New FPL Transfers Arsenal Sead Kolasinac and Alexandre Lacazette
Hello and welcome to New FPL Transfers Arsenal Sead Kolasinac and Alexandre Lacazette. Welcome back to a brand-new season of Fantasy Premier League! The Transfer Window has been in full swing since the 1st of July with plenty new faces coming into the league giving us fantasy managers more options to pull our hair out over. In the coming weeks, we will see multiple drafts, probably all from Mitro, containing different combinations of some of these new faces so to make it easier for him and everyone else; below I have written up an analysis of some of those faces. With so much money flooding into the English League in the recent years we are seeing some ridiculous transfers and transfer fees up and down the divisions (Ruben Neves to Wolves for £15 million, anybody?!!!) In the below article we focus on Arsenal’s latest additions. Two players whom Arsenal fans hope can help them back to their promised land and a 4th place finish
Sead Kolasinac
Defender
FPL Price: £6.0m
New season but same old Arsenal!! Wenger is still in the hot seat but only time will tell if Arsenal can turn things around. Old Arsene has started early by bringing in a new left-back but obviously he didn’t let any funds leave the budgeting department by nabbing Sead Kolasinac on the free. Kolasinac is a 24-year-old from Bosnia who has spent the last 5 years at FC Schalke. In that time, he made 123 appearances scoring 4 goals and getting 13 assists. These stats don’t light the world on fire but Kolasinac is versatile and can play centre back, left midfield and defensive midfield. The versatility that Kolasinac offers should be a Godsend to Arsenal, manager and fans alike, as he can slot in whenever the inevitable injury crisis starts. Arsenal’s first six games see matches against Stoke, Bournemouth and West Brom which could be three clean sheets for the new recruit if he does in fact walk straight into the side but with the form Nacho Monreal was in at the end of last season it will be hard to tell what Arsene’s plans are! With Kieran Gibbs gone there is less competition for the Bosnian at left back but it’s still a wait and see in my opinion.
Alexandre Lacazette
Forward
FPL Price: £10.5m
Hold the phone, stop the presses!! That’s right lads and lassies the world as we know it is coming to an end! Arsenal have not only loosened the purse strings but cut them wide open by spending a club record fee of £53 million on Frenchman, Alexandre Lacazette. Lacazette may not have the gorgeous looks of the Frenchman we all know and love to hate, Olivier Giroud, but one would have to assume Lacazette is the younger replacement for Olivier. Lacazette has been linked with the English game for a long time now usually with rumours of a move to Liverpool but as usual they missed out and the highly rated striker decided he wanted a spin on the London Eye. Lacazette arrives with a lot of expectations on his shoulders and it is well deserved as the 26-year-old has played 275 times for OL Lyon scoring 129 times and assisting a further 43 goals which compared to Giroud is a lot better. In Giroud’s time at Arsenal he managed 2 less assists than Lacazette which isn’t bad but Giroud was worse in front of goal only scoring 98 times in 227 appearances. These stats should signify the end of Giroud at the Emirates and with interest coming from within England from Everton and West Ham or his home country, with Marseille and Lyon looking to attain his services Lacazette could find himself leading the Arsenal line in their hopes of returning to their throne, 4th place!
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The Fixture Tracker…
West ham have officially announced chicharito I wonder how much he will be.
Could be 7-8 million I reckon. Has always scored goals. However I did read an interesting article unsure of how many touches he will get in the box. West Ham will play very differently to most of the clubs he’s been at previously
West Ham are down to 25% of chances from headers, 33% under Big Sam, but that still very high to be bringing in a little pea.
Hopefully they do have a master plan to allow for this, & it wasnt just the fact that Chicharito is #1 favorite North America player & worth $$$$ in pre season tours,shirts, TV exposure, sponsorship and the like.
His second touch is normally a tackle anyway
Last draft before work. Love the MID. Good FOR and GKP, unsure about DEF
Bur & bou both have 3 good home games, spurs are spurs, & sou have a good run ; so its not exactly a bad Def
if that is what it takes to love your mid then job done.
What do you mean ‘before work’, most on here seem to treat ‘work’ as the start of their FPL time I think!
Working on a project with team from Oz, NZ and Singapore. Unsociable hours, and no football chat…..
Working on a team as we speak!
Evening all
What you say on this team before it goes belly up and I Wild Card on GW3? 😉
Hi Hatters, not sure I like Redmond and Shelvey as the enablers there but that’s down to personal preference – I have something like Ince and Walters right now myself so yeah whatever!
Got to agree with Init (or Unit as my autocorrect has it). Personally I just can’t see either delivering much, the odd 6/7 points here and there, but mainly 2/3 points.
Is KDB essential for you? If not then a little downgrading and Redmond and Shelvey could be improved.
INNIT – What is your view about LOOKMAN? I have him as my No. 4 MF but I do not see him in any other draft teams!
cannot see him will be on 1st 11
He’ll be lucky to get on the bench at this rate!
Do you think about my lasted draft below?
Zaha vs: Huddersfield (GW1,H), Liverpool (GW2,A), Swansea (GW3,H)
Phillips vs: Bournemouth (GW1,H), Burnley (GW2,A), Stoke (GW3,H)
Ritchie vs: Huddersfield (GW2,A,last match Hud 1-3 New), West Ham (GW3,H)
Austin vs: Swansea (GW1, H), West Ham (GW2,H), Huddersfield (GW3,A)
Love the front 3
What itb for this team?
I would try to downgrade DDG to Hennesey/Hart,
Dawson to Daniels/Fuchs
Zaha or Philips to Sterling/Pogba/Miki/Redmond/Tadic/Arnautovic
itb=100
Man Utd’s Fixtures are good. So, I want to use 1 Man Utd’s defend.
Daniels/Fuchs’s fixtures no better than Dawson’s fixtures. So, I want to use 1 WestBrom’s defend.
I think Sterling/Pogba/Miki/Redmond/Tadic/Arnautovic is not enough well to get more score. Pogba plays more defensive. Stering & Miki are not sure to play full match. Redmond/Tadic/Arnautovic is the same Zaha/Philips. I have already Austin, so I don’t take Redmond/Tadic. Westham’s fixtures are not enough good.
Thoughts on this draft? 6 players up front are selected automatically 3 big forwards, Mane, Willian/Fabreagas and Redmond and if loftus is a starter this is possible
Defense isn’t too bad either Trippier, Cedric, Mee, Francis
Not a bad team at all this Snookie I’ll be honest apart from a couple of players at the back it’s a really good team 😉
Trippier would start all games probably, first 11 games of Soton make Cedric a starter too so rotating other 3 shoudn’t be a problem either and can also get Coutinho or Salah and get that .5 for defense