Sentence examples for given a free transfer from inspiring English sources

With the club in financial difficulty, Deuchar was given a free transfer in February by the club's owner.

He arrived at half-time, and was told he was being "given a free transfer" the next day.

I never did get my place back and was given a free transfer at the end of the season.

In February 2005, O'Brien was given a free transfer to ADO Den Haag, a lesser Dutch club, but a strained groin muscle kept his career unraveling.

He plays flat out in an old-fashioned way, and the fans love that.' Hunt has transformed himself since being given a free transfer by Brentford three years ago.

The former Bayern Munich and Germany midfielder THOMAS STRUNZ, who was given a free transfer by Bayern last month, is retiring at age 32 after failing to find a new club.... Internet applications for 2002 World Cup tickets were suspended for the second time in 24 hours yesterday because of new technical problems with the online application system.

"They talked about it for two days and then decided I've got to bring a lad back from Boreham Wood who we gave a free transfer to nearly two years ago but is kept on the books because he is a nice lad.

"We gave Elvijs a free transfer but he didn't want to go, he wanted to train and stay.

For the next 10 years, until Tommy Docherty gave him a free transfer during the club's most spectacular slide into mediocrity, he was, with Jimmy Greaves, the most exciting goalscorer you'd ever seen.

At the end of 1967 Sunderland transferred him to Nottingham Forest, who gave him a free transfer back to Rangers in 1969 after 50 games.

Brazil, though, was given a free pass.