Vasco De Beauvoir
Posted: August 28, 2012 Filed under: Managers, Stix (chairman) | Tags: ali al-habsi, auction, fabio borini, fantasy football, fantasy premier league, football, gareth mcauley, ian harte, jermaine pennant, jonas gutierrez, khumalo, leroy lita, ramires, relegation battle, rio ferdinand, soccer, sports, titus bramble, tomas rosicky, tony hibbert, world cup 2010 Leave a commentManager: Stix (Worcestershire)
Twitter name: @jeffkennaleague
Since: 2005 (co-founder and Chairman)
Last season: 16th
Trophy cabinet: Champions 2005/06, treble in 2009/2010 (league, cup, Khumalo World Cup 2010)
Sympathies: Kidderminster Harriers
Darts music: Highway to the Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
Outlook: People used to say that Brazil were the Vasco De Beauvoir of world football, but those heady, summer, treble-winning days of 2010 seem a Rory Delap throw in away looking at the club’s current shower. In what’s become known as the most epic Bramble of all time, £40m Sergio Aguero was replaced in the auction by Leroy Lita, but a month-long lay off with injury means not even the prolific Argentine could have dragged this bunch of misfits to anything but a relegation battle. Tomas ‘Little Mozart’ Rosicky, himself off until October with injury, should be preparing a requiem for the manager’s chances of being employed come May.
(B) = player awarded under the Titus Bramble ruling
Al-Habsi, A | WIG | £2.5m |
Harte, I | REA | £10m |
Nastasic, M | MCY | £13m |
Ferdinand, R | MUN | £6.5m |
McAuley, G | WBA | £0.5m |
Gutierrez, J | NEW | £5m |
Etherington, M | STO | £0.5m |
Puncheon, J | SOT | £29m |
Ramires | CHE | £12m |
Ruiz, B | FUL | £0.5m |
Podolski, L | ARS | £40m |
Total | £119.5m |
Second transfer window – 1 February 2013
Out | In | ||||
Kolorov, A | MCY | £19m | Nastasic, M | MCY | £13m |
Surman, A | NOR | £0.5m | Puncheon, J | SOT | £29m |
First transfer window – 26 October 2012
Out | In | ||||
Hibbert, T | EVE | £5m | Kolarov, A | MCY | £19m |
Pennant, J | STO | £1m | Etherington, M | STO | £0.5m |
Rosicky, T | ARS | £1.5m | Surman, A | NOR | £0.5m |
Borini, F | LIV | £19m | Ruiz, B | FUL | £0.5m |
Lita, L (B) | SWA | £20m | Podolski, L | ARS | £40m |