New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 Richarlison and James Maddison
Hello and welcome to New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 Richarlison and James Maddison. We continue our look at new Premier League transfers by focusing on two promising mid-priced attacking midfielders, namely Everton’s Richarlison and Leicester’s James Maddison. Richarlison you will likely remember from his time at Watford last season while you may not know so much about James Maddison unless you followed the Championship. Both midfielders are priced at 6.5mln and would appear to offer good value for money. They both also have the advantage of starting the season at their new clubs with decent looking fixtures.
Richarlison
Everton
FPL price: 6.5mln
Many of us hold fond memories of early season Richarlison from last term. Having been recruited by Marco Silva at Watford, the Brazilian scored five goals and assisted four in his first 12 starts. However, his form slumped and he failed to score again as Watford were disrupted by Everton’s ‘chase’ of Silva as their manager. The two have now been reacquainted as both look to make Goodison Park a more permanent home than Vicarage Road ever was.
£40mln may seem a lot for a player whose form dropped so dramatically last season but the market is what it is and Silva clearly has a lot of faith in Richarlison and will clearly be under pressure to again get the best out of him as Everton begin the season with an attractive looking run of fixtures. Adept with both feet, decent in the air and owning pace and trickery Richarlison has much going for him – he was the most fouled player in the Premier League last season and only Mo Salah, Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen had more attempts than him, though FPL owners will want to see an improvement in his finishing.
Richarlison can play on the left, right or through the middle providing Silva with numerous options for his first Everton signing – the signs are good that a summer break has helped the Brazilian for he assisted for Watford in their first pre-season friendly before his move to the Toffees. Silva believes Richarlison’s range of attributes and fierce work ethic will make him a perfect fit for the club. “The player is fast, strong, very good technically and he can play in three positions across the front line. He can also score goals. Evertonians will see a player who will be 100 per cent committed to helping our team always.”
Richarlison himself is glad to be working with Silva again and is excited at the move to Everton: “I’ve known the manager for a while obviously, so I know how he works. I developed really well with him while he was with me at Watford. It was really good working with him and one day I believe he can help me to be selected for Brazil in the full national team. I want to score more goals, provide more assists for my teammates and help in whichever way is possible.”
With Everton’s fixture list and a FPL price tag of 6.5mln, it would appear that Richarlison should be a strong contender for your squad. Despite Silva talking about the strength of the squad providing competition for places it’s worth noting that Silva never rotated Richarlison at Watford. If he can settle in quickly and can find wherever he left his shooting boots he could be FPL gold.
James Maddison
Leicester City
FPL price: 6.5mln
James Maddison joined the Foxes from Norwich in a deal worth around £24mln in June. Claude Puel very much sees Maddison as the replacement for Riyad Mahrez and while those may be big boots to fill, the signs are that Maddison has what it takes to prove a success for Leicester and also a very interesting mid-priced midfielder for FPL managers. Priced at 6.5mln by FPL, Maddison has flown some what under the radar – while much of the attention has been on similarly priced midfielders such as Richarlison, Jota, Sessegnon and Milivojevic, Maddison has ownership of just 0.6% of teams (at time of writing) and has hit the ground running in a Foxes shirt.
Maddison played for an hour vs Notts County and looked immediately at ease in the no.10 role that Puel very much values in his possession based system. The manager’s desire to keep the ball relies on the playmaker who can find space, wants to get on the ball as much as possible and then split defences open with forward passes. Sounds like Jamie Vardy’s ideal team-mate!
Maddison will also find himself on most set pieces, certainly free kicks and corners, though Vardy is expected to remain first-choice penalty taker.
Puel describes his new recruit as ‘one of the most exciting attacking talents in English football’ and is delighted that Leicester were able to hold off interest from Southampton, who also had a bid accepted for Maddison. In fact there was specualtion as early as January that Spurs were ready to make a bid.
The midfielder scored 14 goals and recorded 8 assists last season for a Norwich side that finished in a disappointing 14th place. Time will tell if Maddison can make the next step up and perform in the top flight but the 21 year old will certainly be given every chance and much of the play will go through him. Leicester’s fixtures are generally pretty good which should help Maddison find his feet. On that regard he is certainly someone on my watchlist and I’ll be keeping a closer eye on the remainder of Leicester’s pre-season friendlies to see how Maddison progresses.
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Anyone this Luiz will start played a lot pre season ???
Its looking like he may start the season Silvers – Cahill will be back soon however which means its 2 from Luiz, Cahill, Rudiger, Christensen.
Whoever starts the Community Shield should start but I’m thinking of leaving Chelsea defence for now to see who is most nailed. Started thinking Azpi is just too much money but I could change my mind again
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You put Salah in, Salah out, in out in out and shut down the fecking computer.
Draft version number god knows.
RMT please:-
Patricio, Fabianski
Azpi, Robertson, Cedric, Daniels, Wan Bissaka
Sane, Erikson, Keita, Jota and Jahanbakhsh (check out his goal scoring and assists for Alkmaar)
Lacazette, Firmino and Mitrovic
My heart says Salah, my head says Salah but that £3.5m difference between him and Erikson is too much money that is being spread elsewhere.
Please help me as this chopping and changing is killing me.
Jamie
Where’s Salah!? 😉
Salah all the way.
He has over 50% ownership so its way too risky to leave him out and allow yourself to fall behind in first few GW, especially when considering he’s one of the few big names who hasn’t been world cup involved to any significant extent.
Usually it is the head and heart in conflict Jamie.
If both are saying Salah, then you should definitely have him.
Still not seeing enough of a difference there to justify his exclusion!
Ali J hasn’t been overlooked btw, we have an article on him in the pipeline.
Thanks for the comments guys.
I hope West Ham sign Sergio Ramos foe game week 1.
Jamie
Init, you’re going to like my latest addition. Probably on a par with Hughes in terms of trying to be clever; a certain Mr Ross Barkley 😆
Go for his brother Gnarls. Better chance of points.
You wait, GP, you wait 😉
Where do you think he fits into that Chelsea team though, mate? It’s got to be Kante, Jorginho and Fabregas in midfield because Sarri plays 442 so even one of them will miss out.
What makes you think that, Matt? Played 4-3-3 against Inter and 4-2-3-1 against Perth. I think Barkley gets the nod over Fab to be honest. Hard to see how Fab fits his ethos of getting forward and back.
Oh has he? I was just going off Napoli since I haven’t watched Chelsea play this preseason. If he plays 433 then those I mentioned would start there I thought. If 4231 then I could see Barkley coming into the no.10 role but I’m just not sure. At 6 mil I will keep an eye on the community shield and if he starts I might join you. I want to change my team up a little bit and get away from any template so Barkley could be a nice change. I didn’t know Chelsea had been playing a formation that wasn’t 442.
He won’t be in my team if he doesn’t start it, and score
Thing with ‘template’ is that the teams on this site are not template at all. Look at the TSB%s. I wouldn’t worry about distancing yourself too far from the teams on here, unless you are making it more template!
Well if he doesn’t start he definitely won’t score haha.
Yeah that’s true actually. I was thinking more along the lines of taking a punt or two on some of the new lads coming into the league either in the promoted teams or the new signings.
Ok. Let us know how that works out for you!
You’ll know when you’re sheepishly bringing him in for £6.5m in GW7
Much appreciated.
I may be awake until then anyway selecting one of the infinite combos of midfielders.
A. Eriksen + Firmino
Or
B. Kieta + Aubameyang
Currently on the latter but the former is tempting me, be interested in the general consensus!
I would say A just because it’s safer and we know what to expect from Bobby and Erik but Keita is enticing too so they could both work out very well. I would just say A for now fixtures wise.
Yeah I’m planning on playing very conservatively this season ( famous last words), aiming to have as many ‘season keepers’ as possible from the off, so ‘A’ fits that bill, but I’m concerned that if I go with A then Bobby will be my most expensive striker which means 2 transfers should I need to bring in an £11m plus striker. That said if I’m playing conservatively then that shouldn’t be an issue. I may go A and roll my GW2 transfer allowing me an easy shift to B in GW3 when Arsenal’s fixtures improve… will mull it over some more!
Draft 2. £2m in the bank – how would you use it?
I’d swap Kane for Aguero
Defence a bit light
EBC
If Deeney moves to Cardiff that could be a very decent option for third striker.
At this stage it’s nice to see something different. The teams tend to start blurring into one. Having Kane and Deeney may be a masterstroke. Kane is hardly a differential (I suspect a lot in my mini-league will have him, and a third of all teams do anyway) – but he isn’t appearing in many teams posted here and so could cause consternation if he starts banging them in from the off.
And Deeney – why not, for 6m? Arguably only Austin for that price may do better, and Austin is not guaranteed to start.