We turn our attentions to the weekend’s nine matches now and delve into the data in our first member’s article of the week. Chelsea, Man City and Tottenham’s goalscoring midfielders arrive on our radar, whilst Swansea’s in-form frontman and Andy Carroll’s impact on West Ham’s style of play are also amongst this evening’s topics.
If Pelle avoids a YC tomorrow I'd do Bego out for Heaton (would have suggested Guzan but don't fancy doubling up there since you have Hutton) and Clyne out for Azpil. You don't need Costa.
Thanks. I will try to resist Costa temptation.
ADM to budget mid + pelle to costa
Hey lads, what should I do with this lot?
Jakupovic Fabianski
Baines Chambers Azpi Yun Saylor
Siggy Fab Chadli Sanchez Cork
Aguero Costa Berahino
1.3 ITB
Thanks in advance!Looks good to save.
I would get rid of berahino for austin or papiss
Berahino out for Austin. Or Bony if you can afford him by downgrading Chambo.
Look good to save. Maybe Berahino ➡ Austin.
Cheers all, will take into consideration!
2 FT, exact funds for Bego and Kelly to Guzan and Naylor. Pull the trigger, or wait and risk prices changing?
wait
Is Bego in danger of dropping? Doesn't seem like any of those four would change...I'd just wait until Friday.
No idea I've given up following the price sites. I suppose worst case scenario is I just sell Rose instead if any prices change
Aye. I'd sit tight on those trades, no rush.
evening gents
reliable west ham sources on twitter are claiming that downing and sakho are out until 2015If this is true changes everything for me
And everybody else.
lol, not quite.
Almost...
Downing 13%, Sakho 7%. Very unlucky if you have both.
*puts fingers in ears* I can't hear you lalalalalalalal
😀
"reliable west ham sources on twitter"
Ok. Tell us their twitter username's then.@whustuff for one. always spot on.
Well David Gold, the west ham chairman tweeted that all players that missed the everton game have a chance against newcastle.
Rumours England medical team gave Downing a pain-killer injection to play vs. Scotland which then inflammed the injury. Allardyce allegedly thinking about sueing the FA.
was planning on buying DDG but it seems that victor valdes will be ready for action soon 🙁
Nah, don't let that performance blind you so much that you'd overpay to get him.
Blimey, what happened to your NBA team? 😆haven't paid attention to NBA fantasy at all this year. I watch the games but I can't be arsed with fantasy anymore hahaha
1st place in my other 5 leagues though
my team is our league is so bad. what the heck happened 😆Haha.. just when the league starts to get really exciting and challenging, you disappear lol.
n'mind your team is built for the play-offs right? KD all the way lol.played it too fast and loose in our league. should've drafted smarter.
won't make the playoffs lolHow unfortunate. Was expecting a tough challenge from you 😉
Anyway thanks for introducing it to me, Mr. Commish. Enjoying it.that's the whole point of this league man, to allow FFSers a chance to enjoy the game. 🙂
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Hey Ppl. My Wc team
Krul Foster
Baines Azp Clichy Yun Dummett
Adm Hazard Fellani Downing Boyd
Aguero Costa Ayoze
Shall i go with Ayoze or play Kane instead? And any other changes?Wouldn't go anywhere near clichy or fellaini
Any other alternatives? I have 0.0 itb
A) Clichy>Chambers Fellani>Brunt Ayoze>Austin
B) Clichy>Chambers Fellani>Brunt Adm/Hazard>Sanchez
Needs some Arsenal cover imo.
How about Clichy>Chambers?
Debuchy should be back soon. Plus Arsenal are terrible at the back. Sanchez or Ramsey or Walcott is what I meant.
Would look at getting Austin or kane over ayoze (although he does look quite promising). Wouldn't go fellaini either, had a decent couple of games but not FPL wise
Fellani>Siggy and Clichy>Chambers fine?
I think the thing I have changed since I first started playing fantasy football is now I either have the best player from a club in a position or I buy from a different club. Apart from in defence where as long as it is a decent defence or as my less frequently playing midfielder
It's mostly luck. Luck/ skill has been discussed on here many times over the years but I really think luck is the main factor.
Injuries/ suspensions can just kill your team. Simple.It is all luck. But when I have gone for lesser players in the hope of something coming off it just hasn't worked
Latest injury news for:
1. Downing?
2. Duff?David Gold @davidgold · 9h 9 hours ago
"We had 5 players unavailable for the Everton game. They all have a chance of making the Newcastle game. Some better than others"
Anyone else have Chadli, Downing, Sakho and Baines in their team?
Only Downing and Baines. But I Chester too 🙁
Yes, all 4 of them..
GM DZ 🙂
Have exact cash to do;
Pelle, Mane and Clyne to Austin Sanchez and Trippier/Caulker/Naylor.
Can I afford to wait until after CL matches or are prices likely to change by then?
Thanks.
Austin and Sanchez will rise in the next couple days.
I hope you'd be able to wait. I don't think the firesale will happen until Fri or after this GW.
Cheers guys. Will monitor on FPL Stats.
Any news on Chadli?
Let's see...if Tadic assists all three of Bertands goals tomorrow, in. 3-0 win, I may end up with a decent gameweek.
I want a 0-0 draw for an average one 🙁
I need a 0-0. Or Hutton and Clyne to score
Hutton and clyne hat tricks and A Forster penalty save 😎
Well, my 27 points with another 2 off the bench is looking really bleak. Honestly, at this point a 0-0 would give me 9 points, which would give me 38. I tink I'd take that.
Cheers guys
Activated my wild card and deciding on a team is doing my f@#$%*!g head in
was a WC necessary?
In order to get my three Southampton players out and Kun in - yes. However it isn't a bad team. At the moment I have:
DDG/Myhill
Wisdom/Clyne/Bert/Shawcross/Bruce
ADM/Fab/Sanchez/Siggy/Downing
Costa/Pelle/Austin
Really wanted to get in Kun as everyone else in my private league has him, if he has a good game week I will fall behind (im 1st atm)
We do get another WC in January aswell?Think that team is alright though - i think keeping one of the Southampton defenders is alright depending on what price you got them. But you've alr hit the button so can't reverse the decision now.
How far are you ahead? Yea we do get one in Jan.On 652, 2nd on 615. Weird how last week there was no talk of Bony and this week he seems to be hot gossip. I mean, he is going into a great run of fixtures but he hasn't performed amazingly well. First 3 games he didn't score against burnley etc
Well, the ticker should help get you started. You'll have the January WC, so your current team needs to be built for the next 6-8 weeks. There are some obvious must-haves, but budget/team value could be an issue. What's the primary source of concern?
Thanks for the reply. Main concern at the moment is not having Kun - I'm too scared to operate without him! As mentioned above I'm top of my league so if he has a huge gameweek I may fall behind. Basically I will be looking to upgrade my defense (costa,pelle,austin) and downgrade my Southampton defense. My midfield will look much the same.
upgrade my strikers*
Absolutely love the crowd and responses at this time of the day!
Early thoughts on team for next GW, transfers obviously pending on tonight's game
Krelliot
Baines, Bertrand, Naylor, Chambers, Chester
Haz, Sanchez, Tadic, Siggi, Wanyama
Aguero, Austin, Berahino
2 FT, 3.2 itb.
A) Bertrand & Berahino > Rooney& Yun
B) Tadic & Bertrand > ADM & Terry/Azpi
C) Anything else?
A
Should I be bothered that Berahino has 3 out of his next 4 fixtures at home? And his fixtures look lovely
Tadic and Berahino -> Bony and ADM.
Can't afford unfortunately...
Bertrand to Yun aswell then. I think you'll get -4 back from these 3 transfers easily.
Cheers, that thought had crossed my mind!
B with Azpi IMO.
I'd say B. But then what would the exit plan for Berahino be after that?
Considering his fixtures I don't really need one. But with both Baines and Terry I could downgrade Chambers and Chester to get funds to upgrade him!
A or Chester & Bera -> Yun & Bony if you can afford. If not, try downgrading Tadic.
If you could only have one, Bony or Siggy, which would it be?
Bony
Siggi amazing value.
Yeah, I could see asking 100 people and 50 saying Bony and 50 saying Siggy. Currently on Siggy at this point as it's an easier transfer as Bony would require a hit.
"The players gave absolutely everything today."
"I can't fault the players. They left everything on the pitch."
Does anyone else find this sort of comment absolutely infuriating? I mean, they're paid a king's ransom to play football. They bloody well better be running their socks off. Right? I'm sure they do the same thing in the lower leagues. So what?
It seems to be a defeatist go to line. If I'm a fan of a club with any proper ambitions and my manager says anything to this effect I'm bloody worried. Wenger has been rolling it out for ages. Moyes used it ad nauseum. And now Rodgers seems to roll it out after every match.
I mean, WTF. How is that supposed to make anyone feel better? Why should we even care? I can't be alone here...It's just typical media bull to keep the players' morale from dropping to a new low each week, Rodgers knows better than anyone that his team are doing terrible but you can't be going around telling everyone that
At some point you might as well. It's the difference between managing to stay in a job and managing to actually win matches.
I agree. But whar is he really supposed to say. We were awful xxxx in particular was bad. It must be pretty hard to keep a dressing room especially when those players are used to success and are not getting it any more. Maybe a few less interviews would be better I mean do we actually learn anything from them?
Are they really used to success? 😀
I was thinking more of Moyes last season.
Either way it's the sign of a coward.
Some managers are more patient than others. And they don't seem to fund faults in the performances. But I'm sure what they say to the media is not what they say to the team.
Patience = complacency, lacking in motivation and/or bottle
Can't be complacent if you're losing. But I agree, its not the right attitude, if you wait for your luck to turn on its own you'll end up ruining your season. Tactically, Wenger, Rodgers and Moyes are pretty weak.
Wenger really doesn't belong in this lot as he was absolutely fantastic for a long time. He just quit giving a toss at some point. He's ruining his legacy.
True, and it really hurts as an Arsenal fan.
But he still has the ability to bring in big players from big clubs. Just needs to change with the times.
Been posting about Rodgers inflated sense of self and poor tactics since end of last season, this pre season and now. But often get this reply - 🙄
🙄
😆
Surely you're not serious though?Nah, he just set himself up for it is all 😆
dammit. haha
😆
It's just one of them media cliches. I'd swear I could predict 90% of what managers will say in a post match press talk
And what I'm saying is if that's the case that manager isn't cut out for the big time.
They all do it though. Even Jose, though he usually adds some aggressive spin on it 😆
Nah, not really. You never really know what he's going to say. Same goes for Fergie. Same for LvG. Same for Klopp. Same for Pep. Etc, etc...
Different path. Same destination. Tells the reporters feck all
Exactly. The one thing I find uniform amongst all top managers is that oftentimes they almost look annoyed to be answering the same old questions.
Mourinho's face whenever someone asks about Costa again is priceless 😆 Or when someone asks a stupid question which he can only answer one way like "Is Willian important to the team?" He's hardly going to say "no, he's fecking useless" lol
Exactly. It's priceless. He's the most entertaining by far. I can't stand Pep but his quirks sometimes are even funnier. 😆
I miss Fergie. 🙁
that "no b*lls" in the reporter's notebook 😆
lol I remember a poster, think it was GB - posting about reactions from Origi about his transfer to liverpool.
Was 100% spot on.Aye I remember something like that alright. bang on the money 😆
The reactions to the Balotelli signing were literally delusional.
Tbf, United were extremely lucky to get a win there. 2 goals from 1 shot on target says it all. I wouldn't fault the performance either because they dominated the game but just couldn't finish their chances.
That first half reminded me of Chelsea v Bayern in the CL final actually 😆
Captaincy choice will be very tricky next weekend. Toying with ADM at the moment as thet Hull defence looks a little creaky
Costa for me I reckon
Me too.
Rooney makes it an easy choice. 😉
That was a good call you made this week. I think it will pay off next week too
Cheers. I hope so. 😀
You could tell he was full of confidence after the England games. He normally picks up in the wintertime as well
He was playing really well before that bogus suspension.
Any suggestions on which transfer looks the best?
1) ivano, chadli, berahino (clyne and sakho out)
2) yun, hazard, sakho (clyne and chadli out)
3) trippier, chadli, giroud (clyne and sakho out)
My team right now is:
Krul (Adrian)
Clyne, Chambers, Baines, (Duff, Wisdom)
Fab, Sig, Chadli, ADM, Sanchez
Costa, Kane (Sakho)
1 FT (willing to take -4) with 2.2m in the bank3 interests me the most. It may be controversial but I think Sunderland may be a tough test for Chelsea and I am not sure if having Hazard,Fab and Costa is a good idea
Thanks Cheeseoid, yeah I know hazard would be overkill, but not having him just scares me...
I was talked out of taking the same 3 players and ditching ADM last week. It would have been OK this week but next week I think I would have regretted it
Bony/Hazard or Costa/Siggy?
The latter any day
C S Imo
Krul (elliot)
Baines azpi chambers ( wisdom yun)
Alexis hazard siggy downing (boyd)
Aguero costa austin
2,9m banked
What should i spend my money on?
A) downing --> eriksen
B) downing --> sterling
C) chambers --> colemanI'd wait on news on Downing for sure, and I also wouldn't double up with Baines and Coleman.
To sum up, none of the above 😛Excellent team imo, would also wait on Downing news first and do nothing atm
Bego (McCarthy)
Baines Clyne Azpi (Hutton Duff)
Sanchez ADM Eriksen Siggy (King)
Aguero Pelle Austin
save FT? cause i would need a hit or two to fit Hazard/Costayes would save, Costa being a priority imo
which one do you prefer up until Jan transfer window?
Costa or Hazard or both?if you can squeeze in both it would be great but if one only one then Costa for me
Pelle + Clyne ---> Bony + xxx
5.5 ITB, who to bring in? Other defenders are Dummett, Baines, Cameron and DuffI had a similar amount to spend. I decided to go cheap and bought Caulker to leave me more flexibility for the future
Cresswell at 5.4 is another good option
Cresswell?
Hello Guys
Hello Ladies!
Current Team:
Guzan
Baines - Clyne - Chambers (Dummet, Wisdom)
Sanchez - ADM - Fab - Downing (Boyd)
Kun - Pelle - Austin
Considering these transfers for the week. Thoughts please?
A) Clyne > Azpi
B) Pelle > Rooney
C) Pelle, Wisdom > Costa, Yun (-4 hit)
D) Pelle, Fab > Costa, Oscar (-4 hit)
E) HoldC might actually be worth a hit
Thinking of a way to get costa in, have 2 FTs :
Bego,
Clyne,Baines,Chambers,
ADM,Sanchez,Downing,FAB
Pelle, Sakho,Kun
a. Pelle + Baines
b.ADM/FAB + Pelle/Sakho?
Really confusingHow much money do you need to raise? I think Pelle is the forward who needs to go
Need 11 for costa
Oscar 🙁
Koeman to Liverpool and Simeone to the Arse would give the Prem a shot in the arm.
Koeman to Liverpool would make them the laughing stock of world football.
Simeone would be interesting. He was very much a crowd favourite from the start at Aleti though, had some element of trust and loyalty from fans, easier to build camaraderie with players.
Not sure if he will get the same treatment at Arsenal who pretty much expect a proven manager to replace Wenger.You're seriously underrating Koeman.
not underestimating his talents - wasnt clear...meant everyone would laugh at Liverpool plundering Southampton yet again in desperation.
Meh. I'd be worried as a rival fan.
Liverpool's problems lie deeper than their manager.
They have a real issue with transfer strategy.
Think martinez is being groomed as wengers replacement
If Sakho is for the weekend, how will WHU line up with Carroll now fit?
Who is everyone's Begovic replacement?
Bench Clyne, Duff or Chambers?
9 years, 6 months agoBegovic(4.9) . McCarthy(4.0)
Baines(7.1) . Naylor(4.6) . Moore(4.0) . Clyne(5.4) . Hutton(4.1)
Boyd(4.4) . Sánchez(10.6) . ADM(9.8) . Downing(5.8) . Hazard(10.0)
Agüero(12.4) . Pellè(8.0) . Austin(5.8)
2FT 0.5ITB
Can someone help me how to improve current squad? SP is in bracket.
A) Defenders & GK need a major haul
B) I need Costa. How?