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Do point hits in FPL, count in your overall score or position? I actually don't know the answer.

Iago Aspas' shots to goal stats from last year compared to the Premier League would have seen him the second most accurate in the PL, second to only super sub Romelu Lukaku. This also puts Aspas, surprisingly ahead of van Persie, Bale and Suarez amongst many others.

I'm sure some of you FF nuts, would have already seen this table, but here it is for those that haven't: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1691272-all-you-needed-to-know-about-new-liverpool-signing-iago-aspas/page/5

From what I've seen of him, he creates just as much as he scores aswell. This was for a team in La Liga in a relegation battle all season, Celta Vigo, who many La Liga experts say would have gone down without Aspas.

Dare I mention the name Michu? Dare I say its a strong possibility Aspas may even return better than Michu?

However, we must also take into account that Aspas will slot into a team with a few players, he shouldnt be the ONE at Liverpool, but I suppose anything is possible, especially when he will be playing with better players. If its true what they say, that should make him even better. If he is as good as the stats suggest, playing in a number of positions in the process, upfront, out wide and in the hole. Aspas could prove to be a must if he adapts quickly and delivers well from the start.

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Thinking about it, given the massive pressure that is on SAF's successor, if United would have been wiser employing a fall guy first. A Benitez character of sort to soak up the punches that will inevitably come now that the reign is over, and quality will most likely suffer.

And then someone like Moyes would come in and sort of get it back on track.

The Tennis on display is just spectacular, unbelievable game!

del potro is amazing player

cmon dude , beat that ugly and coocky serb

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Lost at the end of a previous post but how do people think the fact that we will have 11 days less in this years epl season compared to last will effect our strategies going into the new season?

My initial thoughts as expressed earlier are to keep the wc handy for the likely bumper dbl gw's and possible treble gw that might surface towards the end of the season but I am also wary of the effect rotation might have on the bigger teams who have crammed fixture schedules in the run in.

A ffs article on the effect the world cup had on the amount of dbl gw's the last time it rolled around might be handy?

Are Sky showing Moyes conference in full?

If not does anyone know where I can get it in full online?

Anyone else think that Nani could become a good prospect once again?

Moyes first press conf. http://www.vipboxsports.me/football/162796/1/mutv-:-david-moyes'-1st-press-conference-as-manchester-united-manager-live-stream-online.html

Is Thiago to Man Utd on?

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/barcelona-leak-massive-transfer-news-cutting-thiago-alcantara-114516120.html

Moyes just isn't aggressive enough, the journalists are just howling him about Rooney and he's evading and ducking from the questions, Ferguson would've gunned the journalists down so they'd be scared to be that disrespectful again!

Growing speculation about Isaiah Brown and John Ruddy to Chelsea.

Moyes already giving his excuses for the hard fixtures...

Time for Arsenal

if i am moyes i would play chicka+Rooney upfront and sit that overrated clown who can't cope with pressure of big matches RVP on the bench

UTD would have some chanse in that case

with RVP in starting 11 even UCL is out of reach

I have a question about the sky games double captain situation. I understand that if you have RVP captain gw1 sat you can change it to aguero on sun and get double points for both. What i dont get is if you want to take advantage of the double captain situation gw2 do you have to leave aguero as your captain for the sat and then change it for bale on the sunday therefore using your 1 change or is it possible to you use you captain change moving it from aguero pre saturday games to say torres and then change it on sunday to bale? Wow that sounds complicated. Basically am i locked into my captain from the previous gameweek if i want to take advantage of the double captain or is there a grace period where it will let me set my captain for the week and then change it also.

will someone ask him about Thiago for feck sake

Peter Sagan (Cannondale) wins Stage 7 of the Tour de France.

Guess its been discussed, but Anelka at West Brom? could be lucrative right?

Waiting on Moyes to mention Zaha and that he is coming back to Palace 😀

Moyes = PR BEAST
Cool as a breeze
ONYA MOYESY KID

Define Moyes

From Yahoo website:

So the bullet points from Moyes conference:

- Rooney is not for sale
- United are looking to strengthen, hopefully before their pre-season tour
- Moyes was told by Ferguson that he was to take the job

Who has more pressure going into next season

A Moyes
B Forca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPM8OR6W6WE

😎

2 sets all. Great game

Right - headlong into some Baines statistics from the excellent guys at EPL Index.

In the 2012/13 season, Baines created a chance every 29.48 minutes. This constituted 24% of all chances created by the entire Everton team. As a comparison, this figure was every 44.33 minutes in 2011/12 which made up 17% of the team's total.

It is stats like this that make him such a superb prospect in defence given that some top level midfielders would struggle in comparison. However, as we know, Everton were not clean sheet heros at the back and the attacking line often failed to convert those created chances

I'm wondering whether a mooted transfer to United will affect these statistics, or what we can read into them. It may be that his productivity in creating chances diminishes, but that the conversion rate of these chances increase dramatically with the like of Van Persie up front. That coupled with a higher rate of clean sheets means that he could be in for some very tasty returns.

If the move happens, i'm getting him.