{"id":438948,"date":"2019-05-17T05:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T09:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=438948"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:33:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:33:57","slug":"mk-dons-release-ten-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/05\/17\/mk-dons-release-ten-players\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Dons Release Ten Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MK Dons have released eight further players after Ousseynou Cisse and Brandon Thomas-Asante made their own announcements on social media last week. The remaining players will depart Stadium MK at the expiry of their contracts.<\/p>\n<h1>MK Dons Release Ten<\/h1>\n<h2>The Remainers<\/h2>\n<p>Sixteen players remain under contract for the 2019\/20 League One campaign following the Dons&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/05\/05\/mk-dons-secure-promotion-from-league-two-and-the-future-looks-bright-under-paul-tisdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promotion on the final day<\/a>. Among those are club captain Dean Lewington, experienced head Russell Martin and both goalkeepers, Lee Nicholls and Stuart Moore.<\/p>\n<p>The full list is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkdons.com\/news\/2019\/may\/mk-dons-retained-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dylan Asonganyi<\/li>\n<li>Callum Brittain<\/li>\n<li>Baily Cargill<\/li>\n<li>Alex Gilbey<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Harley<\/li>\n<li>Jordan Houghton<\/li>\n<li>David Kasumu<\/li>\n<li>Dean Lewington<\/li>\n<li>Russell Martin<\/li>\n<li>Conor McGrandles<\/li>\n<li>Stuart Moore<\/li>\n<li>Jordan Moore-Taylor<\/li>\n<li>Lee Nicholls<\/li>\n<li>Sam Nombe<\/li>\n<li>Joe Walsh<\/li>\n<li>George Williams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>New Terms<\/h2>\n<p>Two players have their deals set to expire at the end of this term but have been offered new deals. League Two&#8217;s deadly duo of Kieran Agard and Chuks Aneke, who scored 37 league goals between them, will be offered new deals to stay at the club for the 2019\/20 season.<\/p>\n<h2>The Released List<\/h2>\n<p>Ousseynou Cisse and Brandon Thomas-Asante already announced last week ago that they would be leaving the club via social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unfortunately, I will not stay at MK Dons next season. I spent here two rich years but it&#8217;s time for me to see other horizons. Thank you to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MKDonsFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MKDonsFC<\/a> my teammates and the MK Army who always pushed me to give the best of myself : <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KingOuss?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#KingOuss<\/a> love you forever ! ?\u2764 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G81FDGFxnN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/G81FDGFxnN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ouss Ciss\u00e8 (@oussicinho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oussicinho\/status\/1127151618531704832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There was always an expectation that there would be more to follow, though, and the club have become the latest to issue their released list ahead of the new campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Departing MK Dons at the end of their current deals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkdons.com\/news\/2019\/may\/mk-dons-retained-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will be<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mathieu Baudry<\/li>\n<li>Ousseynou Cisse<\/li>\n<li>Lawson D&#8217;ath<\/li>\n<li>Mitch Hancox<\/li>\n<li>Oran Jackson<\/li>\n<li>Robbie Simpson<\/li>\n<li>Liam Sole<\/li>\n<li>Finn Tapp<\/li>\n<li>Brandon Thomas-Asante<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Watson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Kt07hk4OQBZxRzpc357Pgg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1016797962\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Kt07hk4OQBZxRzpc357Pgg',sig:'FP0vaP0uHyPuEZ9oSe03sspVE9cyeiiTDmf4nHUl8BA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1016797962',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MK Dons have released eight further players after Ousseynou Cisse and Brandon Thomas-Asante made their own announcements on social media last week. The remaining players will depart Stadium MK at the expiry of their contracts. MK Dons Release Ten The Remainers Sixteen players remain under contract for the 2019\/20 League One campaign following the Dons&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":438981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34],"tags":[168,188,520,165,136],"class_list":["post-438948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","tag-efl","tag-league-one","tag-league-two","tag-mk-dons","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}