Peterborough United Players Told to Find New Clubs

Peterborough United boss Duncan Ferguson has told five players to find new clubs, with being a doubt that they will feature for the club again.

The Cambridgeshire club have been shuffling their squad significantly over the summer. This comes after a finishing with just five points more than relegated Crawley in a season where they would have hoped to be pushing for the top-half of the table.

Posh have already seen ten players leave this summer, mostly moving up the football pyramid. Now they want to see the exit of five goalkeepers who are unlikely to play for the club again.

Peterborough United tell five players to find new clubs

With 26 players, Peterborough’s first team exceeds the 25-player limit; however, because five players are under 21, the club can register four more senior players for the new season. To further allow boss Darren Ferguson to reshuffle the side, he has told five senior players to leave the club: Nicholas Bilokapic, Will Blackmore, Ryan De Havilland, Chris Conn-Clarke and Jacob Wakeling; as they are more likely than not to never play for the side again.

This news was reported by the Peterborough Telegraph, who also explained that De Havilland and Conn-Clarke have been playing with the under-21s instead of travelling to the club’s EFL Cup match against Accrington.

As a part of Peterborough United’s shuffle they have already seen ten players leave. They have also seen eight players joined, with just one being under-21 — Brandon Khela.

Why Peterborough are reshuffling the squad

Despite the club’s head coach Darren Ferguson saying at the end of last season that his team are “definitely all in it together”, it was clear that they needed to reform the squad.

An 18th-place finish wouldn’t have been in the gaffer’s plans last season, with a squad that was considered to be consisting of above-average players for the league. Ferguson has been a loyal servant to the club, despite having offers from elsewhere to tempt him away.

Since he took over the reins in January, 2020, Ferguson has seen the club get promoted to the Championship, has reached the League One playoffs twice following relegation from the Championship, and has claimed consecutive EFL Trophy titles.

That 18th-place finish marked his first full season missing the Peterborough playoffs. With the club’s reshuffle, he will be aiming to not let it happen again.