Manager: Stix (Worcestershire)
Twitter name: @jeffkennaleague
Since: 2005 (co-founder and Chairman)
Last season: 16th
Trophy cabinet: Champions 2005/06, treble in 2009/2010 (league, cup, Khumalo World Cup 2010)
Sympathies: Kidderminster Harriers
Darts music: Highway to the Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
Outlook: People used to say that Brazil were the Vasco De Beauvoir of world football, but those heady, summer, treble-winning days of 2010 seem a Rory Delap throw in away looking at the club’s current shower. In what’s become known as the most epic Bramble of all time, £40m Sergio Aguero was replaced in the auction by Leroy Lita, but a month-long lay off with injury means not even the prolific Argentine could have dragged this bunch of misfits to anything but a relegation battle. Tomas ‘Little Mozart’ Rosicky, himself off until October with injury, should be preparing a requiem for the manager’s chances of being employed come May.
(B) = player awarded under the Titus Bramble ruling
Al-Habsi, A | WIG | £2.5m |
Harte, I | REA | £10m |
Nastasic, M | MCY | £13m |
Ferdinand, R | MUN | £6.5m |
McAuley, G | WBA | £0.5m |
Gutierrez, J | NEW | £5m |
Etherington, M | STO | £0.5m |
Puncheon, J | SOT | £29m |
Ramires | CHE | £12m |
Ruiz, B | FUL | £0.5m |
Podolski, L | ARS | £40m |
Total | £119.5m |
Second transfer window – 1 February 2013
Out | In | ||||
Kolorov, A | MCY | £19m | Nastasic, M | MCY | £13m |
Surman, A | NOR | £0.5m | Puncheon, J | SOT | £29m |
First transfer window – 26 October 2012
Out | In | ||||
Hibbert, T | EVE | £5m | Kolarov, A | MCY | £19m |
Pennant, J | STO | £1m | Etherington, M | STO | £0.5m |
Rosicky, T | ARS | £1.5m | Surman, A | NOR | £0.5m |
Borini, F | LIV | £19m | Ruiz, B | FUL | £0.5m |
Lita, L (B) | SWA | £20m | Podolski, L | ARS | £40m |