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    rocketone wrote:
    Why do the Echo think that contracts ending is a time bomb ?
    Chaplow is the only contract negotiation that is pressing, and he only just joint on a 2 year deal and that was estimated to be a gamble at the time.
    Saints are in the box seat as all of those players named would most likely want to stay as they are not exactly prime targets for any other team above us and they certainly wouldn't want to step back down if they could help it !
    As for players being released, everyone knows it happens and there will not be any surprises.
    I hope we do not buy players of teams who are being relegated. Losing is a mentality we do not want at our club, we can buy better.
    Expect foreigners and surprises from overseas, like Tad Lee !
    All Caplow has to do is prove his fitness, like Conn. he has had far too much time lost in the Treatment Room!"
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Contract time bomb at St Mary's

Richard Chaplow Richard Chaplow

SAINTS have a host of players whose contracts are due to expire in a year’s time.

Nine first-team stars are due to become free agents in the summer of 2013 – and there are some notable names among them.

Richard Chaplow, 27, is one of those due to enter the final year of his current deal when the new season begins.

The midfielder made 28 appearances and scored four goals as Saints won promotion to the Premier League.

Brazilian forward Guly do Prado is another who has just one year left on his deal.

The 30-year-old scored 11 goals during the most recent season, although he didn’t hit the net after mid-January.

Right-backs Frazer Richardson and Danny Butterfield are both set to be out of contract in 2013, as is winger Jason Puncheon and centre half Dan Seaborne.

Left back Ryan Dickson, who finished the season on loan at Leyton Orient, keeper Tommy Forecast, who has never played for the first-team in four years with the club, and versatile Ben Reeves are also on the list.

It remains to be seen whether Saints will open negotiations with any of those players over the summer.

Many of the club’s top names have already been tied down to long-term contracts, with a large number committed to St Mary’s until either 2014 or 2015.

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