Aston Villa: Micah Richards and Albert Adomah among eight players released
Micah Richards last appearance for Aston Villa was in October 2016
Aston Villa have released eight players before their return to the Premier League including defender Micah Richards and winger Albert Adomah.
Former England international Richards, 30, had not played since October 2016.
He joined Villa from Manchester City in 2015, but fell out of favour and only made a total of 31 appearances in four years at Villa Park.
Mile Jedinak, Alan Hutton, Tommy Elphick, Glenn Whelan, Ritchie de Laet and Mark Bunn have also been let go.
Adomah, 31, started Villa's Championship play-off final win over Derby, while Whelan, 35, and Jedinak, 34, were unused substitutes at Wembley.
Former Middlesbrough winger Adomah made 36 Championship appearances in 2018-19, scoring four goals.
Republic of Ireland international Whelan started 23 league games during the season, having joined from Stoke in 2017, but lost his place to Conor Hourihane in the final stages of the campaign.
Hutton made 33 starts but played just once after getting injured in February while Australian Jedinak started 12 times.
Goalkeeper Bunn played just once, Elphick made 11 appearances after spending the first half the season on loan at Hull and De Laet was loaned to A-League side Melbourne City.
Source: bbc.com
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