| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up |  Raya Martin | ARS | C, Vs |
| Down |  Donnarumma | MCI | B |
| Up |  Pickford | EVE | C |
| Up |  Roefs | SUN | A |
| Down |  Verbruggen | BHA | B |
| No Change |  Darlow | LEE | B, £ |
| No Change |  Henderson | CRY | B |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up |  Gabriel Magalhães | ARS | B, Vs |
| Down |  O’Reilly | MCI | A |
| Up |  Keane | EVE | B |
| Up |  van Dijk | LIV | B |
| Up |  Ballard | SUN | C |
| No Change |  Lacroix | CRY | A |
| Down |  van Hecke | BHA | A |
| Down |  Struijk | LEE | B, £ |
| Down |  Hill | BOU | C, £ |
| No Change |  Thiaw | NEW | C |
| No Change |  Cash | AVL | C |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Bruno Fernandes | MUN | A |
| No Change |  Semenyo | MCI | C |
| Up |  Rice | ARS | C, Vs |
| Up |  Wilson | FUL | B |
| Up |  Szoboszlai | LIV | A |
| No Change |  Ismaila Sarr | CRY | C, Rest |
| No Change |  Rogers | AVL | B |
| Up |  Gibbs-White | NFO | A, VsX |
| Up |  Dewsbury-Hall | EVE | B, £ |
| No Change |  Anderson | NFO | C, £ |
| Down |  Palmer | CHE | C |
| Down |  Tavernier | BOU | C, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Haaland | MCI | B |
| Up |  Thiago | BRE | A |
| Up |  Bowen | WHU | A |
| Up |  Watkins | AVL | A |
| Down |  Welbeck | BHA | B |
| Down |  Calvert-Lewin | LEE | C |
| Down |  João Pedro | CHE | C |
Paul We delve into the data offered up by Saturday and Sunday’s 10 fixtures this evening. Newcastle’s weekend goal hero, Villa’s foraging frontman and Liverpool’s talismanic South American are all under analysis, while we also cast an eye over a trio of midfield playmakers plying their trade at United, Swansea and Tottenham:
What should I do with my team? 2 ft, and 0.4m in the bank. No idea for transfers
Boruc mannone
Coleman zabaleta azpi Williamson Chester
Hazard gerrard yaya lallana ki
Suarez Sturridge lukaku
Gerrard > Silva
Gerrard 9yc
Reminded me of the bit in Fergie's book, about the infamous friendly vs Sporting Lisbon that convinced United to buy Ronaldo
Fergie: "get close to him!"
O'Shea: "I can't Boss!"
I got there as quick as I could....as he fouled him again
John O'Shea missed training the next day with dizzy spells.
I remember the Madrid game last season. Fergie absolutely slaughtered Evra at half-time saying he should have challenged Ronaldo for that header. Evra protested that he did jump he just had no chance and Fergie scoffed at him
Then he watched a replay of the goal on the flight back, called in Evra into his office first thing to apologise to him
Next season, Suarez 14m, Yaya 12m and Hazard 12m??
Suarez will be worth it, and so will Hazard -- he will only get better.
Yaya to revert to the mean 😉
Whats the highest a midfielder has ever been at the start of the season?
Ronaldo 14.0
Suarez 14m?.... I'm not sure they will have La Liga players in FPL next season 😉
I doubt it will be possible to have Suarez, Sturridge, Hazard and Yaya and still have a reasonable squad. Who do you leave out?
Bale scored 240+ points. Don't think Hazard wiil get that many. Hazard 11 m for me.
Yaya with all his set pieces could actually get there and get priced out of the game.
Suarez should be 15m.
Hazard and Yaya won't be that much
I genuinely don't think Yaya Toure will be in my squad next season. Aguero (should) have put his injuries behind him, and that takes penalties away from Yaya. I know he has been immense even without but at his age, this will be his peak I'd imagine.
😯 mata stats
Praying he stays in the central role! Surely he has to?
de Gea
Rafael, Jones, ????, Evra.
Carrick, Fellaini.
????, Mata, Welbeck.
Rooney.
1st ???? is either Carrick or Smalling/Ferdinand.
The second is any of Januzaj/Valencia/Kagawa/Young.
Evans may be fit yet. If Carrick goes there I hope he plays Fletcher over Cleverley.
Kagawa over Januzaj IMO. Januzaj was anonymous v Pool and Kagawa, Mata and Rooney linked up well on Saturday. Then we have Dat Guy
Sounds about right. I hope he gives Mata and Kagawa a run of games together. No need to rotate now!
So much this.
Encouraging for Juanito, two more games to prove himself! One by default being the second in this DGW and the other one being AVL.
Every time I think about adding a cheap DGWer for 37 I look at Chelsea at home to Norwich and Liverpool away at Palace and think either of Cahill and Flanagan is just as good as Chester with 2 games or Januzaj/Delph/Hull mid. Could easily line up
Mannone
Rafael, Demichelis, Cahill, Flanagan
Yaya, Hazard, Eriksen
Suarez, Rooney, Aguero
6 DGWers plus guys like Hazard, Eriksen and Suarez who have nice single gameweek fixtures
C Davies, Mirallas and Hernandez's members stats all stand out to me from last weekend.
I am thinking about getting Barkley for the next DGW. Gives the funds for Aguero. Anyone else looking at him?
Hey guys, anyone able to help me with a betting related query?
So last night I signed up to paddy power for their 4/1 offer on Ronaldo scoring first.
Whacked a fiver on and as you may well know he did not score first.
Checked my account today - I have £30 in my account (I deposited £10) and a £5 free bet. Any idea how or why I've managed this? Happy but very confused! On the transaction history bit it just says "free bet - credit £25 - balance £30"
Sometimes these sites give you cash back for your first bet.
Well, you have gained an amount consistent with winning the bet. It wasn't possibly on Ronaldo scoring first for Real was it?
And yeah as Pepin said as a new customer there are all sorts of promotions.
The FFS offer was 4/1 on Ronaldo to score at any time, not first.
Ffs really? Why the hell didn't I take that up?!
Has anyone read Ibra's book? Looks a great read but just wondering thoughts on it.
The Ox gets let off?! Are they for real? The FA really are a bunch of clueless jokers.
It wasn't a red card offence, but they are jokers.
Shhhhhhh... I can't believe I got away with it as an owner
It was 110% a red card offence! Saying it wasn't on target is a load of old tosh as at that speed they had no idea it was going wide. If it was Gibbs that handled it and Arsenal appealed they would have been told to do one. The only reason they have been let off is to try and calm the storm for sending off the wrong player. Swansea must be absolutely fuming.
Yeah they're just applying the letter of the law, with the benefit of replays.
On your own there I think.
Not really. Rafael wasn't even booked for hand balling in the area the week before. Needs to be consistent.
Was only a bookable offence - deliberate handball doesn't attract a red card unless it stops a goal.
That's exactly what he thought he was doing though. If he thought it was going wide he wouldn't have even tried to get in the way.
A yellow card is the last thing it should have ever been - If the ref saw it then it was a straight red or if he didn't then zip.
Those aren't the rules though - the player's intention is irrelevant. You might not like the rule but you can't slate them for applying it.
I can when they've changed it on video evidence. If it was a normal occurrence and not mistaken identity they wouldn't even bother appealing it is so cut and dry.
Not sure how you're so certain of that when according to the rules the offence he committed was undeniably a yellow card - why would they not appeal?
How can it be a yellow card if it was thought to be stopping a goal? At the time the ref clearly thought it was going in hence why he sent him off. As it was just missing on replay this doesn't come into it. Was only scrutinised due to the obvious balls up with the wrong player getting the early bath.
Look at all of the other high profile cases of blatant handball preventing a goal - Suarez / Taylor - Both straight reds, no questions asked.
We'll just have to agree to disagree Greenwindmill!
Any excuse to post this.. Blatant, but at least he tried to blag it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl3HnU0HOhk
😆
Amazing
If the league was decided on away form only, United would be top
🙂
🙂
sadly. But as a Villa fan you should wish it was too, you'd be doing much better 😛
We were on Fantrax at the same time trying to claim Cahill 😡
Yep! I saw you logged in there so I went straight in to claim Cahill. Must have been seconds in it 😛
Highlights the negative impact their own fans are having on them. Players terrified to concede possession at OT, playing in fear.
very much so. Can not overstate Giggs' importance v Olympiakos. Not afraid of making mistake's or giving the ball away and it lifted the rest of the team. We need more of this. Not constant shouts of
"He's rubbish" or "Take him off, he's useless" every time a player makes a mistake.
More like moyes inept tactics.
What about the away form? Moyes is there for both
And where would you be if the league was decided only by home form?
Terrible fans at OT.
Let's get the away supporters in there 😉
Seems to be true of a lot of teams these days. Usually either teams under pressure (Man Utd, Tottenham, Villa) or teams that are just great on the counter (Southampton).
It's always hard to perform with your latest when their ex who is better than you in every way is sat watching your every move and glaring at your inadequate performance. So I would imagine ahem
Remember guys, so far it has only been a normal GW.
It is the remainder of the week, when all our players play twice, were we will see our jump in rank 😎
Will Jose keep Romelu next season?
No. I think he should sell him. Lukaku is overrated.
I agree
I don't reckon he'll even be in the Prem next season.
He might but I'm sure he'd be happy to sell. Lukaku will be 3rd/4th choice at Chelsea next season
Doubt it,Romelu is nowhere near the finished article at the moment
Actually I think he's close to as good as he's gonna get
On the basis of this season, have to admit he wouldn't nail first place striker at Chelsea.
Wow, impressed you've backed down on this one - you were heavily critical of Mourinho for letting him go out on loan if I remember correctly. Good on you.
I think everyone was. IIRC he only had Ba and Torres at the time
Yep I was wrong there. Think he was right in retrospect. I was expecting him to develop further, and he hasn't really. I didn't know he'd get Eto'o, but I can imagine Chelsea would have found it pretty frustrating with him up top.
Some of his holding the ball up is OK but you need more than that, he's not dangerous enough.
Demi called that one correctly to be fair, think a couple others were quite critical of him too.
Would he have developed more if he'd stayed with the first team squad in Cobham?
I reckon so, with Eto going, Torres will be swapped for Costa it seems and with only 1 striker position having Ba / Lukaku in reserve would be suitable options albeit they would still need another?
That said they may use Lukaku as a make weight elsewhere?
Who knows what the World Cup will bring?
I doubt Lukaku will accept a ten match season anywhere when he can be first choice at a decent mid table side.
He wants to play and I for one don't blame him. Too many good players careers are destroyed by joining clubs they have little chance of being first choice for years, all for the greed of their agents.
It's not up to him at the end of the day. He signed a contract knowing chelsea ruin careers so can't complain if that's what happens.
P.S. You're killling me 😡
Non football Dench is on 8/10 Cats on C4
I want that jacket with the detachable hood.
Is Ox's save the greatest ever by an outfield player?
Suarez has nothing on it.
I posted the link to Steven Taylor's epic attempt at blaggery further up this page.. He has to be a contender!
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Nobby Solano made a couple of crackers for Newcastle in his time.
I once saw a vid of andy cole make an absolutely world class save in training.
Also sheffield united mever used to have a keeper on the bench as Phil jagielka was so handy.
Anyone else been Yaya-less all season thus far? He's killed me. Gonna have to relent for 34. Better late than never I guess.
until this week i was Yaya-less...
Damn you both :p
Until this week. It felt dirty at the time but glad I did now
Owned him last year (coincidentally my first year, and he did quite well when I had him)
Refused to have him this year, and it's hurt, but some principles cannot be let go, even if he is scoring 2 goals for every shot.
Evening. I know it's asinine but I made up my mind during their blanks to go without since I'd rather finish 400-500k without having gotten him rather than 100-150k with him for these last eight-ten weeks. He's not the reason I've done so poorly this year after having gotten heavily into this site last season (there is a long list of those) but I just don't see any point in owning him now since everyone in front of me probably does. Differentials are more fun even if they don't pay off very often.
In a bizarre way it's like I'm pot committed in tournament poker without a very good hand. I have less than a 10% chance of winning but folding right now and getting Yaya in seems like I wasted all those gameweeks/chips trying to win a big pot. If I were in a cash game/money league everything would be different.
Anyone seen much of this William Carvalho chap united are rumoured to be signing?
I don't know anything about him, but I think we should start dubbing him the "Portuguese Smalling"
He's a big physical black central midfielder therefore he will get likened to Yaya Toure.
The Portuguese League is so poor that it would be difficult to judge how good he might be
well RvW was a half decent striker in Portugal
And that Cristiano ronaldo, he's poor.
also true, but there's an exception to every rule
Best replacement for Nolan?
A) Mirallas
B) Ramsey
C) Snodgrass
D) Mutch
E) Lallana
F) Eriksen
Evening
Yes , I know I'm late to the party ......but who I bring in Yaya for ?
A) Mirallas
B) Nasri
C) Mata
C, but wait till 33
Has anyone ever played football with or against a famous footballer?
My mate played several times with/against Heskey. Said he just used to boom them in from every angle.
Hangeland is a childhood mate, played with him until he left for a Norwegian Premiership club at 19/20
when i was homeless on the streets of portugal I had a kickabout with bébé using an empty milk carton
Bebe leading the United forward line next season when RVP is gone to Juve
Under 13s with Duncan Ferguson
How much would united pay for a 23 year old yaya? 50m?
reply fail to MJ6987
40 mill
Hardly famous but I grew up playing against (AND DOMINATING) Alex Bruce.
Once played a charity match with Warren Barton in East London.
I played for City for three years and scored once for the blues! That was my dream, but sadly like many many others it died a while ago.
Oh, how times have changed since everyone on here was saying that Jose Mourinho, one of the greatest mangers of this generation, was a 'fool' and an 'idiot' for letting Lukaku go earlier this season.
I said at the time he must have had his reasons and it's now clear to see why he did it. Just not a good enough player.
Playing for a much weaker team, focal point of the attack, started every game when fit......
Need I go on? 😆
Playing for a weaker team with less talent to create goal scoring chances, with selfish players (Mirallas), in a style of play he doesn't want (a target man) whilst injured, and not necessarily the focal point of attack.
Need I go on? 😀
Nothing wrong with scoring goals for a weaker team?
He should get better service at Chelsea, so will score even more goals than he does at Everton/WBA when he gets his chance.
Totally. He might have had his moments at WBA last year, but I still didn't see the appeal tbh.
Will probably leave for a decent European club next year I reckon
+ he really doesn't suit the type of striker Mourinho prefers.
I think he could offer Arsenal what they want. Good hold up play and reasonable on the ball.
Him or Costa at arsenal could be Wengers next target.
Lukaku at Arsenal - lol.
Just what they need, another shite forward. Putting him and Costa in the same sentence isn't just 😉
Really? I think they'd be better off with a Suarez/Aguero type of striker.
oh yeah, one of those easy to find types
aguero's son looks nifty here. about the right age for arsenal for now too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFMIroKx_WA
He just can't play the way Jose wants. Like Mata and KDB
Anyone else noticed the really random ko times for gw34?
Not that it matters, but Almeria (19th) are beating Sociadad, who still are chasing that Europa/champions league spot. Good for them.
Just leaving this here...
Neymar - 28 games 10 goals
Welbeck - 23 games 10 goals
Case closed
