Manager: Ben M (Cumbria)
Twitter name: @BenMarcangelo
Since: 2012
Home ground: Todger Dodger Street
Training facility: The Dyke
Last season: 8th
Trophy cabinet: Champions 2012/13 and 2014/15
Kenna Index rating TBC
2012/13 – 1st
2013/14 – 8th
2014/15 – 1st
2015/16 – missed auction due to washing machine delivery
2016/17 – 8th
Sympathies: Liverpool
Darts music: Lesbian Seagull – David van Driessen
What the chalkstripes are saying in Kenna HQ speculations department: Form has the Sporting manager finishing either champions or eighth. With Bill Cosby in midfield he’s probably looking at the latter again – 30/1
Second transfer window – Friday 4 February 2018
Remaining budget: £19m
Player sales: Mkhitaryan to ISIL for £18m
| Begovic, A | BOU | £1.00 |
| Walker, K | MCY | £8.00 |
| Soares, C | SOT | £0.50 |
| Mee, B | BUR | £0.50 |
| Fernandez, F (TW1) | SWA | £0.50 |
| Valencia, A (TW2 – from Piss Poor) | MUN | £0.50 |
| Salah, M | LIV | £32.00 |
| Kante, N | CHE | £0.50 |
| Walcott, T (TW2) | EVE | £18.00 |
| Kenedy (TW2) | NEW | £0.50 |
| Lacazette, A | ARS | £35.00 |
| £98m |
First transfer window – Friday 6 October 2017
Remaining budget: £10m
| Begovic, A | BOU | £1.00 |
| Walker, K | MCY | £8.00 |
| Soares, C | SOT | £0.50 |
| Mee, B | BUR | £0.50 |
| Fernandez, F (TW1) | SWA | £0.50 |
| Dawson, C | WBA | £2.00 |
| Mkhitaryan, H | ARS | £18.00 |
| Salah, M | LIV | £32.00 |
| Kante, N (TW1) | CHE | £0.50 |
| Llorente, F (TW1) | TOT | £0.50 |
| Lacazette, A | ARS | £35.00 |
| £98.50 |
Auction XI (5-4-1)
Remaining budget: £1.5m
| Begovic, A | BOU | £1.00 |
| Walker, K | MCY | £8.00 |
| Soares, C | SOT | £0.50 |
| Mee, B | BUR | £0.50 |
| Kaboul, Y | WAT | £0.50 |
| Dawson, C | WBA | £2.00 |
| Mkhitaryan, H | MUN | £18.00 |
| Salah, M | LIV | £32.00 |
| Cosby, B | BRM | £0.50 |
| Lamela, E | TOT | £0.50 |
| Lacazette, A | ARS | £35.00 |
| £98.50 |
