The best free agents available after the 2022/23 season
There are now only a few weeks until all European players with expired contracts become free agents.
Many clubs are now in uncharted terrain in terms of their players whose contracts are set to end in 2023.
Football clubs are no longer able to sell, and as a result, they risk losing their expiring players for nothing.
Simultaneously, the free transfer market provides an ideal opportunity to sign outstanding players for nothing.
In the summer of 2023, there will be an unprecedented amount of world-class players available on a Bosman transfer.
Lionel Messi’s contract with PSG will expire at the end of the 2022-23 season. Messi will depart on a free transfer and either return to Barcelona or sign to Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hilal.
Man United, Manchester City, and Chelsea all have a number of significant first-team players whose contracts must be renewed before the end of the 2022-23 season.
Milan Skriniar of Inter signed joined PSG in the first high-profile Bosman transfer of the summer 2023. He will end the season with the Nerazzurri before joining Paris Saint-Germain after the Champions League final.
Konrad Laimer of Leipzig is scheduled to be revealed as a free transfer signing by Bayern Munich. Roberto De Zerbi has announced Mahmoud Dahoud as a new signing for Brighton. Houssem Aouar had his medical in Roma.
Which players are out of contract in 2023 and available on a Bosman?
Many more major celebrities are entering the final years of their contracts. Will they be sold in January, or will they exhaust their options?
FootballTransfers has created a list of the top 2023 free agents. Clubs will be able to freely negotiate with these players beginning in January 2023.
Premier League expiring contracts
Youri Tielemans (Leicester)
Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace)
Ilkay Gundogan (Man City)
N’Golo Kante (Chelsea)
Roberto Firmino (Liverpool)
Caglar Soyuncu (Leicester)
Naby Keita (Liverpool)
Lucas Moura (Tottenham)
Yerry Mina (Everton)
David de Gea (Man Utd)
Adama Traore (Wolves)
Jesse Lingard (Nottingham Forest)
Manuel Lanzini (West Ham)
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Liverpool)
Vladimir Coufal (West Ham)
Reiss Nelson (Arsenal)
Diego Costa (Wolves)
Willian (Fulham)
Axel Tuanzebe (Man Utd)
La Liga expiring contracts
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
Marco Asensio (Real Madrid)
Toni Kroos (Real Madrid)
Inigo Martinez (Athletic Bilbao)
Matt Doherty (Atletico Madrid)
Luka Modric (Real Madrid)
Dani Ceballos (Real Madrid)
Nacho Fernandez (Real Madrid)
Sergio Busquets (Barcelona)
Nemanja Gudelj (Sevilla)
David Silva (Real Sociedad)
Mariano Diaz (Real Madrid)
Serie A expiring contracts
Milan Skriniar (Inter) – JOINING PSG ON JULY 1
Adrien Rabiot (Juventus)
Andrea Belotti (Roma)
Stefan de Vrij (Inter)
Luis Muriel (Atalanta)
Angel Di Maria (Juventus)
Chris Smalling (Roma)
Roberto Gagliardini (Inter)
Juan Cuadrado (Juventus)
Edin Dzeko (Inter)
Samir Handanovic (Inter)
Nemanja Matic (Roma)
Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma)
Roberto Pereyra (Udinese)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Milan)
Danilo D’Ambrosio (Inter)
Pedro (Lazio)
Bundesliga expiring contracts
Marcus Thuram (Gladbach)
Evan N’Dicka (Frankfurt)
Daichi Kamada (Eintracht Frankfurt)
Konrad Laimer (Leipzig)– JOINING BAYERN MUNICH ON JULY 1
Remy Bensebaini (Borussia Monchengladbach)
Daley Blind (Bayern Munich)
Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund)
Mahmoud Dahoud (Borussia Dortmund)
Ligue 1 expiring contracts
Lionel Messi (PSG)
Houssem Aouar (Lyon)– JOINING ROMA ON JULY 1
Jonathan Bamba (Lille)
Moussa Dembele (Lyon)
Ross Barkley (Nice)
Sergio Ramos (PSG)
Alexis Sanchez (Marseille)
Sead Kolasinac (Marseille)
Aaron Ramsey (Nice)
Wahbi Khazri (Montpellier)
Jerome Boateng (Lyon)
Kevin Gameiro (Strasbourg)
