https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news.../#.XPqDeX5wQT8
Sad but predictable that Harris has gone. Interesting to see we retain the McKay brothers in the u23 squad.
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https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...n-list-201819/
Cardiff City FC can confirm that a retained players list has now been submitted.
First Team players Aron Gunnarsson & Kadeem Harris, having been with Cardiff City since July 2011 & January 2012 respectively, will depart South Wales this summer at the end of their current contracts.
Stuart O'Keefe will also leave the Club at the end of June, along with U23 midfielder Tyrone Duffus & Scholars Adam Sharif, Jordan Duffey and Henry Smith.
We remain in discussions with goalkeeper Brian Murphy at this stage.
Offers have also been made to U23 squad members Jack Bodenham, Warren Burwood, Cameron Coxe, Jacob Evans, Lloyd Humphries, Daniel Martin, Ryan Pryce, James Waite and Laurence Wootton; and scholars, Sam Bowen, Connor Davies, Jac Davies, Dan Griffiths, Trystan Jones, Keenan Patten, George Ratcliffe, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Margetson and William Warnock.
The Club would like to place on record its sincerest thanks to those who are moving on to pastures new this summer.
The full Cardiff City FC retained list is as follows:
First Team
Leandro Bacuna
Sol Bamba
Joe Bennett
Omar Bogle
Matthew Connolly
Greg Cunningham
Bobby Decordova-Reid
Loïc Damour
Bruno Ecuele Manga
Neil Etheridge
Rhys Healey
Junior Hoilett
Gary Madine
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing
Sean Morrison
Josh Murphy
Callum Paterson
Lee Peltier
Joe Ralls
Jazz Richards
Alex Smithies
Lee Tomlin
Danny Ward
Kenneth Zohore
U23 Squad
Ciaron Brown
Matthew Hall
Mark Harris
Jack McKay
Paul McKay
Sion Spence
Daniel Williams
Scholars
Joel Bagan
Rubin Colwill
Isaak Davies
Kieron Evans
Harry Pinchard
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news.../#.XPqDeX5wQT8
Sad but predictable that Harris has gone. Interesting to see we retain the McKay brothers in the u23 squad.
Interesting.
So Kadeem Harris is going (he needs football somewhere and it will help refresh the squad with a replacement) but Loic Damour (who Wales Online have been saying for months is out of contract this summer) has been given a new deal? Brian Murphy likely to stay too.
On the books but out of the picture: Omar Bogle, Matthew Connolly, Rhys Healey, Gary Madine and Lee Tomlin?
The McKay twins are still part of the u23 group.
William Warnock... is that Neil's son?
jesus h christ we are weak
Joe Ralls is now the longest serving player in the squad after Gunnar and Kadeem have gone.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...-list-16396914
I can only assume we retain some we dont want as contractually we are obliged too and if we didn't we would be liable for pay offs.
I wonder with the Mckays lads is a bit of a wind up, to stop them getting any form of compensation if they are released early, from thier contract .
In the real world of employment you could have given them a paiting the outside or blade of grass counting job to do , whilst employed under contract.
William Warnock? Sounds familiar.
A good base of a squad, needing about 6 or 7 new players, plus the unloading of Madine, Bogle, Tomlin, Ward and Damour. I thought Damour was out of contract but they obviously made the mistake of giving him a 3 year deal. At least Harris and O'Keefe are off the payroll.
I don't think so. Wales Online are probably right with this one. He was given a 2 year contract in summer 2017 and wasn't one of the clutch of players who got extensions last summer. It looks as if he has been given a new contract - which given the lack of a central midfield (Ralls and Bacuna) makes sense. He knows the club, is hard working and fits the Warnock culture, and was very effective for the first half of the 17-18 season (although I think he faded in the second half - no surprise for a newcomer to the Championship).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40522917
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...amour-15405677
I can't believe Kadeem Harris is 26. He hasn't played 100 league games yet but Joe Ralls, a year younger, has played 229 league games (according to wiki). Harris will probably go on to suit another Championship club but right time to part ways.
Maybe extended by a year last summer ?
https://www.tribalfootball.com/artic...re-but-4256285
It's possible - but I don't remember Loic Damour mentioned alongside the other new/extended contracts last summer. The ones who got new or extended deals then were: Gunnar and Brian Murphy (new 1 year deals) and Morrison, Connolly, Peltier, NML, Paterson & Ralls all got extensions:
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...sfers-14868865
I suspect you are right in guessing Damour has been given one more year - although I think it will have been very recently and with no press coverage - a useful squad player for a position that is very empty at the moment now Gunnar, Arter and Camerasa have gone.