Aberdeen have confirmed midfielder Stephen Hughes has been released from his contract 12 months early.
The former Rangers player joined the Dons from Motherwell on a two-and-a-half-year deal last January that would have kept him at the club until the summer of 2014.
But the 30-year-old is now free to discuss a move elsewhere after new Pittodrie manager Derek McInnes deemed him surplus to requirements.
An Aberdeen spokesman said: "The club can confirm that Stephen Hughes has been released from his contract with the Dons and is free to sign for another club.
"Everyone at Aberdeen wishes Stephen all the very best in his future career."
Hughes made 27 appearances for the Dons last season but is the eighth player to be culled from McInnes' group already this summer.
The former St Johnstone and Bristol City boss has already released seven out-of-contract players on top of telling Hughes and Jordon Brown to find new clubs.
Brown was handed a deal until 2015 by former manager and namesake Craig Brown last October but his successor has told the 20-year-old, who spent the second half of last season on loan at Forfar, he is also not part of his plans.
A severance agreement with the Reds youth team graduate has still to be reached but Rory Fallon, Mitch Megginson, Rob Milsom, Gary Naysmith, Isaac Osbourne, Gavin Rae - who has joined Dundee - and Dan Twardzik have all left Pittodrie after the expiration of their contracts.
McInnes has moved to bolster his squad, however, with the capture of former Celtic midfielders Willo Flood and Barry Robson.
Malouda, 32, last played for Chelsea in their 2012 Champions League final win over Bayern Munich, but has since been frozen out of the first-team picture and so saw out the remaining season of his ?80,000-a-week contract training with the club's Under-21s.
Lyon, who sold him to Chelsea for ?13million in 2007, looks the most likely destination for France international.
Defender Gallas leaves Tottenham on a free transfer after three seasons since joining from north London rivals Arsenal, and midfielder David Bentley, who spent time on loan in Russia with FK Rostov and at former side Blackburn last season, is another set to move on.
Santa Cruz, 31, was loaned out to Malaga last season, where he played under Manuel Pellegrini, who is reported to be in line to take over at Manchester City.
Ivory Coast defender Kolo Toure, meanwhile, will not feature in City's future plans for their new manage, with his move to Liverpool at the end of his contract confirmed last month.
Full-back Wayne Bridge is to join Reading.
Schwarzer, who had been linked with a switch to Arsenal in the past, turned down the offer of a new deal at Fulham, and so will move on.
Arsenal announced earlier this week that Andrey Arshavin, Denilson and Sebastien Squillaci would all be leaving this summer, which was confirmed on the Premier League list on Friday.
Israel midfielder Yossi Benayoun and Portugal defender Paulo Ferreira have both been released by Chelsea.
Long-throw specialist Rory Delap departs Stoke along with retiring ex-England striker Michael Owen, Jermaine Pennant, Matthew Upson and Dean Whitehead.
Relegated Wigan, QPR and Reading, meanwhile, all announced the expected several free transfers as they prepare for life in the Championship.
Full free transfer list:
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
Per Hammar
Thomas Hitzlsperger
Sam Kelly
Jan Mucha
Phil Neville
FULHAM
Chris Baird
Simon Davies
Mahamadou Diarra
Thomas Donegan
Corey Gameiro
Georgios Karagkounis
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 Cruaz
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
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
TOTTENHAM
Jack Barthram
Patrick
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
