Fantasy Premier League Tips: 3 Arsenal Players You Should Sign

3. Alexis Sanchez - £10.5m

Last Year's Score: N/A He might be one of the most expensive midfielders in the game, but you get what you pay for in Fantasy Football more often than not. Pre-juding new signings in the Premier League for Fantasy Football can be something of a alchemist's game - or in other words informed guesswork based on complex equations that assume that each player will be abel to adapt in a particular way - but there are things from Alexis Sanchez's recent past that suggest he is more the £10.5m you'd have to pay to bring him in. Last term for Barcelona the Chilean scored 19 goals, notched 10 assists and created 47 chances for team-mates, thanks in part to his impressive rating success rate of 80%. In other words, he is exactly the kind of creative force that Arsenal need, and that they've lacked in the past couple of seasons. The crucial thing here is the potential for Sanchez to link up with Oliver Giroud in attack - if the striker was capable of scoring 16 goals without a playmaking attacking midfielder (on top form) feeding him opportunities, the idea of him getting on to the end of Sanchez's progressive play should have Arsenal fans - and Fantasy Football players - salivating. Concerns? Can he hit the ground running in the Premier League? His World Cup form suggests he's capable of taking his Barca form on to other stages, but we've seen before that the Premier League is a world unto itself.
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