Category: Denney

Manager: Denney (Wales)

Twitter name: @andenney

Since: 2006

Last season: Did not enter

Trohpy cabinet: Champions 2010/11, Canesten Combi Cup winners 2008/09

Sympathies: Spurs

Darts music: Gentle Ben theme

Outlook (on 26 August 2013): Returning after a season-long layoff to focus on defending the club’s ambiguous name to the probings of Operation Yewtree , the Young Boys manager has lost a lot of the luck that made him one of the successful ever entrants in the Kenna.

In a near-copycat predicament to the Spartak Mogadishu Luka Modric fiasco last summer, £25m signing Gareth Bale is all but set to move to sunnier climes, while dark clouds have gathered over £17m Nicolas Anelka, whose future even as a player hangs in the balance. There’s no more joy in the rest of team, where Vincent Kompany and Nathan Baker both face lengthy periods on the treatment table.

Known as ‘Gentle Den’ at the club for his patented arm-round-the-shoulder approach to teasing the best out of his team of Young Boys, the manager will have get to work quickly on the remaining members if he wants to put together a credible challenge this season:  Jonathan Walters has already started his campaign with a trademark missed penalty.

However, it’s common knowledge that behind the avuncular exterior lies a rigid disciplinarian, and come previous transfer windows those otherwise performing well have been culled for not meeting the manager’s unique demands, often to the detriment of the club’s title chances (this was sadly before the Kenna was so extensively chronicled on these pages).

For legal reasons, former players have always declined to speak of their experiences breaching the club’s strict code of conduct. Scotland Yard may have cleared him for now, but the Young Boys manager has never been able to shake the stories of cold showers, plastic cable ties and a scoutmaster’s uniform.

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Cech, P	CHE	£16m
Demichelis, M	MCY	£0.5m
Santon, D	NEW	£5m
Evra, P	MUN	£11m
Flanagan, J	LIV	£0.5m
Holtby, L	FUL	£0.5m
Brady, R	HUL	£1m
Ireland, S	STO	£0.5m
Delph, F	AVL	£0.5m
Adebayor, E	TOT	£14m
Traore, L	EVE	£0.5m
		£50m

First transfer window – 5 October 2013

Starting budget: £11m, remaining budget: £14.5m, net profit: £2.5m

(Hyperlink denotes to which club players were sold)

Out				In
Pos	Player	Team	Sold	Pos	Player	Team	Paid
DEF	Kompany, V	MCY	£5m	DEF	De Michaelis, M	MCY	£0.5m
MID	Bale, G	RMA	Free	MID	Redmond, N	NOR	£0.5m
MID	Rosicky, T	ARS	Free	MID	Harris, R	YEW	£1.0m
MID	Ramirez, G	SOT	£0.5m	MID	Townsend, A	TOT	£0.5m
STR	Walters, J	STO	£0.5m	STR	Aluko, S	HUL	£0.5m

Second transfer window

Out				In
Pos	Player	Team	Sold	Pos	Player	Team	Paid
DEF	Baker, N	AVL	Free	DEF	Flanagan, J	LIV	£0.5m
MID	Harris, R	YEW	Free	MID	Holtby, L	FUL	£0.5m
MID	Townsend, A	TOT	£1.5m	MID	Brady, R	HUL	£1.0m
MID	Kim	CAR	Free	MID	Ireland, S	STO	£0.5m
MID	Redmond, N	NOR	£0.5m	STR	Delph, F	AVL	£0.5m

STR

Anelka, N

WBA

Free

STR

Adebayor, E

TOT

£14m

STR

Aluko, S

HUL

Free

STR

Traore, L

EVE

£0.5m