Saints have announced the players who will be staying and therefore by definition who will also be leaving St Mary's read of for the full list.

Kyle Walker-Peters, Joe Lumley and Adam Lallana are all out of contract this month and have not been named on the retained list.

Southampton's full retained list is as follows:

First-team players retained

Cam Archer

Adam Armstrong

Joe Aribo

Gavin Bazunu

Jan Bednarek

Armel Bella-Kotchap

James Bree

Ben Brereton Diaz

Shea Charles

Welington

Tyler Dibling

Flynn Downes

Sam Edozie

Ronnie Edwards

Mateus Fernandes

Ryan Fraser

Taylor Harwood-Bellis

Joachim Kayi Sanda

Ryan Manning

Kuryu Matsuki

Alex McCarthy

Paul Onuachu

Aaron Ramsdale

Jay Robinson

Juan Santos da Silva

Will Smallbone

Jack Stephens

Ross Stewart

Yuki Sugawara

Kamaldeen Sulemana

Charlie Taylor

Nathan Wood

This is not to say that all of these players will be in the squad for next season, almost certainly a number of them will be on their way, it would be nice to see the likes of Aaron Ramsdale, Mateus Fernandes & Tyler Dibling playing for us next season, but the chances of just one them staying let alone all three is unlikely.

Likewise their are a number of players whom the club have named as retained, but who they most definitely would want to see move on, Tall Paul Onuachu, Armel Bella-Kotchap amongst probably half a dozen more.

Interesting names in the squad are Jack Stephens who I was under the impression is now out of contract, having signed a two year deal in August 2023, it could be that there is an option to extend that deal if certain criteria are met and it could be that either the club or player are exercising that right.

One new name is Juan Santos da Silva, the Brazilian has spent 2024/25 on loan at Goztepe and done well in Turkey, he could well fill a spot in the first team.

One player who still has two years left on his contract, but is not on this list is Juan Larios, that would tend to suggest that he may well be in discussions with the club to cancel his contract, or that he is considered a U21 player at present rather than a first team squad member.

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Bowlercow added 16:22 - Jun 9 32 is too many I can easily identify 7 to go out of that taking us down to the required 25 but you can also add under 21's such as Dom Ballard I thought he may have been named anyway
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Colburn added 16:34 - Jun 9 The young players mentioned here all had first team appearances last season, so I’m not surprised that Larios and Ballard are not mentioned. We will surely sign more players to suit Still so I expect at least ten of these to go, maybe more like 12..
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BigbadBarry8myboat added 18:39 - Jun 9 Thats Quite a list. Was hoping Jack Stephens would not appear on there, pretty disappointed that he does. Squad should easily be cut to say 25 even with comings and goings. In my opinion Bazunu, Manning, Fraser (who seems to be out in the cold), Diaz, Taylor, and ABK (who is not wanted) could leave the squad without any impact.
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dirk_doone added 19:29 - Jun 9 BigbadBarry, the release of McCarthy and Smallbone would have an impact: a huge sense of relief that we'd finally got rid of them.
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Bowlercow added 21:15 - Jun 9 Larios doesn't appear on the retained list or the released list
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codge added 17:08 - Jun 10 Stephens to get a new deal CRAP.
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AJDubYa added 12:12 - Jun 17 Hi all. New user here - but long time reader of the site. By my counts, we have a MASSIVE squad 'available' to Will Still, including the 'youth', we have: GKs Aaron Ramsdale, Gavin Bazunu, Alex McCarthy + Ollie Wright, Josh Jefferies CBs Jan Bednarek, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Jack Stephens, Ronnie Edwards, Nathan Wood, Armel Bella-Kotchap, Joshua Quarshie + Joachim Kayi Sanda, Zach Awe, Nico Lawrence LBs Welington, Ryan Manning, Charlie Taylor, Juan Larios RBs Yuki Sugawara, James Bree CMs Flynn Downes, Shea Charles, Will Smallbone, Joe Aribo + Joe O'Brien-Whitmarsh, Cam Bragg, Romeo Akachukwu ACMs Mateus Fernandes, Kuryu Matsuki LWs Kamaldeen Sulemana, Sam Edozie, Jay Robinson, Ryan Fraser + Daouda Traore, Will Merry RWs Tyler Dibling + Moses Sesay, Victor Udoh, Sufianu Silah Dibaga (?) STs Ross Stewart, Paul Onuachu, Cam Archer, Adam Armstrong, Ben Brereton Diaz, Juan Santos da Silva + Dom Ballard, Princewill Ehibatiomhan (?), Baylee Dipepa, Nicholas Oyekunle (?) That's a BIG squad, already! So obviously all depends on who is sold .... or loaned out. But we look a bit light at RB, RW & ACM still ... although some players are versatile and can 'fill in' at different positions.

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