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If the close season in our Football Manager save has taught us anything, it’s that buying and selling players is the most fun way to plug the footballing gap between season’s end and the start of the next one.

That applies in the real world of football too, and luckily for we deprived football addicts, the Premier League’s heavyweight, middleweight and featherweight hitters have all been surprisingly busy already — shipping bodies out, and bringing fresh meat in too.

Every week, we’ll be summarising the pick of the transfer activity and analysing how each new signing might fare in next season’s Fantasy Football stakes. How often will our predictions be on-the-money? 100%, no wait 90%, actually 80% is more realistic, or 70%? No, but perhaps 60% or screw it, let’s just wait and see, shall we?

James Milner – Man City to Liverpool

FPL Price Prediction: 6.0M

A good signing this, undoubtedly. Milner is a proven Premier League performer, a much-needed consistent midfielder presence for a Reds side lacking in that area, and as his stint at City has demonstrated, a surprisingly recurrent assists provider. At City, he was the poor relation in a midfield packed with bigger stars, but at Anfield, he may well be freed to return to the marauding central midfield role he thrived in at Villa. If he is, expect goals and assists at a decent lick. Definitely one to consider very carefully in the off-season.

Danny Ings – Burnley to Liverpool

FPL Price Prediction: 7.0M

Eleven goals in a Burnley side who really struggled to score was a very decent return, and his overall game — hold-up play, movement off the ball, work rate — make him a very shrewd acquisition for the Reds. But will he be the answer to their goal problems? We have our doubts. That said, an early Anfield goal next season could be the catalyst for a Harry Kane-like run of goalscoring — he is that good, and could even rival Kane for an England spot. But for now, it’s a very definite maybe.

Tom Cleverley – Man Utd to Everton

FPL Price Prediction: 5.5M

First, the positive spin. He’s played for Bobby Martinez before, and he appeared to get a number of very decent performances out of the boy Clevz. Equally, he did return to something like his best form at the tale end of his Villa Park stint, even temporarily becoming the goal-scoring midfielder many predicted he would be for United. But is he really going to pull up any trees at Goodison next season? Is he a signing to get Toffees fans salivating? Will he next season’s George Boyd (cheap, surprisingly effective)? We don’t think so. We might be wrong, but we’d be surprised if Clevinho is a major points scorer next season.

Memphis Depay – PSV to Man Utd

FPL Price Prediction: 8.5M

He’s fast. Very, very fast. He’s direct, he has a goal or three in him, and he is a tremendously hard-working so-and-so to boot. On paper, he looks ready-made for the rough and tumble of the Premier League. In fact, the only thing we can see standing between him and a tremendously effective season is the continued transformation of Ashley Young from ‘quite good left-winger’ into ‘rightful heir to Ronaldo’s Old Trafford throne’. (We’re joking, of course. But only a bit.)

Christian Atsu – Chelsea to Bournemouth

FPL Price Prediction: 5M

Bournemouth will score goals next season. They will, in fact, be like a better version of that cavalier Blackpool side which Ian Holloway brought up from the Championship, and Atsu — after a disappointing spell at Everton last season — should finally get the chance to show what he can do. Like Depay, he’s very quick, has a trick or two up his sleeve and will more than likely be given some license by future England manager Eddie Howe (or Jose Mourinhowe, as we prefer to call him) to express himself. Likely to be cheap, he could be a real surprise package. Don’t say we didn’t warn you…