Manager: Pete (Teeside)
Twitter name: @peterball01
Since: Domestic debut (entered The Olisadebe Euro 2012)
Trophy cabinet: Empty
Sympathies: Boro
Darts music: Theme from ‘The Power Game’ – Cyril Stapleton
Outlook: After a warm-up 12th in the Olisadebe in the summer, this was a chance to stamp some authority on the domestic game but the SDKY manager already finds himself under considerable pressure. Not content with being the first manager in eight years to lose a goalkeeper on a Bramble, and hence have the services of missing reserve player from the Cameroon Olympic women’s team Drusille Ngako between the sticks, the SDKY boss unsuccessfully appealed against a controversial decision to remove defender James Collins from his side.
(B) = player awarded under the Titus Brambling ruling
| Ngako, D (B) | AWOL | £1m |
| Jagielka, P | EVE | £7.5m |
| Ferdinand, A | QPR | £4m |
| Pogatetz, E | WHM | £3.5m |
| Ferguson, S (B) | NEW | £1m |
| McAnuff, J | REA | £18m |
| Gerrard, S | LIV | £15m |
| Cattermole, L | SUN | £2.5m |
| Morrison, J | WBA | £2.5m |
| van Persie, R | MUN | £35m |
| Kone, A | WIG | £19m |
| Total | £109m |
Second transfer window – 1 February 2013
| Out | In | ||||
| Jenkinson, C | ARS | £13m | Pogatetz, E | WHM | £3.5m |
| O’Neil, G | WHM | £0.5m | McAnuff, J | REA | £18m |
First transfer window – 26 October 2012
| Out | In | ||||
| Evans, J | MUN | £5m | Jenkinson, C | ARS | £13m |
| Balotelli, M | MCY | £23m | Kone, A | WIG | £19m |
