Team Panda 2016/17

George
Inbetweener: The Team Panda Rules OK manager

Manager: George (Bromley)

Since: 2013

Home ground: Bamboo Avenue

Training facility: Certain Extinction

Trophy cabinet: Empty (highest finish – 6th)

Kenna Index rating: TBC
2013/14 – 6th
2014/15 – 12th
2015/16 – 13th

Sympathies: Millwall

Darts musicTrue Love Ways – Buddy Holly

Starting XI – August auction

Hennessey, W CRY £1.00
Coleman, S EVE £11.00
Klavan, R LIV £4.00
Kompany, V MCY £8.00
Drinkwater, D LEI £5.00
Dier, E TOT £7.00
Arnautovic, M STO £15.00
Fabregas, C CHE £20.00
Gomis, B (TW1) MAR £0.50
Rashford, M MUN £5.00
Giroud, O ARS £22.00
£98.50

First transfer window – Friday 7 October 2016 (20th)

In
Hal Robson-Kanu – West Brom striker – £0.5m

Out
Bafetimbi Gomis – Marseille striker – free

Formation: 3-4-3
Remaining budget: £7m

Second transfer window – Friday 10 February 2017 (19th)

In
Saido Berahino – Stoke striker – £0.5m

Out
Hal Robson-Kanu – West Brom striker – free

Formation: 3-4-3
Remaining budget: £6.5m

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Team Panda 2015/16

George
Inbetweener: The Team Panda manager

Manager: George (Bromley)

Since: 2013

Home ground: Bamboo Avenue

Training facility: Certain Extinction

Trophy cabinet: Empty (highest finish – 6th)

Kenna Index rating: N/A
2013/14 – 6th
2014/15 – 12th

Sympathies: Millwall

Darts musicTrue Love Ways – Buddy Holly

Season preview in one sentence (on 27 September): For the third successive season, the manager is relying on Giroud for goals.

Fabianski, L SWA £9m
Caulker, S SOT £5m
Dann, S CRY £5m
Tomkins, J WHM £3m
Richards, M AVL £6m
Silva, D MCY £23m
Milner, J LIV £10m
Willian CHE £1m
Young, A MUN £1m
Giroud, O ARS £14m
Lambert, R WBA £7m
£84m

First transfer window – Friday 2 October 2015

No changes.

Remaining budget: £21m

Second transfer window – Friday 5 February 2016

No changes.

Remaining budget: £21m

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Team Panda Rules OK 2014/15

George
Inbetweener: The Team Panda Rules OK manager

Manager: George (Bromley)

Since: 2013

Last season: 6th

Trophy cabinet: Empty (best finish – last season)

Sympathies: Millwall

Darts musicTrue Love Ways – Buddy Holly

Season preview in one sentence: Asmir Begovic, Sylvain Distan and Olivier Giroud all find their services employed at the club for a second successive season: the rumour is they just couldn’t say ‘no’ to Panda…

Begovic, A STO  £7.00 
Clichy, G MCY  £6.00 
Distin, S EVE  £10.00 
Johnson, G LIV  £8.00 
Smalling, C MUN  £3.00 
Puncheon, J CRY  £5.00 
Schneiderlin, M SOT  £3.00 
Sessegnon, S WBA  £3.00 
Sanchez, C (TW2) AVL  £0.50 
Giroud, O ARS  £24.00 
Remy, L (TW2) CHE  £0.50 
 £70m

First transfer window – Friday 17 October 2014

No changes. The manager considered his team unimproveable. Robert Soldado’s form would tend to disagree.

Second transfer window – Saturday 7 February 2015

In
Sanchez, C – midfielder, AVL – £0.5m
Remy, L – striker, CHE – £0.5m

Out
Schuerrle, A – midfielder, CHE – £0m
Soldado, R – striker, TOT – £0m

Remaining budget: £28.5m

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Team Panda Rules OK 2013/14

George
Inbetweener: The Team Panda Rules OK manager

Manager: George (Bromley)

Since: Debut

Sympathies: Millwall

Darts music: True Love Ways – Buddy Holly

Outlook (on 4 September 2013): The debut of the Team Panda Rules OK manager brings a raw south east England edge to the league. Known around the club as ‘The Panda’, the gaffer shares little in common with the soon-to-be-extinct bundle of joy at Edinburgh Zoo. His origins and accent more readily liken the Bromley man to an extra from hit TV show The Inbetweeners, a link cemented when he once revealed he actually went on a school geography field trip to Swanage. He maintains rumours he punched a fish and asked a pensioner at an ice cream stand whether she wanted to suck him off are purely here say.

The form of Olivier Giroud will settle the nerves of the team, even if Kane’s inactivity does the opposite. The Panda will be closely tracking Gareth Barry’s progress now the midfielder’s move to Merseyside means a choice between releasing him or Distin come the October transfer window. The rest of the side literally contains a couple of Johnsons.

With just one substitute appearance, Nani really is living up to the notion that he’s just a not very good Michael Jackson.

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Under Kenna rules, the manager must release one of the players in red at the next transfer window.

Begovic, A STO £7m
O’Shea, J SUN £11m
Lovren, D SOT £8.5m
Distin, S EVE £14m
Johnson, G LIV £17m
Kasami, P FUL £0.5m
Brunt, C WBA £7m
Johnson, B NOR £8m
Bacuna, L AVL £0.5m
Giroud, O ARS £20m
Campbell, F CAR £11m
£104m

First transfer window – 5 October 2013

Starting budget: £11m, remaining budget: £0m, net loss: £11m

(Hyperlink denotes to which club player was sold)

Out       In      
Pos Player Team Sold Pos Player Team Paid
MID Barry, G EVE £0.5m MID Kasami, P FUL £0.5m
STR Kane, H TOT Free STR Campbell, F CAR £11m

Second transfer window – 7 February 2014

Out       In      
Pos Player Team Sold Pos Player Team Paid
MID Nani MUN £0.5m MID Bacuna, L AVL £0.5m
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