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What impact will Aké have on Man City’s FPL defenders in 2020/21?

The arrival of Nathan Aké (£5.5m) at Manchester City could improve the club’s defensive prospects in 2020/21.

Pep Guardiola’s men were missing consistency and strength in depth at centre-back last season but Aké can be stabling influence this time around.

We have assessed the former Bournemouth defender’s credentials ahead of the new campaign, what impact he will have on the City defence and whether or not that can make him a viable Fantasy Premier League asset.

As we have used Opta data, only those with a valid Fantasy Football Scout subscription can access this article in full.

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  1. circusmonkey
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Predicted line ups updated, if you hadn't noticed. Well I found it useful even though it can only be 'as is'.

  2. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Chelsea transfer business is nuts.

    They’re getting Malang Sarr now too, alongside (looking ever likely?) Thiago Silva, Chilwell, Havertz?

    Nuts. All they need is a keeper and they could genuinely challenge for the title

    1. 7shadesofsmoke
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Add Leo Messi to that list

    2. sully29
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Will likely take time for that team to settle in.

    3. R.C
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Sarr is a free agent and will be loaned

    4. pingissimus
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      You forgot to add a new manager to the list 🙂

    5. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      It looks to me like Chelsea could possibly be contenders this season, but much moreso for the 2021/22 season. They will have their forward line all but set up with Havertz, Werner etc. You would think the PL experience this year will stand to those guys, they will have time to gel, etc. It will take another transfer window or two to try to recruit and improve in defense. T Silva seems a sensible stop-gap for this season but not a long term option. Sarr looks like he will be loaned out. Lamps and Chelsea board will probably take this year to look at who is worth keeping in defense and spend the year recruiting a better keeper.

    6. Egg noodle
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      If only it were that easy to challenge for the title

  3. 1justlookin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Thinking of trying to keep nailed on cheap players as set and forget options so that I can prioritise higher valued players when transferring players.

    Can anyone think of any players in the 6.0 million and below bracket that are likely(as they can be) long term keepers?

    1. Sanchit
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      None. That's why they have been priced that low.

    2. sully29
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      You'd be looking at the like of Doherty and Laporte in defence I guess.

    3. Thomas Jerome Newton
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I think all the Keepers are below 6.0m

  4. R.C
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Protests outside Camp Nou

  5. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Mitrovic to messi done

    1. 7shadesofsmoke
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      should have change to upgrade to a second liverpool def too

    2. Botman and Robben
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Too sideways and money that could be better spent elsewhere.

      1. Vazza
        • 3 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Haha!!!

  6. CroatianHammer
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Brewster at K.O. 4.4%
    Brewster now 4.7%
    I started with him last year, and might do so again.

  7. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    This could mean we finally get the answer to the age old question of

    ‘Yes but could he do it on a cold night in stoke?’

    1. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Imagine he’d get broken pretty quick!

    2. Derek the Dog
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Why, is he moving to a championship club?

      1. Steve The Spud
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Cup draw away at stoke in January

        1. Derek the Dog
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          makes sense. he could always do a 'robinho' and stop playing in January coz its too cold

  8. pundit of punts
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    What price do you think Messi will come in at? 13m? 14m?

    Also, KDB or Messi from City?

    1. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      13m but he wont come in

    2. sully29
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Can't see why he wouldn't be the most expensive player in FPL history.

    3. cravencottage
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      He would have to be 14 or more so his ownership wasnt 100 percent

      1. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Sound logic

        He can even be 15m

    4. ZimZalabim
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      14 m
      both

      1. Qaiss
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        This this and this. Both will be in my team no question

        1. Qaiss
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          As will Connor Wickham

    5. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      whats the highest start of season price a player has had?

    6. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      14. Ronaldo was 14.

    7. I Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Messi. KDB will lose pens and some set pieces to him.

  9. Tomerick
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Which scores more?

    A) 15 man squad
    B) Just Messi

    1. JURGENAUT
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      B

    2. FantasyHero
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      B

    3. I Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      B

  10. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    This may not be out of the question

    Neymar to Barca, Messi to PSG. Straight swap.

    Neymar has spilled the beans before that he wants to go back to his 'home' and should have never left.

    1. Derek the Dog
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      He's gotta go to city. Pep needs him. Proven fact that Pep can't win champions league without Messi 🙂

      1. FOO FIGHTER
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Messi would be the biggest transaction in football history. Going to be a wagebill killer to make this bloke sign on the dotted line.

        City players will feel like they are earning peanuts.

        1. Derek the Dog
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          City could manage it. Another few dodgy emails and hidden transactions. Easy to get this stuff past uefa these days

    2. JURGENAUT
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Both will be at PSG imo. Along with mbappe.

      1. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Lol

      2. Siva Mohan
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        PSG or Inter 100%

    3. Flaming Flamingo
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      No way Neymar would go back in the state Barcelona are in.

      1. FOO FIGHTER
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Nobody else will pay for Neymar otherwise he would have left PSG already.

        1. have you seen cyan
          • 4 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Man U would be that stupid 😀

          1. FOO FIGHTER
            • 4 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            Bruno will be the biggest penalty merchant ever with Neymar around 😀

            1. have you seen cyan
              • 4 Years
              3 years, 8 months ago

              lol that combo, decent call for Man U.

  11. Flair
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    If the transfer looks likely I'd genuinely keep 3M in the bank to upgrade Salah

    Anything to avoid the early WC

  12. OPTA FPL
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Maitland Niles playing left WG for Arsenal, bye bye Vingrade

    1. OPTA FPL
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Wing back

  13. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Blades need a striker, you'd assume they be a looking.

    Surely they go for Callum Wilson?

  14. pundit of punts
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Aguero Messi Sterling

    What a front 3

    1. Derek the Dog
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      would be nearly as good as Messi, Neymar, Mbappe

      1. cravencottage
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        now THAT would be amazing

      2. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Lol

    2. FantasyHero
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      AMAZING
      with kdb right behind!!

      1. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Droolworthy

    3. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Still wouldn't win the CL with Pep being the manager.

      1. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Jealous PL rivals all around

        😀

    4. Ginkapo FPL
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Bit old

      1. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        But lethal

    5. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Bet Jesus is happy

    6. zzmarko
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Messi bigger than Jesus!

  15. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Salah out, Messi in. Simple

    1. cravencottage
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      plus 3 .0

      1. Amey
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Auba to Son simple 😆

    2. zzmarko
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Could be a good! FPL team name there....I like it Messi

  16. SteJ
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    What are the 4 best mids at 5.5m or under?
    Thinking I may need them if Messi joins the EPL

  17. goriuanx
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Anyone else ended up on this defence?

    McCarthy
    TAA VVD Doherty

    1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Nope. Too expensive for me.

      So our roles are reversed. 😀

      1. goriuanx
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I like expensive items 😉

        Hope you're well Doos!

    2. Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Rest of my team just looks so bad when I do how’s yours looking ?

      1. goriuanx
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        McCarthy
        TAA VVD Doherty
        Salah Aubameyang Greenwood Armstrong Soucek
        Werner Mitrovic

        Nyland Justin Ferguson Davis

        1m ITB (not sure how to spend it)

        1. Brosstan
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Mine is pretty much the same except i have a 5.0 def as well instead of 5.5 mid. Just seems more value

    3. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      In a draft or 2

      Let’s face it preseason and signings will have their impact yet!

      1. goriuanx
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Very interested in Havertz price. Not sure any other transfers will come off to be honest.

        1. Eat my goal!
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          It’s those in the mid table clubs that have all the impact.

          Soon the 4.0 & 4.5s will be dead in the water and change the landscape

    4. Stockport Hatter
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Yes. Me.

      1. goriuanx
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        How's the rest looking?

    5. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Yes that's mine.

      1. goriuanx
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I even have a mill to get AWB and go full dullard.

        1. Brosstan
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          See comment above 😛

    6. R.C
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      So you've dropped Bruno - why is that?

      1. goriuanx
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I may end up with him again of course. I don't see myself captaining him for a while to be honest.

    7. Amey
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Ryan Button
      Taa VVD Doherty Shaw Ferguson

  18. Yip Jaap Stam
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Messi, Martial and Greenwood. What a front three

    1. Derek the Dog
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      unfortunately I don't think signing Messi would even get us close to winning the league 🙁

      1. Amey
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        🙁

    2. Qaiss
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Will be on Fifa 21 ultimate team I’m guessing

    3. KAALI_DAAL
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Imagine Messi is through to goal, and Rashford asks him to send in a cross, and he does, and Rashford skies it.

      8-2 was enough humiliation for him, let's not put him in a team where he plays along the likes of Rashford, Martial, and oh hell, even Lingard.

  19. thepuntmaster
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Madness on this Messi news. Was living in Barcelona last year and its a city whose people are dramatically divided on almost everything... except football. Messi's presence in almost god-like in the unity he brings. That city lives and breathes football and if that goes tits up (looks like it will with these owners), could be absolutely manic.

    1. Flair
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Pure insanity

  20. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Shame Messi blanks in GW1

    1. Siva Mohan
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      to GW38

  21. Siva Mohan
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Kova Kante
    Ziyech Kai Pulisic
    Messi Werner

    terrific!!

    1. Derek the Dog
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      if thats your new draft you have too many Chelsea 😉

      1. Siva Mohan
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        look at Manchester clubs fans .. why shouldn't we have some fun 😀

        1. Collie01
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Wise to omit the GK and 3-man defense!

  22. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    How much would Messi be then?

    12m?

    1. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      FPL I meant

    2. Siva Mohan
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      14M

    3. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      13m forward imo.

      1. La Roja
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        No way he’ll be a forward imo

        1. Collie01
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Yeah I guess with Auba, Salah, and the others as mids, he might well be a mid also.

          I imagine 14m if he came listed as a mid.

    4. KAALI_DAAL
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      13.5M

  23. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Imagine City signed Messi, he came to the PL and was a total flop 😀

    1. I Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      30 goal contributions minimum.

    2. KAALI_DAAL
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Hard to imagine that. Pep has managed Messi before so he knows how to get the best out of him. Also a striker with a playmaker behind like KDB means flopping is a slim possibility. It's not like Messi doesn't know how to score.

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Torres Pool VS Torres Chelsea

        1. KAALI_DAAL
          • 3 Years
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Still. Pep factor is big here.

          1. have you seen cyan
            • 4 Years
            3 years, 8 months ago

            it would never happen, but would be funny

  24. Steirish
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    If Messi did come to the prem would that sway most to wildcard in GW2 given price and transfers needed to rejig squad to accommodate

    1. KAALI_DAAL
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Big yes.

    2. Steirish
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Just based on the assumption of going to city

  25. Lebowski85
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Calling Southampton fans! Smallbone likely to get regular gametime now Hojlberg has moved on?

    1. R.C
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      No don't think so but he will be rotated

  26. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Despite it possibly being justified now given the clowns that seem to run the club, I’d really hate to see Messi leave Barça.

    Stick it out Leo! Or if you’ve gotta leave, try PSG to relink with Neymar and win CL again

  27. Collie01
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    I think the most shocking football related news is flying under the radar here this evening.

    Messi sent in his transfer request.. via fax!

  28. C'mon the Fylde
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    What do you think? Any good?

    McCarthy
    TAA Ayling Vinagre Justin
    Ziyech Salah Aubameyang Son
    Werner Mitrovic

    England Ferguson Norwood Davis

    0.5m itb

    1. Derek the Dog
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      How do you plan to get Messi in? 😉

      1. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Yeah pretty good

      2. C'mon the Fylde
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        I'll wildcard him in Haha!

  29. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Thoughts, fellas? Auba to City, will get United in somehow too probably. 0.5m ITB. 🙂

    Ryan (Button)
    TAA Doherty Saliba KWP (Ferguson)
    Salah Auba Ziyech ASM (Gordon)
    Werner Ings (Davis)

    1. NULL-X-VOID
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Ferguson is a dicey option, he didn't even make the bench in today's friendly, check the left-back Mitchell in CRY, 4.0 as well

      Plus, you need some spurs cover at least for the beginning fixtures

    1. Hattrick Harry
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I would bet 12/1 Inter Milan and 50/1 Leeds