New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2019/20 – Che Adams and Joelinton
A tale of two £6m strikers. A tale of red cards, mediocre statistics, wishful thinking, youthful promise, Mike Ashley, Steve Bruce, Mark Hughes (yes!), anti-Moneyball, stating the bleeding obvious, dodgy hamstrings, James Beattie (yes!) and smoke & mirrors.
A more positive intro you’d be hard pressed to find… and you’re probably thinking you know where this one is going already. And you’d probably be right to be fair. But don’t judge just yet, let’s go see if we can find some positives amongst what ostensibly appears to be a roasting.
Joelinton
Newcastle United
FPL price: £6.0m
(Photo by Serena Taylor/Newcastle United via Getty Images)
If your knowledge of obscure bit part players at Hoffenheim is better than ours then we apologise and doth our cap but we couldn’t help but think ‘what the hell is Ashley playing at now’. A record signing that blows the previous one (£20m for Almiron) out of the water is certainly a headline grabber but to what end exactly? Which is probably the issue with Ashley now; nobody believes anything he does is for the right reason. Which is probably because it usually isn’t. We wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the actual upfront fee is about £10m and the add-ons make it up to the headline £40m with promises of £20m ‘I f we win the Champions League’, blah, blah, blah. But maybe that’s just us being cynical… (and speculative, lawyers).
As for the player himself his bare faced stats tell us that he has scored a total of 39 goals in 152 career appearances. 21 of which goals were when on loan at Rapid Wien in 79 appearances. In the Austrian league. So outside of Austria he’s played 73 club games and scored 18 goals. And 7 of those were for Sport Recife. In the only time he’s played in a league anywhere near comparable to the one he’s walking rather expensively into he played 34 and scored 11. Not bad, actually. And that was mainly in the season just gone.
We still can’t quite get past the smoke and mirrors aspect of all this though. He smacks of a home brand Sports Direct product being doubled in price simply to appear as if it is equal to a Nike one in either quality or value for money. Time will tell of course but this one is definitely a wait and see job. The last time we had an expensive (ish / sounding) unknown Brazilian named Jo in the PL he scored once for Man City, 5 times for Everton and has since played for Al Shabab, Jiangsu Suning and Nagoya Grampus….
Opening Fixtures: Arsenal (H), Norwich (A), Spurs (A), Watford (H), Liverpool (A), Brighton (H)
Not the easiest at all then, or certainly a mixed bag at best.
Che Adams
Southampton
FPL price: 6.0m
Club Doctor Steve (Photo by Matt Watson/Southampton FC via Getty Images)
On viewing Che’s past online we couldn’t help but notice that red cards were mentioned an awful lot, as were such things as ‘dropped due to lack of attitude in training’ and ‘dropped due to lack of general discipline’. His ability shone through too though as he was named Birmingham’s Young Player of the Season in 2016/17 and then both their Player’s and Supporter’s Player of the Year in 2018/19.
Stats wise you do have to think that this is yet another one not based on any Liverpool style ‘Moneyball’ though as he has just 63 goals in 227 appearances. Or 1 in in every 3.6 games. That’d be 10 goals over a PL season. And 10 of those were for Ilkeston….
Injury wise he looks a bit dodgy too as he’s already ‘done’ for both hamstrings. Add in that he seemingly employed renowned fitness guru James Beattie as his… fitness coach.
Pre-season for Saints has looked a bit more promising though if we are still looking for lights under bushels. Che has grabbed a couple of early goals, albeit against the might of Guangzhou and Aktach. His level, perhaps, if we are being cruel.
Looking for more positives he is at least playing for a progressive manager who is willing to coach players to become better, rather than say Mark Hughes who simply sat in his office typing out excuses to use when they inevitably lost. (Former, very bitter, Saints Team News writer checking in here!).
As for his disciplinary and attitude issues let’s hope he has grown up a bit but we can always blame the parents if not (lawyers; we don’t know anything about them and it is pure conjecture), but as one (well named) fellow pundit (Steve) said to me ‘what do you expect when he is called Che’….. (For the record they called him Che Zach Everton Fred Adams). Seriously.
Opening Fixtures: Burnley (A), Liverpool (H), Brighton (A), Man Utd (H), Sheffield Utd (A), Bournemouth (H)
Certainly not the worst that, ignore the Liverpool game and it’s probably fairly decent.
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Tielemans over Siggy worth it? Tielemans points with his few mins was quite impressive. (Did he come to LEI late in the season?) It would allow me to upgrade elsewhere, like Greenwood to Deulo, or?
I went for Pérez when I ditched Siggy. But I may go back to Sigs (or Richarlison).
You could upgrade King to Wilson / VVD to TAA.
Thanks Mr K. I know this is kind of a template team, but other than changing Siggy (not so sure EVE are going to come out of the blocks at a great pace), I really would like a good GW1 with no transfer needed if possible.
King to Wilson is a good possibility if I don’t upgrade Greenwood.
How is your team coming along? Are you going with a front 3? Kane? I played with bringing in Kane, but it really leaves the team bare in a way that I don’t think is optimal. But hey…what do I know. Cheers!
The team’s fine, thanks. No Kane. I started with him but rearranged things to get Sterling.
I wouldn’t worry about being too template, most sides in your ML will not be like that. Having what you have will be fine. I’d go for Siggy myself, and did for quite a while. I may still get him or Richarlison. Everton have excellent fixtures. I think I can afford him if I move Robbo to VVD. I like a punt now and then though and Perez falls into that category. Don’t know much about Tielemans.
What do you think of Tielemans?
Based on peps gushing comments, is Phil foden at £5.5m worth a punt as a fourth midfielder?
With all his changes even with his best players, I would not go down that road. Not if you are looking for a regular starter.
Nope
I hope so. See if he starts in community shield. I do not see it though. KDB, DSilva, Gundogan and BSilva are competition for two spots in affect
Love Diego Costa. Only he can score at hatty against Madrid and then get sent off
4 goals even
Complete head banger but I absolutely love him. Been great to have seen him at Everton (heard that rumour a few weeks back – probably nothing in it at all but it peaked my interest).
Hi
Hope you all well and enjoying the summer, congrats to Innit for winning the Cricket.
These are the two teams options that I have so far.
What are your thoughts please
Hi Carolyn,
The Sterling/Kane one for me.
If that’s set up for 4-3-3 (which I’m guessing it is with those big 4 defenders), then any love for downgrading JWP to a 4.5mln player and upgrading Jota to Callum Wilson?
Morning all take a look at this lot thoughts please
Near perfection Silvers.
Bravo.
Hi Silvers. For me Moura doesn’t offer enough in guaranteed mins or fixtures. Aguero is interesting. Haven’t seen in many. I can see why and I can’t argue that you shouldn’t. I’d prefer Wilson or Jota over King. I’d prefer Digne over Coleman. 4 at the back seems to work better money wise for me anyway. The cheaper mids don’t seem obvious yet. How defensive will Brighton be under the new coach? My understanding is he is more offensive than Hughton
Looks great and if Kun keeps his place all season it should be a lot of points there!
Will Jesus share some of those points this season though?
Cheers Gp Dreamers & Mad Hatter Moura only in for the first game as Son out I’m really unsure about Kun v Sterling yes I would prefer Digne & Wilson but would need to change team quite a bit
Great advise not finished yet cheers again