The Rate My Team Discussion

7. Vermaelen transfer is doubtful IMO, Cameron and Wisdom are a punt (plus you have two WBA defensive players). De Jong could pay off but is arrisk.

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not a fan of the double 4.5 keepers - have you considered 5-4.0?
Cameron/wisdom unsure
Do you need de Jong and Siggy? you are planning a siggy/bojan rotation I presume so whats dejong doing in the mix? your other top 5 should play week in week out.

10 for the other lines 3 for defense
Do you have .5 for Debuchy over Vermalen(that plane will not be taking off).
Spurs Defs have better fixtures than Ward.
If Bojan starts, you may want to scrap the 3-5-2 and pu a Man City defender

Welcome! 7/10. I would upgrade Dzeko to Costa or Siggy to Lamela/Eriksen.

7.5
Why do you want Foster? you will want to play begovic every week. I'd switch him for a 4.0 and use the 0.5 elsewhere.
Your main priority should be to get a second heavy hitter upfront alongside Rooney.

looks great. 9/10

Elliot? Elliot is a fat kid with glasses who eats paste. You need a Nick.

The 4.0 flavour of the day is Kyle Bartley who's played regularly in pre season for Swansea. Dummett should play early on with Santon injured, although maybe Haidara is back? Not sure. Moore of Leicester should play, I'd put him in for Targett.

Also not sure about you having two Stoke attackers. I'd consider Henderson in for Arnie if I were you, or put Albrighton in for one of the midfielders (Siggy or Arnie) and upgrade a midfielder, or upgrade Bojan.

Dzeko could well prove to be a risk what with Jovetic's form. Perhaps you could take out Arnie for Albrighton to free up that 2m and put Costa in for Dzeko?

Terry and Dzeko especially if Aguero is knocked. If not make sure Jovetic isn't getting over on Dzeko.

Targett would be great if he starts and is in midfield. I've got Dummett. Not to many starting 4.0's not on the promoted teams.

As of now Bruce is not starting. Barkley is injured.
You have my frontline.
3-5-2? Need to drop Barkley and his inj and bad fixtures.
for 7.0 De Jong or 6.5 Januz who looks to be starting.

Mannone not 100% nailed, I would switch.
Defense is to weak for my liking need some of the top notch chelsea/manU in there.

Barkley and his bad fixtures are inj.
Luis Felipe may take Azpi's minutes (same price) or at 6.5 take Terry--in form, and remove any doubt.

Looks a bit light up front for my liking.

Are you going to rotate Siggy and Bojan?
Lukaku has some awful fixtures and very little pre-season.
I assume the defence rotates well? I'm not convinced that those teams will get many cleansheets.

Want Sanchez? Gonna have to drop Cesc. Downgrade Lukaku and his fixtures for Giroud or Dzeko.And downgrade Nasri or Ericksen.

I'd keep DDG

Another way might be to go Sanchez/Januz for Cesc/Mata, but I'd rather have the former.

Aguero not likely to start, I think you could change to Dzeko and Jovetic up top for the same money as Aguero + Zamora.
I'd consider downgrading one of the Tottenham mids to Siggy and upgrading the defence with the £2m.
If you're only having Krul as a playing keeper why not have Elliot as the sub?

Short term drop Aguero. And take Dzeko maybe.
Ferdinand is dicey, there are better 4.5's. Or do the above and pu a Chelsea DEF.

There are better 4.5's.

That's a tough one. In the end Luis for the clean sheets, though Vert likely will score 3-4 goals off set pieces.

A few players not nailed on in defence but that's the sacrifice you make for your front 8.
Are you really going to rotate Siggy and Bojan? I'd consider downgrading one and upgrading the defence.

Cameron probably not starting but at least you have nailed on defence subs.
I like this team although you could suffer if Arsenal or City have a good start.
I think I'd prefer De Jong and Costa to Ramsey and Dzeko but that's just my personnel preference.

Swap Cameron for mariappa who is supposedly set to start rest I like tbh

You could do shawcross to Huth

Cameron to ward

Stoke def + stoke def ?? Perhaps downgrade Cameron and upgrade De Jong > Eriksen?

Shaw will be started for the Swansea game for sure (no source just confidant in it as a united supporter). That would make him the best candidate based on the way he will be utilized and the better fixtures.

Shaw and the fixtures if you can afford it.

At the moment I am the same having DDG, Mata, Rooney and Hazard. I will decrese in united players as the tougher fixtures increase or lack of form (obviously!)

2 Utd (Mata + The Roonster) and 2Che (Terry + The Fabster). I would like Jones/Evans as 3rd Utd - but no cash left.

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He's the top choice once he's fit to play, but so far he has missed the whole pre-season.

Nice solid team. Even though Sturridge was a beast last season I would be weary of him this season. No Suarez in the team puts all the focus on him as the main man now. Also how many goals did Sturridge score off a Suraez re-bound, assist etc or just the defense putting a lot of emphasis on Suarez to stop him and leave Sturr open. I do expect a drop in form by him but to still do well. While I do expect him to do well I don't expect him to live up to his 11.5 price tag... Look at RVP last year. The year united won the title he was a hero at the club. Next season he was slapped with a 14.0 price tag and was pure dog due to injury after injury. I expect some of the same this season with Sturrudge and I bet I am the only one!

Sturridge may not start. Might want to downgrade to Costa.

3-5-2? I'd go Zamora and drop Austin and pu Debuchy (until Gibbs back) or a Man City DEF (Kolorov at the present).

If you're not gonna strt him drop Siggy for a 4.5 and upgrade Chester to a 6.0 Shaw or MCI def, or even that plus drop Krul, and pu Terry. (love Begovic until week 10, MCI not withstanding)

As I stated with other people I am not 100% on Costa one bit. With Rooney in your team at the same price bracket you can afford to downgrade a slight bit and upgrade a little in defense

B) you need a Chelsea Def.

don't care for Austin what about keeping Bojan and playing 3-5-2?

Also Siggy over Albrighton most weeks.

Looks good, Bardsley likely to take Cameron's place though?

Good team. Might want to go w/4.0 defenders to upgrade for a Chelsea back, or I'm liking Debuchy at 5.5.

I say 6, 5, 4.5, 4.5

Don't agree with Skitelord on specifics likely.

Luis Felipe-6.0 Debuchy _(until Gibbs)-5.5 Coluccini/ Vlaar/Cameron(nailed doubts)-4.5 Dummett/Wasilewski/Duff -4.0

Take Debuchy (until Gibbs back) over Verm for now, and downgrade Cameron who is no longer nailed down. I like Dummett amongst 4.0's.

Herrera is pointless, he'll be deeplying and 'assist the assiter' for lack of a better phrase. Avoid (IMO). For that price range, you could try Tadic or De Jong which are better punts. Or downgrade Wickham to Bojan and get an 8.0 midfielder such as Eriksen or Lamela.