{"id":104185,"date":"2025-05-15T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104185\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T18:27:11","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-release-seven-players-including-euro-2024-star-as-fans-say-should-be-ashamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104185\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday release SEVEN players including Euro 2024 star as fans say ‘should be ashamed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have released seven players following the end of their contracts.<\/p>\n

The Owls finished the Championship<\/a> season in 12th under boss Danny Rohl. <\/p>\n

\"Sheffield<\/a><\/p>\n

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Stuart Armstrong has left Sheffield WednesdayCredit: Alamy<\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/a> announced today that Stuart Armstrong, Ben Hamer, Ryo Hatsuse, Michael Ihiekwe, Marvin Johnson, Pol Valentin and Mallik Wilks have all been let go as their deals have expired.<\/p>\n

Armstrong, who featured at last summer’s Euro 2024<\/a> for Scotland, leaves after just four months at the club.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old ex-Southampton<\/a> midfielder played just 11 times for Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Johnson’s four-year spell comes to an end after making 169 appearances.<\/p>\n

And other first-team regulars Valentin and Ihiekwe depart.<\/p>\n

Veteran goalkeeper Hamer leaves having never played a game for the club and Wilks is shown the permanent exit door after spending the season on loan at Rotherham.<\/p>\n

But Wednesday fans have slammed the club for letting go of Hatsuse shortly after he made the move from Japanese outfit Vissel Kobe.<\/p>\n

The left-back featured just six times and one supporter wrote online: “Should genuinely be ashamed of bringing him over to the UK for three months just to let him go.”<\/p>\n

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Others added: “He was the most pointless signing ever.”<\/p>\n

A third reacted: “Hatsuse and Armstrong just came for a holiday in the lovely city of Sheffield<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Wednesday also confirmed that extension options have been exercised in the contracts of Anthony Musaba, Michael Smith and Josh Windass.<\/p>\n

Club legend Barry Bannan<\/a>, as well as team-mates Akin Famewo and Callum Paterson, have been offered new deals.<\/p>\n

Loanees James Beadle, Ibrahim Cissoko and Shea Charles\u00a0return to their parent clubs. <\/p>\n

\"Barry<\/a><\/p>\n

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Barry Bannan has been offered a new dealCredit: Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have released seven players following the end of their contracts. The Owls finished the Championship season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[48010,748,9030,393,12196,4884,189,24135,1620,21069,48011,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-104185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-barry-bannan","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-championship","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-euro-2024","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-section-sportfootball","15":"tag-section-sportfootballchampionship","16":"tag-sheffield","17":"tag-sheffield-wednesday","18":"tag-stuart-armstrong","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114513264459681679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}