📈 Will they bounce back in Fantasy Football? Last season’s biggest flops 😱

The next auction is approaching, but let's take a leap back in time to last year, when we relaunched for that player: "It will definitely be his year". Spoiler: it wasn't.

Let's see those players who were paid a lot or, probably, more than they delivered.

Dusan Vlahovic

Juventus' main striker, to which we add the hype generated by the new coach: Thiago Motta, who also brought with him the label of "player" coach. A coach who had already put aside a first striker like Arnautovic at Bologna. Vlahovic was paid like a 1st slot but scored only 10 goals in Serie A.

Duvan Zapata

For Zapata, everything is different: 3 goals in the first 7 games and an average rating among the highest in the entire championship, too bad his season ended on October 5, 2024, due to a cruciate ligament rupture. It's not his fault, but fantasy coaches lived it as a "rip-off", despite himself.

Alexis Sanchez

The big name, the comeback from where it all started... did not have the desired effect. Only 13 games played, most of them as a sub, zero goals, and two calf injuries. The competition from Thauvin and Lucca would have been difficult to beat anyway.

Douglas Luiz, Koopmeiners, and Bremer

The two big midfield signings for Juventus arrived from a fantastic season: the Brazilian presented himself with 9 goals in the last Premier, the Dutchman even 12 with Atalanta. The result? Zero goals for Douglas Luiz and only 19 games played; for Koopmeiners, 3 goals and 3 assists: not bad but certainly not numbers for a 1st slot.

For Bremer, the speech is the same as Duvan Zapata's, a blazing start, and a very high average rating: over 6.3. However, the cruciate ligament rupture in early October ruined his season and that of many fantasy coaches.

Lautaro Martinez

Probably the most expensive player in all of Italy's auctions, the former Serie A top scorer did not repeat himself: from 24 goals in 2023/24 to 12 in the last season, the second worst in terms of goals scored in Italy. The fantasy average was also over 7, but everything must be related to the credits paid, probably too many given the performance in front of the goal.

Tijjani Noslin

Marco Baroni goes to Lazio and brings with him the player-revelation of his Verona: because Noslin from January to May had scored 5 goals and made 4 assists. However, the expectations at Lazio were not met: 2 goals and 2 assists for a player listed as an attacker (and paid 16 million by the club) are too few.

Tomas Suslov

Quality left-back, short and with a play that can make your eyes shine, but also 3 goals and 5 assists from midfield with Baroni's Verona. Tomas Suslov wasn't a 1st slot but a 3rd/4th if he deserved it all. His performance with Zanetti, however, has decreased: zero goals and one assist.

Maignan, Morata, and Loftus-Cheek

Mike Maignan was one of the super-tops in goal, but Milan's season and his uncertainties have lowered the fantasy average: 5.1, even lower than that of Butez from Como, to name one.

Another 1st slot or - at most - among the best 2nd slots was Morata: Milan's new striker stayed in Serie A for only six months, in time to score 5 goals and then go to Galatasaray.

It could have been Loftus-Cheek's year, but injuries and the situation of the Rossoneri sank him: a start to the season in a more backward position, the muscle injury, and then appendicitis contributed to his zero score: zero goals and zero assists.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.

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