Our first delve into the members’ data brings Arsenal and West Ham’s midfielders onto Tuesday evening’s radar. City’s returning Belgian, the options up front on Tyne-Wear and Everton’s recent form in the final third are also analysed as we restructure our squads for the doubles.
Are Jagielka and Bolasie safe in their positions? Just worried about Stones and Funes Mori
Pretty much I think
Quick poll: What United defender are you getting in your wildcard?
Smalling
Check Beavis' hot topic and you'll find a lot of answers to that.
Or below 🙂
I'm not, too expensive, buggers up GW34 and 35 transfers
Thanks all
Rate my wildcard team
Mignolet - Robles
Smalling - Bellerin - Fuchs - Sakho - Gabriel
Sanchez - Payet - Coutinho - Mahrez - Lanzini
Aguero - Kane - Lukaku
0.0 ITB 😀
Thanks in advance 🙂
Really similar to mine. Not sure about the double Liverpool defence
Other option is Cech + Clichy instead of Migs + Bellerin
Yeah I think I'd actually stick then. Really solid team, mine's identical except I can't afford Migs over Darlow
I rate it very highly. Don't even think of taking out Bellerin! Double Liverpool defense is a slight risk but Cech can't punish you as much as Bellerin can. I heard one of the Scout's say Smalling is overpriced. What about de Gea in for Mig and Clichy in for de Gea?
De gea would mean no gw35 keeper
Good team, set on Kane/Mahrez Frank?
I have the same team, just cheaper defensive options (Darmian, Bellerin, Simpson, Clyne, Gabriel) due to lesser TV
- DGW Survey Results
DGW Survey Results - sample size of 60
1. How many Palace players?
0 - 15 votes - 25%
1 - 24 votes - 40%
2 - 19 votes - 32%
3 - 2 votes - 3%
2. How many Everton players?
1 - 6 votes - 10%
2 - 25 votes - 42%
3 - 29 votes - 48%
3. Arsenal - double DF or MF?
Defence - 35 votes - 63%
Midfield - 21 votes - 38%
4. Which United defender?
Smalling - 26 votes - 46%
De Gea - 13 votes - 23%
None - 17 votes - 30%
5. 3rd striker (asked out of Kane, Mitrovic, Martial)?
Martial - 30 votes - 50%
Mitrovic - 12 votes - 20%
Kane - 12 votes - 20%
Other - 6 votes - 10%
6. KDB - Yes or no?
Yes - 25 votes - 42%
No - 35 votes - 58%
What we learned:
- Despite lack of form, plenty are playing the numbers and loading up on Palace & Everton
- Ozil may prove to be a differential with most favouring the Arsenal double DF
- Smalling looks the preferred route, although many content to go without given price tag
- Martial favoured with his 2 easy fixtures but Mitrovic and Kane both viable alternatives
- Plenty would like KDB but do not have the funds for him; perhaps this may change tomorrow depending on City's performance in the CL
Cheers, very handy.
Cheers!
good stuff
No love for Rashford instead of Martial?
No Rooney Lurking.
Lovely Beavis
Cheers Beavis top work.
Currently got Mitro, Sakho and Jags in my WC draft. All currently same price I bought them at.
To guard against KDB price rise tonight I can do:
Alli -> KDB
Sakho -> Ryan Bennett 3.9
Jags -> Targett 3.8
Mitro -> Emnes 4.1
See where I'm going with this? WC is active so il get KDB before he rises and then obviously get the 3 crappy players out again. Only other way is to take OZIL out and I'm still not sure if I'm keeping or not so don't want to.
This is all fine, right?yes as long as you can afford to replace the crap with half decent once you have kdb
Yup, I've Saylor/Bor - Jack at de mo.
Yes,
WC team, Thoughts? Bolasie or Lennon?
Mignolet / Robles
Bellerin / Smalling / Gabriel / Delaney / Simpson
Sanchez / KDB / Coutinho / Payet / Bolasie
Kun / Lukaku / Mitrovic
I'd go Bolasie
50:50 sorry
exactly the same team as me although I can'tafford KDB
Firminooooo
A or B?
A) Cech, Janmaat, Bolasie, Firmino, Mitrovic
B) Darlow, Gabriel, Lanzini, KDB, Martial
CheersThink just B
B
B
B
Thanks all
Think I'm settled barring unforeseen circumstances!
Mignolet Hennessy
Bellerin Sakho Smalling Delaney Gabriel
Sanchez De Bruyne Coutinho Lennon Payet
Aguero Lukaku MitrovicGood team, sameish
Henna > Robe1
Sahko > Simpson
Mitro > Martial.
what was you total value?
around 110m?Was £110.7 now only £107.5 post WC
Opinions on this wildcard team would be appreciated:
Mignolet Robles
Gabriel Delaney Bellerin Simpson Mangala
Sanchez Payet Lingard KDB Firmino
Martial Lukaku Aguero
£0.3m ITB.
Thankswhat do you make of this WC team?
robles - darlow
evans- monreal- gabriel- Moreno- ward
kdb- coutinho- sanchez- payet- lennon
kun- lukaku- rashfordI think KDB is stretching your team too much, rather go Firmino
im not a fan of palace defence even with the double, maybe simpson instead
KDB - should he be in our teams?
It's never that simple. We're all working with different budgets now and different priorities. For some getting, Kun, Sanchez, Lukaku, Payet, KDB and Pool mid into the same team may not even be possible, you have to work with what you have
I say
a) Decide on your own personal must haves and build around them, rank them in order so that you can decide who to take out if funds are tight
b) consider that's it not just about KDB and how well he will do, it's about pairings. So if KDB forces you to get Saylor for example, is he really worth it over Payet or Coutinho who cost 2m less opening up options to get a better defender. Don't shoehorn anyone in because you think you need to have him, and destroy other elements of the team to do it,
for me, I am not getting him for the same reason I am not getting Kane. I only have funds for 1 10m+ player alongside Kun, for me i want that player to be Sanchez
now if Kun were to get injured tomorrow then I would likely ditch a Pool mid for KDB and put Sturridge in, but that's not happened yet.
Not for me 🙂
High team value here so thinking about taking advantage of that and getting him along with the names you mentioned when a lot of others can't afford that.
if you can afford it without having to pick up a couple of duffers to fund it then by all means, go for it
It's Özil or him. Will see after tomorrow.
Paul McShane ( the origiginal 'duffer' ) says Hi!
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Good post. It definitely helps to look at it in a structured way like this and build your team in a sensible and balanced way
Looks like more are favouring no.
I don't think I'm gonna get him.
His away scores this season have been awful.
Plus he wouldn't do much damage if he was to do well
Just can't afford him and not willing to rip my team up for him.
He's very tempting.
After much thought, I have decided against him . . . I think.
I'm keeping Ozil instead. He has great fixtures and Arsenal,
as of now at least, have something to play for and no other
competitions to worry about.
Plus, there are so many good midfield options -- Sanchez is
a must, Payet is a must. Then you have Liverpool, and Ozil.
Plus, I worry about KDB's fitness (and Champions League),
though he sure looked good last weekend.
If he tears it up tomorrow, I may have to rethink.
A) DDG and Milner
B) Migs and Coutinho
Already have Smalling but happy to double up on Utd defence.B
Defo B
Get Sakho for Evans.
Sorry. Wrong button.
A. Kane (MNU, sto, WBA)
B. Martial (tot, AVL, CPL)
Kane could easily outscore Martial in those but it's the difference between having Coutinho over Milner & Smalling oover Rojo.
What's everyone doing?I've gone Kane, Smalling and Coutinho
Where have you sacrificed or do you just have a massive TeamValue?
Relatively high. Lanzini is a makeweight for me though.
Instead of Payet?
As well as. Here's mine:
Migs/Robles
Smalling/Bellerin/Gabriel/Sakho/Simpson
Sanchez/Coutinho/Mahrez/Payet/Lanzini
Kun/Kane/Lukaku
Coutinho and Smalling are miles ahead of those two, so definitely B.
At the moment, Kane on the wc then ship him to Tony next week for the dgw
But does having Kane not compromise 2 or 3 positions on your WC side?
Will that just result in a future hit or playing with less than 11 GW35?
as a non member, i love the big numbers article........so short, i can get to the comments quickly 😉
As a member it's one of my favourite articles of the week
Non member here. I there a bouncer I can tip to get in?
+1
This. 😀 And I so hate line up lessons. 😀
😆 in mobile format!
Which would you rather have?
A: de gea/ Delaney/ Hennessy
B: foster/ Rojo/ RoblesA
Cheers
A
Cheers
Any opinions on my wildcard team so far?
Cech - Robles
Smalling - Morgan - Moreno - Clichy - Monreal
Payet - KDB - Sanchez - Firmino - Lingard
Kane - Mitrovic - Lukaku
Taking a HUGE risk and currently going without aguero for the DGW's. I wanted to keep Kane and needed to bring in Lukaku, so Aguero forced me to have Iwobi, Lingard and Darmian, none of which are assured starters.
Thanks
Do you think Wickham will only make a cameo in the first of the DGW33 games? Ease him back from injury?
If you were to get a City-defender that could not be Hart or Otamendi, who would it be?
Mangala ofc
Any reason you would prefer him over Clichy? Is it likely Kompany will be back for GW34? Could Demi somehow take Mangala's spot?
More nailed on than Clichy. Kompany should be back around GW 35, but hope Mangala will play that match. I think not a chance.
Mangala, after the performance in the derby Demichelles should not be a threat to him and no sign of Kompany coming back.
Same questions as above: Any reason you would prefer him over Clichy? Is it likely Kompany will be back for GW34? Could Demi somehow take Mangala's spot?
I haven't heard that Kompany will be back that quickly, that's just a couple of weeks. With pellegreini in charge there is a chance demechlles we start, he shouldn't get near the team but unfortunately he might. I wouldn't go clichy, kolorov, sagna or zabaletta cause all of them are rotation risks with each other.
Was suppose to say GW35 (for Kompany's return). Seems like Mangala is probably the lesser of many evils.
Clichy
Mangala
A: Bolasie & Jags 1.2itb
or
B: Rojo & Barkley 0.2itb
A
If I WC36 who would I TC?
a) Lukaku in 33
b) Ozil in 34
c) Aguero in 34Ozil --> Sanchez done:
Robles
Bellerin | Sakho | Ward
Sanchez | Payet | Mahrez | Bolasie
Aguero | Kane | Lukaku
Mignolet | van Aanholt | Lingard | Gabriel
Is it crazy to TC Lukaku after his poor performance?Not crazy but I wouldn't do it. Big call!
YESS I've done it, Inhave a wildcard team I'm happy with!! Now please tear it to shreds in whichever way you wish 😉
Robles Darlow
Sakho Bellerin Jags Souare Simpson
Payet Sanchez Coutinho Firmino Iwobe
Aguero Lukaku KaneLooks good.
I wish I'd got involved with Iwobe.Cheers 🙂
Yeah I've gone 180 degrees on that one. His stats and general performance mean he should get plenty of minutes
Anyone shed some light on Bolasie, is he regarded as one of Palace's best attacking players?
Basically, will he be too important to drop?Best attacking player for them. Nailed and sometimes oop. Trouble is can you trust Palace?
What does oop mean? I'm having one of those moments haha
I have a lot of those moments 🙂
Out of position , so playing up top when listed as a midthe opposite is poo
like when a mid is playing def
I remember a comment on here about a DGW that took place in January 2012, I cant remember who said it but it was "twice times rubbish is still rubbish". It is a good philosophy for DGWs because taking punts on seriously out of form players/teams and ditching players who are in great form and playing well, might not be the way to go.
Yup agree
Definitely! All those dumping Kane at the moment will be sorry!
For me Lukaku for Kane is an obvious choice as they have similar stats, Lukaku is less expensive plus he has two double gameweeks in a row. As a rough guide, points per every 90 minutes:
Kane: 5.86 (184 points (2825 min / 90))
33: Man Utd (H)
34: Stoke (A)
Lukaku: 5.85 (169 point (2599 min / 90))
33: Watford (A), Crystal Palace (A)
34: Southampton (H), Liverpool (A)
Looking at the next two weeks, I'd rather have Lukaku. The risk comes in week 35 when Lukaku doesn't play and Kane does against WBA (H). There's a strong possibility I will swap them back then.
It seems like I will risk and go without Payet until GW 37. Thoughts about this draft?
DDG Darlow
Bellerin Gabriel Sakho Mangala Delaney
Sanchez KDB Coutinho Lennon Lanzini
Aguero Lukaku Martial
IMO Payet is essential - perhaps drop DDG or Mangala down and upgrade Lennon?
I think it's madness to go without Utd defence. Perhaps Coutinho to Milner?
True - practically guaranteed 8pts at least. Maybe Martial to Mitrovic & Bellerin to Monreal?
Got Bellerin early, so not a big difference.
i would feel naked without payet, but i suppose lanzini is some kind of reasonable cover at that price
Cheers
Is this WC midfield too weak?
Sanchez - Payet - Coutinho - Lanzini - LingardCan you upgrade Lingard? That's what I'd look to do
Only by getting rid of Kane! Or could downgrade Sanchez to Ozil and then free up cash to upgrade Lingard!
Downgrade Defense- Smalling at least 🙂
Don't really like Lingard. Low team value or a lot of money on strikers, defenders and keepers?
Keepers are cheap
Defence is Bellerin, Gabriel, Smalling, Sakho, Delaney
Kun, Kane, Kaku up topI guess you'll have to just go with him then if you want to keep Kane.
Just hope that Lingard starts against Villa.
Pls which of these WC teams and what changes would you make? Thanks
Team A (0.5 ITB)
Robles Darlow
Gabriel Bellerin Smalling** Sakho Simpson
KDB Sanchez Payet Mahrez Coutinho
Aguero Lukaku Rashford**
Team B (0 ITB)
Robles Darlow
Gabriel Bellerin Mangala** Sakho Simpson
KDB Sanchez Payet Mahrez Coutinho
Aguero Lukaku Mitrovic**
WC team so far is
Migs/Robles
Gabriel/Bellerin/Darmian/Fuchs/Delaney
Alli/Coutinho/Payet/Sanchez/Mahrez
Lukaku/Aguero/Mitrovic
£2.1m in bank
Thinking of GW35 and saving a FT in GW34 and leaving enough to upgrade/downgrade where needed...thoughts?
Desperate to get De Bruyne in but who to drop....
a) Sanchez
b) Payet
c) Mahrez
d) Coutinho
e) Axe Lukaku for a cheaper forward to free up funds (Deeney?)You really don't need him if it destroys the rest of your team.
Can you afford a Mahrez to KBD straight swap?
Of those you listed, that seems best.
