Our series of members articles that evaluate the form of each team over 2015/16 before assessing their chief protagonists continues with Chelsea.
Having clinched the Premier League crown in 2014/15, the Stamford Bridge outfit suffered a disastrous title defence and, after losing nine of their first 16 matches, replaced Jose Mourinho with Guus Hiddink in December. The Dutchman helped steady the ship and ultimately guided the Blues into tenth spot, some 31 points behind champions Leicester.
This could be a big, big season for Sergio Aguero.
If he can stay fit for a prolonged period of time, with the amount of chances Pep likes his midfields to create and fluidity to their attacking play..
And no international breaks ...
If he has Nolitto , Silva and KDB in behind him he will get plenty of chances . They really struggled with injuries last year and rarely got Silva , KDB and Kun on the pitch at the same time.
If he retires from the national team he might suffer less injuries.
Every season could have been huge if he stayed fit!
I don't see Pep bringing anything extra in terms of chances created. What he will bring is more control over games, less entertainment and the ability to have rubbish defenders looking good
Balders has an excellent article which indicate how much Bayern's league performances improved under Pep . You should ask him for them .
Sadly, I know this is probably true. But I hate Pep. With a passion. So my oblivious, "he's actually not that good" attitude is mighty comforting 🙁
How does Pep treat his strikers? Do they have to press hard as well? Bye-bye Aguero after GW4 in that case. Will be injured by then with all that running.
He didn't rotate his strikers at barca or bayern. Aguero should be a great pick...just depends on injuries as per usual
On my 4th FPL Draft and loving it.. Going to be a challenge to squeeze in Ibra and Kun.
Before you ask using FFFix.
FFFix's pre-release tinkering tool is the heights. I am not so in need and desperate that I'll pay to play around with something which could be still wrongly priced and in any case I get a month of the actual thing anyways after the actual price release.
Whatever floats some people's boat though. Didn't know some people actually were using it.
Not taking a dig at you btw, only at FFFix.
no issues mate no offense taken 🙂 fun and games!
Well all this release hype got me to use it.. It is all about having sme fun and repaying great work put in to develop the site.
Fair dos. If it was available free, I might have done so myself. 😀
can i ask what they are predicting price wise on some of the players then?
Ibra, Mkhi etc??
12, 9.0
Mkhi at 9.0 will be a must have probably.
Unless Martial is even cheaper. Mkhi 9.0 sounds too good to be true though.
If that's the case I'm having both. And Ibra. Call me crazy if you want.
How much is KDB?
10 and i will shut up now.
Really hope Mkhi 9.0 and KBD 10.0 end up being true but can't see it. FFFix probably wrong on a lot of prices.
wait and watch i guess. remember KDB didnt play a full season.
Just realised that after being on course to smash the assist record in the PL, Ozil didn't even match it last season 🙁
What happened?!
He pulled a Cesc 🙂 🙂 🙂
Whoever is leading the assist charts at Christmas, I'm selling him for the rest of the season.
Only if it's an Arsenal player. A good strategy to abide by for all their players tbh 🙂
August - buy Arsenal
February - sell Arsenal
May - buy Arsenal
Simple game, really.
It hurts how true this is.
🙁
😀
Runs nicely in tandem with:
August - Arsene out
February - Finally gonna win the league
May - Arsene out
Giroud happened.
He kept creating chances, and people kept missing them.
For comparison, Fabregas with 18 assists in 14/15 created 93 chances. Ozil last season created 144...
TOP STATTING
Only 32.4% of my posts contain stats, and they have an accuracy of 98.6%. For comparison, others posters stat accuracy averages at around 72%.
I read it as 'Stop statting'... 😆
😀
Me too, lol.
Best strategy to preserve a 17 point lead in Euro Fantasy?Have a decent idea but any advice welcome.
Hack into opponents team and wreak havoc
To preserve?
Just be sensible. Captain Griezzman, make sure you have Ronaldo and maybe hedge your bets with 2 Por and 2 France at the back.
Would it not be better to go mainly France defenders?
Lloris
Kosc Sagna Evra Guerreiro.
is my initial thought.
I'm also considering cpt Giroud to block the differential.
How do you know they will captain the differential?
17 points in a game with only 22 players to pick from is a healthy lead, just pick the best XI IMO.
The team's will be so similar, can't see you losing it unless they go for big differentials that come off (lots of Portugal defenders).
The front line picks itself (though you could go differential with Nani over Giroud), everyone will have Pogba, Payet, Sanchez, and at least a couple French defenders.
Very little way you can lose. I might captain Kosc.
i'm lead 17 point too so i think i will go like this
Lloris
sagna kos evra guerreiro
payet pogba renato/mario
griez giroud ronaldo
I've got a similar dilemma with a 9 point lead and feel the risk may be over thinking this. I'm picking the team I think is strongest and running with it and trying not to worry about differentials.
That is probably:
Lloris
Sagna, Koscielny, Umtiti, Guerreiro
Sanches, Pogba, Payet
Griezmann (c), Giroud, Ronaldo
Subs: Patricio, Fonte
I miss Daniel 🙁
Has he been Breadbinned, or just quiet these summer months?
Got married/engaged if I remember right.
Must have been married, I remember him getting engaged in the winter time I think.
Unless that one went south and he's just got engaged to someone else 😆
He's usually shown his face around here by now
Its worth noting that this is the first year they will releasing an Andriod app. The delay could be related to testing on various platforms to ensure that there are limited bugs on release
Didn't they already have a FPL app on iOS and Android?
Official one was only for iOS
Oh, I bought the unofficial one!
there was an official app for android also i tried it
This. There was an android version also. Had to pay for it.
I don't think there's necessarily a delay.
Isn't FPL launched 30-33 days prior to the first game?
There are still 35 days or so 🙂
Youre not wrong there actually.
last year they released android and iOS app & it was released few days after FPL opened
It's always been on Android. It's just that you had to pay. Now it's free
Android has always had an official app.
All the replies above. 😆
Nothing to see here 😆
Looking at having 5 french defenders in my team 🙂
Lloris
Sagna Kosc Rami/Umtiti Evra Guerreiro
Payet Sanches
(C) Greizmann Giroud Ronaldo
Yeah same as most of us will have, I assume.
Dear Jonty,
I'm proper skint. Can I get free membership, will promise to behave?
Your sincerely,
Jafooli Esq.
I fired you as my squire months ago..
Now the squire on Westy's estate....
I'll loan you the money if you help me win FPL this year.
Deal 🙂
I don't want access to stats tables, just want to read those Member's articles, can I get a refund for 5 pounds?
I only want the ticker.....should be a rebate for that also.
But how will I know which players are playing their parent clubs ?
Full amnesty on all players this season 😀
😯 😆
Should have won the Going Out With a Bang league 😉
Wasn't invited 🙁
Everyone was invited 🙁
I custom removed Jafooli from the invite list.
Knew it......you need to watch your back this season IM.
I thought mods got free membership?
So did I, that's why I'm making it public.
Federer into the 5th set again! 🙁
Good for Murray/Berdych .....
He's going to be nackerooneyed if he gets to the final.
I see so many going with 5 or 6 defenders rather than the minimum of 4. Are defenders really the better option in the final compared to the likes of Pogba or J.Mario
Yeah I think so. Firstly, neither Pogba nor Mario are good midfield options, secondly defenders can easily get a CS/something else. This tournament has been favouring defenders.
Simon Peach @SimonPeach
#ITA striker Graziano Pelle is set to leave #SaintsFC for China in a £13million deal
What a strange thing to do - must be the money.
Surely you cant let Pelle go for 13m :/
Is he worth 100m ?
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Draft squad ruined 🙁
Ha, TdF 1km blow up banner just collapsed on the riders - shambles 😆
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It better not open up over the weekend when life could get in the way...
+1
11:59 tonight is the latest I'm hearing from my ITK contacts....
Lol.
None of us have a life
Federer in trouble . Raonic breaks
RAONIC 😀
Nani or Giroud?
In one way I hope that Pogba will sign for Utd, because all the casuals will get him while the pros realize that there are much better fantasy options available 😎
But the real question is - Is he worth 100m? 😉
Cue a Pogba brace on the opening GW. Casuals win again.
plus 0.4m price rise 😮
Taking him too 100.4m - will be too expensive by GW2
xD
Because of a first week score?
No, he continues with a brace every week.
Well, then you'd have to get on that train. 76 goal season!
damm right! 😀
Care to elaborate on the best of those midfield options...?
More commentary bias !
"Who would Andy Murray want to play in the final?"
In addition, Berdeych is more of a challenge for Murray than Iceland should have been for England but do commentators not bloody learn!?
I don't think it was meant to be presumptuous. It's a fair question but they probably should have said "Murray or Berdeych".
Aye, should have said Murray or Berdeych. Ah well
Radonic wins...
🙁
...and Murray therefore wins Wimbledon in three sets.
Bubye Feds.
Ouch. Read Jafooli's link and that sentence takes on a whole new meaning.
Hey all.
At work.
Any news?
Federer lost.
Bugger.
😆
Fpl opening is still imminent
Pure evil.
Is the prevailing wisdom that United and Chelsea will have rock solid defenses? (Which is great, because their players are always so inexpensive...)
Yeah, but it comes from the same wisdom that brought to you "Hazard will score 200 points every season".
Lloris
Sagna / Kos / Guerriro / Pepe
Pogba / Payet / R. Sanches
Ronaldo / Greiz (c) / Giroud
Trying to maintain an 18 point lead. Is this the safest team to do that?
Probably.
Matuidi over Pepe, you could argue.
Interesting one but I suspect defence is the way to go
keep in mind pepe still not completely fit
Makes more sense to go with Patricio than a Portugal defender due to save points? Will have the France back four.
Unless one scores or assists!
Have a good weekend troops 🙂
See you Monday 🙂
Mark Rogers @markrogers1 36s37 seconds ago
#FPL will go live early next week for those who are asking. The plan was always to wait until after the euros this year. Who's in your team?
Why didn't he just say that earlier? Some people
my guess is he isn't being entirely truthful and that they planned to release earlier but encountered problems
don't think so.. it still soon
He wanted the extra Twitter traffic.
Such a tease.
And that is of course only if Jafooli and Mr West continues to behave.....
We are doomed!
stating the bleedin obvious
whoever thought it would happen before sunday must have been on the danieljuice
@Markrodgers1
#FPL will go live early next week for those who are asking. The plan was always to wait until after the euros this year. Who's in your team?
Give your hamsters a rest over the weekend they are clearly tired . You will need them to get a good fpl i.d on Mon 😉
He could have just said that last week the bugger
Lost some respect from me
If that was always the plan why not just say it. But no, he has to string people along and say it's imminent 😡
Why do the two posts above have different spellings of 'Rogers' in his twitter handle?
KOL just spelt it wrong
7 years, 11 months agoAs Eamonn Dunphy would say, KDB is a spoofer