Tom Davies and Premier League free agents include Tom Davies and Ainsley Maitland-Niles. Sheffield United are interested in signing-Niles are among those officially without a club. All the contracts that have not been renewed expired at midnight last night and there are plenty of players waking up this morning as a free agent.
Some of the names that instantly jump out are the two midfielders. Davies is leaving Everton after a long association with the club. He has featured 155 times for his boyhood Toffees in the top flight, but is now looking for a new challenge.
At 24, he meets the criteria forming part of Sheffield United’s transfer blueprint and it would be a surprise if senior chiefs at Bramall Lane have not contacted his representatives to discover if there’s a chance he could be interested in featuring for Paul Heckingbottom at Bramall Lane next season.
One name that has been linked is Maitland-Niles. The Blades have been credited with interest along with Crystal Palace and West Ham after it was announced he was not being kept on at Arsenal.
The midfielder, who can also play in defence, spent last season on loan at Southampton and also has admiring glances from Turkey and Germany.
Another name familiar to Sheffield United and their head of recruitment Paul Mitchell is Jesse Lingard. He came close to a loan switch in 2021 but the plug was pulled on the deal at the last minute with United rock bottom of the division and heading for the Championship.
He is available following his release at Nottingham Forest. Here is a list of all those players who are believed to now be officially a free agent as of this morning.
