Djibril Cisse is eying a move back to Marseille after admitting playing in the Championship with QPR appears "complicated".
Rangers' two-year spell in the Premier League came to an end on Sunday with a goalless draw at Reading and Cisse, whose loan spell at Qatari club Al Gharafa expires at the end of the season, is already talking up a move away from Loftus Road.
The 32-year-old told France Football: "Given how it has gone for them from a sporting viewpoint, (a return to QPR) does seem complicated."
Cisse would relish a switch to Marseille, a club he joined on loan from Liverpool in 2006 before making the move permanent.
"It would be a dream to go back," said Cisse, "or play for any club which can make me shine."
Cisse is hoping a move back to Europe can enhance his chances of representing France at the World Cup finals next summer.
"I have Les Bleus in my heart," he said.
"If I'm in a good team and if I do a good job I think it's possible.
"I have a crazy mind and when I have a goal in mind I do everything to achieve it."
Rose is a contender for Sunderland's Player of the Year after he put in a series of impressive displays during a season-long loan at the Stadium of Light.
The 22-year-old has made 27 appearances for the Black Cats after slotting in to the first XI at left-back and opened his scoring account for the club in their 6-1 defeat at Aston Villa.
Rose says he will make a decision on his future at the end of the season and he has hinted recently that he would like to stay at the Wearside club.
But Spurs boss Villas-Boas has told Rose he wants him back at White Hart Lane next term.
"A permanent move is impossible because we have great expectations for the player," Villas-Boas said earlier in the season. "He has a bright future. We appreciate what he's been doing there and it's been a great experience.
"He's been extremely well managed. We can't give away a player of his quality."
Left-back has been a problem area for the Portuguese this term. Villas-Boas has often played Kyle Naughton and Jan Vertonghen as makeshift left-backs as Benoit Assou-Ekotto has struggled at times to regain the consistency he had shown in previous seasons.
It remains to be seen whether Rose will want to come back to Spurs,
This is the fourth time Rose has been out on loan and he has only made eight Premier League starts for the north London club since he signed from Leeds in 2007.
Hird, 25, was signed by ex-Spireites manager John Sheridan last summer on a two-year contract after leaving Doncaster.
He was captain and was a regular at the heart of the defence, although he has also featured at right-back and in midfield.
However, Hird was left out of the side by new Blues boss Cook towards the end of the season.
He made 44 appearances for the League Two club and scored two goals.
The news comes the day after seven players were told they will be allowed to leave the Proact Stadium this summer as Cook wastes no time in reshaping his squad following the disappointment of failing to mount a promotion challenge.
All three players have been involved in manager Chris Kiwomya's plans this season, with striker Nangle scoring his first goal for the club against Colchester this month.
Academy manager Mick Leonard has congratulated the trio that are set to make the step up to the senior squad next season, but has warned them that the hard work has only just begun.
"Myself and (first-team manager) Chris Kiwomya made it quite clear that it's just a start for them," Leonard told the club's official website.
"They are back to square one and they will have to push themselves further and harder if they want to make a career in the game.
"It now means that we have had 10 players offered professional contracts since the academy's reintroduction, which is fantastic news for the programme."
Meanwhile, second-year scholars Liam Guest, James Randall, Mitchell Clarke, Kameron Campbell and Matthew Crust have all been released.
The 51-year-old has come under intense pressure from outside, if not inside, the club since Saturday's 6-0 Premier League drubbing by Liverpool at St James' Park.
Neighbours Sunderland, whose own 3-0 win on Tyneside a fortnight earlier had already thrust the manager into the firing line, might have done the Magpies a favour had they returned from Aston Villa with something to show for their efforts, although a 6-1 rout left them equally uneasy and nudged Pardew's side a place further down the table.
Newcastle will now head for West Ham desperate for a win having taken just a point from their past three games in the wake of their Europa League quarter-final exit, and the man at the helm needs it as much as anyone.
Asked if he was still the right man for the job, Pardew told The Chronicle: "Yes. We have had a really, really poor month in terms of results.
"Now we have to stick together and get through it. As I've said before, words don't win games. They are not important any more.
"The performance we put in was unacceptable. It wasn't good enough for us. We are aware of that and we need to put it right.
Despite concerted calls for his head over the weekend, Pardew remains in post and is facing the biggest challenge of his tenure to date with a trip to relegated QPR and Arsenal's visit to St James' to come after the game at Upton Park and only five points separating the Magpies from renowned battlers Wigan, who have a game in hand.
He said: "Even after Benfica, a few of the players perhaps thought after that game, we would be all right.
"But we have got one point from three league games, and that's not good enough for this football club.
"Now we are in a dogfight - and we have got to fight. We have got enough character and belief in that dressing room to get through it.
"We have got to show that now."
The Saddlers were languishing in 18th place in the League One table in December, but lost just three games from then until the end of the campaign to finish in ninth place.
Smith took the opportunity to reflect on his side's achievements before looking ahead to the new campaign.
He told the club's official website: "I am extremely proud to be manager of this football club. We can look back on 2012/13 with real satisfaction.
"I was given the opportunity to bring forward a philosophy this year and even though it's only our fledgling season with it, much progress has been made and that is great credit to everyone involved.
"We look forward to keeping this progression going into next season and beyond. It's a long-term project and solid foundations have been laid."
