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25 October 2010 743 comments
Paul Paul 
milner and vidic to fab and 4.4 defender?
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Simpson 3.9m
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I get the impression he might be motivated to do well next week...
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For my Facebook team,which one looks better?:
i) Elmo and Fabs in for Evra and Bale
ii) Bos and Nasri in for the same two.Open Controls
Didn't see your reply to mine! I went i) for the same reason 😉
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Morning all. Got an early morning keeper-combo-question for you.
A Foster and Krul
B Jaask and Al-Habsi
To me A seems better just by having Foster but B rotates much better. Vote for the chance to win a shiny gold starOpen Controls
Can anyone cheer me up and tell me that Joe Hart has a chance of dropping this week?
He is currently on 23% on fantasy tools. He has Wolves next and just saved a penalty.
Yaya Toure dropping £0.1m has royally screwed my plans and need Hart to rise.Open Controls
Bob Hope and his brother No I'm afraid..
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Chance of dropping or rising? Probably no price change this week.
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Dempsey -> Fabregas
Berbatov -> 7.3 Forward or under (thinking of Dembele or Odemwingie)
-4 point hit worth it?Open Controls
Too early to drop Berbatov, what with United having 2 home games to come.
First transfer and no point hit looks better.Open ControlsI'm guessing the second transfer is to finance the first
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Why not get Elmander?
Open ControlsI would love to have a VdV/Fabs/Malouda/Nani midfield, but at what cost? a Drogba/Carrol/Elmander attack?
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i have got VDV FABS MALOUDA NANI midfield,
and have DROGBA TEVEZ in attack,
can be done, just have to skimp in def,
Bosingwa, elmo, coleman,shawcross
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I remember when I first started playing FPL, I would be pretty chuffed with about 40 points. Now, I still get the neat feeling when one of my players scores, but a "good week" is generally around the 70pt mark.
Open ControlsA good week is only relative to where you finish in the weekly rank. 70 can easily end in a red arrow.
Open ControlsYeah, I was thinking that.
But also, whether you get a red or green arrow can depend on your rank too. Just because there will be a bell curve of sorts, you're more likely to go down the higher up you are.Open ControlsTrue, I have got 90 over the past 2 weeks & dropped 4000 spots. Had I been 20000 2 weeks ago, I may well be 50000 now. The goal should be a top 500000 weekly rank then the rest should look after itself.
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60+ as a minimum every week, consistently, is decent and what a lot of people aim for.
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I'm always happy to get 50+, 60+ is excellent, and the 70+ weeks are very few and far between I'm afraid for me!
Open ControlsHey Pop, have you been trading in Oz Sportal? Just wondering...
Open ControlsHey, TM™ I've been playing religiously each week, making transfers here and there, and still losing nearly every game. The way my team has been performing, you probably think I've lost my log in details!
Open ControlsHaha, if you understand the pricing structure then next season you will go better. Picking a good captain is essential there & trying to limit the 0's.
Open ControlsThat's true, not had a decent Captain pick all season, same on this game though also.
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things hange my friend.
last year:
gw21: big freeze, good score would be 20-30
gw22: double gw, good score would be 120-130Open Controls
Is Cashley, at 8.2m the most expensive a defender has ever been?
Open ControlsYou can imagine him being 8 million minimum next season.
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for sure..
after that we need to search for another defender..
same as last season bale..baines..Open Controls
Possibly. He's becoming too much to buy now imo.
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It's ridiculous, i can't believe people are still buying him at that price. Baines at £6.9 is another joke.
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IF..
samba,nani OUT
nasri, bosingwa IN
1.7 in the bank..
the rest of my team then..
FOSTER (krul)
ELMOHAMMADY COLEMAN BOSINGWA (shawcross jara)
VDV ADAM NASRI MALOUDA (ferguson)
DROGBA ELMANDER TEVES..Open Controlsno imo
nasri's form is coming to an end IMO with fabregas back, nani has two home games and is still utd's main man, bosingwa will be rested.
ur proposed defence looks weak, if coleman is dropped (pienaar is back) and bosingwa is rested, shawx has awful fixtures and jara wont keep a clean sheet anytime soon, so u have a 1-man defence in Elmo, who has the tyne-wear derby coming up which should promise goals for both sidesOpen Controls
A lot of people seem to doing Malouda > Fabs.
Malouda rotation risks with Lampard coming back? What about Drogba's point potential seemingly less when Lamps is back in, too?Open ControlsI don't think Lamps really affects Drogba much apart from spot kicks.
I did think that Malouda would be affected by Lampard, but it was pointed out to me that the way they ended up playing at the end of last season, Malouda came in high to the wing and took plenty of shots.
If they keep playing that way, I think Lampard will affect Kalou more than anyone else.Open Controlslampard returning will push essien back to a much deeper role
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maybe, but in lamps' last game chelsea got 2 penalties, lamps took the first and missed, drogba took the second and scored, lamps hasnt played since, so maybe drogba might stay on penalties
Open ControlsWorth pointing out that Lamps wasn't on the field when the second penalty was awarded. Pretty sure Lamps will assume spot-kick duties on his return.
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I'm thinking of getting rid of berbatov to free up some money.
Is it risky or a worthwhile, what with rooney back soon and hernandez finding form.Open ControlsI think Berbatov needs to be given 2 more GWs.
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Ok there are a lot of different versions but essentially there's a lot of people here who are looking to drop an expensive player to get Fabregas in.
Say everyone is definitely fit here's a quick straw poll of my current three expensive potential evictees.
Who to drop out of the following to finance the Fabregas move???
1.Malouda
2. Berbs
3. TevezOpen ControlsMy current thinking is to drop Berbs, as I have Nani and while Chelsea's next two game look a bit a bit meh, they get better after that. I can just see Malouda getting on the end of some of Bosingwa's runs. Tevez, if fit is undroppable. I'm thinking long and short term here.
Open ControlsBerbs IMO, too many other attacking options for United.
Open Controlscheers, hey soop if you can somehow get Fabs and keep Nasri you could be set for some mega pts over the next couple of weeks.
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Tevez is my current train of thought - especially now old Mario has come onto the scene.
So would be:
Tevez OUT - Elmander IN
Etherington OUT - Fabs IN
I would then have Fabs/Malouda/Nani/VDV/Adam as a midfield 5.
Worth it?Open ControlsYou'd have the exact same midfield as me if I do Nasri > Fabs.
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I have Nasri and to bring Fabs in, seems a pretty straight forward swap.
Berbs - keeping him 2 more GWs.
Malouda - still think he'll be good over the next 6 or 7 games so too early to drop.
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I made this yesterday, it's amazing:
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/my-mothers-praised-chicken-5155Open Controlshow to make the perfect apple crumble? wrong website my friend...
Open ControlsI believe that was a reference to me talking about the apple pie I made some weeks ago.
If you stick around, you'll get used to me talking about food 😉Open Controlsno it was a quote from the saturday surgery a few days ago
Open ControlsYeah, but I think Andy was making a subtle dig at me
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i had planned on malouda to fab for a four point hit but i can do -
tevez & alrighton - > dembele/jerome & Fab
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So, after a decent gameweek (65pts), I'm looking to tweak:
Carson (Foster)
Konchesky - Elmo - Dann (Jones, Faye)
Nasri - Nani - Malouda - VDV (A. Johnson)
Carroll - Drogba(C) - Tevez
Two options
1. Defence doesn't look strong for this gameweek - maybe ship out Faye and get in Coleman?
2. A.Johnson just isn't doing it given rotation - get rid and stick some extra money in the bank for future GWs by getting in...N'Zog? Barton?Open Controls
Current mid & att:
Arteta Bale Malouda Nani (Adam)
Tevez Drog Carroll
Options:
Arteta & Malouda > Nasri & Fabs
Tevez, Bale & Arteta > N'Zog, Berbs & Fab
Thoughts?Open Controlsif the second one is 8pt hit then no. if it is a 4pt hit then maybe consider doing it later in the week.
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When will Fab protection be lifted? How long after that before his price "could" increase? Immediately(?volumes permitting)
Open ControlsThks pal. Love the ranking!
Open ControlsAfter a weekend like this, i feel i never will have the honour to get into the top 1000.....sulking...
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Or maybe yesterday (according to FISO). Either way, a good estimate is he'll probably go up on Friday night.
Open ControlsHey Pasqualinho, do you want to do weekly price predictions like the weather on my site? 😉
Open ControlsHmm - You'll probably need the world's most complete and watertight disclaimer ever in that oversized font of yours to save both you and I a good kicking on a weekly basis. But I've been in worse situations.
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Ashley Cole is out scoring every single midfielder and striker except for Drogba and Malouda. How is he too expensive at 8.2m. With the way Chelsea have been playing it's very likely they will keep getting clean sheets which si at least 6 points a game plus the chances for assists goals and BPs (which he seems to be getting a lot of).
Now I don't have him personally, but if I could get him in without taking so many points hits I'd definitely have him in by now. I'm not saying he's a must but he's certainly not "too expensive to get now".Open Controlsbosingwa better imo. after 4-5 weeks he should be fully fit i.e. no need to be rested every week, and his rampaging runs should just as likely yield assists. also he is 2.6 million cheaper
Open ControlsBosingwa is a nice option I admit. Only if he gets regular starts which we can't be sure of at the moment. Although he is the guy I have after last week. Like I said I'm not syaing he's a must for every team but I don't get why people keep saying he's too expensive to get when he keeps scoring so well
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He's too expensive to get now. He maybe out scoring Drog & Malouda but for the price of £8.2 it will cripple your team elsewhere. Good to have him at the start of the season, but wouldnt touch him now.
Open ControlsWhy does it matter if it cripples your team elsewhere if he's outscoring those players you have to get rid of?
Open ControlsBecause you'd have to have at least 2 shit players to afford Cole & 3 average defenders will score more than 1 good & 2 shit. Also as King quite rightly says below it is also down to value.
Open ControlsSo why do people have Drogba instead of Elamander. Surely Elmander is better for the value of money?
Plus I don't think a midfield of VDV Nani Fabs Adam and a defence of Cole Elmo and O'Shea would be too "shit".Open Controls
It's all down to value.
For instance, Mummy is better value than Cole.
What Cole does have in his favour is that he's pretty much rotation proof so you know he'll be in your team regardless of opposition.Open Controls
That's just the nature of this game, the lower priced players easily have good value but they still won't shoot you up the rankings by themselves because their scores are just not high enough. You need to mix them up with the players that bring in the points for you as you can only play 11 players each week.
Ashley Cole is great value for money and also brings you lots of points. I personally rather invest in attacking players but that might very well be a big mistake.Open Controls
I need a 4.2 striker thoughts on ameobi?
Plan is
Gerrard>Fabs
Ferguson>Arteta
Chamach>Ameobi
4 point hitOpen Controlscan u not go 1mil lower on arteta and get odemwingie instead? ameobi will never be played..
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Damn you price drop of gerrard ! I am 0.1 short for the swap now.
Damn you romantic weekends with the girlfriend !Open Controls
So currently with 1.1 in bank -
Hart
Bramble, A Cole, O'Shea
Bale, Malouda, Adam, Nani, Ferguson
Drog, Carroll, Berb
I'm tempted to bring in Nasri for Bale (as he just doesn't seem to produce points wise anywhere but Europe) and perhaps Hernandez/Chamakh for Berb.
I keep sticking with the 2 of them thinking they'll deliver next week but rarely do.
I'm quite happy to take points hit for more if you guys think of anyone else worth swapping within the team!
Any ideas guys?Open Controlsany news on injuries for Coleman and Adam? if i remember correctly neither are playing midweek
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A or B. A. Malouda > fabs B. berb & ferguson > odegwinge & fabs.
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This weeks stating XI?
Squad:
Cech, Carson
Terry, Konchesky, Richards, O'Shea, Coleman
VDV, Nani, Nasri, Essien, Adam
Tevez, Berbatov, Odemwingie
Thinking of:
Cech
Terry, Konchesky, Coleman
VDV, Nani, Nasri (c), Essien, Adam
Tevez, BerbatovOpen ControlsCech
Terry Richards Coleman
VdV Nani Nasri Adam
Tevez Berbatov Odemwingie
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Nothing on Adam (news will be pretty rubbish, sources out of Blackpool are a bit pants - their own website in particular), Tevez' early prognosis is...
"We don't think it is a bad one, he took a knock in a muscle in the second half but it should be OK"
From Mr. Mancini after the game.Open Controls
help! have given my self genuine selection problems this week.
Krul (Foster)
Oshea Coleman Williamson (Knight)(Shawx)
VdV Nani Fabs(C) Adam Arteta
Drogba Carroll Berbatov
who to bench out of my front 8 and why? TYVMOpen Controls
What exactly does the wildcard do and would now be a good time to use it with this squad?
Any tips for next gameweek? I still got my wildcard as well as a transfer.
Robinson (Gomes)
Coleman, Samba, Cole, Shawcross, (Toure)
Nani, Malouda, Petrov, vDV, (De Jong)
Bent, Tevez, (Carrol)
Thanks in advance to anyone with suggestions.Open ControlsThe wildcard allows u to make unlimited transfers in a week, usually used when your team is so rubbish that 5-15 changes need to be made. that team is ok imo, no need to wildcard.
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