Manager: John N (Yorkshire)
Since: 2011
Last season: 11th
Trophy cabinet: empty (best finish – last season)
Sympathies: Liverpool
Darts music: The Chicken Dance
Outlook: Beyond Cech, Kompany and Walcott, the Chickens boss doesn’t look like having the tools to better last season. Marquee signing Clint Dempsey is ‘unsettled’ and looking to swap his role as a big fish in a little pond for minnow in the sea of Liverpool midfielders. Caroll and Cole up front are fully expected to warrant their price tag.
| Cech, P | CHE | £19m |
| Kompany, V | MCY | £18m |
| Heitinga, J | EVE | £0.5m |
| Brown, W (B) | SUN | £5m |
| O’Brien, J | WHM | £2.5m |
| Sterling, R | LIV | £22m |
| Dempsey, C | FUL | £21m |
| Routledge, W | SWA | £1m |
| Pilkington, A | NOR | £3.5m |
| Hernandez, J | MUN | £15m |
| Crouch, P | STO | £6.5m |
| Total | £114m |
Second transfer window – 1 February 2013
| Out | In | ||||
| Santos, A | ARS | £0.5m | Brown, W (B) | SUN | £5m |
| Bardsley, P | SUN | £2.5m | O’Brien, J | WHM | £2.5m |
| Carroll, A | WHM | £1m | Hernandez, J | MUN | £15m |
| Petric, M | FUL | £12m | Crouch, P | STO | £6.5m |
First transfer window – 26 October 2012
| Out | In | ||||
| Jones, P | MUN | £9.5m | Heitinga, J | EVE | £0.5m |
| Dawson, M | QPR | £6m | Santos, A | ARS | £0.5m |
| Walcott, T | ARS | £17m | Sterling, R | LIV | £22m |
| Cole, C | WHM | £1.5m | Petric, M | FUL | £12m |
