Manager: Luke (Shropshire)
Twitter name: @Lurliner
Since: 2011
Last season: Did not enter
Trophy cabinet: empty (best finish – 13th in 2011/12)
Sympathies: Liverpool
Darts music: Rat Rapping – Roland Rat (featuring Kevin the Gerbil)
Outlook (on 13 September 2013): There’s something from the hip about the Dulwich Red Sox manager’s approach not just to the Kenna, but to life. Like a whirlwind he entered the competitive arena of last month’s auction – tail up, nose twitching, giving it the Barry – looking to buy any players he liked the sound of to build his smash and grab team. It didn’t work two seasons ago when the manager was in charge of the Lurliners and, like the DRS cricketing namesake, it’s still not the finished solution.
Dimitar Berbatov is one of the best striker’s around, five per cent of the time, and will not reflect his £24m price tag as well as Oscar. Osman’s a steady buy, Milner’s more part-time workhorse than creative show pony and Giggs – how long until age or another failed superinjunction catch up with him? Reid and Lowton are regular starters, but Martin Skrtel’s future hangs in the balance and Thomas Vermaelen is a shade of the former goal-scoring self who came to the Kenna four years ago. Freidel’s one appearance of the season will be on the Match of the Day 2 sofa.
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| Friedel, B | TOT | £0.5m |
| Lowton, M | AVL | £8m |
| Reid, W | WHM | £8.5m |
| Skrtel, M | LIV | £12m |
| Vermaelen, T | ARS | £5.5m |
| Milner, J | MCY | £5m |
| Osman, L | EVE | £11m |
| Oscar | CHE | £24m |
| Giggs, R | MUN | £1m |
| Berbatov, D | MON | £24m |
| Fletcher, S | SUN | £0.5m |
| £100m |
First transfer window – 5 October 2013
Did not attend. League membership under review.
