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New FPL Transfers Bournemouth Nathan Ake and Jermain Defoe

New FPL Transfers Bournemouth Nathan Ake and Jermain Defoe

New FPL Transfers Bournemouth Nathan Ake and Jermain Defoe

Hello and welcome to New FPL Transfers Bournemouth Nathan Ake and Jermain Defoe. Cookie gets United’s latest additions, of course Init takes Everton and Matt has cherry picked Arsenal & City. And what about Kop I hear you ask? Well due to Liverpool’s insistence on writing apology letters rather than acquiring new players I’ve chosen Bournemouth! Why? I’m wondering that myself and should I come up with a worthwhile answer I’ll be sure to let you know. Enough about me, what about Bournemouth. This will be their 3rd straight season in the top flight finishing 16th in 2015/16 and 9th last season. They’ll certainly hope to continue on such a trajectory. To date they’ve added three players to their squad, spending a club record £20m on Nathan Ake who featured on loan for them last season. Sticking with former loan players they’ve also brought Jermain Defoe back to the club while they’ve also invested in goalkeeper Asmir Begovic. For now we’ll concentrate on the FPL prospects of Ake & Defoe.

Nathan Ake
Defender
FPL Price: £5.0m

Nathan Ake, remember him? Of course you do. How could we forget him after everyone got their knickers in a twist when Chelsea recalled him from his loan at Bournemouth last season. He was going to be a cheap route into the Chelsea defence, however he only featured twice towards the end of the season! Given some of the hysteria surrounding Ake (in FPL circles!) last season I was surprised to note that he only made 10 league appearances (two of which were cameos) for Bournemouth last season, he did however score three times during that period. He also helped Bournemouth pick up three clean sheets in his time on the south coast last season. Bournemouth’s defence certainly wasn’t their strong suit last year, only four teams conceded more goals! They will be hoping that the arrival of Ake and Asmir Begovic will help solidify a porous defence.

So what of his FPL prospects? Last season’s defensive stats are unlikely to inspire confidence and their opening fixtures are certainly a mixed bag. Relatively easy games against West Brom, Watford and Brighton are offset against more difficult games versus Arsenal, City and Everton. Perhaps the key to owning Ake is to identify someone who rotates well with him. The arrival of Ake could see club captain Simon Francis consigned to a place on the bench which would mean that Bournemouth’s likely back four are all priced at £5.0m. With new signing Jermain Defoe and last season’s hero Josh King vying for spot kick duties left back Charlie Daniels is unlikely to take any but he could yet prove a more enticing option than Ake.

Jermain Defoe
Forward
FPL Price: £8.0m

Modern day footballers are oft described as prima donnas and more often than not there is an element of justification to this but Jermain Defoe is undoubtedly one of the good guys. The time he spent with Bradley Lowery before the youngster sadly passed away means I and many others now hold Defoe in a much different light. But what about Defoe the footballer? He’s a goal scorer, nothing more nothing less. In total he has scored 198 goals in 535 league appearances. This will in fact be his second stint at Bournemouth having scored 18 times in 29 league appearances during a loan spell on the south coast back in 2000-01 when Bournemouth were in the 2nd Division which is now known as League One. It was so much easier when we had the 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th divisions! Many assumed his career was over when he moved to Toronto in 2014 but he was soon back in the Premier League with Sunderland where he scored 15 top flight goals in each of the last two seasons.

So what of his FPL prospects? I honestly can’t make up my mind! My initial reaction was that at £8.0m he’s too expensive to be played as your 3rd striker but having given it some thought I’m now not so sure. The general consensus when playing 3-4-3 is that our 3rd striker should be circa £6.0m – £7.0m (although I suspect that this consensus might very well change this season and the average 3rd striker could be priced at £10.m!) but these strikers more often than not are not overly reliable. Defoe on the other hand is reliable and could easily finish up with 15 goals again this season and if your 3rd striker is picking up 15 goals you’ll do ok. Should things go well for both Bournemouth and Defoe there’s possibly an argument to be made for making him your 2nd striker but this is not something worth considering at this early stage and with so many big hitters available up top this season it’s probably just a pipe dream. For now I certainly wouldn’t be concerned to see Defoe as a 3rd striker in a RMT!!

Thanks for reading New FPL Transfers Bournemouth Nathan Ake and Jermain Defoe . This article was written by Kop Warrior


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  1. 2
    migs says:

    Morning all. Thanks for the new write up Kop! What a great guy Defoe is for what he did for Brad, was a really sad story.

    Not sure either of these boys will make my team tho. Really struggling to decide how to go about this season because of all the quality forwards and their mammoth price tags! Mids did outscore strikers last season tho, but not sure that will be the same this season.

  2. 3
    SOover says:

    Hi everyone!

    I know it’s still a bit early as many things will still change before the season starts. Anyway, new season is getting closer and I was hoping to get some feedback on my current draft.

    • 3.1

      @SoOver, Hard to fault a bunch, but maybe let me suggest that you monitor Bellerin and Loftus-Cheek. It doesn’t seem to be that they are sure starters. According to De Boer, RLC has to work himself into the team so one to watch there. As far as Bellerin goes, if Arsenal run a 3 back then there is a chance that Ox takes the wing back role from him.

      • SOover says:

        Thanks for the feedback Mito!

        RLC -> Carroll is very likely depending how pre-season goes

        I first had Kolasinac but thought Bellerin might be more certain to start. I really like Arsenal wing backs if they play like the end of last season.

  3. 4
    inittowinit says:

    Many thanks for this Kop. Bit early for me to say yet as I haven’t picked a team but Defoe is definitely on my short list for the 3rd spot, at least to begin with. A lot depends on what route I decide to take though with all these big forward options.

  4. 5

    Thanks Kop, that Ake is a nice player. Was looking through a while back to see if there was any chance that Eddie would put him at CDM, but he never deployed him there last season according to the line-ups. Kinda wish he would as I think the kid make a good one and he be more justifiable in FPL id he were deployed there.

  5. 6
    DMC says:

    Manquillo joines Newcastle – over to you Rosco/Milburn

    • 6.1
      Rosco77 says:

      Well my Boss is a Sunderland fan so I asked him, his answer ‘he’s shite’ …But lets face it, other than Defoe and Pickford the team as a whole was god awful. He’s only 23 learnt his trade at both Madrid clubs and played 31 games for Marseille so he can’t be that bad! I’ll be reserving judgement until I’ve watched him play!
      I think the fact he can play at both full backs will mean he’s probably seen as cover for Yedlin and Dummett but who knows, if he performs he could make one of those spots his own!

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