MOTHERWELL have announced that striker Nadir Ciftci will return to Celtic upon expiry of his loan move to the Fir Park club, as they published a squad update for next season.
Tom Aldred and Stephen Hendrie will also return to parent clubs Bury and Southend United respectively, while back-up goalkeeper Russell Griffiths, defender Ellis Plummer and attacker Diemantas Petravicius will leave the club upon expiry of their contracts at the end of the month.
Under-20s players Luke Watt and Dylan King will also depart, while youngsters Shea Gordon, Adam Livingstone, Barry Maguire, James Scott, Peter Morrison, Jason Krones, Jordan Armstrong, Shaun Bowers and Alfredo Agyeman have been offered new terms.
Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson told the club website: “I would like to put on record my thanks to each of the lads leaving the club this week.
“Although Russell, Deimantas and Ellis weren’t regular starters in our first team for whatever reason, they contributed significantly by being great professionals and pushing those who were playing.
“I’d also like to record my appreciation to Tom, Nadir and Stephen, who joined us during the January window and helped us finish the season so strongly.
“We have been working on recruiting new players over the last few weeks. This summer will be different to last, where we made wholesale changes to the squad. We are more concentrated on fine tuning and tweaking certain areas, adding things we think we’re missing and that’s our mission.”
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