Town have taken up the one-year options on Kayden Jackson and Janoi Donacien’s contracts.
The duo are among the players whose contracts are up this summer but with the club having had an option to keep them for a further season.
TWTD speculated that the Blues might activate Jackson’s option in order to achieve a fee for the striker with AFC Bournemouth having shown interest last summer and Huddersfield in January. The Blues paid Accrington £1.6 million for his services in the summer of 2018.
Jackson appears unlikely to be in manager Paul Cook’s plans as he isn’t a good fit into the 4-2-3-1 system he prefers to utilise.
Donacien, who cost £750,000, also from Accrington in the summer of 2018, ended the season on loan at Fleetwood, the Blues having turned down a £50,000 offer from Plymouth in January.
Whether the right-back is in Cook’s plans or the option has been taken simply to try to secure a fee this summer remains to be seen.
Speaking about Donacien’s situation in January, general manager of football operations Lee O’Neill said: "We have an option on Janoi, with that he’s got 18 months left. [Former owner] Marcus [Evans] paid a lot of money for Janoi two summers ago and we felt that the offer that was on the table wasn’t appropriate.”
Cook has been meeting with the players today with the club set to confirm which other out-of-contract members of the squad will join skipper Luke Chambers and Cole Skuse in departing later this afternoon.