adam King, Luciano Narsingh, Martin Olsson, Wayne Routledge, Mike van der Hoorn.

West Brom
Gareth Barry, Chris Brunt, Rekeem Harper, Wes Hoolahan, Tyrone Mears, James Morrison, Boaz Myhill.

Wigan
Luke Burgess, Owen Evans, Darron Gibson, Dan Lavercombe, Shaun MacDonald, Gavin Massey, Callum McManaman, Chris Merrie, Jonas Olsson, Nick Powell.

There are some good players who are free and if we react early enough they could make really good additions to our squad. Somebody like Lee Gregory would be highly sort after. It's important that we are quick off the mark.

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kingfisher Gerry Francis The love passed down through the generations. The blue & white blood in our veins lives on Posts: 8,759 Member is Online	Out of Contract Championship Players May 7, 2019 21:05:19 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by kingfisher on May 7, 2019 21:05:19 GMT Excellent research stoatey but I feel the lack of manager and QPR's usual lethargy will mean we are desperately searching for strikers as the window closes.... Hope I am wrong!
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Out of Contract Championship Players May 7, 2019 21:10:48 GMT

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Post by northwesthoop on May 7, 2019 21:10:48 GMT

Superb post stoatey to have all of that laid out so clearly.

There are some very good names on the list. It will be interesting to see who actually gets released as opposed to just bring out of contract.

The problem is, it is a nice idea to target these players, but all the other teams with limited budgets will be having the same idea!

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Out of Contract Championship Players May 7, 2019 21:30:32 GMT

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Post by stoatey on May 7, 2019 21:30:32 GMT

May 7, 2019 21:10:48 GMT northwesthoop said:

Superb post stoatey to have all of that laid out so clearly.

There are some very good names on the list. It will be interesting to see who actually gets released as opposed to just bring out of contract.

The problem is, it is a nice idea to target these players, but all the other teams with limited budgets will be having the same idea!

It s possible that some of the clubs may offer their players extensions although I believe that the EFL rules stipulate that clubs must notify players of their intention to offer them a contract by the third week of May.

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Out of Contract Championship Players May 7, 2019 21:39:15 GMT

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Post by northwesthoop on May 7, 2019 21:39:15 GMT

Lee Gregory would be great but there will be a lot of interest which will drive up his wage demands and could price us out of contention.

Former R Matt Connolly is out of contract at Cardiff and barely played this season so would be worth getting in touch with.

We were linked with Morrison from Birmingham last season. He is their Captain and has played 300+ games at this level, much more dependable than Lynch and gets a lot of goals too. Leader material is what we need. His contract talks have been hindered by FFP. Hopefully we are sounding him out again.

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Out of Contract Championship Players May 7, 2019 21:46:18 GMT

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May 7, 2019 21:10:48 GMT northwesthoop said:

Superb post stoatey to have all of that laid out so clearly.

There are some very good names on the list. It will be interesting to see who actually gets released as opposed to just bring out of contract.

The problem is, it is a nice idea to target these players, but all the other teams with limited budgets will be having the same idea!

I think most of these players are under contract until 30 June but are probably already talking to other clubs. Lets hope that if Warburton is announced tomorrow that Sir Les has already spoken with him about possibly signing some of these guys and maybe they have some irons in the fire.

I always think it's important to get your new players in as early as possible so that they can get themselves and their family settled in the area. It also means that they are all set for pre season training and meeting the other players and are able to hit the ground running.

Too often we leave things to the last minute are not prepared to start the season with a settled squad.

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Out of Contract Championship Players May 8, 2019 8:43:38 GMT

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Post by Ghost on May 8, 2019 8:43:38 GMT

"Too often we leave things to the last minute are not prepared to start the season with a settled squad."

I agree that we need to get in early. But, to be fair, I wonder if it is really the club's fault that we seem to leave it late usually. We now have a tight wage structure and are not a very attractive proposition for good players. Therefore it is not surprising that they hold on for a better offer from elsewhere. Last year we were linked with several players, especially centre backs, early on only to miss out to clubs prepared to pay more.

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Out of Contract Championship Players May 8, 2019 17:24:37 GMT

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Post by kingfisher on May 8, 2019 17:24:37 GMT

May 8, 2019 8:43:38 GMT Ghost said:

"Too often we leave things to the last minute are not prepared to start the season with a settled squad."

I agree that we need to get in early. But, to be fair, I wonder if it is really the club's fault that we seem to leave it late usually. We now have a tight wage structure and are not a very attractive proposition for good players. Therefore it is not surprising that they hold on for a better offer from elsewhere. Last year we were linked with several players, especially centre backs, early on only to miss out to clubs prepared to pay more.

Talking about Centre Backs, there is a QPR-fan drive on media to keep Geoff Cameron. I wonder what sort of deal he would accept (and Stoke of course)...?

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Out of Contract Championship Players May 8, 2019 18:20:24 GMT

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Post by stoatey on May 8, 2019 18:20:24 GMT

May 8, 2019 8:43:38 GMT Ghost said:

"Too often we leave things to the last minute are not prepared to start the season with a settled squad."

I agree that we need to get in early. But, to be fair, I wonder if it is really the club's fault that we seem to leave it late usually. We now have a tight wage structure and are not a very attractive proposition for good players. Therefore it is not surprising that they hold on for a better offer from elsewhere. Last year we were linked with several players, especially centre backs, early on only to miss out to clubs prepared to pay more.

I agree that we have a tight wage structure but for me you have to get in early and do your transfers at least a couple of weeks before the players are due back for pre season training. I can't believe that any player we spoke to last season wanted more money than we were paying Wells or Hemed anyway.

If we make a player an offer and they hold on for a better offer then we move on to the next player on our list. I'm certain that we are not cheapskates and if a player deems our offer not good enough then he doesn't really want to play for us. It's that players loss and there will be plenty of other free agents to choose from. Look at James Collins as an example, he held out, missed his chance and ended up on a short term deal at Villa in December before joining Ipswich in January and getting relegated.

In the UK and all around Europe there will be plenty of decent players whose contracts are ending and if our scouting network has done it's job then Sir Les and his team will be discussing those names with Warburton in the morning. I want to see Warburton hit the ground running and not doing a McClaren and leaving our business until the loan window opens. If you leave signing players until the last minute you end up getting blackmailed and loaning players from Premiership clubs on over inflated wages.

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Out of Contract Championship Players May 31, 2019 12:29:28 GMT

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Post by northwesthoop on May 31, 2019 12:29:28 GMT

Albert Adomah - QPR fan - has been released by Villa.

He would be a superb signing but considering we couldn't afford to keep Wszolek we are unlikely to be able to afford Adomah. Our only hope is he is willing to play for his boyhood club for less money.

They have also released Tommy Elphick and Alan Hutton. Elphick would be an excellent signing but a bit like our own Grant Hall he has struggled with injuries.

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Out of Contract Championship Players May 31, 2019 14:36:56 GMT

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Post by stoatey on May 31, 2019 14:36:56 GMT

May 31, 2019 12:29:28 GMT northwesthoop said:

Albert Adomah - QPR fan - has been released by Villa.

He would be a superb signing but considering we couldn't afford to keep Wszolek we are unlikely to be able to afford Adomah. Our only hope is he is willing to play for his boyhood club for less money.

They have also released Tommy Elphick and Alan Hutton. Elphick would be an excellent signing but a bit like our own Grant Hall he has struggled with injuries.

Adomah would be a great signing but his age (31yo) and his wage demands mean he is probabley outside the clubs criteria although we have offered Rangel a deal and he is 35yo.

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Out of Contract Championship Players May 31, 2019 15:00:11 GMT

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Post by Ghost on May 31, 2019 15:00:11 GMT

May 31, 2019 14:36:56 GMT stoatey said:

May 31, 2019 12:29:28 GMT northwesthoop said:

Albert Adomah - QPR fan - has been released by Villa.

He would be a superb signing but considering we couldn't afford to keep Wszolek we are unlikely to be able to afford Adomah. Our only hope is he is willing to play for his boyhood club for less money.

They have also released Tommy Elphick and Alan Hutton. Elphick would be an excellent signing but a bit like our own Grant Hall he has struggled with injuries.

Adomah would be a great signing but his age (31yo) and his wage demands mean he is probabley outside the clubs criteria although we have offered Rangel a deal and he is 35yo.

And, of course, our limited budget is needed in other positions. We are pretty well off for young talented wide players already.

Out of Contract Championship Players

Post by stoatey on May 7, 2019 20:23:42 GMT

Post by kingfisher on May 7, 2019 21:05:19 GMT

Post by northwesthoop on May 7, 2019 21:10:48 GMT

Post by stoatey on May 7, 2019 21:30:32 GMT

Post by northwesthoop on May 7, 2019 21:39:15 GMT

Post by stoatey on May 7, 2019 21:46:18 GMT

Post by Ghost on May 8, 2019 8:43:38 GMT

Post by kingfisher on May 8, 2019 17:24:37 GMT

Post by stoatey on May 8, 2019 18:20:24 GMT

Post by northwesthoop on May 31, 2019 12:29:28 GMT

Post by stoatey on May 31, 2019 14:36:56 GMT

Post by Ghost on May 31, 2019 15:00:11 GMT