A familiar scenario: it’s 10.30pm on auction night, you’re three sheets to the wind and there are four spaces to fill in your team.
It’s your turn to introduce a player to the bidding. Squinting at the tiny print of the player list the first name you see amongst the crossings out and the beer stains is Jonathan Spector. Surely, it hasn’t come to this?
The next few seconds can make or break a season.
These are the players (Spector aside) that can bring the most value to a Kenna team. In summer 2009, Vasco De Beauvoir paid a mere £500k for Carlos ‘Hughes won’t pick him’ Tevez. The Argentine’s imperious form that season significantly helped Vasco De Beauvoir lift their second league title and scoop the first ever double. Mark Hughes got sacked by Christmas.
Below are the nine top-scoring £0.5m players from last season’s auction. Taylor and Etherington come as little surprise, and Giggy’s prowess is well documented, but the Blackburn Mamba just goes to show that popular talent is not a pre-requisite of individual Kenna success.
Furthermore, 11 Martin Skretls would’ve won the league last season. That’s a lot of sultry Slovak.
| Player | Club | Points |
| M Etherington | Young Boys | 120 |
| M Skretl | CSKA Bashers | 116 |
| C Jerome | Legia Forsyth | 111 |
| C Baird | Vasco De Beauvoir | 99 |
| C Samba | FC Gun Show | 90 |
| S Parker | FC Gun Show | 90 |
| L Koscielny | Barking Nepal | 85 |
| R Giggs | Atheltico Temple | 85 |
| M Taylor | Legia Forsyth | 81 |
