Here’s our fantasy premier league GW33 article where we outline and give a view on the most transferred in players so far in the gameweek (the bandwagons) and the most transferred out (the sinking ships). There’s a table of stats on each as well as some narrative on their prospects and their upcoming fixtures
Fantasy Premier League GW33 – the bandwagons and sinking ships
The Bandwagons
These are the 5 most transferred in players so far in the gameweek. The fixture ease is for the next 6 games to the end of the season and for the next 3 before DGW36. See our updated fixture ease article. The fixtures also take into account the double gameweeks. Here’s the link to our article on the double gameweek announcement yesterday
*Jagielka’s bookies odds are for the clean sheet rather than goal scoring
Son HM
The Spurs attacking midfielder showed his deadly finishing with a 2 goal and 1 assist haul against Watford in GW32. There’s no doubting the guys finishing ability and fantastic FPL value in the Spurs team. Also a time to buy doesn’t get much better than home to Bournemouth. It’s also very rare for a midfielder to have an anytime goalscoring odds of £1.85 for £1 invested.
There’s only 1 catch. Son has struggled to hold a place in Poch’s 3-4-1-2 recently favoured formation. He’s certainly not going to displace Alli and Eriksen in the 2 attacking midfield positions. That formation could return when Kane comes back but is more likely related to Wanyama being fit this weekend. Dier would move into the back 3.
Fixtures to the end of the season:
Bournemouth (H)
Leicester (A)
Arsenal (H)
West Ham (A)
Man Utd (H) DGW37
Leicester (A) DGW37
Hull (A)
Kane
The Spurs forward played 30 minutes or so in the 4-0 win against Watford and could easily have had 2 goals in that time. He’s talking himself up as being fully ready for the weekend so a start would not be a surprise. Do you need to know anything more than his last 4 home games have seen him gather 56 FPL points. Has pens and some direct free kick responsibility. The only negative is the returning from injury minutes he plays.
Fixtures to the end of the season:
Bournemouth (H)
Leicester (A)
Arsenal (H)
West Ham (A)
Man Utd (H) DGW37
Leicester (A) DGW37
Hull (A)
Zaha
Another eye catching performance in his 2 assist haul against Arsenal for the Palace RW. Currently very advanced in a front 3 he’s often the first player to pick the ball up on the counter attack. Plays quite wide so tends to be more of an assist threat than a goal scorer which for me is the one negative. Great value though.
Leicester (H)
Liverpool (A) DGW34
Spurs (H) DGW34
Burnley (H)
Man City (A)
Hull (H)
Man Utd (A)
Jagielka
The Everton CB has scored 2 goals in 6 days. His previous 2 premier league goals came in the space of 897 days. So if you’re buying him for his goal scoring ability you may be disappointed. He is good value though at £4.7m although Holgate who’s probably safe at RB is only £4.1m. He’s started the last 5 now after displacing Funes Mori in the team. Home to Burnley is also the optimum time to buy him as well. Whether I would be buying him given other priorities and double gameweek teams is another thing
Fixtures to the end of the season:
Burnley (H)
West Ham (A)
Chelsea (H)
Swansea (A)
Watford (H)
Arsenal (A)
Josh King
I’ve always been a fan of the former United and Blackburn player however Eddie Howe has only recently given him some gametime security. The Bournemouth FPL classified midfielder but playing as a striker is one of the few players to be playing at an advantage to his FPL classification. He’s taken that chance since coming into the team with aplomb with 10 goals and an assist in 13 games. Not sure if you don’t own him now whether I would be focusing my transfer on buying him away to Spurs
Fixtures to the end of the season:
Spurs (A)
Middlesbrough (H)
Sunderland (A)
Stoke (H)
Burnley (H)
Leicester (A)
The Sinking Ships
These are the 5 most transferred out players so far in the gameweek. The fixture ease is for the next 6 games to the end of the season and for the next 3 before DGW36. See our updated fixture ease article. The fixtures also take into account the double gameweeks. Here’s the link to our article on the double gameweek announcement yesterday
Note: Walker and Valencia’s bookies odds are for clean sheets not anytime goal scoring
Walker
The Spurs RB would expect to be rotated every now and then in the high energy system required by Pochettino. However twice in the last 3 games is starting to look like more than just a rest to freshen up. It doesn’t help when your understudy comes in and creates 4 chances, makes 6 crosses and gets an assist either which is what Trippier did against Watford in GW32. So no surprise then that the highest owned defender in FPL is suffering transfers out. Whether you would roll over the transfer with Bournemouth next to give it one more chance is the only question
Fixtures to the end of the season:
Bournemouth (H)
Leicester (A)
Arsenal (H)
West Ham (A)
Man Utd (H) DGW37
Leicester (A) DGW37
Hull (A)
Sigurdsson
The Swansea LAM maybe the perfect FPL midfielder with an advanced position and all set pieces and pens. However you go 4 games without returning and play in a team that has refocused to stop shipping goals then you’re going to see transfers out. 3 of the last 4 blanks have interestingly coincided with Llorente being injured so whether this will change things remain to be seen. He’s never been a high underlying stats man either so nothing to look at to see if there is a problem under the surface. Depending on your transfer priorities though away to Watford next is not the worst fixture to hold on for.
Fixtures to the end of the season:
Watford (A)
Stoke (H)
Man Utd (A)
Everton (H)
Sunderland (A)
West Brom (H)
Valencia
You could maybe excuse the Man Utd RB for being rested for 1 game after coming back from South America after the International break but to miss 2 with some cryptic explanation from your manager just isn’t cool at all. With 2 DGW’s coming up it’s not an easy sell though that’s for sure. Surprised people haven’t waited until tonight to see whether he starts against Anderlecht or whether there’s more pre match explanation though.
Fixtures to the end of the season:
Chelsea (H)
Burnley (A) DGW34
Man City (A) DGW34
Swansea (H)
Arsenal (A)
Spurs (A) DGW37
Southampton (A) DGW37
Crystal Palace (H)
Costa
This I can understand. It’s not the 3 blanks for the Chelsea striker that makes me understand it as he did return 2 assists in GW32. However if you own Costa and you’re away at Man Utd next and you’re looking at Kane home to Bournemouth with 56 points in his last 4 home games then you’re going to be tempted lets be honest. It’s not you it’s me is what you’ll be telling Diego and yes there is someone else.
Fixtures to the end of the season:
Man Utd (A)
Southampton (H)
Everton (A)
Middlesbrough (H)
West Brom (A) DGW37
Watford (H) DGW37
Sunderland (H)
Sanchez
Hmm lets look at some facts for the Arsenal LAM (current position). 2 double gameweeks coming up. The highest FPL points scorer. Highest FPL points per match. Most goals for an FPL midfielder. A respectable 6th on the FPL assists. You had a good first half against Palace in GW32 and you were, in my view, unlucky not to score. However, you blank 3 times in a row and cost £11.6m and are part of a team that frankly were unforgivably poor in that 2nd half against Palace and everything past goes out the window. You are going to be sold. I’m just surprised he’s not topping the chart although that maybe due to the game being Monday.
Interestingly Arsenals postponed game with Southampton now going to GW36 makes it so easier to sell him now and get him back in GW36 with a wildcard if you’re looking to fund Harry Kane for this gameweek. If the game was postponed to GW35 that to me was just too remote to use a wildcard principally for DGW37. Selling him and getting him back in that scenario would be so much harder.
To put the other side to it though his underlying stats have fallen away although better this week due to the first half and he is playing quite wide on the left for decent proportions of the game. He also looks like Mr Tantrum on the field. You can’t also underestimate how much of a malaise the team is in and how that will effect his form.
Interestingly I look at last year. Sanchez had a 4 game blank run early in the season and came back with a hat trick after it and 6 goals in 3 games. He then blanked again for 4 games before returning with an assist. He was then injured. On his return he blanked again for 4 games before returning a goal or assist in 7 straight games. He then finished the season off with 1 returning game in his last 4. So last year he was the epitome of streaky. This year it’s totally different. He’s never gone more than 2 consecutive blanks this season which is why this is such a surprise.
Any of this help? I’m not sure it does. I know one thing though. Even I, the man who hates hits, is considering taking a -4 to get him out for Kane with a return plan on a GW36 wildcard
Fixtures to the end of the season:
Middlesbrough (A)
Leicester (H)
Spurs (A)
Man Utd (H) DGW36
Southampton (A) DGW36
Stoke (A) DGW37
Sunderland (H) DGW37
Everton (H)
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