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.
Thanks for reading New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 Lukasz Fabianski, Jack Wilshere and Felipe Anderson. This article was written by Cookie
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Morning all
How are your teams coming along?
Currently on this at the minute but not convinced this is the one to get me through the first few GWs.
Morning Mitro,
Looks as solid as any. Very few seem to be plumping for Burnley at the back but their fixtures look good.
Why schelotto?
Looks good. Bold going Aguero and Auba. I’m not sure Austin will play enough for me. Team news is important on Cedric and TAA
hey guys how are you all? only 6 days to go!!!! let me know what you all think..
just a heads up, kane kdb and salah are self explanatory as if they hit the ground running good luck getting them in to your team and as they are the most expensive, in the event they injure themselves its an automatic gain in money… zaha could explode this season, king is in due to their first 10 fixtures of playing 1 top team, miky and richarlison im not so thrilled about as i would love to have son from spurs but then that means downgrading to another 4.5mill player… defence is kind of the same… basically i just think you have to have those 3 premium players in or you are busted..gimme your thoughts
Sounds like you’re already pretty set on your big decisions mate!
Your defence looks dodgy for the first gw fixtures-wise. Is maguire back and likely to start? Is bellerin nailed on?
or this team???
im unsure but that could possible be tinkered with, anything youd advise for defence?
Can’t really see it
ederson
bellerin maguire cedris
salah kdb miky son
zaha king aguero
speroni stepehens malone suttner
Son is only available for GW1 and then heads to the Asian games.
thank you for the update, any further tips?
Looks good think Puel has said Maguire won’t play first game. Bellerin is rotation risk. Son Asia games after first game. Peltier and wan Bissaka are better 4 million options
Your attack is good but your defence is too risky as you may end up with 0 playing defenders GW1. Your bench is horrific! C- from me!
Mhki and son to £6.5s and then something like the following:
Suttner – Wan Bis
Malone – £4.5
Maguire – Roberson
Bellerin – anyone up to £6.5
Morning all,
Arsenal, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Southampton, Spurs, Watford, Wolves all in action today.
Looking forward to King, Austin, Armstrong, Cedric, Richarlison, Deulofeu (does he play)… To name but a few… It’s scouting time!!
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Meyer (Crystal Palace) – 6mln
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6m interesting
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hey all. hope your well. first post since the last day of last season. first draft of my squad is below. let me know what you think or any players i should transfer out/in.
Hey Eresh. How are you mate? Mendy and KDB probably won’t start GW1 maybe 2 but you have a bench to cover them. Maitland-Niles won’t play much so I’d replace him.
cheers matt. good points. how you been? hows your GW1 team draft going? Excited for LFC this new season? hope we get some silverware
Not been too bad mate. I’ve about 4 drafts in 3 formations I’m messing about with so waiting for CS tomorrow to narrow it down for me but should be near final product.
I think we will be very good this year. Probably won’t beat City for the title but pushing them close will be enough of an improvement for me. Yeah an FA Cup or Carabao Cup would be nice just to give the players a bit of confidence but we will have to wait and see
true matt. tomorrow will be a good indicator before the final changes on friday.
here is another draft i did. u think this is better than my previous one?
I like this team better mate but you still need too keep an eye on Luiz and Bailly
That’s Cookie’s team
which 1 frenchie
? my first or second squad
1st one. He posted exactly the same a couple of days ago.
Kolasinac out for a few months.
ahh no
hey AT. how is it going mate? clicking your name redirects to Stephen Michael page. have you changed your name recently? 😛
He had to change it after the sex tape scandal 😉
Stephen Michael is my name at the weekend 😉
Haven’t changed it from last year’s link as IT locked me out of changing my profile information so couldn’t do anything about it! I’ll see if he has ‘got round to it’
I’m well thank you, mate, how are you?
haha right. im good mate. messing about with the formation
I’ve reverted back to 3-4-3 now. It was inevitable.
was mostly 3-5-2 last season. thinking about 4-4-2 to start off the few GW. whats your current setup looking like if you are able to show?
I’m toying with the idea of a 3-5-2 if I get cold feet on Firmino (in which case I will get Mane instead).
Definitely not set in stone at the moment. Waiting on the CS tomorrow. Mendy potentially missing GW1 would be a bummer for my current squad.
The players I believe who are nailed in my squad if fit and expected to play are: Heaton, Robertson, Shaw, Mendy/Laporte, Salah, Mahrez, Jota, Aguero, Firmino. Rest is subject to change
sounds pretty good. hope after tomorrow your selection would be easy to sort out
Monreal nailed now?
Got to be
Cheers Smash. Might keep and eye on it in the first 2 or 3 games but could be good differential.
Yeah I’m kind of looking at Arsenal and thinking see how they set up first two games and then going from there
Yeah That’s it! I think they will be better this season.
Yeah I certainly see some value there
Should have been the other way round, Monreal injured so the 5.0m Kola was nailed… Well, at least might be more comfortable starting the season with Sideshow Bob, and if he’s not nailed easy swap for Monreal in GW3 for those juicy fixtures…