| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Kelleher | BRE | C |
| No Change |  Raya Martin | ARS | B |
| No Change |  Martinez | AVL | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Darlow | LEE | C, Vs, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  van Dijk | LIV | B |
| No Change |  Gabriel Magalhães | ARS | A |
| No Change |  Hill | BOU | A, £ |
| Up |  Thiaw | NEW | B |
| No Change |  O’Reilly | MCI | A, OoP |
| No Change |  Andersen | FUL | B |
| No Change |  Muñoz | CRY | C |
| No Change |  Kayode | BRE | B |
| No Change |  Cash | AVL | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Rodon | LEE | B, Vs, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Bruno Fernandes | MUN | A |
| Up |  Palmer | CHE | C |
| Up |  Gordon | NEW | B |
| No Change |  Wilson | FUL | A |
| Down |  Semenyo | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Dango Ouattara | BRE | B |
| No Change |  Rogers | AVL | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Ismaila Sarr | CRY | B |
| No Change |  Rice | ARS | C |
| No Change |  Tavernier | BOU | B, £ |
| No Change |  Anderson | NFO | B, £ |
| No Change |  Stach | LEE | B, Vs, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Haaland | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Thiago | BRE | B |
| No Change |  Ekitiké | LIV | B |
| No Change |  João Pedro | CHE | A |
| No Change |  Bowen | WHU | B |
| No Change |  Calvert-Lewin | LEE | C, Vs |
Mark Liverpool have officially confirmed that a fee of 26.5 million Euros has been agreed with Ajax for Luis Suarez. The club are now discussing personal terms with the player.
This move has understandably increased speculation concerning the future of Fernando Torres following Chelsea’s official bid which was declined by Liverpool in the last 24 hours.
We will have more to follow on this story, including a full Scout Report on Suarez over the weekend, if the deal is confirmed.
I hope a scout report on Carlos Vela is on the agenda too. 😉
So what price would Suarez have to be for you to take a punt?
It's not a realistic price but 7m or under I think for me. Simply because there's too many other good options around the 9m mark.
i have dillema whether to play Tevez or VDV this GW?
Stick with Tevez, i think he will score 2 goal again Birmingham and for VDV i'm not really sure.
Babel out Suarez in.... nice use of a trasfer by Liverpool!
Seems these Americans are no mugs. Moneyball through and through.
Buy player of unfashionable nationality. Tick (kinda).
Buy player in his early twenties. Tick.
(Possibly) sell player when you are offered more than he is worth ( whoever he is). Tick.
But perhaps most importantly:
Replace your best players before you've even considered selling them. Tick.
could you please make a list of your fashionable nationalities?
would just want to know if mine is on it
...and to make my point in less of a rush (crying infants are such an inconvenience... 😉 )
Until recently Uruguay had been seen as a national team of big hulking defenders who would generally kick lumps out of you and then get sent off, finishing games with 8 or 9 men and holding out for a 0-0 draw (not my stereotype, but one regularly doled out in the '90s).
The focus on their youth teams under Tabarez has meant that they now have a team of talented youth (Suarez, Lodeiro, Cavani) mingled with experienced battlers (Lugano, Eguren etc.) - Not sure where your man Abreu fits? Talented experience?
However, for those that missed the excellent displays of the team at the recent world cup and instead viewed it as a plucky anomaly, uruguayans still fit the old mould. That means that in an inflated transfer market, your average Uruguayan costs less than he should.
Buy undervalued players, and sell them at a profit. That's moneyball. Your team may be transient, but it will improve and you'll inevitably have more money to improve it further as a result.
(As the lads below mention though. The books do it more justice than I can).
Is that a reference to Why England Lose? Fantastic book, that.
Moneyball ----- I watch baseball too, i love it! oakland a's are moneyball
the reason why they go for young players is actually something else
Liverpool is private equity like man utd. they dodge taxes pretending to be in debt but they are 'debt-owned'.
but the real thing about private equity is these 'owners' is only a loan of about 5 years - so they will make money if when they sell the net worth of liverpool has gone up from the bargain 300m they got it for (so obviously buy 20-23yr olds then if they come good their asset price will have quadrupled maybe)
Ah yes, Moneyball, WEL references that itself (I missed "Moneyball" in Anorak's post).
Facing a 32 deficit on my rival who know's nothing about football so have decided to wildcard leaving me with this team:
Foster Begovic
Rafael Johnson Djourou Kelly Coleman
Fabregas Nani VDV Adam Ferguson
RVP Tevez Berbatov
I know - Ferguson - but he is a nice cheap bench warmer and allows me to get a decent defence.
Any thoughts about how I can improve it greatly appreciated 😀
Three birmingham?! Maybe replace ferguson and i am not a fan of nani, fixtures don't fall kindly for him after this week
Dawson instead of Johnson?
Nani doesn't have that bad fixtures does he? i would say their average to good
If you Fabregas in your team, you should be alright.
Potentially a Wonderful contribution to the Liverpool squad. Feels like the return of glory days!
I am taking luis no matter what......
Quick Question
My team for this week
Hart
Hughes Kelly Huth
Nani Adam Fab (Nasri or Meireles)
Campbell Tevez RVP
Subs - Coleman Bardsley
Who to play.... Nasri or Meireles?
Put both of them and sub campbell.
Suarez value will be around 9.8 to 10!
Before SAF was Liverpool the champions in pl....?
Have heard while playing fifa 11 martin taylor speaking.....
No, that's not right. Before Manchester United started fluking the odd title, Charlton Athletic were the best club in the country.
Fact.
😆
Charlton Athletic aren't even the best club in Charlton.
Ohhhh
can't believe man...that club is now not even in bpl.....
I know. It's a scandal. We had, er, financial problems.
Talent problems more like
Talking about talent, is El Karkouri still at Charlton Locarno?
I remember he had a mean shot from a dead ball 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfjPFKxwze4
🙂 Left us in 2007.
I liked him.
Oh, and I captained Dennis Rommedahl once. True story.
Eh? Liverpool have never won the Premier League. However they did win Division 1 eighteen times or thereabouts.
Suarez will be an oop player
On fpl as a forward but playing goalkeeper
I will have
1 brum player (foster),
3 arse players (szcz, fab, van)
2 spurs (vdv and hutton)
That means in wk28 I will not be able to field a full strenth side, unless I transfer out hutton (most likey candidate) and a GK.
Anyone in a similar position? Are you going to sub your players, or just accept it?
I reckon szcz will have gone up a bit by then and don't want to loose cash on getting him back...
doesn't wk28 arsenal going to face tottenham. I know that game will be postpone due to arsenal going to Wembley for the Carling Cup final. Arsenal!! Arsenal!! Arsenal!!!
Tesco Value defence - which options?
Currently I have:
Coleman (bought at 4.4m so going to stay)
Evatt (0.1m profit)
Hughes 4.8m
Simpson 3.9m Newcastle
Kelly 4.2m
Any better options? Have 0.3m in the bank to play around with.
Djourou or Spector! I will pick Spector because in FPL he play on def position but at West Ham he play in mid. position
Comedy timing is everything. Yesterday, Liverpool had made a 'disrepectful' bid of £12.7m for Suarez. But 24hrs later they nearly double it to £23m and get their man.
Using the money from the possible Torres to Chelsea transfer? Or FSG opening their wallet to convince Torres that the club have ambition?
It'll be interesting how it plays out.
I need a little advice with my wc team due to Arse, Totty & Birm not playing gw 28
I have/will have
Foster, Bego
Rafael, Coleman, Djourou, Simpson, Kelly
Fabs, Malouda, Van Der Vaart, Ferguson, Adam
Tevez, Berbatov, Van Persie
That leaves me 2.1 in the bank.
I realsie my defence is weak. Like the post above, Ferguson is a benchwarmer.
Should I change Djourou, Kelly or Simpson for Kolarov (I know, I know... replce with "better defender" if you like). Are Kelly and Djourou likely to play regularly?
Thanx.
I think so.
Any Utd fans sit there sometimes and wonder what could have been with Forlan? When he went on that run at the start of his Utd career where he couldn't buy a goal, it just turned into this big joke in the world of football. Even when he broke the duck he never really settled, and eventually Fergie shipped him out in an almost sympathetic manner. Turns out he wasn't too bad after all... he's turned into one of the best goal scorers in the world, for club and country. If you take out his time at Utd, his club record is 164 goals in 308 games... incredible.
Not saying Utd have massively missed him over the years since, but I think he could have turned into a legend of English football had he stayed.
I understood that the last drop for SAF was when he slipped and missed a sitter because he didn't use studs like he was told to by SAF himself 😀 Didn't put on a Utd jersey after that... The funny part is that this top 50 utd goals compilation on youtube has a lot of Forlan goals on it and they're class too... I suggest anyone who hasn't seen the vid takes a look, like it or not utd have scored some amazing goals over the years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyuQpnfoXPA
Took too long to adapt and lost all his confidence.
There are all sorts of factors that may have hindered him as well, such as language difficulties, settling in to life in England, that kind of thing. The move to Villarreal was best for him and Man United.
Diego Forlan of uruguay ?
If Suarez does sign he will be fresh as a daisy - he has not played since November when he was banned for BITING!!
Suarez will definitely play at the side. This is a direct threat to Cole and Maxi (eventually Torres too) who have shown nothing so far. Kuyt is always on top but has had bad luck this year
Don't get me wrong. I do have tons of respect for Joe, but honestly, he's not a good fantasy choice so far
Twitter source....
@UnitedLatest
Rafael
and Anderson have
been called up for the
Brazil squad.
Can I ask a dumb question?
Why are RVP and Fabs topping the captain's poll when the Ticker shows their game as average and Man U's game as very favourable?
I'll give it a crack - Fabs has a great record against Everton, RVP is in red hot form, Nani would normally top the poll but he has looked out of sorts for the last few games, the inevitable "will Berb be rested?" questions and Rooney is arse. Good enough?
ive a dilemma as to who to leave out of my mid/attack this week and who to captain
mids: nani fabs vdv adam dempsey
forwards: van persie tevez berba
had fabs as captain but considering dann is now longer at the centre of birminghams defense i'm starting to think about tevez.
any help would be mmmmmm ....., helpful
Wildcard team, few very tricky choice this week:
Foster, Hennesey
Pantsil, Kelly, Evatt (Djourou, Coleman)
Fabregas, Nani, Adam, Brunt (VDV)
RVP(c), Berbatov, Tevez
Bench correct? Can't choose between Djourou and the rest, therefore as I have a lot of Arsenal coverage I opted to drop him. VDV on the bench is never good.
its a similar issue to me, the front 8 are just too good, if you want vdv there, would you not just drop brunt?
but id stick with the defense you have.
I fancy Wigan to go down and they are pretty leaky. Will have a think! Wildcarded Brunt in, too good a fixture to bench it feels. I always favour the home advantage.
Looking for some expert help please
Stockdale (Foster)
Samba,Jara,Rafael-inj?,(Alcaraz-inj,Crainey-Inj)
Gerard,Nasri,Adam,Nani,VDV
Rooney,Tevez,(Rodellaga)
Just had a very bad score this week and lost lead in work league,do I need to use my WC? or just a change or 2? just 1 free transfer this week.
Was thinking Crainey & Rooney to M Kelly & RVP.I can’t even look at my squad right now- so many problems or am I ok until WC in GW27?
Any help appreciated!
Suarez eh?
