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https://www.morecambefc.com/news/2021/june/retained-list/

One year contract extensions have been activated for Carlos Mendes Gomes, Aaron Wildig and Freddie Price.

Andre Da Silva Mendes signed his first professional contract with the Shrimps in May, keeping him at the Mazuma Stadium until the summer of 2022.

Toumani Diagouraga, Cole Stockton, Liam Gibson, John O'Sullivan, Kyle Letheren and Kelvin Mellor have been offered new contracts.



The released list includes Harry Davis, Mark Halstead, Alex Kenyon, Stephen Hendrie, Liam McAlinden, A-Jay Leitch-Smith, Ben Pringle and Jordan Slew.

Yann Songo'o has decided to pursue other opportunities, meanwhile Nathaniel Knight-Percival has signed for Tranmere Rovers.

Loan players, Ryan Cooney, Alex Denny and Brad Lyons have returned to their parent clubs.

No surprises apart from maybe Harry Davis

Few signings to come over the next few weeks

So at the moment we have 5 players so far for next season

Carlos
Sam
Aaron
Freddie
Andre

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May have already appeared on another thread but worth repeating. Good news surely!

ianmcm wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.footballinsider247.com/sources-morecambe-star-stockton-agrees-new-contract-after-snubbing-bradford-city/amp/
May have already appeared on another thread but worth repeating. Good news surely!

Definitely good news for me. I think we knew that Bradford would try for him but Cole has had more success with us than other clubs so hopefully this will continue.

Yes, made up with this news hopefully Sully and the others offered new contracts will follow.

Does this mean Wildig is deffo staying or can he reject it? We really need him.

MfcChris wrote:Does this mean Wildig is deffo staying or can he reject it? We really need him.

He's ours, as is Carlos, down to the Club if they take an offer.
Some clubs saw that they were out of contract not knowing we had options on them

Harry Davies is a surprise, he started the season well with us and was only edged out slightly by inform Percival.

Kyle Letheren i expect will be 2nd choice battling for the shirt in L1

So there are still 3 players yet to commit themselves to our club next season.

Liam Gibson; Kevin Mellor and John O'Sullivan all crucial to our EFL1 campaign.

Let's hope that they sign on the dotted line as a matter of urgency because the longer it goes on with no word then SR will have to find replacements.

Listening to SR it sounds as though he will be looking to attract some players from Ireland with little experience of EFL1 football which is faster and more technically focused than EFL2 and probably the League of Ireland.

redrobo wrote:So there are still 3 players yet to commit themselves to our club next season.

Liam Gibson; Kevin Mellor and John O'Sullivan all crucial to our EFL1 campaign.

Let's hope that they sign on the dotted line as a matter of urgency because the longer it goes on with no word then SR will have to find replacements.

Listening to SR it sounds as though he will be looking to attract some players from Ireland with little experience of EFL1 football which is faster and more technically focused than EFL2 and probably the League of Ireland.

Your statement says 'listening' to S.R. Does this mean there is an audio interview somewhere ?

jbc.shrimp wrote:

redrobo wrote:So there are still 3 players yet to commit themselves to our club next season.

Liam Gibson; Kevin Mellor and John O'Sullivan all crucial to our EFL1 campaign.

Let's hope that they sign on the dotted line as a matter of urgency because the longer it goes on with no word then SR will have to find replacements.

Listening to SR it sounds as though he will be looking to attract some players from Ireland with little experience of EFL1 football which is faster and more technically focused than EFL2 and probably the League of Ireland.

Your statement says 'listening' to S.R. Does this mean there is an audio interview somewhere ?

I was wondering this too - is this a statement or just speculation?

He's done a couple of longer interviews below in the past if you want a proper dive into his mindset/methods. Not Morecambe related, but a lot about him as a manager:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iOBViS ... theOldFirm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-IOIWrzI0

The impression I've more gotten is that he likes recruiting from the lower leagues of England.

RapidShrimp wrote:

jbc.shrimp wrote:

redrobo wrote:So there are still 3 players yet to commit themselves to our club next season.

Liam Gibson; Kevin Mellor and John O'Sullivan all crucial to our EFL1 campaign.

Let's hope that they sign on the dotted line as a matter of urgency because the longer it goes on with no word then SR will have to find replacements.

Listening to SR it sounds as though he will be looking to attract some players from Ireland with little experience of EFL1 football which is faster and more technically focused than EFL2 and probably the League of Ireland.

Your statement says 'listening' to S.R. Does this mean there is an audio interview somewhere ?

I was wondering this too - is this a statement or just speculation?

Stephen did an interview in which he discussed the possible use of players currently in Ireland. Can't find the actual interview but will keep looking for it. He's did a number of interviews on the day of his appointment.

Found it: https://twitter.com/padfieldt?lang=en

You'll have to scroll down until you come to Stephen's SECOND interview which is 6 minutes 55 seconds long.
He discusses Irish players around 4 minutes 50 seconds into the interview.

Hope you find it OK.

Brilliant!