Saints release first teamers (From Daily Echo)

Saints release first teamers

8:00am Wednesday 2nd July 2008 in

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Saints have released five former first team players as they push on with Jan Poortvliet's St Mary's revolution.

Alexander Ostlund, Darren Powell, Mario Licka, Jermaine Wright and Inigo Idiakez have all been told they won't be offered extensions to their contracts which expired this week, while youngster Josh Dutton-Black has also been released.

Academy prospect Cedric Baseya has opted not to sign a new deal and has joined Lille in France to be nearer his home.

The long-awaited retained list was handed to the Football League back in May but with negotiations with Nathan Dyer ongoing Saints declined to make it public.

However, with those negotiations now concluded with an as yet unsigned offer remaining on the table and with contracts expiring at the end of June they have gone public.

Saints' PLC chairman Rupert Lowe said: "We thank them all and wish them well, we're very grateful for everything they've done for the club.

"I have personally called all of them to thank them although with holidays it's not been possible to actually speak to a few of them. I just wanted to thank them for their contribution and wish them well.

"The only reason for not making an announcement was that it wasn't in the club's commercial interest to put it into the public domain."

For full story see today's Daily Echo.