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Let's Talk about Cesc …
10 years, 3 months ago
who is the best bet to replace wally over NEXT 2 GW?

a.erikssen
b.barkley
c.oscar
d.navas/nasri
e.gerrard
f.wilshere

have 9.4 only, have hazard,silva,lallana,luka,suarez already
any others ?
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1. Carrick Doesn't Deserv…
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Oscar
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2. John Nerdelbaum
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Oscar of those but can you bring in Ozil/Cazorla for a hit? Villa and Fulham
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3. kennethrhcp
  10 years, 3 months ago
  C
  
  I have navas & hazard already so im torn between silva & oscar
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Steeton
10 years, 3 months ago
I have 8.0 to spend on two defenders, is there any ones that rotate well apart from Cardiff and Sunderland?
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1. theunwiseone
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Ward and Chester?
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Give The Todd Some Love
10 years, 3 months ago
Has Silva done anything?
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1. Noisy Neighbour
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Saving it for the weekend.
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10 years, 3 months ago
Yaya slid on his knees when he scored the goal - pretty sure he hasn't got medial knee ligament damage! 😉 MACHINE!
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1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
  10 years, 3 months ago
  and wally was smiling when he went of with a torn ACL ..... bah, why did it have to be wally why....
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  1. 10 years, 3 months ago
    The link between a leg injury and the ability to smile is small though.
    
    Knee injury and sliding on knees... big link. 😉
    
    I know what you mean though - was hopeful about Walcott! To be honest, a Yaya injury would suit me, because could do Yaya/Wally -> Silva/Ozil and feel great about my transfers!
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Wings Fan
10 years, 3 months ago
Honestly, I've always watched in disbelief as players do knee slides to celebrate. Such an unnecessary injury risk.

But for Yaya to do it, 15 minutes after limping around with a knee problem, is madness.
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1. Carrick Doesn't Deserv…
  10 years, 3 months ago
  He cannot be broken
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2. Optimus.
  10 years, 3 months ago
  http://media.joe.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/robbengif.gif
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3. Wilshere Knowledge
  10 years, 3 months ago
  He obviously wasn't injured then. Acting is part of the job description.
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4. Wings Fan
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Solskjaer did it after the winner in '99 final. Widely rumoured to be the cause of all his knee troubles that followed
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  1. applebonkers
    10 years, 3 months ago
    😯
    if you're going to mess up your knees stupidly that's probably the best time to do it i guess
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5. HuttonDressedasLahm
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Me neither. I dont think I could even do it with my knees!
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Koflok
10 years, 3 months ago
Presumably after Adebayor, Jrod, Bony, now Negredo will be the latest bandwagon for 3rd striker?
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1. mason419
  10 years, 3 months ago
  What you on about? Negredo is most people's 2nd striker already, and has been a bandwagon for well before tonight
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  1. Koflok
    10 years, 3 months ago
    Bandwagon to be sold?
    
    Don't know how much you're around here in the couple days, but lots people are planning to sell Negredo this week 😉
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2. 10 years, 3 months ago
  Negredo's not really a 3rd striker at his price.
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  1. Koflok
    10 years, 3 months ago
    Ok 2nd if it makes much difference at this point.
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3. HVT
  10 years, 3 months ago
  I already have him 🙂
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  1. Koflok
    10 years, 3 months ago
    Good on you. Here's a spud.
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    1. HVT
      10 years, 3 months ago
      I like mine in the jacket - dripping in kerrygold !
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4. John Nerdelbaum
  10 years, 3 months ago
  2nd striker keeping a spot warm for Kun
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jaco
10 years, 3 months ago
Play Marshall (WHM) or Mannone (ful) this week?
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1. John Nerdelbaum
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Marshall on this evidence
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2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
  10 years, 3 months ago
  gotta be marshall, whm dont look like scorin
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3. Give The Todd Some Love
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Marshall easy
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  1. jaco
    10 years, 3 months ago
    Cool cheers guys, what I was thinking!
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John Nerdelbaum
10 years, 3 months ago
Distin >

a) Alcaraz NOR wba

b) Clyne WBA sun

Probably only a 2/3 week punt until I WC. Likely to keep Clyne on WC. Forms a 4 point hit as I really want Ozil
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Goaldigger
10 years, 3 months ago
How's about this for a pretty exciting gw24 wc team.

Mannone Speroni
Clyne Coleman Shaw (Baker Whittaker)
Özil Yaya Silva Hazard Ramsey
Aguero Suarez (Berahino)

Can just about afford it. I know lots can happen before then but... looks pretty nice right?
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1. Goaldigger
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Actually Baker was meant to be Chester.
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2. HuttonDressedasLahm
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Eggs in a couple of baskets
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  1. Goaldigger
    10 years, 3 months ago
    The best baskets. Key to success 🙂
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EAGLES (0 Chelsea players)
10 years, 3 months ago
Yaya isn't a CDM....He does whatever the hell he wants.
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1. Wings Fan
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Pelle gives him that license.
  
  Under Mancini they always looked best with Yaya in the hole, yet for some reason he only ever did it for the last 15 mins of games when they needed a goal.
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Tribecca
10 years, 3 months ago
Should I keep Hazard or bring in Ozil?

Cant afford them both
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1. John Nerdelbaum
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Try and get both. I would keep Hazard. Surely there is another way?
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2. 10 years, 3 months ago
  Keep Haz, especially if you bought him cheaper.
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Deece
10 years, 3 months ago
Evening Gents...thoughts on this WC...

Davis, Mannone
Kosc, Chiriches, Clyne, Ward, Chester
Yaya, Silva, Haz, Ozil, Canas,
Suar, Negredo, JRod

Have enough money to switch Neg -> Aguero when he fit.

Defence rotates very nicely over next 8 weeks or so.

As a 1 or 2 week punt would u switch Negredo with any other striker until Aguero is fit? Cheers
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Bridge
10 years, 3 months ago
Madness to keep Rooney on a WC? Have Suarez-Rooney-Adebayor and enough In the bank to get Aguero once fit. Cheers.
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1. Carrick Doesn't Deserv…
  10 years, 3 months ago
  I would be looking at negredo! Then Aguero
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  1. Bridge
    10 years, 3 months ago
    Thanks. Annoyingly I got rid of Negredo for Adebayor. Not that it really makes a difference for a few weeks.
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2. The Gambler.
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Even more mad to get Agüero but doing that would solve my bench problem!
  
  Negredo might be forcing his way into my team
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Just A Hat
10 years, 3 months ago
lol Gary Linekar is by far my favourite person on Twitter
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1. kennethrhcp
  10 years, 3 months ago
  reason?
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Schürrle Class
10 years, 3 months ago
Is anyone bringing in Yaya for Silva after tonights performance
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1. aehii
  10 years, 3 months ago
  No because he's really expensive....
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2. Bench pony warmer
  10 years, 3 months ago
  I would if they played whu every week, in fact I would buy yaya sanogo if he played whu every week
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The skinny on Solskjær
Slikk
10 years, 3 months ago
Since I'm a Norwegian I thought I might as well try to give you my opinions about what to expect from OGS and Cardiff in the future, since I've been following his work at Molde for a couple of seasons. I hope you'll learn something from it. Not everything is FPL relevant, but I'll throw it out there nevertheless.

It seems to me that he has brought with him a lot of the same values as Ferguson had. As a manager he wants to be in total control of the club. Nothing goes unnoticed in his regime. I'm quite sure Tan has promised that he won't interfere, otherwise OGS wouldn't have taken the job.

The Ferguson values also related to the way Molde played football. His style is very attacking and open. This kind of football is not very usual in Norway, due to lack of skills (Yes, the league is awful). However, he made it work. He won 3 titles in the 3 years he was manager there. But, in the Norwegian league his players was mostly superior to the players of the other teams. Now with Cardiff, this is not the case. I'm a bit afraid that the attacking style might be a bit too ambitious against bigger sides. Only time will tell 🙂

The style relies on possession, and throwing a lot of players up the pitch. This is why he brought in Magnus Wolff Eikrem. This guy was in ManUtd reserves as a youngster(which then was managed by OGS), and when he was appointed manager in Molde he took Magnus with him. In Molde, Magnus was the key player of his system, linking the attacking and midfield. He is a good passer of the ball, and has a good touch.

I think in terms of FPL I think we could expect less CS than before due to the open and attacking style. We could also expect more return from the attacking players.
I'm not sure how the new signing and playstyle will affect the current line-up with Noone, Mutch, Campbell and Whittingham (as the most interesting players FPL wise). I'm not even sure Wolff Eikrem is ready to play in PL. However, keep in mind that he will favor a playing side.

I hope this helped you, somehow 🙂
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1. Carrick Doesn't Deserv…
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Slick post, cheers
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2. Spatburgunder
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Thanks for that, a good insight!
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3. Pepin - RIP Absinthe
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Thanks for posting, appreciate the insight.
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4. Wild Rover
  10 years, 3 months ago
  As a manager he wants to be in total control of the club.
  
  HAHAHAHA 😆
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5. The B
  10 years, 3 months ago
  This was very useful as compared to certain people posting about Forca.
  
  Thanks for posting, was an interesting read. 🙂
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6. Bench pony warmer
  10 years, 3 months ago
  But the real question is did OGS need ID to get served drink
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7. 10 years, 3 months ago
  Ole mentioned almost as soon as he signed about his previous with Campbell - you wouldn't believe it would affect his game time, but I wouldn't be surprised.
  
  And you'd imagine Ole would like Cornelius too. Any opinion on Cornelius Slikk?
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  1. Slikk
    10 years, 3 months ago
    I think he'll stay with Campbell for a while at least. He mostly used strikers with pace in Molde.
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8. James101
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Thanks. Very interesting read.
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9. applebonkers
  10 years, 3 months ago
  it's about time they attacked enough to win whittingham a penalty
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10. Beavis
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Cheers mate, great post. 🙂
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11. Galatasaray
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Great insight, thanks Slikk. Some say the best form of defending is attacking, hope this holds true for Cardiff since I have Marshall as one of my GKs.
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Lord Dragon
10 years, 3 months ago
On my wildcard, and be playing about for ages, but it's looking like this so far;

Mcgregor - 3.9

Terry -- kos -- nastastic -- Coleman -- ward

Hazard -- lallana -- ozil -- eriksen -- cabaye

Chamakh -- jay Rodriguez -- Suarez

I know strike force is weak, but will be moving towards getting argue to in with Suarez over the next few weeks. And a 4-5-1 should work until then.

Does this look alright for now? Any thoughts are appreciated.
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1. jaco
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Downgrade a def and mid and upgrade chamakh
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  1. Lord Dragon
    10 years, 3 months ago
    Chamakh will be my 2nd or 3rd sub, not too worried about him.
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2. Koflok
  10 years, 3 months ago
  If you're tight on the budget. Don't have someone as 'expensive' as JRod as a first bench.
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  1. Lord Dragon
    10 years, 3 months ago
    Reckon having only one playing striker is good enough?
    Or are you suggesting moving him to playing and downgrade someone else?
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3. Coaly
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Play 4-4-2, upgrade j-rod if you insist packing the midfield as much as possible, but I would suggest upgrading chamakh to lukaku/giroud/Ade
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Lazarus
10 years, 3 months ago
Which Cardiff midfielder is most likely to play this GW?

Does anyone have a clue??
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Weasel Boy
10 years, 3 months ago
Not wild carding yet but just putting this out there

Speroni (Davis)
Kosc chest bards Ward Coleman
Silva Yaya Hazard Ozil Lailana
Suarez JRod Lakaku.

0.4 ITB

Any thoughts appreciated.
😀
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1. HuttonDressedasLahm
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Learn to spell?
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  1. Weasel Boy
    10 years, 3 months ago
    Thanks much appreciated
    😀
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2. Weasel Boy
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Oh and I meant Oscar not Hazard
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FPL Notebook (John)
10 years, 3 months ago
How dodgy is it to have a CHEAP defence for the rest of the season.

As in 5 (play 3) budget rotating defenders.

Anyone had any success with it?
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1. The Gambler.
  10 years, 3 months ago
  It's worked well for the past 5 season but BPs suit defenders more now
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2. Suave
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Not great... there are typically more clean sheets in the second half of the season so it's worth investing a little more
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  1. The B
    10 years, 3 months ago
    Typically more clean sheets?
    
    Would disagree with that. Theoretically in second half the teams are more worried about relegation, so they put up a great fight against bigger opponents and usually score.
    
    The teams in top 10 are fighting for european spots, so there is some violent fight there too.
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3. FPL Notebook (John)
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Cheers guys
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4. JWF
  10 years, 3 months ago
  I have one decent defender (probably Kosc) but 4 cheapies can work fine.
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Total Foot 5 - romario 11
10 years, 3 months ago
For WC team:
1--Yaya or Silva?
or
2--have both and drop Ozil

*rest of mid: Haz - 4.3mid - Eriksen

Silva as differential is appealing, but yaya's form is beyond.
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1. FPL Notebook (John)
  10 years, 3 months ago
  I have Yaya at the moment, but that's partly because of his huge increase in value since i bought him. It seems too risky to me to sell him now, although the profit could be used well
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2. jaco
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Yaya and ozil
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  1. Total Foot 5 - romario 11
    10 years, 3 months ago
    jaco..what about Silva over Ozil?
    to go along w/ Haz - 4.3 mid - eriksen
    
    when ramsey is back, ill just switch erik > ramsey??
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Colonel Shoe 肝池
10 years, 3 months ago
grr my rival just got oscar in.... 🙄
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HuttonDressedasLahm
10 years, 3 months ago
Yaya still on

#Casual
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applebonkers
10 years, 3 months ago
see. yaya scores from open play, and gets a ludicrously sexy assist from open play, and no one is mad
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1. FPL Notebook (John)
  10 years, 3 months ago
  Wish he'd saved those for the weekend, but still happy to see him on form
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2. Bench pony warmer
  10 years, 3 months ago
  That's cause this game doesn't come with regrets
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Gimli son of Gloin
10 years, 3 months ago
Current WC team..

Mannone
Koscielny - Coleman - Shaw
Ozil - Hazard - Yaya - Silva
Suarez - Lukaku - Adebayor (C)

(Speroni - Januzaj - Turner - Chester)
1.3 ITB.

Not in any rush to get back in Aguero - don't think he'll be back starting until the end of the month.
Any thoughts on my side?
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Scottys Army
10 years, 3 months ago
A. Baines and Silva

B. Ya Ya and Terry

on wc
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Sweetpea
10 years, 3 months ago
Bit of a dilemma.

A. Walcott > Ozil and Rooney > Adebayor

or

B. Walcott > Ozil and Ki > Warde-Prowse/Colback

Has to be done tonight.
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aehii
10 years, 3 months ago
Silva always seems like a fpl disappointment, but looking at the 11 premier league games he's played this season, he's only failed to get a goal or assist in 3 of them. Which I thought was good.
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Optimus.
10 years, 3 months ago
@Carrick Deserves More Bonus

You like Oscar don't you? 🙂 I've noticed this week that if anyone asks a "Oscar or X in?" BANG you're in with Oscar reply..I bet if i look through your comments you say Oscar times per page 🙂

http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/6482298
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Park the bus
10 years, 3 months ago
Would you WC this week with this team:

Mignolet (4.0)
Clyne Bardsley Mert (Distin Chester)
Ozil Eriksen Hazard Barkley (Whittingham)
Rooney Lukaku Suarez

Done my FT
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