Even the players are resigned to the prospect of starting their Premier League campaign without him.

No move materialised though and he remained in the club's 25 man squad for the second half of their Premier League campaign.

The Tigers finished the 2009 Premier League campaign in 8th place.

Who scored the first goal of the 2009-10 Premier League campaign?

This came during a poor Premier League campaign in which he only finished in sixth place.

As such, he was not named in Blackpool's 24-man squad for the start of their Premier League campaign the following season.

He was the Wolves' only ever present player in their Premier League campaign of 2003-04 that saw them relegated.

Reading, by contrast, have the experience of two Premier League campaigns between 2006 and 2008.

United began the season on 20 August 2012, by commencing their Premier League campaign.

He did not feature in the 2004-05 Premier League campaign.