New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 Lukasz Fabianski, Jack Wilshere and Felipe Anderson
Manuel Pellegrini has been a busy boy since taking over from Moyesie at West Ham. A re-invention of the squad was required after a season of underperformance last season and this article will focus on three of the Hammers ‘newbies’. Keeper Lukasz Fabianski was so desperate to leave Wales that he not only travelled the length of the M4 but half way around the M25 too, Jack Wilshere took the slightly shorter route from North London to come ‘home’, while Felipe Anderson decided that he’d rather ply his trade in Stratford than Rome. It’s a strange old world but the lure of Pellegrini was clearly strong for all three so let’s have a look at all three to determine if any are viable FPL possibilities.
Lukasz Fabianski
West Ham
FPL price: 4.5mln
Lukasz Fabianski is of course a name well known to us having impressed at Swansea City before joining West Ham in the summer. Clean sheets have been fairly sparse for the keeper in his time at Swansea – he produced 13 in 2014/15 but only 9, 8 & 9 in the following three seasons. However, it is his save points that has seen Fabianski outperform many of his similarly priced rivals, producing well over 100 saves in each of the past four seasons, ranking in the top 3 in each season and topping the charts for saves last season.
The only keepers to score more FPL points than Fabianski were DDG & Ederson.
Therefore his price of 4.5mln looks attractive.
The Hammers of course face a tricky run of fixtures to begin with but the fixture argument seems fairly irrelevant where Fabianksi is concerned, as is highlighted above in his time at Swansea. Given his FPL history he may just prove to be as much as a ‘set and forget’ as DDG or Ederson – sure there will likely be less clean sheets, but there will surely be more save and bonus points. The Pole scored 15 less points than DDG last season in what was deemed an overperformance by many FPL stat ‘experts’ – if they are proven to be correct then surely a 4.5mln Fabianski + 1.5mln in the bank surely deserves at least some serious consideration?
Jack Wilshere
West Ham
FPL price: 5.0mln
Ah good ol’ Jack, the Arsenal lad who was actually a West Ham fan as a boy, according to the man himself: “It feels special. Many people know that I’ve had a special bond with this club growing up. I’ve got good memories of my childhood supporting West Ham, watching them at Upton Park.” Between banter-filled afternoon/evenings on the Chicken Run at the Boleyn through to a 10-year career at Arsenal, Jack has suffered 13 serious injuries which curtailed what promised to be more than a promising career for Arsenal and England. It could have been so different – Wilshere came of age for Arsenal back in 2011 when he dominated a Champions League tie vs a Barcelona midfield consisting of Xavi, Iniesta & Busquets. That remains the highlight of Wilshere’s career and it will need all the efforts of the Hammers’ medical staff and a whole load of luck if Wilshere can come anywhere close to emulating those days of seven years ago.
If he can stay fit then West Ham have a hugely creative and combative midfielder and at 5mln he could prove to be a bargain for FPL managers.
Manuel Pellegrini admits that the club will need to tailor a special fitness plan for the midfielder who is still only 26 years old – “We are doing a plan with the doctor with him and with the physical manager. We are trying to do a different thing with him so he can be comfortable. And not to try to play every game of the season because he must work in a different way.”
My view for now is that West Ham’s tough fixtures give us the excuse to observe Wilshere to see how he settles, find out his role in the team and most importantly track his fitness.
Felipe Anderson
West Ham
FPL price: 7.0mln
Felipe Anderson became West Ham’s record signing when he completed his move from Lazio for £36mln in June. Anderson or Pipe as he likes to be called scored 34 goals in 177 appearances and recorded 31 assists. Just 25 years old, Anderson won an Olympic gold medal for Brazil at the 2016 games and has been linked to clubs such as Chelsea and Manchester United over the past few seasons.
A pacy attacking midfielder he will be seen by Hammers fans as a creator rather than a scorer and his critics will argue that his potential has thus far been unfulfilled. A concern is his physique for the Premier League with the fear that he may be knocked off the ball too easily. If he can overcome this and settle into Premier League life he could prove an interesting FPL prospect under Pellegrini, who is an intelligent manager and understands who is ideal for the system he wants to use.
West Ham director of football, Mario Husillos, is quoted as saying, “We believe we have signed one of the most exciting talents in European football” – it’s now time for Pipe to live up to this and realise his potential. Like Wilshere, it’s a watch and wait.
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Ben Gibson to Burnley for £15m
That’s a nice signing for them. Probably trying to make up for the Hart signing.
Hi guys,
Played around with a team a little over the last 48 hours, and wondered if I could get a little feedback on where I am at right now.
Ederson
TAA Cedric Luiz Shaw
Salah Pedro Sanchez
Zaha Aguero Firmino
Bench: Steklenburg, Wan-Bissaka, Oriol Romeu, Stephens
Attack wise I am generally quite happy, but think my defence needs work. Long team I expect to swap TAA for Lovren (when he returns) and Shaw for an Arsenal defender.
Any advice on the current team, or any suggestions as to how I could strengthen?
Cheers
Elcfc
Attack is stacked, well done.
So long as Luiz starts tomorrow, I think you’ll be OK with him. Watch Jose’s comments on Shaw when they come out next week.
I think Trent is a risk.
Klopp said he is in contention. Matip is injured, Joe will go in at Centre, so TAA seems safe for GW1. Having said that, I have gone for VVD
There’s Clyne as well though.
Not saying he won’t play, I just think it’s a risk at 5.0M.
Hi guys, thanks for the feedback!
I recognise that TAA is a risk, but would like to get into that Liverpool defence early – he will be replaced with Lovren at some point
Agree regarding Luiz, but based on pre-season friendlies I am hopeful he will start
Shaw is a risk, but I would only want him for 2 GW’s away, so hoping he will starting both of the first 2!
So, how many FFF exiles are there here? I just got back in after realising it was only a week away….ooops…….
There are quite a few P. Glad you found us 🙂
Ah, great
I am not alone!
While it is not the same as FFF (maybe, a sign of my old age), it is okay.
Wish mosc1938 were around.
mosc is here too mate
We’ll take ‘okay’ I guess, shucks you guys are hard to please!
Its ‘OKAY’ cheeky git.
Well said Srivathsa!
Oh how I do miss FFF, haha :woot:
Zed you’re more than welcome here but if you miss it that much you’re more than welcome to go back there too…………………………………………………..
😉
Oh lordy, the boats are being turned away 😉
Zed, I agree with init here. You need to wake up and realize that FFF is now a history and regardless how much you miss it perhaps it’s time to appreciate the warm welcome we’ve received on here and enjoy it.
I love that ‘it is okay’ comment.
I’ve a hope that a few more will manage to dig theselves out, but all things must pass and there have been plenty of okish-seeming new people to get to know.
I love that “it’s okay” comment as well, so sincere!!
@Ivan Yea, I agree I’m very appreciative of the welcome, and don’t get me wrong, there are great people here on FF247! I was just loving pjlill comment as I so know where he’s coming from
Well pjlill, it’s not politically correct to talk like this about the FFF refugees :smiling:
We’re an open asylum.
I’ve never been politically correct, what can I say? 😉
Welcome pjlill, there’s been loads check in over the summer. I’m sure you’ll see them all this week at some point.
Looking forward to it. Though it might be a few weeks – it’s holiday time now…..
I’m here, but no more articles about predictions. A prediction competition is available here but not the same as FFF. I’m am sure you will do fine in it. Good to hear from you.
Good to see you mosc
What’s FFF?
The old home of above set of so called refugees… “FantasyFootballFirst” ! … Nice thread to keep the sweet memories alive.
Sounds like the Second Coming the way these lot bang on about it 😆
Some of them don’t know the backstory, it’s only banter for them. Once the season starts, if it doesn’t stop I’ll talk to them.
Just banter, no offense intended. Glad to be over here.
Now hopefully SZ isn’t going to be talking to me :O
Thanks for all these articles guys.
I just made a quick check to see if I missed anything obvious regarding new players coming to PL, and I just realised that one of the biggest signings of the summer was Fred at Man United.
Any thoughts on this guy?
Frenchie
Very quiet on here on him so one would assume that he’s not going to be amongst the fantasy points. Central defensive midfielder as I understand?
A goal roughly every ten games at Shakhtar doesn’t thrill.
Thanks GP, fair enough.
I somehow thought he was more offensive but I didn’t know much about him to be honest.
It could be good for Pogba though.
Not for points mate. He’ll be a good signing for Utd though
This is good lots of players on here this is what we want bring the season on
See Groß scored again tonight. Could be overlooking this guy.
I thought so, but then looked at the fixtures. Mare
Bear in mind he scored against Tottenham and Manchester United last season though.
And got 2 bonus points once while he got no goals or assists… 😉
As a non-owner that was really annoying!
Good to hear that you are on board here. It’s a great site much like the old one.