George Johnston, Kyle Dempsey and Jordi Osei-Tutu are to end their time at Wanderers as they leave the club as free agents this summer.<\/p>\n
The trio have not been offered new contracts and will be released along with Carlos Mendes Gomes \u2013 who spent the majority of the 2025\/26 season on loan at Exeter City \u2013 from the first-team squad.<\/p>\n
Loan players Johnny Kenny, Rob Apter, Ibrahim Cissoko, Marcus Forss, Corey Blackett-Taylor, Mason Burstow and Amario Cozier-Duberry have all returned to their parent clubs after helping Steven Schumacher\u2019s side win promotion from League One.<\/p>\n
Johnston departs as Wanderers\u2019 longest serving senior player, having signed a few days before Josh Sheehan in June, 2021 after a spell in the Netherlands with Feyenoord followed the start of his career at Liverpool.<\/p>\n
The defender, 27, has since made 188 appearances for the Whites, with his last game Sunday\u2019s League One play-off final win when he captained Schumacher\u2019s side to promotion success.<\/p>\n
Dempsey joined Wanderers from Gillingham at the end of the January, 2022 transfer window and played 161 times for the club, scoring 17 times.<\/p>\n
The midfielder\u2019s finest hour for Wanderers arguably came at Wembley in the final of the EFL Trophy in April, 2023 when his goal-scoring and Player of the Match performance was the catalyst for the Whites lifting the cup.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old was on the bench for Sunday\u2019s Wembley success over Stockport County after, like Johnston, helping Wanderers to three play-off finishes in League One before leaving with the club\u2019s place back in the Championship secured.<\/p>\n
Osei-Tutu also ended his two-year Wanderers\u2019 stay on a winning note at Wembley as the Whites begin preparations for life at a higher level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The right-back made 80 appearances for the Whites after signing from German club Bochum in August, 2024 and leaves after securing a second promotion from League One following an earlier success on loan at Rotherham.<\/p>\n
Wanderers would like to thank Osei-Tutu, Johnston and Dempsey for their significant contribution during their time at the club \u2013 as well as those who have featured prominently as loan players during this landmark season \u2013 and wish them and all the departing players further success in the future.<\/p>\n
Within the Academy set-up, new contract offers have been made to teenage defenders Jamie Grayson and Ollie Smith, while Mark Isong, Sean Hogan, Jack Dallimore and Tomi Adesina have been released from the U21s.<\/p>\n
Players remaining under contract:<\/p>\n
Jack Bonham<\/p>\n
Nathan Broome<\/p>\n
Cyrus Christie<\/p>\n
Ruben Rodrigues<\/p>\n
Sam Dalby<\/p>\n
Ethan Erhahon<\/p>\n
Chris Forino<\/p>\n
Thierry Gale<\/p>\n
David Harrington<\/p>\n
John McAtee<\/p>\n
Joel Randall<\/p>\n
Josh Sheehan<\/p>\n
Richard Taylor<\/p>\n
Eoin Toal<\/p>\n
Max Conway<\/p>\n
Xavier Simons<\/p>\n
Lewis Temple<\/p>\n
Charlie Warren<\/p>\n
Luke Hutchinson<\/p>\n
Sam Inwood<\/p>\n
David Abimbola<\/p>\n
Harley Irwin<\/p>\n
Lucas Kirkpatrick<\/p>\n
Daeshon Lawrence<\/p>\n
Harry Leigh<\/p>\n
Conor Lewis<\/p>\n
Luke Lomax<\/p>\n
Jack Mawditt<\/p>\n
Sam O\u2019Neill<\/p>\n
Emile Oliver<\/p>\n
Harrison Rice<\/p>\n
Toby Ritchie<\/p>\n
Sonny Sharples-Ahmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Johnston, Kyle Dempsey and Jordi Osei-Tutu are to end their time at Wanderers as they leave the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}