Sanchez Ruled out of North London Derby

Adm to Silva for a hit?

Got a Downing sitting in midfield and thought an upgrade to Oscar was the way forward (Silva preferred but not enough £££).

Now this Sanchez bloke is crocked it changes things. I could do Sanchez to Silva and/or Downing to Oscar (1FT so -4 if I do both). Keeping Sanchez would mean a midfield of Haz, Puncheon, Carzorla, Downing this week. Not bad but really want to shift Downing.

Have enough money to upgrade either of Silva or Carzorla back to Sanchez when he is back so thats no issue.

Thoughts anyone? Cheers

I WC'ed two weeks ago and did Cazorla-->Sanchez 😎

Alexis to Oscar. You all know it it is the right thing to do. Don't tell me I didn't tell you

Whoop. Got rid of Sanchez on Monday. Saved a couple of quid.

Sanchez © Aguero VC. Boyd first sub. Have a good week 🙂

Sanchez out is surely good news for Hazard captainers

A week after promising not to take -4 hits, and reaping the benefits with a Wasi 7 pointer, I have just taken a hit.

What am I doing?!

🙁

RMJWCT:

Krul // Foster
Özil // Eriksen // Hazard // Colback // Shelvy
Aguero // Giroud // Diouf

2.8m ITB to later do Giroud --> Sturridge when he is fit enough to start matches

Sterling out for Man Utd midfielder, don't like Liverpool's fixtures but don't like the form of any United players?

Still no profile pic!! :'(

On a WC, get rid of Downing losing 0.4m? Awful fixtures and no Carroll potentially

Arsenal are now the talking point of the community and 2 main questions are being asked:

1) Is it wise to keep Sanchez or is it time to cash in?
2) Is it a good idea to triple up on Arsenal attacking players or not.

For the first question, I think whether you have too much value tied in him or not, you should keep him. For many reasons.

a) He is the only OOP player. He plays in midfield but he has the instinct of a striker. He sometimes plays upfront too. He will keep getting goals every other game.
b) Nailed-on-ness. He has phenomenal stamina so he will get the most minutes even when CL games kick in. If he is not burnt out, he will play. Plus he is their main man, their best player. Their match winner.
c) Captaincy material. He is their most explosive player. Given Arsenal's fixtures, you'll want a captain from Arsenal very often. When fit, if you have to pick a captain out of Santi,Sanchez,Walcott,Giroud,Ozil, you will pick Sanchez every day of the week because he is the most likely to get you that 24+ score.
d) Consistency. As I mentioned above, he will continue to rack up the points because he is a goal scorer. Walcott is a goal scorer but is very injury prone and back from a lengthy injury. He is still not sharp enough. Even at his best, he is not as good as Sanchez. History we have of Ozil,Giroud and Santi is that they are not consistent enough. Especially goal scoring wise. Ozil is more of an assister and is also very streaky. Giroud is more of a goal every 3 games type a player and he is also classified as a forward unlike Sanchez. Santi was never a good FPL option. He will not keep it up especially that most of his goals are penalties. Arsenal will not keep getting penalties at this rate on the long run.

For the 2nd question, my opinion is that outside of DGWs, unless the team is Madrid, Barca or Bayern, it is not a good idea to triple up on attacking players because the team won't score 4 or 5 goals every match. Even Chelsea and City can't keep it up. Most are tempted because Arsenal scored 5 goals and 4 players got double figures. This will not happen again in the season.
It is also very risky putting all your eggs in 1 basket. Most of the time the team will score 2 goals which will probably mean a blank for 1 or 2 of your 3 players. Now add to the equation that we are talking about Arsenal here, the big team most likely to disappoint, most likely to face a surprise off day, most likely to choke in a big game against the top 6. I could understand it if they were budget options like in case of Spurs for instance with Kane and Chadli (but also not for a long period of time). That is not the case with Arsenal. 3 Arsenal attacking players means 25-30% of your budget. An off-day will probably mean you have a very bad GW.

Ozil (tot, LEI) or Oscar (avl, EVE)

Now we need Kun to be ruled out and there goes top owned players all out in 10 days

Man City are effectively six points behind Chelsea with the 9 goals difference.

Hull at home

Sanchez - Silva now locked in...

OK it doesn't always go to form buy City are due a big number I think.....

A. PVA or Boyd to score more points?

B. Is Ozil worth (-4) over either of the above this GW only?

Puncheon>Silva for free? long term

Anyone here??

Can I have opinions please....

A. Save the FT
B. Tadic to Silva
C. Baird to Terry/Azpill
D. Baird to Haidara

Krul
Baird Clyne Schlupp(vc)
Cazorla Tadic ADM Hazard
Kane Giroud Aguero(c)

Pantilli AJ Bellerin PVA

The big question is how much will he drop?

Ok no Sanchez so should i,

Play Boyd or take 4 point hit but keep Sanchez and swap Boyd for Walters.
Other midfielders are,Hazard,Silva and Carzola.

Worth a punt on Remy if on a WC (looking for a diff also) enough options to downgrade him after 1,2 weeks maybe?

Need help with my team any suggestions would be great!

Krul, (Heaton)
Terry, PVA, Wasliewscki (Bertrand, Wisdom)
Sanchez, Di Maria, Puncheon, Hazard (Boyd)
Aguero (c), Kane, Giroud

Simple issue for me this week (after doing Fab to Silva)...

Berty ---> Clyne or Clichy (-4)?

The rest of my defence is: Jones - Terry - PVA - Wisdom.

My ML rival had an awful last GW, has Sanchez, Fab & Berty (having just used his final WC (woop woop)) so... I think I can afford a -4.

Sanchezgate:

Wenger is completely ruling him out, 2 days before the match. No ifs and buts or late fitness tests.

I can't see that Sanchez will start on the following Tuesday.

One of the most challenging parts of the FPL season is not overreacting after the January WC but also recognizing that each game week is becoming a more and more precious opportunity to score points.

As a Sanchez holder, though, I think I have to sell. Every week I keep him on my bench could be a missed opportunity to load up.

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New Grav for Demi contest.

On a WC, get rid of Downing losing 0.4m? Awful fixtures and no Carroll potentially?

My boss just told me not to work too hard because I look stressed. I had my head in my hands debating Sanchez options.

Done. Sanchez > Walcott (-4).

Earlier in the week, it was Chadli & Bertrand > Cazorla & Bellerin.

I got lucky last week that PvA was my sub for Sanchez, but I laud the gurus who moved to Cazorla (and captained him). I recognize that some of you had Caz even before the injury. Double kudos!