For a club so associated with financial calamity Accrington Stanley have been displaying

For a club so associated with financial calamity, Accrington Stanley have been displaying a remarkable amount of entrepreneurial zeal in the past week. The club are optimistically auctioning off a programme and ticket from the recent Nationwide League Annual Congress and promoting a £5 “bumper programme” for next Tuesday’s home match against Darlington

They have very good reason to be so busy. 11 Lee Trundle(Swansea City) Now: Still in League One, with Swansea 12 Ashley Young (Watford) Now in the Premiership Promoted with Watford 13 Bobby Convey (Reading) Now in the Premiership Promoted with Reading. 14 Nigel Quashie (Southampton) Now: Back in the Championship Transferred to then Premiership West Bromwich in January 15 Mark Kennedy (Wolves) Now: Still in the Championship Transferred to Crystal Palace during the summer 16 Seol Ki Hyeon (Wolves) Now in the Premiership Transferred to Reading in the summer 17 Matty Fryatt (Walsall) Now in the Championship Transferred to Leicester in January 18 Nicky Shorey (Reading) Now in the Premiership Promoted with Reading. 5 Cameron Jerome (Cardiff City) Now: Still in the Championship Transferred to Birmingham City during the summer 6 Kevin Doyle (Reading) Now in the Premiership Promoted with Reading 7 Dean Ashton (Norwich City) Now in the Premiership Transferred to West Ham United in January 8 Kenny Miller (Wolves) Now in the Scottish Premier League Transferred to Celtic during the summer 9 Joleon Lescott (Wolverhampton W) Now in the Premiership Transferred to Everton during the summer 10 Danny Webber (Sheffield United) Now in the Premiership Promoted with Sheffield United. Only seven of those players will figure as the Football League season kicks off today. In a vindication of The Independent’s experts, 12 are now with Premiership clubs, having been promoted or transferred into the top flight, and one – Kenny Miller – is in the Scottish Premier League, at Celtic.

Another, Nigel Quashie, did move into the Premiership, with West Bromwich Albion, but was relegated again. In: addition Matty Fryatt, with Walsall at the time of the survey, stepped up a level to the Championship club Leicester. Of the remaining five players, two have been transferred within the Championship, to clubs whose promotion odds are shorter than the those of the ones they have left 1 PHIL JAGIELKA (Sheffield United) Now in the Premiership Promoted with Sheffield United 2 Andy Johnson (Crystal Palace) Now in the Premiership Transferred to Everton during the summer 3 Steve Sidwell (Reading) Now in the Premiership Promoted with Reading 4 Theo Walcott (Southampton) Now in the Premiership Transferred to Arsenal in January. Whatever happened to…? The top 20 players outside the Premiership By Glenn Moore Last December, on the eve of the opening of the January transfer window, The Independent surveyed a panel of managers and pundits to determine the ” top 20 players outside the Premiership” under the age of 30.

Key Free unless stated; rel = released; ret = retired; undisc = undisclosed. Outs: Joleon Lescott (Everton, £5.5m), Seol Ki -Hyeon (Reading, £1.5m), Colin Cameron (Coventry), Kenny Miller (Celtic, undisc), Mark Kennedy (Crystal Palace), Keith Lowe (Brighton, loan), Silas, Darren Anderton, Maurice Ross, Stefan Postma (all rel). Outs: Wayne Gray (Yeovil), Carl Petterfer (Oxford), Mark Bentley & Duncan Jupp (both Gillingham), Andy Edwards, Shaun Goater, Franck Moussa (all rel), Bart Griemink (ret). * STOKE CITY Manager Tony Pulis In: Vincent Pericard (Portsmouth) Outs: Karl Henry (Wolves, £100,000), Ed De Goey (rel). * SUNDERLAND Caretaker Kevin Richardson In: Kenny Cunningham (Birmingham).

Outs: Julio Arca (Middlesbrough, £1.75m), Kelvin Davis (Southampton, £1m), Andy Gray (Burnley, £750,000), Joe Murphy (Scunthorpe), Gary Breen (Wolves), Martin Woods (Rotherham), Sean Taylor (rel). * WEST BROMWICH ALBION Manager Bryan Robson Ins: John Hartson (Celtic, undisc), Michael Nardiello (Liverpool, undisc), Chris Perry (Charlton), Pascal Zuberb?r (Basle). Outs: Geoff Horsfield (Sheffield United, £1.2m), Andy Johnson (Leicester), Brian Smikle (Kidderminster), Lloyd Dyer (MK Dons). * WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS Manager Mick McCarthy Ins: Karl Henry (Stoke, £100,000), Gary Breen (Sunderland), Denes Rosa (Ferencvaros), Jay Bothroyd (Charlton), Guilherme Finkler (Juventude, loan), Jamie Clapham (Birmingham). Outs: Danny Higginbotham (Stoke, £225,000), Yoann Folly (Sheffield Wednesday, undisc), Darren Kenton (Leicester), Paul Smith (Nottingham Forest), Leon Best (Bournemouth, loan), Matt Oakley, Marian Pahars, Jim Brennan (all rel). * SOUTHEND UNITED Manager Steve Tilson Ins: Michael Ricketts (Leeds), Simon Francis (Sheffield United), Steve Collis (Yeovil), Steven Hammell (Motherwell), Jamal Campbell-Ryce (Rotherham).

Outs: Drissa Diallo & Jon-Paul McGovern (both MK Dons), Craig Rocastle (Oldham), Ritchie Partridge (Rotherham), Patrick CollIns: (Darlington), David Graham (Bradford, loan), David Lucas (rel). * SOUTHAMPTON Manager George Burley Ins: Gregorz Rasiak (Tottenham, £2m), Rudi Skacel (Hearts, £1.6m), Kelvin Davis (Sunderland, £1m), Bradley Wright-Phillips (Manchester City, undisc), Pele (Belenenses, undisc), Jermaine Wright (Leeds), Mario Licka (FC Slovacko), John Viafara (Portsmouth), Marcelo Sarmiento (Club Atletico Racing de Cordoba, loan). * SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY Manager Paul Sturrock Ins: Wade Small (MK Dons, undisc), Yoann Folly (Southampton, undisc), Madjid Bougherra (Gueugnon, undisc), Kenny Lunt (Crewe), Brad Jones (Middlesborough, loan). Outs: Claude Davis (Sheffield United, £2.5m), Tyrone Mears (West Ham, £1m), Chris Lucketti (Sheffield United, £300,000), Gavin Ward (Tranmere), Richie Baker (Bury), Dave Hibbert (Rotherham, loan), Mark Jackson (rel). * QUEEN’S PARK RANGERS Manager Gary Waddock Ins: Damion Stewart (Bradford), Egutu Oliseh (La Louvi?), Armel Tchakounte (Kitchee FC), Nick Ward (Perth Glory), Adam Czerkas (Kolporter Korona, loan). Outs: Ugo Ukah (Nourese Calcio, undisc), Dean Sturridge (Kidderminster), Richard Langley (Luton), Georges Santos, Ryan Johnson, Sammy Youssouf, Luke Townsend (all rel).