Ten City players not offered new deals

FOOTBALL: Bradford City have announced that 10 players will not be offered new deals at their expiration of their current contracts at the end of the season.

The club have confirmed that Kelvin Mellor, Jake Reeves, Shay McCartan, Jordan Gibson, Jermaine Anderson, Hope Akpan, Adam Henley, Daniel Devine, Joe Riley and George Sykes-Kenworthy will leave the club.

Talks are ongoing with goalkeeper Richard O’Donnell, while one-year extensions in the contracts of Clayton Donaldson and Zeli Ismail will be automatically activated following the formal conclusion of the 2019-20 League Two season.

Twelve players are under the contract for the 2020-21 campaign. They are Jackson Longridge, Paudie O’Connor, Ben Richards-Everton, Anthony O’Connor, Harry Pritchard, Lee Novak, James Vaughan, Sam Hornby, Tyler French, Connor Wood, Kurtis Guthrie and Reece Staunton.

Loanees Glenn Middleton and Luke McGee will also return to parent clubs Rangers and Portsmouth respectively.

Callum Cooke, Jamie Devitt and Dylan Connolly returned to their parent clubs last month, following the expiration of their loan agreements, while Chris Taylor and Dylan Mottley-Henry were recently released after short spells at the club.

Earlier this month, League Two clubs agreed to end the season with immediate effect.

Clubs “unanimously indicated” they wished to end the season via a “framework” that included tables being decided on points per game and the play-offs remaining as planned.