It will cost as much as £5million to prise him away from Maccabi Tel-Aviv, but Radjkovic’s resale value will grow significantly over the first 12 months.Īnother Football Manager favourite in decline, Guillermo Varela is surprisingly useful as a defensive right-back for Premier League clubs.

The young Serbian goalkeeper Predrag Radjkovic has been a hidden gem on Football Manager for several years, and although in that time his potential rating has dropped the 22-year-old is still a solid Premier League player. His natural fitness (14), strength (14), work rate (13) and tackling (13) are solid statistics for a lower-end Premier League player, while Maranhao is young enough to be retrained as a centre-back – a role for which he possesses ideal attributes. The Ivorian has a lot of potential to develop, too, although those technical attributes won’t ever read well.īrazilian midfielder William Maranhao, 22, is a considerably more rounded payer than Gnoukouri and should be available for around £62,000 from Brazilian club Boavista. It can be difficult to find useful, cheap defensive midfielders that aren’t too old to play with consistency, and so 21-year-old Gnoukouri is a good find. Carlos Fernandez – £3.3mĪt 22, Sevilla striker Carlos Fernandez is definitely worth a look his finishing (14), work rate (14), off the ball (13), and strength (13) make him a useful lone striker who could be looking at 10-15 league goals a season.įernandez starts the game on loan at Deportivo but can be bought for around £3.3 million – an absolute bargain price for a centre forward.Īnother player with a wide range of 12s and 13s, Assane Gnoukouri is available on a free transfer and therefore is well worth picking up as a squad player. Here is a list of nine of our favourites to sign for mid-size Premier League clubs.

We’re old enough to know better, but signing an unheralded, unknown player for a low fee and watching him develop on Football Manager still gives us a buzz. Football Manager 2019 is released this week and, having played the Beta for a couple of weeks, we have already found some of the best bargain buys on the game.

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