Saints stars face nervous wait over contracts (From Daily Echo)
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Saints stars face nervous wait over contracts
7:30am Wednesday 2nd May 2012 in Saints News
By Gordon Simpson
, Senior Sports Reporter
David Connolly
STRIKER David Connolly headlines the group of players who are out of contract with promotion-winning Saints this summer.
The 34-year-old is due to become a free agent, along with fellow first-team squad members Radhi Jaidi, Lee Holmes, Bartosz Bialkowski and Ryan Doble.
Connolly, who made 26 appearances this season and scored six goals, has signed three successive one-year deals since arriving at St Mary’s in 2009.
Manager Nigel Adkins, pictured right, and chairman Nicola Cortese must now weigh up whether to take the forward, pictured above, with them into the Premier League.
Clubs need to confirm their retained and released list by the third Saturday in May, which is the 19th this year.
Connolly, who turns 35 next month, has experience of the top flight, having played there with Wigan and Sunderland.
But he has not featured for Saints since coming on as a substitute in a 2-0 home win against Barnsley on March 10.
Full story in today's Southern Daily Echo.
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