{"id":635228,"date":"2026-06-12T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635228\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:31:09","slug":"southampton-james-bree-signs-new-deal-but-ross-stewart-one-of-seven-players-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635228\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton: James Bree signs new deal but Ross Stewart one of seven players released"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southampton defender James Bree has extended his stay at St Mary’s, while the Championship club have also announced that seven players are being released.<\/p>\n

Bree has signed a new three-year deal after making 74 appearances in all competitions since arriving from Luton Town in 2023. <\/p>\n

The 28-year-old also contributed five goals in the 2025-26 season, including four in the league and one in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n

Bree told the club’s website:, external<\/a> “I’m absolutely buzzing to get it all sorted. It’s something that I spoke about towards the end of the season \u2013 I’m just happy to get it all done now and I’m committed for the next three years.” <\/p>\n

Ross Stewart is one of seven players being released, external<\/a> by the Saints after the club chose not to take up an option to extend the Scotland World Cup striker’s contract.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old scored 11 times last season, including Saints’ first goal in their FA Cup quarter-final win over Arsenal.<\/a><\/p>\n

Oriol Romeu is departing after his second spell at the club. He played a key part in Saints’ best-ever Premier League finish of sixth in 2016.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old midfielder also helped the club qualify for the group stages of the Europa League and the final of the EFL Cup in 2017.<\/p>\n

The club are also releasing midfielders Will Smallbone and Joe Aribo, goalkeepers Alex McCarthy and Jamie Jones and full-back Charlie Taylor.<\/p>\n

Defender Elias Jelert also departs after his season-long loan from Galatasaray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton defender James Bree has extended his stay at St Mary’s, while the Championship club have also announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635228","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\/635228","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=635228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}