Players to watch this (2017/2018) season

PVA wrote: »

Dusan Tadic has dropped to £6.5m, will be keeping my eye on him in pre-season. If he can repeat the form of 15/16 he could really hit the ground running with Southamptons opening fixtures.

Jon Walters has already been noted in another thread, could be on pens and playing as a striker for Burnley

Ruben Loftus-Cheek (hereafter known as RNL) could be a steal at £4.5m

RNL?

RLC Shirley?

Firmino looks like value at 8.5 when you compare him to the other striking options. Should start even with Salah joining. Could be an enabler.

razorblunt wrote: »

Is Begovic likely to start for Bournemouth ahead of Boruc? 4.5m, is a tidy option.

Yep Bego will be first choice.

manual_man wrote: »

Solanke at 5M could become a starter for Liverpool up front, I kid ye not. I saw him a couple of times for the England U-21's (or was it U-23?) during the summer at the World Cup. Anyway they won it and Solanke was voted player of the Tournament. He's fast and strong, and can finish. I was astonished to see him at 5M. Let's hope he nails down a spot and becomes the FPL Dele Alli of a couple of seasons ago

It was the U20s.
England won it.

klopparama wrote: »

Not sure where to put this but as it's player related -

Who are the must haves ? I'm finding it fairly easy to get Kane, Lukaku and Sanchez into a fairly decent team.

Those 3 seem like nailed on starters unlike others that could be considered as must haves like Kun, Jesus, Lacazette and a few others.

Surely 'must haves' have to guarantee 90 minutes every week barring injury.

I'm not sure who I consider to be a must have at this stage yet.

As others have noted Kane historically starts the season slowly and the Wembley factor needs to be considered

Sanchez, as we don't know where he will end up is a bit up in the air - Will be in my first draft though I'd say

Lukaku - I didn't start with Ibra last year but quickly got him in when I realised how reliant United were on him. Lukaku has trolled me more than once but I would agree he's hard to look past

I personally will be trying to shoehorn Sane into my first draft. Had an excellent end to the season, is a Pep favourite and could score well. My fear is rotation though with the depth of talent available to City (exactly your point about 90 mins guaranteed)

It's hard to say if there are any must haves in defence. I can see myself keeping faith with Heaton on the goal even at 5m but beyond that I have no firm decisions made

manual_man wrote: »

Solanke at 5M could become a starter for Liverpool up front, I kid ye not. I saw him a couple of times for the England U-21's (or was it U-23?) during the summer at the World Cup. Anyway they won it and Solanke was voted player of the Tournament. He's fast and strong, and can finish. I was astonished to see him at 5M. Let's hope he nails down a spot and becomes the FPL Dele Alli of a couple of seasons ago

The Liverpool thread on here seems to think he'll be into the U-23s for a while though.

lassykk wrote: »

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It's really unlikely Solanke will get more than a few minutes here and there this season.

As has been said he's been bought for the under 23s. He might get a run out in the League Cup but he'd even be lucky to get minutes there.

He's currently behind Firmino, Sturridge, Origi and Ings in that order for one central striking spot.

You won't even see him on the bench barring a severe injury crisis imo

Cresswell at £5m might be a handy one. Scored poorly last year, can't remember if he was injured or not but he looks to have played ~100minutes less than the previous 2 seasons when he was easily north of 100 points.


Looking at United and City's buys, Lindelof is 5.5, Krasinicec(sp?) is 6.0, not sure how they're justifying that. I've gone for Lindelof for now but I know that 5.5 will probably change a dozen times over the next 4 weeks.

Schindler at Brighton is worth a gander, 4.5. I'd imagine he'd be on alot of people's Lists.

PVA wrote: »

Ruben Loftus-Cheek (hereafter known as RLC) could be a steal at £4.5m

I'll be honest that I don't know a whole lot about RLC but is he the best option for a 4.5 mid?

I have him in my first draft going solely off boards.ie but I had Tom Carroll last year for a while and he did alright for me if not setting the world alight.

Preferably I'd like a 4.5 who won't lose value (Capoue did well for me last year)

Is he a DM or is he likely to get in the mix of goals & assists?

Useless fun fact of the day: He's half brothers with Carl Cort & Leon Cort :rolleyes:

Father Hernandez wrote:

Useless fun fact of the day: He's half brothers with Carl Cort & Leon Cort

Twin sisters called Tennis and Badminton as well!!!

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

Twin sisters called Tennis and Badminton as well!!!

All from the same Dad, Dayn.

Sergio Romero by the end of august ........

sheroman01 wrote: »

Lots of GKs to ponder:

Elliot at 4.0m could be unreal, IF Darlow is sold and no big name comes in.

Fabianski at 4.5m is a very nice surprise, he gets lots of save pts as far as I recall.

You also have Begovic and Foster at 4.5m.

I think Courtois is interesting, at 5.5m he could be a cheap way into Chelsea's defence.

Swansea have 2 GK listed only for 8.5M total.
BHA CPL,HUD,NEW and WBA are the others atm.

Last year we only had BUR and SUN as options for 8.5M in that slot although Burnley had 3 GKs to pick from.