List of Premier League free agents released

Patrick Vieira and Jonathan Woodgate head a list of 123 Premier League players released by their clubs this summer, the BBC reports.

Former France captain Vieira, aged 34, leaves Manchester City after just 15 months at Eastlands and is now a free agent.

Spurs released centre-back Woodgate, aged 31, after failing to convince the injury-hit centre-back to sign a pay-as-you-play deal.

The three relegated side, Birmingham, West Ham and Blackpool, ditched a total of 32 players between them.

Among the 12 players leaving St Andrews were Lee Bowyer, Sebastian Larsson, James McFadden, Kevin Phillips and Maik Taylor.

The Hammers' out-of-contract players include England centre-back Matthew Upson, Wales' Danny Gabbidon, Lars Jacobsen and Jonathan Spector.

Blackpool midfielder David Vaughan announced this week that he would not be signing a new deal and so becomes a free agent along with 11 former team-mates.

The full list of released players is:

Arsenal: Thomas Cruise, Roarie Deacon, Mark Randall

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

Birmingham City: 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

Blackburn Rovers: Jordan Bowen, Jason Brown, Zurab Khizanishvili, Benjani Mwaruwari, Michael Potts, Maceo Rigters

Blackpool: David Carney, Daniel Coid, Ishmel Demontagnac, Rob Edwards, Jason Euell, Marlon Harewood, Richard Kingson, Malaury Martin, Paul Rachubka, Andy Reid, Salaheddine Sbai

Bolton Wanderers: Tamir Cohen, Johan Elmander, Ricardo Gardner, Joey O'Brien, Jlloyd Samuel, Samuel Sheridan

Chelsea: Samuel Hutchinson, Carl Magnay, Danny Philliskirk, Jan Sebek, Michael Woods

Everton: Kieran Agard, Hope Akpan, Nathan Craig, Gerard Kinsella, Lee McArdle, Iain Turner

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

Liverpool: Jason Banton, Deale Chamberlain, Douglas Cooper, Sean Highdale, Steven Irwin, Nikola Saric

Manchester City: Javier Garrido, Scott Kay, James Poole, Shaleum Logan, Andrew Tutte, Javan Vidal, Patrick Vieira, James Wood

Manchester United: Conor Devlin, Owen Hargreaves, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Edwin van der Sar

Newcastle United: Sol Campbell, Shefki Kuqi, Patrick McLaughlin

Stoke City: Abdoulaye Faye, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Ibrahima Sonko

Sunderland: Michael Kay, Nathan Luscombe, Daniel Madden, Robert Weir, Nathan Wilson, Mvoto Jean-Yves, Bolo Zenden

Tottenham Hotspur: Jonathan Woodgate

West Bromwich Albion: Giles Barnes, Marcus Haber, Dean Kiely, Abdoulaye Méîté

West Ham United: Anthony Edgar, Holmar Eyjolfsson, Daniel Gabbidon, Lars Jacobsen, Filip Modelski, Jonathan Spector, Adam Street, Matthew Upson

Wigan Athletic: Steven Caldwell, Daniel De Ridder, Joseph Holt, Jason Koumas, Thomas Lambert, Thomas Oakes, Francis Pollitt, Abian Serrano Davila

Wolverhampton Wanderers: Adriano Basso, Jody Craddock, John Dunleavy, Marcus Hahnemann, David Jones, Nathan Rooney

 

Daniel de Ridder, released by Wigan.

Another skilful young foreign player who made the wrong choice in coming to England.