New Signings – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16. Mings, Distin, Atsu
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Right, quick, lock the doors Mito!
Ok, now that I have your attention and the Colombian Mafia have the exits covered, I can tell you that this isn’t going to be the most exciting list of new arrivals you’re ever going to read. Sometimes life just deals you a rubbish hand. Sometimes you get the shitty end of the stick. And sometimes, you accidently park your car in Cookie’s space on the same day as he’s deciding who gets to write up which new players.
So then, let’s see what you make of this lot…
The Bournemouth Three. Mings, Distin and Atsu (Bless you!)
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[/three_fourth]Tyrone Mings (Bournemouth) Not content with a league leading number of clean sheets last season, Eddie Howe has looked to strengthen his back line with record signing, £8m Tyrone Mings from Ipswich Town.
The 22 year old, ex-mortgage adviser, scored 1 goal and provided 4 assists in 40 starts for the Tractor Boys last season, and his signing will almost certainly mean Charlie Daniels loses his place as the regular starting left back.
If the vast amount of research I have done for this article is to be believed, he stands at a cloud-bothering 6ft 5ins tall, so as well as providing from the wings, he should also represent a decent threat from set pieces.
Fantasy view: As a record signing, he’ll be looking to impress. Along with opposite full back Francis and centre back Cook, he’s a contender for that important 5th defender slot.
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Sylvain Distin (Bournemouth)
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Not content with a league leading number of clean sheets last season, Eddie Howe has… shamelessly used the same intro twice in a row.
As well as providing cover / rotation for regular centre back pairing Cook and Elphick, I expect that 37 year old Distin’s signing is as much about providing the squad with some valuable Premiership experience. Especially after their previous resident old man Ian Harte was released earlier this summer.
Distin only made 16 appearances for Everton last season, before leaving when his contract expired, so don’t expect a huge number of appearances. This is his second spell on the south coast after a 2 year stay at Portsmouth. Rumour has it that he’s working his way along the coast to Southampton in order to secure a guaranteed move to Liverpool in 2016.
Fantasy view: Only an option if he can secure a regular starting spot.
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Christian Atsu (Bless you!! Here, have a tissue. Thanks. Here you go. No no, you keep it.) (Bournemouth)
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The third of our Bournemouth three, is Chelsea winger Christian Atsu, (Bless you!!! Thanks. Sorry, the hay fever is really bad this year. Yeah, it really is. Eyes itching? Yeah, a little. That’s rough. So how’ve you been? Not bad, other than the hay fever. Family keeping well? The cat died, but other than that, we’re good. Thanks for asking) signed on a season-long loan.
The 23 year old Ghana international spent last season on loan at Everton, making just 5 Premiership appearances (mainly coming on for the last 5 minutes) and only 1 start. He also didn’t feature at all for the last 2 months of last season.
He’ll be hoping for more opportunities this time out, and his competition for a starting place will be considerably less than it was at Everton. He has a decent international pedigree – an international with over 30 caps, including runner-up at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, in which he also won Player (and goal) of the tournament.
Fantasy view – Possible 5th Mid / bench fodder if cheap. Monitor in pre-season.
Sh*t-joke-potential – Awesome. Starting XI and captain every week.
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New Fixture Tracker added!
And whilst we have you, may we just bring your attention to the new fixture tracker that has been added. Last week we launched the Home & Away rotation tracker and both beauties can be found under the ‘Tips’ tab at the top and then under, unsurprisingly, ‘Fixture Tracker’ If that all sounds like too much hard work then here’s a quick link and also a picture of the dam thing if you’re uber lazy!…
Both have proved a massive hit on twitter. We hope you like them too.
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City, united, and Liverpool fans, how do you think your team will line up next season?.
united (how i wish we line up) –
de gea
darmian – jones – new cb – shaw/blind
schneiderlin – schweinsteiger
mata
di maria – rooney – depay
united (how we might actually line up) –
new gk
valencia – smalling – rojo – blind
carrick – schneiderlin
fellaini – schweinsteiger
rooney – (depay/mata/dimaria) in rotation
:finger:
How I think we’ll line up
Mig
Clyne – Skrtel – Moreno
Lucas
Can – Hendo
Lallana – Milner – Couthino
Ings
3 at the back, 2 of which are full backs? I can’t see that happening Matt.
Its Brendan Rodgers and our defence mate so I think anything is possible
haha
Other than that I’d probably just take Lucas out and put Sakho in for a 4-2-3-1
Liverpool have won their first pre-season friendly, beating the Thai All Stars 4-0. Goals from Markovic, Sakho, Lallana & Origi.
Hey Kop any news on the Cricket need a full team out
Hey Silver, no news but the English team will be the same. There could be 2 or 3 changes to the Aussie team but we won’t know until the toss on Thursday morning.
Kop any idea who it might be ?
If Starc isn’t fit he’ll be replaced by Siddle.
Shane Watson could be dropped for Mitch Marsh.
There’s talk of Haddin being dropped, but that’s less likely.
Starc is a risk might have to take him out I will have a look tomorrow cheers mate
Word coming out of the Aussie camp is that he’s responding well to treatment. They’ll do everything they can to ensure he plays.
Here’s Henderson’s lovely rabona assist to Lallana if anyone hasn’t seen it. Yeah buddy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRt4a0VFsak
Hoping to see more of that this season
How did Milner do in the first half?
Didn’t catch the match Matt, just seeing highlights pop up on my news feeds. Photek posted a nice link a page back though with the pre-season schedule for every club, scores, match reports, etc. Looks really good for keeping up with all the action.
Ye thats all I’ve been doing to. I’ll have to give that link a look at Cheers Red
Ridiculous question, but how does everyone have the clear cut screenshots of their teams? Mine tend to be a lot larger, showing all tabs
I am on a laptop, using Chrome
Use snipping tool to crop the required part of Image from Crome and save it into paint . As simple as that :P:
Print screen, paste in paint, crop it down, save as a .jpg or .png file and save it your pictures file.
this is how the team looks for now.
will get sanchez/aguero in only after assured of their fitness.
may also play depay/di maria/mata in place of cazorla depending on the pre-season displays.
anything missing?
Cabaye needs to go mate, Palace have extremely difficult fixtures for the first few weeks. Wanyama is a bit of a waste and I don’t really know much about Burke.
Australia wicket-keeper ruled out for personal reasons and will be replaced by Test rookie Peter Nevill in Second Test
Okay guys its Potty here.
After lots of thought I am running only two FPL League’s this season.
Both will be a crazy journey but you decide which one or both you wish to be involved in?
The codes are……
Pottys Predictions = 137655 ~ 41184
Or
You’re All Doomed = 137655 ~ 41193
So take your pick
Potty
Is the Pottys predictions one only if your doing predictions?
in for both potty.
after winning your ipl league, now it’s time for the fpl one.
be prepared to engrave my name on that potty trophy again.
Hi Potty,
Quck question: Are these leagues meant for our ‘normal’ teams or should we prepare additional (second) teams to play your prediction games with?
Cheers
Matt the Predictions one is a H2H as I understand it. Nothing to do with the actual predictions it’s just a name.
Los Machos, hi, just your norm team.
Ah cheers Init ill enter both then I suppose