IT may be a time of celebration for Blackpool following their promotion back to League One, but it isn’t for ten of their players.
Only days after a 2-1 victory against Exeter in the League Two play-off final at Wembley, the club have announced they are to release TEN players.
New contracts have only been offered to TWO, while three loan players – Neil Danns, Jordan Flores and Sanmi Odelusi, will return to their parent clubs.
Ian Black, Henry Cameron, Luke Higham, John Herron, Dean Lyness, Eddie Nolan, Jack Payne, Jack Redshaw and Macauley Wilson will all be scrambling around for new clubs for 2017/18.
And although number one keeper Sam Slocombe is also on that list, the club remains in discussions with the 28-year-old.
Seasiders’ captain Tom Aldred has been offered a new contract, as has former Aston Villa striker Nathan Delfouneso.
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At the weekend, Mark Cullen’s tap-in saw Blackpool win the League Two play-off final against Exeter – despite thousands of the club’s supporters boycotting the Wembley showpiece.
Around only 5,700 Seasiders fans turned up to the Home of Football as many stayed home in protest against hated owner Karl Oyston.
It did not stop Gary Bowyer and his side establishing Blackpool as the best play-off side in the land.
This was the Tangerines’ FIFTH final victory – one more than next best Crystal Palace – and came courtesy of strikes from Brad Potts and Cullen either side of a David Wheeler chip.
It finally ended the downward spiral the club has been on for years, which started with relegation from the Premier League just six years ago.
Though Oyston will have to go significantly further than securing a promotion to League One to win back the majority of supporters – if indeed that is at all possible.
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