Released List Finally Announced

Leaving the club are Johnny Tuffey, Stuart Wall,Rikki Bains, Craig Kelly,Adam Layfield,Vijay Sdhu,Arron Stringfellow,Aza Ogarro, Luke Webb and Paul McCrink.

In their place,will be Liam Francis,Callum Burgess,Neil Collett,Reis Ashraf,Matty West,Liam Robinson,Kieran Fitzharris,Andy Richie and Temitope Obadeyi.

Kevin Thornton,Ben Turner,Ryan Lynch,Andy Gooding and Liam Davis have all been offered either one or two year deals.

Micky Adams told the CET: "We have made a number of lads offers to stay on and they have not got back to us yet. "They have obviously got agents who will want to thrash out a deal for them, even at that age, and I am not aware that any have accepted anything yet.

"I would hope that they would want to stay because they have seen people like Kevin in and around the fringes of the first team this season so it is a great opportunity to stay at a football club that wants to promote youth to some degree. "We have got kids coming through that could potentially do very well, but they have got to fulfil that potential and develop. "So we will wait and see whether they are going to be what we think they are going to be.

"While we are disappointed that we have let the others go, that is the decision that we have all made. "Some have been more unlucky than others but we wish them well in their careers.

"It is not a nice job telling them because some of these kids have been at the football club a long time and have put their heart and soul into the club, as have their parents, but we can't take everyone on and you have to be certain you are making the right decisions. "While I have the final say, it is a collective thing among all the staff."

"I have got no doubt at all that the ones we are letting go will make careers for themselves in the game."

The City boss who has found himself under pressure to get City into the Premier League in three years added: "What people have to remember is that the standards at this club have risen because we have gone from a lower Championship side to a top half side and trying to get into the Premier League.

"So the standards are rising all through the ages, particularly at youth level, but that doesn't mean to say that the players I have released won't become professional footballers because I have got every reason to suspect that they will be.

"But I have got to look at getting players into the first team at the top half of the Championship rather than the bottom half."