Florent Malouda, David Bentley and Andrey Arshavin are three of the highest-profile names featured on the Premier League free transfer list, which was released on Friday.

France international Malouda, 32, last played for Chelsea in their 2012 Champions League final win over Bayern Munich but was frozen out last season and ended his reported £80,000 a week contract training with the U21s.

Bentley was a £15m signing for Tottenham from Blackburn in 2008, but he was an expensive flop in north London and has spent most of the last two seasons on loan at Russian side FK Rostov and Rovers.

He leaves White Hart Lane along with William Gallas, who spent three seasons at Spurs after joining on a free transfer from rivals Arsenal, who have released Arshavin after four years at the club.

Sebastien Squillaci is another to leave Arsenal, while Ivory Coast defender Kolo Toure will not feature in Manchester City's future plans and his move to Liverpool at the end of his contract was confirmed last month.

Chelsea have also released Israel midfielder Yossi Benayoun and Portugal defender Paulo Ferreira, while long-throw specialist Rory Delap departs Stoke along with retiring ex-England striker Michael Owen, Jermaine Pennant, Matthew Upson and Dean Whitehead.

ARSENAL

Andrey Arshavin, Samir Bihmoutine, Reice Charles-Cook, Denilson, Craig Eastmond, Sead Hajrovic, Conor Henderson, Jernade Meade, Nigel Oldfield Spence-Neita, Joshua Rees, Philip Roberts, James Shea, Sebastien Squillaci, Sanchez Watt

ASTON VILLA

Calum Barrett, Josh Barton, Courtney Cameron, Daniel Devine, Eric Lichaj, Andy Marshall

CHELSEA

Amin Affane, Yossi Benayoun, Abdul Deen-Conteh, Paulo Ferreira, Hilario, Florent Malouda, Archange Nkumu, Ross Turnbull

EVERTON

Johan Hammar, Thomas Hitzlsperger, Sam Kelly, Jan Mucha, Phil Neville

FULHAM

Chris Baird, Simon Davies, Mahamadou Diarra, Thomas Donegan, Corey Gameiro, Georgios Karagounis, James Musa, Richard Peniket, Mladen Petric, Mark Schwarzer, Alex Smith, Csaba Somogyi

LIVERPOOL

Tyrell Belford, Jamie Carragher, James Stephens, Danny Wilson

MANCHESTER CITY

Wayne Bridge, Filippo Mancini, Ryan McGivern, Roque Santa Cruz, Kolo Toure

MANCHESTER UNITED

Reece Brown, John Cofie, Michele Fornasier, Luke Giverin, Luke Hendrie, Luke McCullough, Paul Scholes, Gyliano Van Velzen, Frederic Veseli

NEWCASTLE UNITED

Steve Harper, Yven Moyo, Danny Simpson

NORWICH CITY

Tom Adeyemi, Lee Camp, Olumide Durojaiye, George Francomb, Simeon Jackson, Chris Martin, Ramil Sheriff, Korey Smith, Marc Tierney, Elliott Ward

QPR

Tan Ben Haim, DJ Campbell, Radek Cerny, Frederick Champion, Adam Francis, Try Hewitt, Rob Hulse, Ryan Nelsen, Taylor Louis Parmenter, Tommaso Trani

READING

Nick Bignall, Simon Church, Ian Harte, Noel Hunt, Charlie Losasso, Angus MacDonald, Alex Pearce, Nicky Shorey, Jay Tabb, Joshua Webb, Brett Williams

SOUTHAMPTON

Danny Butterfield, Ryan Dickson, Tommy Forecast, Sam Hoskins, Ben Reeves, Frazer Richardson, Daniel Seaborne, Alberto Seidi

STOKE CITY

Michael Clarkson, Rory Delap, Matthew Gledhill, Jadan Hall, Matthew Lund, Andrew Musungu, Carlo Nash, Michael Owen, Jermaine Pennant, George Rigg, Mamady Sidibe, Matthew Upson, Dean Whitehead

SUNDERLAND

Titus Bramble, Anthony Callaghan, Wade Joyce, Matthew Kilgallon, Ryan Noble, Adam Reed, Ben Wilson

SWANSEA CITY

Mark Gower

TOTTENHAM

Jack Barthram, David Bentley, John Bostock, William Gallas, Jack Munns, Jake Nicholson

WEST BROM

Marc-Antoine Fortune, Zoltan Gera, Gonzalo Jara Reyes, Romaine Sawyers, Jerome Thomas

WEST HAM

Carlton Cole, Jake Larkins, Gary O'Neil, Jack Powell, Jami Rafati, Eoin Wearen

WIGAN ATHLETIC

Peter Aylmer, Albert Crusat, Franco Di Santo, David Jones, Piscu, Jonathan Lynch, Callum Morris, Filip Orsula, Ronnie Stam, Joshua Sumner, Ryan Watson

Damn Arsenal...

Yeah.. 14 players, which means they will need to sign 3 players and promote a lot from their youth academy.

^ They probably will just promote

There\'s some interesting names being released for any promoted/2nd tier foreign clubs too look at:

Conor Henderson (this kid is pretty damn good. I\'m sad they\'ve dropped him. One of a few promising players that are leaving Arsenal. But, unlike Meade or Hajrovic, he hasn\'t immediately signed for anyone).
Georgios Karagounis (this one surprised me. was one of Fulham\'s best players last season)
Danny Simpson
Fortune
Peter Aylmer
Franco Di Santo

Franco Di Santo's name there shocked me. I though he was decent with Wigan.

@Vendetta, Alex, rama, et al:
There's more to come. I anticipate the number to rise to 18. Majoirty of those removed are from our youth as well (besides the obvious deadwood) which means that rather than promoting a lot of our youth, we're actually going to have to replenish the academy squads. I imagine they're going to buy a lot of foreign schoolboys and also fast track the good U15s into the U18s. Arsenal have a habit of playing their academy products in the age group above theirs (has its merits and flaws).

So do you expect Gnabry to finally step up?

Squillaci and Denilson leaving, add Chamakh, Bendtner and Djourou and I will be happy!

@V: I expect next season to be his "trial season" (i.e. I expect him to start all the league Cup games & make the occasional PL substitute). Hopefully, he can and will Step Up.

@Quikzyyy: GOOD NEWS = Bendtner told Danish news that he is speaking with 5-6 teams and will finalize his transfer from Arsenal in 2 weeks.
Also, I'd like to add Santos & Park to your list.

I really hope you're right.

Arsenal can sign William Gallas now. O:)

Not sure about anyone else, but I know Micheal Owen , Scholes and Phil Neville are set to retire.

A lot of them are.