Manager: El Pons (Catalunya)
Since: 2009
Last season: 10th
Trophy cabinet: empty (best finish – 9th in 2009/10)
Sympathies: Barcelona
Darts music: La Bamba – Ritchie Valens
Outlook: A lower mid-table club, and from the looks of this offering, lower mid-table ambition. A hotch potch back five and, £28m Mata and £17m Ba aside, a team that used to be sort of promising. Leiva’s a holding midfielder returning from long injury, just two goals were scored from Delap throw ins last season and Noble’s out of touch at this level. Gabby Agbonlahor? Didn’t he play for England once?
(B) = player awarded under the Titus Bramble ruling.
| de Gea, D | MUN | £0.5m |
| Ramis, I | WIG | £0.5m |
| Chico | SWA | £6m |
| Sagna, B | ARS | £10m |
| Lescott, J | MCY | £0.5m |
| Mata, J | CHE | £28m |
| Noble, M | WHM | £8m |
| Sidwell, S | FUL | £8m |
| McClean, J | SUN | £0.5m |
| Agbonlahor, G | AVL | £7m |
| Jones, K | STO | £0.5m |
| Total | £69.5m |
Second transfer window – 1 February 2013
| Out | In | ||||
| Bosingwa, J | QPR | £10m | Lescott, J | MCY | £0.5m |
| Sahin, N | LIV | £7m | McClean, J | SUN | £0.5m |
| Ba, D | CHE | £17m | Jones, K | STO | £0.5m |
First transfer window – 26 October 2012
| Out | In | ||||
| Gazzaniga, P (B) | SOT | £4.5m | de Gea, D | MUN | £0.5m |
| Heitinga, J | EVE | £6m | Ramis, I | WIG | £0.5m |
| Senderos, P | FUL | £5m | Chico | SWA | £6m |
| Fabio | QPR | £5m | Sagna, B | ARS | £10m |
| Brown, W | SUN | £3m | Bosingwa, J | QPR | £10m |
| Delap, R | STO | £0.5m | Sidwell, S | FUL | £8m |
| Leiva, L | LIV | £0.5m | Sahin, N | LIV | £7m |
