New deals offered to Hoilett, Gunnarsson and Murphy

Last updated : 14 June 2018 By Michael Morris

C:WindowsTempphp40C8.tmpThree out of contact players have been offered new deals. Juniot Hoilett, Aron Gunnarsson and Brian Murphy are wanted by Neil Warnock for the new Premier League season.

Hoilett has already hinted on his Instagram that he may be staying at Cardiff and Gunnarsson may choose to stay after the Bluebirds were promoted. He is currently away at the World Cup so his decision might take a while to confirm. Murphy must decide if he wants to continue as a support keeper or does he want to play elsewhere.

U23 playersTyrone Duffus, Lloyd Humphries, Ibrahim Meite, Jamie Veale; and scholars, Jack Bodenham, Warren Burwood and Laurence Wooton have also been given offers.

Greg Halford leads the players leaving the club this summer. Matthew Kennedy, Ben Wilson, Rhys Abbruzzese, Ogo Obi and Connor Young. Scholars, Alfie Madden, Keiron Proctor and Cai Williams are also out of contract.

The full list of in contract players according to www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk are:

Sol Bamba
Joe Bennett
Omar Bogle
Lee Camp
Matthew Connolly
Loïc Damour
Bruno Ecuele Manga
Neil Etheridge
Kadeem Harris
Rhys Healey
Gary Madine
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing
Sean Morrison
Stuart O’Keefe
Callum Paterson
Lee Peltier
Anthony Pilkington
Joe Ralls
Jazz Richards
Lee Tomlin
Danny Ward
Kenneth Zohore

A number of those in contract players will be surplus to requirements and are likely to leave the club.

Cardiff have added two new first players to the squad already. Josh Murphy and Greg Cunningham have joined this week.