Andy Johnson's hat-trick and ongoing contract talks got me thinking. Should we renew? Tough call, but my instinct is that if we do it should be very much on our terms. He's been a good player to have around, but the time he's spent off the pitch should be a red herring flag (herring indeed!

The summer transfer market window is now open as teams look at adjust their squads ahead of the new summer. The summer transfer window will end on 31 August. Here is a list of all the confirmed Premier League deals during this transfer window.

Updated August 12
Arsenal
Incoming:
Alex Chamberlain(£15m)
Gervinho (undisc.

A host of Premier League clubs have released up to 123 players this summer with Patrick Vieira, Jonathan Woodgate and Matthew Upson amongst the most high-profile stars let go this summer.

The official list of ‘free agents' released on Thursday night features former World Cup winners, former England internationals and Premier League champions.

Owen Hargreaves Released

A list of the top EPL players to be released on free transfers this summer has been announced, with some high profile named players now without a club. Jonathan Woodgate, Patrick Vieira and Matthew Upson will be on the hunt for new clubs, while Manchester United finally released Owen Hargreaves after he only played 11 minutes in 2 full seasons.

By Chris Wright

Just a list of the 123 players released by Premier League clubs this summer nothing more, nothing less.

In alphabetical order...

Arsenal; Thomas Cruise, Roarie Deacon, Mark Randall.

Nigel's chips are up at Villa Park

Aston Villa; Durrell Berry, John Carew, Ellis Deeney, Calum Flanagan, Harry Forrester, Arsenio Halfhuid, Isaiah Osbourne, Robert Pires, Nigel Reo-Coker, Moustapha Salifou

Birmingham; Marcus Bent, Lee Bowyer, Sebastian Larsson, James McFadden, Mitchell McPike, James O'Shea, Stuart Parnaby, Kevin Phillips, Daniel Preston, Luke Rowe, Robin Shroot, Maik Taylor.

Here is the list of players released by Premier League clubs this summer.

From Fulham: Zoltan Gera, Edward Johnson, Diomansy Kamara, John Pantsil, Matthew Saunders

Other interesting names:

Arsenal have released Thomas Cruise
Villa have released Nigel Reo-Coker could be an interesting signing
Birmingham have released Mitchell McPike
And Maik Taylor, for that matter
Blackpool have released half their squad, for obvious reasons
Manchester United have released Owen Hargreaves, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Edwin van der Sar.

These good people needs a good season end send off from Arsenal

Finally, we've come to the last match of the season. I'm sure everyone of us would still want to be involve until next weekend, which would mean we qualified for the Champions League final, but I'm not quite sure we would've deserve that spot.

These good people needs a good season end send off from Arsenal

Finally, we've come to the last match of the season. I'm sure everyone of us would still want to be involve until next weekend, which would mean we qualified for the Champions League final, but I'm not quite sure we would've deserve that spot.

Diomansy Kamara started and played 75 minutes in Leicester City's 3-2 loss at Nottingham Forest on Good Friday. He did not dress in the Foxes' 4-2 over Watford on Easter Monday.

Kagisho Dikgacoi started and played 90 minutes in Crystal Palace's 0-0 draw atDoncaster on Good Friday.

Diomansy Kamara started and played 70 minutes in Leicester City's 3-1 loss at Reading.

Kagisho Dikgacoi started, played 45 minutes, and received a yellow card in Crystal Palace's 2-1 loss to Scunthorpe United.

Eddie Johnson started and played 71 minutes in Preston North End's 3-1 win over Sheffield United.

Or something.

The news here is that Hughes will not be keeping six players. This is no great surprise. The desperate half-dozen:

John Paintsil

Zoltan Gera

Eddie Johnson

Diomansy Kamara

Bjorn-Helge Riise

Kagisho Dikgacoi

JP seems well out of favour so this is no great shock.

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