New FPL Transfers Everton Jordan Pickford and Michael Keane
Hello and welcome to New FPL Transfers Everton Jordan Pickford and Michael Keane. Having covered Everton’s attacking transfers in the previous article we now make our way back to the defence and look at new keeper Jordan Pickford and central defender Michael Keane. Both are young (Pickfrd is 23, Keane 24) and Koeman will hope that both will serve the club for seasons to come – well, at least until the manager has hopped off to Barcelona anyway. It’s the trendy thing to say, but I make no apologies for repeating myself – ignore Everton until GW6 (unless you fancy a GW1 punt home to Burnley) – GW2-GW6 fixtures read Man City (a), Chelsea (a), Spurs (h), Man Utd (a). It’s ugly folks, but it changes for the better from GW6, which gives us time to assess and see if for example if Keane can establish himself as a regular starter alongside Ashley Williams or Phil Jagielka or if maybe Koeman plays all 3. Anyway, that’s all for the future, let’s take a quick look at Pickers and Keano.
Jordan Pickford
Goalkeeper
FPL Price 5.0mln
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[/three_fifth]Pickford is of course well known to most FPL managers after his heroic season at Sunderland last season despite the Black Cats’ unsuccessful fight against relegation. There weren’t many clean sheets last term but Pickford impressed with his never-say-attitude and endless saves which contributed to decent returns for those managers who owned him. It was a busy summer for the young keeper who represented England U21s at the Euros as well as becoming England’s most expensive keeper when he sealed a £30mln move to the blue half of Merseyside. Pickford will be immediately installed as Koeman’s first choice keeper and is heavily tipped to become England’s no.1 sooner rather than later also. Pickford is a traditional northerner – tough, resolute and loves a battle, highlighted by the words of Sunderland’s goalkeeping coach Adrian Tucker: ‘I remember I went to Yeovil to do a scouting report on him. I was working for England Under-20s at the time and Jordan was playing for Bradford. The game was only five minutes in when a cross came in and he got clattered by one of Yeovil’s strikers. He got up straight away, shook it off and did not show he was hurt. I thought to myself, ‘You’ll do for me, son’.
Michael Keane
Defender
FPL Price 5.5mln
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[/three_fifth]Keane signed for the Blues in a deal worth £25mln, arriving from Burnley where he spent two season after being released by Man United in 2015. The defender was a shining light at the back for Burnley last term, impressing many which resulted in him gaining two England caps. The Blues are reported to have fended off competition from several other clubs in purchasing Keane and the player identifies the manager himself as a big reason why he chose Everton: ‘the manager was a big factor in me coming to the club. He played in my position when he was a world-class player for a great Barcelona side and a great Dutch side and the style of football he likes to play will suit me, I believe. I watched a lot of Everton last season and I believe I really suit how the team likes to play. I feel like this is a great place to come and continue my development as a player. He’s convinced me that he can still improve me in certain areas of my game.’ Nothing like getting on the right side of the boss from day 1. Anyway you know the form, watch the first few fixtures, see how he settles in etc etc etc. Keane isn’t cheap at 5.5mln, especially as he only scored 7 goals in 100 games for Burnley, I feel he may just be a tad over priced at 5.5mln to be a value pick in FPL terms – Pickford is cheaper at 5.0mln as is Jagielka, while Mason Holgate and Jonjoe Kenny are even cheaper at 4.5mln, one of whom will probably deputise for the injured Seamus Coleman until the Irishman returns.
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The Fixture Tracker…
Morning all!
Got a couple of teams I like but what do you think to this one?
Nice one Mitro.
Gayle has also moved on to my watchlist with his two goals in Edinburgh on Friday.
I see a template-y defence in lots of these RMTs.
Did you see my projected Arsenal line-up last night? Would I be close with that?
Cech
Mustafi Koscielny Monreal
Bellerin Xhaka Ramsey Kolasinac
Ozil Sanchez
Lacazette
Alexis is on his way out
I saw you being sympathetic to Mitro about that on Twitter last night 😉
I read Wenger is very confident of him staying yesterday.
Alexis’ comments about wanting to play in the CL would suggest he wants to leave.
GP, I was just trying to improve his mood
Kop – we need to keep him until the end of this season unless we sell him abroad for £80m and get in PEA or mbappe!
Mito, I’ll be amazed if they keep him and leave him go for nothing next summer.
Morning GP
I think that’s probably the line up for most GWs, well it’s the team I would like to see play, maybe ox instead of bellerin!
I like it Mitro. What’s the deal with Willian tho?. I have seen alot of teams with Willian and Fabregas, but surely Fabregas won’t play, and i’m even a little worried about Willian.
Hazard will miss the opening number and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Willian fill in for him.
Did have fabregas but I saw a lot of traffic on twitter saying that chelseas new signing will limit fabregas playing time! Still think fabregas will get a lot of games…..
New guy is expected to miss the first 3 games so I’d expect Fabregas to start the season. Willian scored 3 yesterday but has always been the one to miss out and has never really performed fantasy wise. Hazard being injured will help though
I do like this one as well
Morning I prefer first one. But do prefer Aguero
Midfield seems to be a tricky part of the team this season, but there are some players with nice price tags.
Willian – £7m
Fabregas – £7m
Ramsey – £7m
Mata – £7m
Lallana £7.5m
But who is the most nailed out of that list?.
Ramsey and Lallana I would fancy Ant.
Any idea were Lallana fits in?. I was thinking this is how Liverpool may line up?.
Mignolet Clyne Matip. VVD Robert..
Hendo. Kieta
Mane. Coutinho. Salah
Firminho
In place of the unsigned Keita :big-lol:
I reckon Willian will get the most starts. Fabregas might start the first few with Haz out, but keep an eye out. Mata will surely not start all games. I am not even sure where Ramsey and Lallana fit in. The 8M bracket is full of nailed on starters though.
Morning all few ???
Jesus or Lacaz
Yoshida or Cedric
Naughton or Rangel is he a starter ???
KBR or Sane save cash
Ake or Daniels or is Francis a starter
Alli or Kane
Cheers
Can’t decide on Jusus or Lacazette but think I prefer Aguero
Cedric without doubt
Under Clement I think Naughton might be preferred but one to keep an eye on
KDB but I don’t think anyone is safe in that City midfield plus their after Mbappe or Sanchez so expect someone else to come in as well
Personally I think 5 is too much for a Bournemouth defender. Ain’t Francis the captain I think he plays. Maybe Smith will drop out
This one is tough Kane is better. However I’d go for Alli because of the price difference. For me there don’t seem that much value in midfield and there are loads of alternatives that are cheaper than Kane if that makes sense
I think Alli is better overall value than Kane, just about. I’d go Cedric over Yoshida. Not so sure about the others…I have gone for Lacazette over Jesus, just because Jesus is likely to rotate with Aguero at some point.
Lacazette will rotate a bit with Giroud still there I expect. Lacazette will start but I can see him coming off for Giroud
I can see Giroud moving on. He is too good to be playing as a sub imo.
Cheers Smash & Straygoat 😉
Morning guys so it’s almost upon us can’t wait thoughts on this please chas?
Much appreciated DC
I’m unconvinced with Rooney tbh. He does seem to be a spent force, but I hope not as I’d like to see him do well back at Everton.
Think he has a thing or two to prove goat could be a steal a sure starter
I like most of it. Boruc won’t play now Begovic is signed and I don’t think Zabaleta is good value. West Ham will always concede
Time to tinker then smash :))
Yeah indeed all about going round in circles
I have rebooted my side given the feedback on here. Would appreciate more thoughts.
I like the majority. You have Mooy and Allen in there though who are most likely going to blank every week
I just went for them as they are cheap and take set pieces. My other option was to ditch De Bruyne and bring in Pogba to give me 2m to spend on replacing either/both of Allen and Mooy. Not really convinced about many of the midfielders around the 7m mark though.
I’m not a massive fan of the mid priced midfielders. You might get away with one of Mooy and Allen but not both. I was probably looking more at Benteke but it’s all early play at the moment
Morning all. Thoughts please.
Gayle and Ritchie is overkill for me though both are decent value and that is too much Spurs.
Appreciate the feedback smash. I’ve forward planned ahead. The spuds players always perform. I pretty much had them in from the off the last few seasons. The Newcastle thing is a risk however Ritchie is their pen taker and has prem experience. Gayle is a definite risk, scored a brace the other day, but the question is can he do it in the prem? Defence wise all proven. Cedric should do well now and less of a rotation risk now puel has gone. Still in progress…. How is your team coming along? All the best for this season
Gayle has a record in the premier and is not a bad one at all. Think he has proven he can score, just a matter of Newcastle being able to create opportunities for him.
I agree. Eriksen, Alli, and Kane have consistently delivered. But it is a risk, if Spurs have a slow start.
Nealos Yes agree with Smash here overkill on Spurs & either or Gayle or Ritchie 😉
Cheers for the feedback Silvers. How’s the draft coming along?
No Lukaku can be quite bad if he hits the ground running and especially with those fixtures. Having Foster in, while you have Forster is a bit of an overkill for me. The Saints have great fixtures in the 1st 11 weeks, but do you want to double up on them at the back? You can use the 0.5 from Foster to a cheapie to upgrade your defense – Daniels to an United defender for example.