The Football League in 1000 years

Trippier’s breakthrough year is the ideal illustration of how hard it can be to predict elite fantasy defenders but after last year’s performance, we have no problem ranking him third on our list.

With goal scoring midfielders offering up huge potential for bumper harvests of points over the course of a season, identifying players who are handed responsibility on set-piece moves and penalties is crucial in your pre-season selection. And who better than the fiery David Alaba.

Well fear not, the Trinity Mirror Data Unit have been going through last season’s league stats for each of the Premier League’s summer signings to have joined from a club based overseas.

A Barcelona first-teamer at the age of 16 (I saw him score against Hearts in a friendly at Murrayfield way back in 2007), things haven’t worked out as well for Bojan as the previous attacking prodigy to emerge from La Masia*. I’ve never really done much with this, but I need to.

Skelmersdale United reach seven FA Cup finals. He’s still only 24.

You can have a rummage through all of the various results here.

In new Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Marc Trestman’s 10 seasons as an OC or head coach, his teams have ranked in the top-10 of passing attempts six times. Let someone else take him.

One of New Zealand’s top domestic football coaches is calling for the national league to revert to winter and for the Mainland Premier League to be replaced by a South Island league.

A quintet of the quality of Mile Jedinak, Yohan Cabaye, Jason Puncheon, Wilfred Zaha and Yannick Bolasie will give any half-decent striker some ammunition. That’s where Memphis Debay comes into play.

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With Robin van Persie and Radamel Falcao long gone, he may even occasionally lead the line or be free to roam out wide.

The next top scoring midfielder is Newcastle’s Georginio Wijnaldum who scored his 14 league goals last season at a ratio of one every 206 minutes.

NFL Week 1, or what will more accurately be described as Christmas morning for Fantasy Football enthusiasts just got a whole lot sweeter.

The Belgium global made the team of the season in 2012-2013, won the PFA Young Player of the Year in 2013-2014, and finally scooped up the PFA Player of the Year last term.

If you’ve got the game and want to try out the save for yourself, you can get it here.

The likes of Raheem Sterling ( £7.5m ), Fabian Delph ( £5.5m ) and Patrick Roberts ( £5.0m ) may have arrived, but the transfer news at the Etihad this week has centred on outgoings.

One of the players I will hope to flourish this year is Jonny Howson. The clean sheets are definitely a nice bonus.