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Northern Monkeys 2013/14

Manager: Hugo (Tyneside)

Twitter name: @Hugeist

Since: 2012

Last season: 12th

Trophy cabinet: Empty (best finish – last season)

Sympathies: Newcastle

Darts music: Northern Calypso – Hale & Pace

Outlook (on 11 September 2013): Lack of firepower is sure to be the Northern Monkeys manager’s biggest worry this term. Not only does the team start with Titus Bramble forfeit player Emmanuel Mayuka, who’s been farmed out on loan to France, but Victor Anichebe has been knocked down the pecking order with the arrival of new strikers in Merseyside.

There aren’t many more goals in midfield. Marquee signing David Silva tends to enjoy a short purple patch each season, but like Antonio Valencia mainly picks up the odd assist. Since Damien Duff’s over the hill, it’s left to Kevin Nolan to find the net.

In defence it’s a better story. Vorm, Huth, Vertonghen and Mertesacker are regular starters bought for a decent price at auction. All of which leaves plenty in the kitty going into October’s transfer window. The manager will need every penny if he wants to avoid an anonymous mid-table finish for the second consecutive season.

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(B) = player awarded under the Titus Bramble ruling

McGregor, A	HUL	£0.5m
Mertesacker, P	ARS	£6.5m
Vertonghen, J	TOT	£7m
Turner, B	CAR	£0.5m
Williamson, M	NEW	£0.5m
Hazell, S (TB)	BRA	£0.5m
Silva, D	MCY	£26m
Downing, S	WHU	£0.5m
Valencia, A	MUN	£7m
Bornini, F	SUN	£10m
Eto’o, S	CHE	£2m
		£61m

First transfer window – 5 October 2013

Starting budget: £26m, remaining budget: £9.5m, net loss: £16.5m

(Hyperlink denotes from which club player was bought)

Out				In
Pos	Player	Team	Sold	Pos	Player	Team	Value
DEF	Taylor, S	NEW	Free	DEF	Coloccini, F	NEW	£4.5m
STR	Mayuka, E (B)	SCX	Free	STR	Weimann, A	AVL	£10m
STR	Anichebe, V	EVE	Free	STR	Eto’o, S	CHE	£2m

Second transfer window – 7 February 2014

Out				In
Position	Player	Team	Sold	Position	Player	Team	Paid
GK	Vorm, M	SWA	Free	GK	McGregor, A	HUL	£0.5m
DEF	Huth, R	STO	Free	DEF	Turner, B	CAR	£0.5m
DEF	Coloccini, F	NEW	Free	DEF	Williamson, M	NEW	£0.5m
MID	Duff, D	WBA	Free	MID	Downing, S	WHU	£0.5m
MID	Nolan, K	WHU	Bramble	MID	Hazell, S (TB)	BRA	£0.5m

STR

Weimann, A

AVL

Free

STR

Bornini, F

SUN

£10m

Bala Rinas 2013/14

Manager: Lewis (Wales)

Twitter name: @jsl105

Since: 2007 (committee member – treasurer)

Last season: 13th

Trophy cabinet: Empty (highest league position – 8th in 2011/12)

Sympathies: Wrexham

Darts music: C.R.E.A.M. – Wu Tang Clan

Outlook (on 10 September 2013): The treasurer has long tried to impose his tactics on the field, but his record is not a rosy one. The second-least successful manager in league history, it took him three seasons in the wilderness to overcome the ignominy of steering The Trinny Men to last place in his debut campaign. Returning at the helm of Bala Rinas in 2011, his team’s performances on the pitch have been eclipsed by his realpolitik at Kenna HQ. Elevation to the league committee in July last year led to fierce criticism from Kenna managers who questioned the appointment’s probity.

Rumours were flying in the build up to August’s auction that the Bala Rinas boss had turned his expansive accountancy skills to squad selection and he’d devised an ingenious balance sheet to identify Kenna-winning talent. The manager’s homework appears to be paying off. In what’s being touted as a Kenna first, all eleven of the Bala Rinas team turned out for the first two competitive weeks of the season.

Another 35 weeks to go and all’s well, but with Paulinho the most expensive player at £17m, will the Bala Rinas manager live to regret his decision not to make some bigger signings? And who will he choose to jettison between Foster and Sessegnon come the October transfer window?

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Mannone, V	SUN	£0.5m
Monreal, N	ARS	£8m
Shaw, L	SOT	£5.5m
Collins, J	WHM	£0.5m
Heitinga, J	FUL	£2.5m
Fellaini, M	MUN	£0.5m
Nasri, S	MCY	£2m
Sissoko, M	NEW	£10m
Paulinho	TOT	£17m
Chamakh, M	CRY	£14m
Lukaku, R	EVE	£3m
		£63.5m

First transfer window – 5 October 2013

Starting budget: £6m, remaining budget: £6m, net profit/loss: broken even

(Hyperlink denotes club to which player was sold)

Out				In
Pos	Player	Team	Sold	Pos	Player	Team	Value
GK	Foster, B	WBA	£0.5m	GK	Stockdale, D	FUL	£0.5m

Second transfer window – 7 February 2014

Out				In
Position	Player	Team	Sold	Position	Player	Team	Paid
GK	Stockdale, D	FUL	Free	GK	Mannone, V	SUN	£0.5m
DEF	Luna, A	AVL	Free	DEF	Monreal, N	ARS	£8m
DEF	Agger, D	LIV	£5m	DEF	Heitinga, J	FUL	£2.5m
MID	Sessegnon, S	WBA	Free	MID	Fellaini, M	MUN	£0.5m
MID	Routledge, W	SWA	£1m	MID	Nasri, S	MCY	£2m

STR

Chamakh, M

CRY

£14m

Team Panda Rules OK 2013/14

Manager: George (Bromley)

Since: Debut

Sympathies: Millwall

Darts music: True Love Ways – Buddy Holly

Outlook (on 4 September 2013): The debut of the Team Panda Rules OK manager brings a raw south east England edge to the league. Known around the club as ‘The Panda’, the gaffer shares little in common with the soon-to-be-extinct bundle of joy at Edinburgh Zoo. His origins and accent more readily liken the Bromley man to an extra from hit TV show The Inbetweeners, a link cemented when he once revealed he actually went on a school geography field trip to Swanage. He maintains rumours he punched a fish and asked a pensioner at an ice cream stand whether she wanted to suck him off are purely here say.

The form of Olivier Giroud will settle the nerves of the team, even if Kane’s inactivity does the opposite. The Panda will be closely tracking Gareth Barry’s progress now the midfielder’s move to Merseyside means a choice between releasing him or Distin come the October transfer window. The rest of the side literally contains a couple of Johnsons.

With just one substitute appearance, Nani really is living up to the notion that he’s just a not very good Michael Jackson.

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Under Kenna rules, the manager must release one of the players in red at the next transfer window.

Begovic, A	STO	£7m
O’Shea, J	SUN	£11m
Lovren, D	SOT	£8.5m
Distin, S	EVE	£14m
Johnson, G	LIV	£17m
Kasami, P	FUL	£0.5m
Brunt, C	WBA	£7m
Johnson, B	NOR	£8m
Bacuna, L	AVL	£0.5m
Giroud, O	ARS	£20m
Campbell, F	CAR	£11m
		£104m

First transfer window – 5 October 2013

Starting budget: £11m, remaining budget: £0m, net loss: £11m

(Hyperlink denotes to which club player was sold)

Out				In
Pos	Player	Team	Sold	Pos	Player	Team	Paid
MID	Barry, G	EVE	£0.5m	MID	Kasami, P	FUL	£0.5m
STR	Kane, H	TOT	Free	STR	Campbell, F	CAR	£11m

Second transfer window – 7 February 2014

Out				In
Pos	Player	Team	Sold	Pos	Player	Team	Paid
MID	Nani	MUN	£0.5m	MID	Bacuna, L	AVL	£0.5m

Just Put Carles 2013/14

Manager: Carles (Catalunya)

Twitter name: @cduzpalau

Since: 2010

Last season: 5th

Trophy cabinet: Empty (highest league position – last season)

Sympathies: FC Barcelona

Darts music: Cant del Barca

Outlook (on 4 September): The Just Put Carles boss is one of a trio of Catalans in the Kenna who not in their wildest childhood dreams could have imagined emigration to the UK would end in competing at the game’s highest level. Overcoming his birth in the relative football backwater of the Costa Brava, last season the JPC boss became the Kenna’s most successful foreign manager in the league’s history by finishing in fifth position. Achievement earned the curiosity of his girlfriend, who attended last month’s auction to see for herself just what all the fuss was about. No doubt she was made to regret her decision when the new auction wildcards were unveiled.

Unlike his fellow conquistadores, the JPC manager chose to avoid the tactic of just signing Hispanic players. While Rapids de Cullons CF have five and PSV Mornington have seven, JPC boasts just Angel Rangel – an established starter who will play in defence alongside Guy Demel, Andy Wilkinson and Chris Smalling, in front of goalkeeper Tim Howard. Fernandinho, Dembele, Kacaniklic and Henderson all appear to be getting game time this campaign. Only Ba and Sanogo up front look like bench warmers.

Crucially, the manager takes £13m into the first transfer window in October, making JPC the fourth richest club in the league.

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Howard, T	EVE	£9m
Smalling, C	MUN	£1m
Rosenior, L	HUL	£2m
Rangel, A	SWA	£5m
Demel, G	WHM	£2.5m
Mutch, J	CAR	£5.5m
Fernandinho	MCY	£30m
Colback, J	SUN	£0.5m
Henderson, J	LIV	£0.5m
Walters, J	STO	£0.5m
Ameobi, Sh	NEW	£0.5m
		£57m

First transfer window – 5 October 2013

Did not attend. League membership under review.

Second transfer window – 7 February 2014

Out				In
Position	Player	Team	Sold	Position	Player	Team	Paid
DEF	Wilkinson, A	STO	Free	DEF	Rosenior, L	HUL	£2m
MID	Dembele, M	TOT	Free	MID	Mutch, J	CAR	£5.5m
MID	Kacanilkic, A	FUL	Free	MID	Colback, J	SUN	£0.5m
STR	Ba, D	CHE	Free	STR	Walters, J	STO	£0.5m
STR	Sanogo, Y	ARS	Free	STR	Ameobi, Sh	NEW	£2m

Simmering Sporting take August honours

Lesbians — Getting it on: Defending champions Sporting Lesbian start as they mean to continue (photo courtesy of MatchHerpes.com)

IN MANY ways the Kenna is a carbon copy of the Champions League. Football’s most talented managers locked in a high stakes tactical battle, scrutiny from fans and media across the globe, the thought of premium lager never far away.

The two competitive arenas share one other inescapable comparison – no manager has ever won twice on the bounce.

So it’s with great interest that everyone is watching the indomitable progress of Sporting Lesbian.

The defending champions, who won the Kenna so convincingly in May, are right back on top of the table after three competitive weeks of the season.

Podolski, Giaccherini, Wilson, Coloccini, Coleman and de Gea are all, like Mick Philpott in hero mode, setting the place on fire. Goals, assists and clean sheets are flooding in. And Stevan Jovetic hasn’t even played yet.

The omens bode well for the Sporting boss, in the last three seasons the winner of August’s MOTM award has gone on the take the title.

Things don’t look so rosy for Still Don’t Know Yet. In four of the eight Kenna seasons, the last-placed team at this stage of the campaign has gone on to be relegated.

League table

3 September 2013 - 3 of 37 — Kenna table 3 September 2013 – week 3 of 37

Weekly scores

			This week
		Manager	Points	Goals
1	Piedmonte	Phil	37	1
2	Headless Chickens	John N	33	1
3	Dynamo Charlton	Alex	32	1
4	Pikey Scum	Jack	31	1
5	Sporting Lesbian	Ben M	28	0
6	Team Panda Rules OK	George	27	1
7	Northern Monkeys	Hugo	25	0
8	Rapids De Cullons CF	Jorge	24	1
9	Newington Reds	Dudley	24	0
10	Spartak Mogadishu	Abdi	23	1
11	Hairy Fadjeetas	Aiden	23	0
12	Lokomotiv Leeds	Ben S	23	0
13	FC Testiculadew	James N	21	0
14	Lurliners	Luke	20	1
15	Just put Carles	Carles	20	0
16	PSV Mornington	El Pons	19	0
17	Young Boys	Denney	19	0
18	Bala Rinas	Lewis	15	0
19	Judean Peoples Front	Sholto	13	0
20	KS West Green	Stix	13	0
21	Still Don’t Know Yet	Pete	10	0
22	St. Reatham FC	Mike	8	0
23	This is Sparta…Prague	Rich	7	0

		Points	Player
	Player of the week	11	Davies, B – SWA – DEF
		Club	Piedmonte

Rapids de Cullons CF 2013/14

Manager: Jorge (Catalunya)

Twitter name: @BoatBarandCo

Since: 2010

Last season: Did not enter

Trophy cabinet: empty (best finish – 12th in 2010/11)

Sympathies: Barcelona

Darts music: Boat drinks – Jimmy Buffett

Outlook (on 30 August): ‘Come back to the boat’. The words sound so innocent. After eight hours of Kenna auction in the pub, the Rapids manager invited the league back to his bar: a boat moored on the River Thames. What most managers weren’t expecting (some, including the chairman, already know the boat well, and some other places) was another six hours of shooters surrounded by young Spanish women. Football aside, this is the most dangerous manager in the Kenna.

On the pitch, Rapids have the the potential to beat the manager’s last Kenna outing of 12th place. Buying players new to England’s shores is always a risk, but Negredo and Aspas are already proving to be worthy signings. The rest of the side look capable of making appearances and providing spark, although how long will it be before John Terry is hauled before the authorities on a charge of inciting racial hatred?

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Stekelenburg, M	FUL	£17m
Terry, J	CHE	£14m
Alonso, M	SUN	£2.5m
Lugano, D	WBA	£1.5m
Caulker, S	CAR	£1m
Young, A	MUN	£3.5m
de Guzman, J	SWA	£4m
Pienaar, S	EVE	£8m
Arteta, M	ARS	£10m
Negredo, A	MCY	£25m
Crouch, P	STO	£10m
		£96.5m

First transfer window – 5 October 2013

Did not attend. League membership under review.

Second transfer window – 7 February 2014

Out				In
Pos	Player	Team	Sold	Pos	Player	Team	Paid
DEF	Garrido, J	NOR	Free	DEF	Alonso, M	SUN	£2.5m
STR	Aspas, I	LIV	Free	STR	Crouch, P	STO	£10m

Pikey Scum 2013/14

Manager: Jack (Hampshire)

Since: 2005 (co-founder and committee member – charts and graphs)

Last season: 15th

Trophy cabinet: Canesten Combi Cup winner 2008, Claudio Caniggia World Cup 2006 win (under review)

Sympathies: Spurs

Darts music: I’m A Pikey – Enrique Iglesias

Outlook (on 29 August 2013): A true workhorse on the Kenna committee in producing the weekly spreadsheet, the Pikey Scum manager’s struggle to translate his enthusiasm for the league into success on the pitch has driven him to a cider-only diet. Since the validity of his 2006 World Cup tournament victory was called into question during last year’s ‘Kenna in the bag’ inquiry, a solitary Canesten Combi Cup win in 2008 is all to be found in the manager’s trophy cabinet. League form in particular is poor. The Hampshire man has languished in mid-table obscurity throughout his Kenna career.

Could he overcome eight hours on the jungle juice and use the auction to improve this season? Certainly Sturridge and Lambert are the most fashionable English strike partnership since Shearer and Owen, both scousers have started the campaign scoring goals. Joe Cole is enjoying a renaissance in east London, but how long until his familiar foes of injury and form catch up? Carrick, Sandro and Morrison are regular starters, yet workaday. More spectacular are Clichy, Azpilicueta and Jenkinson coming forward.

The Pikey Scum manager has been here before though: exciting prospects but he never can quite motivate them into a unit capable of winning the Kenna. Three Manager of the Month awards in seven years: must be the cider.

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Ruddy, J	NOR	£4.5m
Clichy, G	MCY	£19m
Shawcross, R	STO	£15m
Parr, J	CRY	£0.5m
Koscielny, L	ARS	£2.5m
Morrison, J	WBA	£9m
Elmohamady, A	HUL	£0.5m
Willian	CHE	£10m
Cole, J	WHM	£0.5m
Sturridge, D	LIV	£38m
Lambert, R	SOT	£4.5m
		£104m

First transfer window – 5 October 2013

Starting budget: £12m, remaining budget: £2.5m, net loss: £9.5m

(Hyperlink denotes from/to which club players were bought/sold)

Out				In
POS	Player	Team	Sold	POS	Player	Team	Paid
DEF	Azpilicueta, C	CHE	Free	DEF	Senderos, P	FUL	£2m
DEF	Jenkinson, C	ARS	£0.5m	DEF	Koscielny, L	ARS	£2.5m
MID	Sandro	TOT	Free	MID	Lamela, E	TOT	£5.5m

Second transfer window – 7 February 2014

Out				In
POS	Player	Team	Sold	POS	Player	Team	Paid
DEF	Senderos, P	VAL	Free	DEF	Parr, J	CRY	£0.5m
DEF	Cole, J	WHU	Free	MID	Elmohamady, A	HUL	£0.5m
MID	Carrick, M	MUN	Free	MID	Willian	CHE	£10m

St Reatham FC 2013/14

Manager: Mike (Surrey)

Twitter name: @mister76mike

Since: 2012

Last season: 20th (last place – relegated)

Trophy cabinet: Empty (best finish – last season)

Sympathies: Everton

Darts music: In Too Deep – Genesis

Outlook (on 28 August 2013): As the catastrophe of last season unfolded, the then Woking manager faced questions on all sides. Questions from fans about the the team’s dire performances, questions from the Woking board about his ineffectual transfer dealings, questions from Europol about suspected match fixing and questions from Surrey CID about why his DNA was found splashed all over the battered corpse of a female Sky Sports News presenter abandoned on Chobham Common. Somehow his alibi stood up, the Crown Prosecution Service failed to put a convincing case together and the manager was able to attend the Kenna auction at the helm of new employer St Reatham FC.

A fresh season has brought a fresh set of questions, the biggest hanging over the potato head of the manager’s star signing Wayne Rooney. Will he stay? Will he play? Now he’s got a family will be continue to ‘play away’? How is he supposed to form a strike partnership Gerard Deulofeu when the Catalan doesn’t start a game? How does one pronounce ‘Deulofeu’? Is it ‘Jew-Low-Few’? Will the Anti-Defamation League come down on Kenna HQ like a ton of bricks for that comment? Has the Society of Black Lawyers forgotten that incident when they came down on the Kenna? Does the surname of Victor Moses qualify him for more protection from the Anti-Defamation League or would the Society of Black Lawyers take precedence? Will Victor Moses have his own Exodus? To where?

All these questions and many more will be answered over the course of the next few weeks. All the while the St Reatham FC manager will look in the mirror each morning to find an answer the most pertinent enquiry: can he get away with it again?

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Foster, B	WBA	£0.5m
Delaney, D	CRY	£0.5m
Walker, K	TOT	£17m
Kompany, V	MCY	£5m
Sagna, B	ARS	£5m
Giaccherini, E	SUN	£0.5m
Nolan, K	WHU	£0.5m
Moses, V	CHE	£0.5m
Dyer, N	SWA	£3m
Deulofeu, G	EVE	£16m
Rooney, W	MUN	£39m
		£100m

First transfer window – 5 October 2013

Starting budget: £10m, remaining budget: £4m, net loss: £6m

(Hyperlink denotes from which club player was bought)

Out				In
Pos	Player	Team	Sold	Pos	Player	Team	Value
GK	Mannone, V	SUN	Free	GK	Foster, B	WBA	£0.5m
MID	Yoshida, M	SOT	Free	DEF	Kompany, V	MCY	£5m
MID	Westwood, A	AVL	Free	MID	Ramirez, G	SOT	£0.5m

Second transfer window – 7 February 2014

Out				In
Pos	Player	Team	Sold	Pos	Player	Team	Value
DEF	Martin, R	NOR	Free	DEF	Delaney, D	CRY	£0.5m
MID	Diame, M	WHU	Free	MID	Giaccherini, E	SUN	£0.5m
MID	Ramirez, G	SOT	Free	MID	Nolan, K	WHU	£0.5m

PSV Mornington 2013/14

Manager: El Pons (Catalunya)

Twitter name: @RamonPonsUK

Since: 2009

Last season: 10th

Trophy cabinet: empty (best finish – 9th in 2009/10)

Sympathies: Barcelona

Darts music: La Bamba – Ritchie Valens

Outlook (on 27 August 2013): The original Catalan import, the PSV manager was a Kenna regular long before London’s trendiest bars sold Estrella Damm in bottles, let alone on tap. Unfortunately, that wealth of experience has only brought the antimadridista three mid-table finishes and the ignominy of last-placed relegation in 2010/11. His most notable contribution to the Kenna remains the acrimonious El Gran Cat fight scandal in April 2012, when a war of words erupted with rival Catalan the Just Put Carles manager.

Santi Cazorla and Jose Enrique aside, this season’s PSV team look to continue the mediocre tradition. Robles and Muniesa haven’t yet left the bench; Amorebieta, Gutierrez, N’Zogbia and Carroll are all injured; and commentators still use the words ‘confidence’ and ‘lack of’ when speaking of Fernando Torres. Support for the side’s top talent is left up to a battling-for-his-place Jolean Lescott and Leroy ‘The Bouncer’ Fer.

It’s only a matter of time before yet again the high pressure of the Kenna forces the PSV manager to seek tactical inspiration by locking himself in his office with a week’s supply of arroz con leche and a cardboard cutout of Pep Guardiola.

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Robles, J	EVE	£0.5m
Kelly, M	LIV	£0.5m
Amat, J	SWA	£0.5m
Lescott, J	MCY	£1.5m
Amorebieta, F	FUL	£2m
Nani	MUN	£0.5m
Cazorla, S	ARS	£30m
Westwood, A	AVL	£0.5m
Fer, L	NOR	£0.5m
Torres, F	CHE	£30m
Carroll, A	WHM	£15m
		£81.5m

First transfer window – 5 October 2013

Did not attend. League membership under review.

Second transfer window – 7 February 2014

Out				In
Pos	Player	Team	Sold	Pos	Player	Team	Paid
DEF	Enrique, J	LIV	Free	DEF	Kelly, M	LIV	£0.5m
DEF	Muniesa, M	STO	Free	DEF	Amat, J	SWA	£0.5m
MID	Gutierrez, J	NOR	Free	MID	Nani	MUN	£0.5m

MID

N’Sommnia

AVL

Free

MID

Westwood, A

AVL

£0.5m

Young Boys of Vauxhall 2013/14

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