Stephen Ireland has admitted there is a major question mark over his Manchester City future, while Stephen Hunt has spoken about leaving Hull as the relegated side seek to ease their debts.
After earning a PFA young player of the year nomination with some stellar performances last term, Ireland has struggled badly this year.
Injury, illness and loss of form have combined to see him go backwards in his quest for a regular Blues starting slot and having missed Wednesday night's devastating defeat to Tottenham, has still only appeared 11 times under Roberto Mancini.
The 23-year-old has never given any indication of a desire to leave Eastlands. But with a major review of playing staff certain to follow the failure to secure a Champions League berth next season, Ireland knows he could be in the firing line.
"There is a question mark over next year for me," he told the Manchester Evening News. "I don't know what will happen. I am contracted to City and all I can do is carry on doing my job and performing well when I am called upon.
"If anything changes during the summer it will be down to the club, not me."
Ireland only signed a new long-term contract last summer, so it seems strange to be talking about his future already. But undoubtedly, this term has not gone as he would have hoped, leaving him deeply irritated.
"It has been a difficult year because I care so much about my job," he said.
"I care about my game and about the club but there is a lot of frustration bottled up because I have not played as much as I would have liked."
Hull City midfielder Hunt reportedly remains a target for Wolves boss Mick McCarthy and is also being tracked by Newcastle United.
The former Republic of Ireland winger is resigned to leaving and today told the Evening Herald: "If we had stayed up I would have been happy to stay but we're not in the Premier League now and they might want to sell me.
"In January we had an agreement that they would sell me due to the financial situation that would arise from relegation. The chairman has been very good to me. He said that once I gave my all for Hull, he'd have no problem in honouring that agreement for me to go.
"I have done that, I have done well for Hull," added the 28-year-old, who scored 6 goals in 27 games to finish as the club's top scorer. "Unfortunately, I haven't delivered as much as I would have liked because we have been relegated."
Hunt added the club has agreed to sell him at a lower price than the €4 million he was bought from Reading for, but could not indicate how much of a reduction there would be.