Our usual post-Gameweek members’ article is up next as we check in on some of the standout performers across the previous weekend’s ten matches.
There’s cause for optimism in north London after Spurs and Arsenal hit a combined nine goals, while our new expected goals data offers plenty to ponder at Manchester City.
Elsewhere, Man United and Chelsea’s Belgian big-hitters have struggled to convince as Watford’s Samba star continues to catch the eye.
Best player of all time, drugs or no drugs
No...he's a druggie...end of argument really.
Same as Lance Armstrong and Ben Johnson...
That is a false analogy, cycling is purely a physical sport where the use of drugs makes much more difference than in football. You can't drug enhance talent.
You can we he talks about how he and his team took stuff before matches to make them run faster and for longer.
Which part of that isn't drug cheating ?
For longer yes. Faster an impossibility.
speed is relative. drugs can make you sustain a certain speed for longer periods. therefore it can make you faster. whether it's 100m a la ben Johnson or the marathon. if you cross that line in a faster time than you could without the drugs then it's made you faster.
That is what I said. No drug(that I know of) taken directly before a football match can increase your mph, some can increase oxygen levels in the blood, and help you maintain your top mph for longer.
which is effectively the definition of speed. speed is measured by distance over time.
Yes. But the top speed would be the same with or without drugs.
speed doesn't exist until you've moved somewhere over a period of time
Either way...to have him giving out gongs for FIFA is an absolute disgrace. The man has even been done for drug pushing as well...
And they talk about sportsmen being "role models"....hard to find a worse one tbh...
So performance-enhancing drugs are ok in sports like football, tennis, rugby etc because it doesn't guarantee victory??? It still enhances speed, athleticism etc and is cheating full stop
What's your thoughts on Rio Ferdinand ?
Lance Armstrong was the best cyclist of all time before he got caught
Pele worshipper alert!!!
Legend, crackhead or not
Cheat. The coke is irrelevant imho but performance enhancing stuff makes all his footballing achievements obsolete
Agreed...and if anybody thinks the two times he was caught with performance enhancing drugs were the only times he took them then they're living in a dream world.
Don't forget this is a bloke who trained under Ben Johnson for a while...
And then Mugabe gets peace award
Celtic get best fans in FIFA
What next an idiot in white house
GOAT.
That's not correct. GOAT (?) that took performance enhancing drugs...is correct....
Half the Sunday side I played for about 20 years ago used to smoke pot at half time. True story.
Won one game that season 🙂
Remember that celebration v Greece in '94.
He's was off his tits.
While I agree with what youve said and I staunchly oppose the use of drugs in sport, imagine scoring in the World Cup while being off your face.
Imagine being so stupid as to do exactly the same thing again playing for Boca Juniors two years later after having served his ban.
However you look at it his record of achievement is so suspect now that i'm amazed anybody takes him seriously for what he did.
Total legend. 2 great goals in 86 will.never be forgotten . I doubt we will ever see a player as good as him
Admits he was doing drugs at that time as well...
See he's honest 😉
Did you see how Ronaldo's physique changed in a matter of weeks. Even with the best PT in the world, he must have taken something. I wouldn't confidently say that maradona is alone
I'm absolutely certain he's not alone....far from it. Maradona said that Argentina team in the eighties was rife with it btw...
Not that I actually believe everything or anything that he says...
You've made your point, now let it go.
1986 you say...Here he is sniffing Cocaine on the pitch in 86....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIygalhVZ00
Cocaine isn't really performance enhancing . Infact it's more chance of giving him an heart attack whilst exercising. Maybe it was effergin . That would have a lot more benefit
He could bore the opposing defenders to death.
Unlikely to have been just cocaine though. The other two times he got caught he had a cocktail of five substances mixed together.
Whatever it is it's pulled out of a bag and stuck under his nose...
As humans we have the tendency to forgive people, when they are amazingly talented. Maradona has proven that he is a football genius way before his addiction to drugs. The biggest mistake of his life was to go play for Napoli where they treated him like god and they introduced him to cocaine.
He started Cocaine at Barca.
Fair play to him for playing sensational football while off his face on cocaine.
What a hero, deserves all the plaudits.
Legendary.
Most players are on some sort of ped for recovery.
Legs need atleast two days to recover after good excercise.
Who to captain?
A) Lacazette (SWA)
B) Salah (HUD)
B easily
b
A. The trio dominated this weekend.
C
Still not sure. Is Jesus to Aguero a bad move?.
Long term,no
I've got both for now
"Bad"...no.
no
Great move IMO
Would you do either of these with 2 FTs:
A) Lukaku/Sterling->San(C)hez/Firmino
B) Lukaku/Sterling->La(C)azette/Cout OR Salah
No.
no
glarg
Not on my watch!
B - yes
Pope
Davies Luiz VVD Ward
Coutinho Silva Sterling
Kane Jesus Vardy
(Elliot RLC TC Wimmer)
0.4 ITB & 2FT
A) Davies & TC ➡️ Mariappa & Richarlison
B) Davies ➡️ Daniels
C) Sterling/Silva ➡️ Richarlison
D) Any other?
Appreciate your thoughts!
Just do B I guess. Bou has nice schedule after this gw
Don't like any tbh. The fact you have 2FTs might suggest B long term but you might just bench him. Sort of like A although that slows down getting Daniels perhaps.
Don't really like A after seeing Wimmer.
Really confused. No clue what do. I like A but Wimmer is a problem and I can get Daniels for VVD near GW12.
Luiz is a fail atm until Kante comes back. I could sell Luiz this week over Davies.
I'm currently playing my free hit for next week (I had to, because during the weekend I was in rage and frustration and took a -12 :P). GTG?
Hart
Lowton - Monreal - Fonte - Otamendi
Sanchez (c) - Salah - Richarlison
Aguero - Morata - Firmino
Pope || Mariappa - Colback - McTominay
0.3 ITB
Not sure about Hart, Lowton or Firmino? But apart from that good.
Just did Firmino + Colback -> Sane + Ladapo.
Hart is playing Crystal Palace so it's kind of a guaranteed clean sheet...
Lowton is playing Newcastle and he's started every minute for Burnley so far.
That -12 doesn't get cancelled out
G2G ?
Elliot // Fabianski
Jones, Ward, Azi, Otamendi // Mbemba
Salah(c), Silva, Richalison // Carroll, Surman
Vardy, Kane, Lukaku
Yes
Is it worth me doing aguero and richarlison in for sterling and jesus?
I would. They are guaranteed more minutes at least!
I like those moves! Long term too
Nope.
No.
Yes
Yep. Especially if free transfers
What will you do if aguero starts tonight?
Watch him bag a brace, Tripple rise and get rested on 60 🙂
know no more than i would if he didn't
bet on city
Start drinking until Saturday KO
How do you predict Pep at this point. No matter what he does I could see him starting both Jesus and Aguero this weekend or one of them or the other. Lol.
Chop ma nads off.
Bash one out
Not bring him in
Unzip.
Makes no difference to a game 4 days away
Any advice on how to spend my 2FTs?
Elliot / Fabianski
Otamendi / Azpilicueta / Davies / Mee / Mbemba
D.Silva / Coutinho / Choupo-Moting / Richarlson / RLC
Kane / Jesus / Vardy
I need to get rid of Davies, Vardy, Jesus and maybe RLC!!
Davies => Yoshida?
Vardy/Jesus => Firmino
Buying Firmino at this rate is shitting on your doorstep really
Davies to Yoshida. Jesus to Morata/Lacazette?
Not really. Very nice team. You could downgrade Davies and swap Jesus to Aguero if you want but honestly your team looks great.
Davies to Duffy, how much will you have left itb then?
Anyone on freehit Team? It’s ridiculously tempting
Would have considered if team was meh 😮
It really is. I'm pretty convinced ATM.
This is me for the week:-
Elliot
Otamendi Alonso Simpson
Silva Sterling Gross Ritchie
Kane Lukaku Vardy
Krul Naughton Carroll Mbemba
Have 2 FT. Still very keen on the Free Hit though!
Wastes your 2FTs I would save for BGW or when there's another compelling case.
I played mind when I was smashed 😆
Fair enough but you think I can ride it out with a hit? The attack doesn't seem great especially the midfield.
Better used IMO in blank weeks later in the season - depends on your unique team composition of course but as a general rule I would recommend against it.
I am.
Elliot
Otamendi - Jones(!) - Cedric
Salah - Silva - Ritchie - Choupo-Moting
Kane - Lukaku - Vardy
[Fabianski; Carroll, Wimmer(!), Mbemba(!)]
1 ft, 1m in the bank
A) Lukaku to Aguero
B) Jones to someone
C) Ritchie/Choupo to Richarlison
D) A mix of two for a hit
E) Save
e
A
These two guys are ridiculous. Just have moped up all awards for past ten or more years.
Will end soon...
Then it will be Boufal & Lovren's turn......
Hi...Where would you use 1ft with this lot please?...0.8itb.
A...hazard to salah (and maybe captain salah)
B...save ft....captain Kane
C....something else
Fab Elliot
Luiz otamendi Jones ward wimmer
Hazard Silva richarlison rlc carroll
Kane Jesus vardy
Thanks
Not sure who to replace Davies with. Will keep him one more week, and iv'e narrowed the replacement down to VVD, Otamendi, Stones and Daniels. Ideally Stones but not sure about tripling up on City with a defender
I like Ota! VVD could be decent if no other Soton cover
Their fixtures are turning next week though.
Not Van Dijk, fixtures gets tricky soon...
Bournemouth cant defend...
So Otamendi or Stones, whatever fits your budget. Preferably Otamendi
I was keen to swap Yoshi to Daniels next week. *Sigh*
Can work but no signs of improvement as of now and relying on attacking returns probably wont make sense
Who do you have in mind?
*apart from Citeh
Best way to use my last FT?
Elliot
Otamendi • Cédric • Davies • Ward
Sterling • Hazard • Richarlison
Aguero(C) • Vardy • Kane
(Fab / RLC / TC / Yedlin)
Bank
Or Davies
There are 3 ways
Hazard/salah
Davies/to one defender that you like
Save
Agree! Tempted by Haz > Salah! Not too concerned about Davies at the mo
Will you captain Mo if you buy him or stick with kun?
Tough call then! Probably not but many others will so not owning could really hurt!!
Save.
I have a similar team and probably doing Haz -> Salah. Might backfire but imo worth the risk as planning to captain Mo.
Yeah and Haz has such low ownership he won’t hurt you if he hauls! But if Salah does it could be quite a rank drop and ML drop
Exactly.
Is there a +1'er in da house?
My front 8 this week are:
Hazard, silva, sterling, richarlson, gross
Kane, vardy (Abraham)
No more free transfers.
Is it worth a hit to bring a pool player for someone? 1.5m itb
the pool guy will also be (c) in all likelihood
Ideas?
Silva to Salah. I have a feeling silva's time for rotation is coming very soon.
Probably the logical route indeed...
For a bit thou?
Whom will you bench?
Van Dijk, Yoshida or Cedric? 😛
If I had to choose one out of those three, Cedric.
All thre and play AoA....
Are we still in 16-17? 😀
That's a very strange position to be in
Flip a coin
You have a triple up Saints D..? Very nice. Probably Cedric is the answer.
Cedric. Other two have a chance of a goal.
You do! Play all three again. Bench TAA.
Sorry I meant Moreno.
😀
Thanks all, was leaning toward Cedric if incase I bring Richarlison
TAA? I have Moreno 😛
See above.
Cedric ... just. We on the same points!
Nice and a better team 😀
hmmm ... I need Kun! Shows that transfers do have quite a big effect.
How this watchlist on this site works,the higher the better?
I can see Salah is first on mids list but i cant see Coutinho there.
They try to spread the teams out.
Coutinho should be in the top 10 for sure.
Thanks
Aguero, Jesus, Sterling, Sane will rotate in and out weeks with 2 games. Make no mistake about.
Thanks for the heads up Captain.
Have Hazard, Coutinho and Morata. Would you do this transfers long term?
A) Haz, Cou, Morata > Salah, Silva, Aguero
B) Hazard > De Bruyne
C) Coutinho > Silva
D) Hazard, Coutinho > De Bryne, Salah
E) Hazard, Morata > Salah, Aguero
F) Keep Haz, Cou, Morata
Also have Kane and Eriksen, Jones and Otamendi from bigger teams, 0.0 in the bank
Here DC 🙂 F
Sterling to salah?
Or
Lukaku to Aguero?
Either one on a FT?
B
or i could just save my FT? what do you think?
a) Ramsey + Sanchez or
b) Alli + Hazard?
This has nothing to do with football, but I'm just curious.
What's your favourite film of all time?
swear to god, first person to say shawshank is getting a slap
Hahaa
What's yours?
So many to choose from....but I do love raising Arizona. Cohen broths at their best.
Seven/good bad and ugly
Apocalypse Now
Never seen, worth the watch then?
Errrr ye-hesss, a must!!!
Oh and the Redux version
an apocolipic mess of a film. riddled with disjointed timelines and scripts written on day packet.
It's bloomin brilliant
Have you seen the deleted scenes like when Dennis Hopper journalist is killed etc. You don't know what happens to him in the director cut.
yeah .
have you seen heart of darkness, the making of the film.
almost as good as the movie. the number of things that happened during filming and production was just ridiculous
my favourite too
OMG yes. One of the best films of all time.
Fight Club
Good film
Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge
Disorderlies.
I like that prison one with Morgan Freeman and Tim Robins, can't remember what it's called
Never heard of it mate...
why I 'otta
Fight club
Raging Bull is a fav of mine. Hard to pick my absolute favorite tho....
El Topo
2001: A Space Odyssey
Kodak porrta pro
😀
Mine's a rogue one...
The Prestige
you might as well just said shawshank 🙂
No way!
Sterling —> Richarlison (c) good?
meh, rather have both.
Drunk transfer it is
Why not both?
Jesus and Sterling too much of rotation risk
Wanted Richarlison vs Stock very much
Other options Eriksen and Coutinho
Would have made him as fourth mid. Guess your front three are heavy hitters.
Nope I am Alonso Walker idiot )
surely aguero cant start 3 games in 1 week before CL game
Impossible to guess who will start where
really is
This
This
No he won't but maybe we accept that risk knowing it's high reward
Is it possible to get a decent gk/def backline spending no more than 4.8 per player?
Thinking along the lines of:
Elliott-Fab/Ryan/Pope
Ward Duffy Fernandez Hunemeier(fodder) ?
I'm playing around with a WC team that has only Jones (5.1 for me) over 4.8.
Pope - Elliot
Jones - Gomez - Daniels - Mee - Dunk
All *should* play, so it's cheap, but with options.
Daniels is 4.9, I remembered...hoping for the drop to 4.8 soon.
Nice one, that's useful
Moreno over Gomez for attacking?
Not necessarily for attacking, but he's better on bonus, and I think he's slightly more nailed after the last match. Gomez could retain the RB spot or move to CB over Lovren. Moreno looks nailed-ish, but I could see a shakeup there (Robertson, or even back to Milner for a few matches) if he keeps making mistakes.
Already done Alonso > Otamendi and got another FT and 1.9itb
Foster Elliot
Otamendi Bavies Ward Zanka Cresswell
Silva Eriksen C-Moting Atsu Carroll
Kane Vardy Jesus
A) Cresswell > Duffy
B) Cresswell > Yoshida
C) C-Moting > Richarlison
D) Jesus > Kun
E) A combo of any of those for a -4
After a couple of disaster captain fails, really need to get this GW right.
So options are:
A-Salah
B- Kun
C- Kane
Or D- Richarlison (Maverick pick)
Currently on C?
A
6 years, 6 months agoStaggering....and my final post on the subject.
After my Sunday comment about how forgiving football is of the drug cheat Maradona after he was spotted at the Spurs match I was amazed to see him giving out gongs at the FIFA awards. WTF !!
This is a player who failed three separate drug tests (one for cocaine and two for performance enhancing cocktails) in his career and openly admits to taking Pep up substances as far back as his Barcelona days.
What next ?....Lance Armstrong presenting winners medals at the Tour de France...Ben Johnson giving out life time achievement awards for athletics ?.
PFFFFTTTT...!!!