Here’s the GW4 fantasy premier league “ones to watch”. This is a menu of fantasy premier league players to pick from for your team with factors stating why. (values as at Sunday 9/9)
I’ve also put the removals in strikethrough to show you who has come off from last week and why. The new players and reasons why are added in italics to make it easier to follow. Below each position if applicable is a “bubbling under” category for monitoring certain players before they are added to the “ones to watch” list. Remember these are fantasy premier league players in would have in my team. at the bottom is a key if you want a bit more detail on the factors listed
GOALKEEPER
Hart – £7.0m quality
De Gea – £6.0m quality value
may just go straight back in so wouldn’t panic sell but wouldn’t transfer him in until this is resolved
Foster – £5.0m quality. CS. should be clean sheets and save points here
£4.5m budget
Ruddy
Jaaskelainen
Federici
Davis
Begovic seems to have sealed his place
DEFENCE
Zabaleta-£6.0m – value best value city def
Injured and problems on the horizon with short term tricky fixtures plus Maicon arrival plus Richards coming back in to training in a month. not a panic sell yet but dont bring him in
Rafael – =£5.6m – value. attack
Ivanovic – £6.8m attack value
Hibbert £5.5m – fixtures and value
sub last time out and casts doubt on game time
Jagielka – £6.1m fixtures.
cheapest certain route in to team. If youve got the cash for Baines youll get the returns
Hangeland £5.0m – value fixtures sleeping giant
Ridgewell – £5.0m fixtures. attack.
Jenkinson – £4.8m value. plus better defence from arsenal. Difficult fixtures and will lose position when Sagna back butgood until then
Gibbs – £5.5m CS. the best certain game time value. Saints H next but city A and Chelsea H after that
Budget £4.0m ish
Clyne – Saints attack
Fonte – saints
Demel – £4.1m west ham
Gorkks – £3.9m Reading
MIDFIELD
Hazard – £10.1m – Quality. form.
Bale – £9.4m – Quality. fixtures.
Kagawa – £8.6m – Quality. GW2 fixtures.
Lampard – £8.9m – Quality. Never write him off, even in 4-2-3-1 11 goals last year. pens
Michu – £7.3m – fixtures. form. (15 la liga goals last season)
Noble – £5.0m – fixtures pens
Too deep and not enough goals in west ham to justify the extra£0.5m spend
Pienaar – £6.6m – fixtures. form
Fellaini – £6.9m form. fixtures. played in an advanced position again. Good underlying stats too
Nolan – £6.1m some really good fixtures. Bit dearer than id like but plays in such an advanced position you would think he will score
Morrison – £6.0m fixtures. form. The best of the WBA midfielders with a goal threat. Most advanced position wise as well.
Cazorla – £9.0m quality. form. most advanced midfielder for Arsenal. Saints H next but City A and Chelsea H after that mean may be best to wait.
Budget £4.5m ish
Guthrie – £4.4m Reading – best choice
Britton – £4.4m Swansea – monitor as place under threat from Yueng
Whitehead – £4.5m Stoke YC risk
Cattermole – £4.5m Sunderland YC risk
Diakite – QPR YC rise
Schneiderlin – £4.5m Saints
Sterling – £4.5m a risk with Assaidi being purchased but with form shown maybe worth it
Bubbling under
Nasri – £8.6m Still looking like a rotation risk for away games. will be interesting to see if he plays this week
Sigurdsson
substitution in GW3 shows theres no safety and with Dempsey coming makes it worse
FORWARDS
Tevez £9.8m – quality. form.
RVP – £13.4m – QUALITY
Adebayor -£9.6m fixtures
Jelavic – £8.5m – fixtures quality
Graham – £6.0m fixtures.
I wouldnt sell him with the fixtures but not showing enough to put in your team
Petric/Ruiz – good fixtures and good stats and returns. I personally like Ruiz but its difficult
Berba transfer and Rodallega here throws everything in to confusion. No rush to sell wuth the fixtures but needs monitoring. this week will be very interesting
Lambert – £6.0m form value
the fixtures will get better soon and has shown an eye for goal and set piece strength
I’m not putting a budget section for strikers. I just think the position is too important and theres too much quality to put a filler in. However Pogrebnyak at £4.9m is the best option if you really must.
Bubbling under
Suarez – £9.4m if he could shoot he would be lethal. needs more monitoring and better fixtures
Lukaku – £6.5mWatch him to see if he can get starts. He is some player. fixtures are good just needs a chance
Odemwingie – £7.0m quality. value. fixtures. with WBA looking strong just needs to show he will start before being considered in 12w.
KEY
quality – an elite player for his position
value – a player at a value that is less than the returns I expect
fixtures – a player facing good fixtures over the next 6 games
budget – filler at the minimum price the position allows. Should play
sleeping giant – a player with past form who may have had a quiet season last year but has the potential for far greater returns than his value
YC – card magnet
DGW – has 2 games in the specified game week
pre-season – has pre-season form
pens – should take penalties
short term – will only play for a few games
Form – current form
hope that stimulates some thought for your fantasy premier league team. Heres the link to the latest fantasy premier league fixtures article if you want to look at that again
http://www.fantasyfootballgeek.co.uk/fantasy-premier-league-fixture-ease-schedule-gw4/