Ben Turner and Kenwynne Jones exit Cardiff City

[Cardiff City Mad]

Followed by seven others as 'retained list' is announced. ccmb-mad

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[Blue in the Face]

Ben Turner is among the Cardiff City players who have been let go by the club. Popular defender Ben Turner is the highest profile casualty as Cardiff City released its retained list. The 28-year-old centre-half, striker Kenwyne Jones, goalkeeper Joe Lewis, striker Etien Velikonja and Filip Kiss will all leave the club this summer as their contracts come to an end.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/f...full-11372989?

The released players are...

BEN TURNER
Turner had been with the Bluebirds for five years and made 121 appearances during that time, including playing a big part in the Bluebirds Championship winning campaign back in the 2012/13 season. He will be most remembered for his late equaliser in the Carling Cup final against Liverpool back in 2012 when he made himself a hero, but he will not now be offered a new contract at Cardiff with his ending this summer. Turner had seen his time recently for the Bluebirds hampered by injury, under-going a succession of ankle operations, he played his first game in a year for Cardiff in their end of season clash with Birmingham and that will now be his final game for the club.

KENWYNE JONES
The 31-year-old striker joined Cardiff from Stoke in January 2014 in a deal which saw Peter Odemwingie move in the opposite direction. Jones made 67 appearances for Cardiff and scored 19 goals. Despite being arguably the most prolific marksman at the club and certainly the most high-profile, Jones at times struggled to hold down a starting place in the side. He was loaned out to Bournemouth at the end of the 2014-15 season and spent the second-half of last season on loan at UAE-based club Al Jazira. Kenwyne Jones' Cardiff City contract is up on June 30th.

JOE LEWIS
The 28-year-old goalkeeper joined Cardiff from Peterborough in May 2012, but found himself constantly behind skipper David Marshall and more recently even further down the pecking order as Simon Moore established himself as number two. He managed just three starts in the League Cup and one in the FA Cup. His only league start for the Bluebirds came in the Premier League in September 2013 in a 1-1 draw at Hull. He spent the 2014-15 season on loan at Blackpool and the first-half of last season on loan at Fulham.

ETIEN VELIKONJA
The Slovenian striker arrived at Cardiff in July 2012 from NK Maribor in his home country. Despite the length of time he spent in the Welsh capital his impact over the years proved minimal. He made just five appearances for the Bluebirds with four of those coming in his first season at the club. His last game for Cardiff came at the start of the last campaign when he came off the bench in the Bluebirds Capital One Cup win at Port Vale. He had a loan spell at Portuguese club Rio Ave and spent the rest of last season on loan at Belgian club Lierse.

FILIP KISS
The 25-year-old originally joined the Bluebirds on loan in July 2011 from Slovan Bratislava. During that loan spell he made 33 appearances for Cardiff and scored his only ever Cardiff goal in a 3-0 Championship win at Derby in November 2011. After permanently joining the Bluebirds, appearances dried up quite considerably. In the last four years he has started just one FA Cup game and come off the bench twice in the league. He had two reasonably successful loan spells in Scotland at Ross County and spent last season on loan in Norway at Haugesund.

DVP PLAYERS ALSO GONE...
Cardiff have has also shed four development squad players with Jazzi Barnum-Bobb, who had been at the club two years and managed two League Cup appearances for Cardiff, joining Abdi Noor, Tyler Roche and Curtis Watkins in a group being allowed to move on.

The club has offered contract extensions to U21/DVP squad members Luke O’Reilly, Elijah Phipps, Jamie Veale, Macauley Southam, David Tutonda, Ashley Baker, Dylan Rees, Tom James, Robbie Patten, Tommy O’Sullivan and Theo Wharton.

Meanwhile, professional deals have been offered to members of last season’s under-18 squad to step up into U21/DVP football. Jamie Bird, Rhys Abbruzzese, Lloyd Humphries and Rollin Menayese have all been given the chance to remain with the Bluebirds.

[Blue in the Face]

Will someone check if Loramski is ok? Loanwatch may have turned to Suicidewatch...

[Igovernor]

They are all out of contract so not really released, but not offered new contracts

[Rjk]

Should be a decent chunk off the wage bill though

[blue matt]

surprised by Jazzi Barnum-Bobb

i thought he had what it would take to make it at the club, but what the hell do i know ( apart from how to talk to people and tie them in knots and make them look on the floor sheepishly and how to spend 12 K on a holiday, in before colonel )

[City123]

Jones, Turner, Lewis, Velikonja and Kiss going means about 70 grand off the wage bill, I think, with Turner and Jones making about £50,000 per week between them

[chepstow]

Jones, Turner, Lewis, Velikonja and Kiss going means about 70 grand off the wage bill, I think, with Turner and Jones making about £50,000 per week between them

That should help none of them are in the clubs plans

[BLUETIT]

That should help none of them are in the clubs plans

Is this in Ingurlish, or is it a code.