Manager: Aiden (Yorkshire)
Since: 2011
Last season: 9th
Trophy cabinet: Empty (highest league position – last season)
Sympathies: Sheffield Wednesday
Darts music: The Vag1na Song
Outlook (on 12 September 2013): With only one Turkey of the Month award to his name, the Hairy Fadjeetas manager still has it all to prove at club level. His most successful efforts have been on the international stage, where he collected a runners up medal in the Dr Khumalo 2010 World Cup, but most notably took charge of the league Twitter account during the Emmanuel Olisadebe 2012 Euros. The chairman has given his word that should the league realise the dream of owning premises in St James’s there will always be a place on the billiard room wall for the resounding description of The Horn of Africa manager throwing in the towel halfway through an auction and the moment 10 minutes later when he picked it up again.
His place on the committee under threat with the swift decline of tweeting entire auctions, the Fadges manager manned the Skype business during last month’s all day bonanza. While administering bids from such exotic climes as Valencia and Bournemouth, for his own team the manager kept it simple and went big on two players already justifying their £30m+ price tag: Robert Soldado and Edin Hazard (league ball boys have been placed on high alert). As for the rest of team, it appears to be a mixture of dwindling roles (Hernandez, Grandin, Gouffran) and plodding performance (Marshall, Turner, Jarvis). Once Nastasic returns from injury, he’ll join Kolo Toure, Ron Vlaar, Soldado and Hazard as the team’s mainstays. Will this be enough to drag the Hairy Fadjeetas manager out of the hall of infame?
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| Marshall, D | CAR | £3.5m |
| Vlaar, R | AVL | £5.5m |
| Turner, M | NOR | £3m |
| Toure, K | LIV | £6.5m |
| Nastasic, M | MCY | £0.5m |
| Jarvis, M | WHM | £7.5m |
| Hazard, E | CHE | £34m |
| Gouffran, Y | NEW | £0.5m |
| Ramsey, A | ARS | £11m |
| Soldado | TOT | £33m |
| Hernandez, J | MUN | £1.5m |
| £110m |
First transfer window – 5 October 2013
Starting budget: £11m, remaining budget: £0m, net loss: £11m
| Out | In | ||||||
| Pos | Player | Team | Sold | Pos | Player | Team | Paid |
| MID | Grandin, E | CRY | Free | MID | Ramsey, A | ARS | £11m |
Second transfer window – 7 February 2014
