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31 October 2016 1687 comments
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There’s one more match to consider in Gameweek 10, as Stoke and Swansea go head to head at the bet365 this evening.

The Potters welcome Bob Bradley’s side on the back of two straight wins and clean sheets, with Joe Allen and Xherdan Shaqiri both bagging a brace in clashes against Sunderland and Hull respectively.

Indeed, Allen was the third most transferred in player ahead of the weekend deadline, with over 138,000 Fantasy Premier League managers snapping up his services on the back of four goals in as many league matches.

Despite a frustrating goalless draw at home to Watford last time out, the Swans will take heart from their recent 3-2 defeat at the Emirates.

Prior to Jermain Defoe’s converted penalty at the Stadium of Light on Saturday lunchtime, Swansea were the only side to score against Arsenal in eight matches across all competitions.

With the schedule smiling kindly from Gameweek 13 onwards, Gylfi Sigurdsson has the chance to stake a claim for inclusion in our five-man midfields.

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    1. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Siggy's score.

    2. ViperStripes
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Boo, I only got 2 extra from Fer, that's not good for rank.

    3. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      13 here so looking at a nice greeny 🙂

    4. GENERATION X
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      thankfully i have some heaton unintentional benchw@nkery to come

  1. Pino
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    What do you think about Julian Nagelsmann? Very promising. ?,

  2. Uncle John from Jamaica
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Tekkers holders? What are you doing with him?

    1. ViperStripes
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Holding, more problems elsewhere.

    2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Allen & Friend comng off bench for Toby & Theo... Nice to get some points for once!

  3. ViperStripes
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    This weeks bench contenders:

    Fer, Capoue, Britos & Love

    All dire options, so do I take a hit to improve one of them? 1.0m itb

  4. Demí
    • 15 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    3 wins on the bounce now. Stoke showing that fixtures create form

    1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      aye ticker might actually translate into points now

    2. Defcons are for Kinnear
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Hopefully that bodes well for Fuchs

  5. Ian Davis
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Which to do?

    A) 4.5 mid + Lallana

    or

    B) 5.0 def + Allen

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      B easily

    2. Colonel Wasabi
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      B with Morgan

      1. Colonel Wasabi
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        (Nice run coming for Leicester)

      2. Belsunz
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        This

  6. Champione
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Anyone brave enough to pick Musa instead of Austin? Brilliant form and fixtures, but CL rotation may scare people off. If Rondon had shown any signs of form he could have been be an option as well, but it looks like Chadli is the man to get from West Brom.

    1. Greenbackbøøg…
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      A lot of rotation

    2. GreennRed
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      No.

    3. Elijah's Wood
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Rondon was unlucky to score against City, looked great actually

    4. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Austin should have had 2 yesterday and looks primed for a haul

      1. Champione
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Cheers guys, looks like Deeney > Austin will be my move

  7. arndff
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Grant
    Koscielny Lovren FUCHS*
    Antonio Firmino(VC) Sanchez Allen
    Lukaku Aguero(C) Deeney**

    Pickford | Capoue Vertonghen Amat

    * I've bought Fuchs TODAY.
    ** Deeney OUT, Austin IN => -4pts. Is it worth? In my opinion, Austin's price will rise +0.1 this week.

  8. BrockLanders
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Sterling and Capoue to Hazard and Allen for -4?

    Yay or Nay?

    1. ViperStripes
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Just Sterling to Hazard for free

      1. BrockLanders
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Not reckon I need Stoke coverage & specifically Allen with the price rises?

      2. Colonel Wasabi
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Or even just Capoue to Allen for free.....?

        Might sound heretical, but Sterling has MID and Haz facing a relatively stingy Everton defence.
        See if you then need Hazard for MID game...or wait until after the TOT/mci games ?
        Haz form is great - and that's more important than fixtures maybe....but if you're not sure maybe wait and see while Sterling has a good fixture and wasn't completely peripheral this week.....
        You'll make money on the Capoue Allen move if nothing else.

        1. BrockLanders
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Cheers mate. Good advice

          1. Colonel Wasabi
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            9 years, 5 months ago

            Makes a nice change for me 🙂 Ta.

    2. arndff_
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Go 4 it

    3. Kitman
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Do it!

      Allen is no capoue flash in the pan

  9. Elijah's Wood
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Snodgrass -> ?

    A) Allen (rising in price tonight)
    B) Stanislas
    C) Gundogan

    1. arndff_
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      If you do NOT have Aguero, then go with Allen.

    2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      a......form fixtures nailed

    3. Elijah's Wood
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Cheers guys, he will be my 5th mid anyway so worth a punt i suppose

      1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        id genuinely consider him a 4th on this form

      2. arndff_
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        He deserves a place in your starting line-up. If you can't put him in, he should be sub #1.

        1. Elijah's Wood
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Gna bench Benteke (lei) this week

          1. Demí
            • 15 Years
            9 years, 5 months ago

            He's playing Burnley?

            1. Elijah's Wood
              • 11 Years
              9 years, 5 months ago

              Ah you are right, Burnley have been solid at home anyway. Was looking at buying Chadli who is playing Leicester away lol

      3. :
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        I REALLY don't get this 5th mid nonsense about Allen. Why buy to bench someone in such sparkling form??

        1. Elijah's Wood
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Not going to be benching him really, just gives me more options having 8 playable attackers. Benching for Tekers (lei) this week, also good when Xmas comes round and rotation takes effect

  10. fedolefan
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Having just brought in Siggy, should I just ship him out if Swansea are the new Hull?

    1. Smurf
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Wow.

      1. fedolefan
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        I know it sounds outrageous, but even good players in bad teams struggle. See Snodgrass, chelsea last season, united players. Sounds outrageous, but may be not.

    2. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      No. He'll thrive against United this week..

    3. arndff_
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Swansea's fixtures from GW15 to GW20 are looking pretty good. So, give him a chance.

  11. BRFC1883
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Baps for Allen?

    1. FPL Puppy
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Yep, 2

  12. tisza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    90pts but only 10pts from keeper & defence (Williams 7 of those) still can't get it right. And Williams would have gone if Valencia hadn't got injured (who was replaced by Cameron!!!!).

    1. Kante Be Bothered
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Just get triple chelsea. easy points

  13. Migls
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Cheers captain Allen and 20 points. Feels good.

  14. TheTinman
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    91pts thank you Joe Allen :).

    Well done all who had a good week

    1. FPL Puppy
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Well done yourself 😀

  15. Gazzpfc
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    My team are a bunch of donkeys, my mate who i bet against got 109pts i was 30 behind. 2 stoke defenders couldnt even keep a clean sheet. Smith Lallana. Capoue and the 2 stokies useless

  16. Moose™
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Anyone ditching Walcott? For who then?

    1. FPL Puppy
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Did it last Friday for Cout. 🙂

    2. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Anyone who can walk on two legs

    3. GreennRed
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      No. He'll be out for Ludogorets and back for Spurs. Form is too good to get rid.

  17. :
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Don't do Capoue > Allen folks. Keep Capoue as a bench warmer and get rid of someone else who's not cutting the mustard (for me it was my worst buy of the season - Son). Then, invest all those hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of pounds wisely elsewhere and build yourself a team to go to war with.

    Simples.

    1. Twelve years a slave
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      I agree

      No one buy Allen

      1. The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        This

    2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      this, capoue is great as a 5th

    3. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Yup doing Antonio > Allen. 2.5 ITB will be upgrading to 2 premium defenders

      1. sminkypinky
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Did it this week. Lucky boy.

    4. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      True. Capoue is currently a simple benching option with decent value and has potential for the odd injury filler..

    5. Colonel Wasabi
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Lot of military folk on here nowadays..........talking up the war.....

  18. MartialMatas
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Valencia and Deeney -> Fuchs and Austin for -4?

    1FT 0.3 ITB

    Heaton Pickford
    Valencia Lovren Holebas Pieters Amat
    Sanchez Firmino Coutinho Walcott Fletcher
    Aguero Lukaku Deeney

    Thanks

  19. That Fantasy Guy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi all some advice please...
    My team is
    Foster - jaku
    Amat - love - stones - blind - friend
    Firmino - capoue - marney - samchez - redmond
    Aguero - zlatan - Lukaku
    0.0 itb 2 ft

    A. Zlatan marney friend - > austin coutinho and lovren -4
    B. Keep zlatan use 1 transfer only friend out.
    C. Zlatan marney friend - austin pogba and lovren
    D. Other

    Thanks

  20. Fernando Torres
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Walker and De Roon for Morgan and Allen (-8)?

  21. Boris Bodega
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Is this worth -4?

    Firmino & Capoue out
    Coutinho & Allen in

    1. Flynny
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      No

    2. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      No way

  22. Pino
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    I guess none here heard about Julian Nagelsmann? He is 29 years old Hoffenhaim manager that is doing great in Bundesliga. I Wonder how long can Hoffenhaim keep him.

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Until he retires/dies I presume.

      1. Pino
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Check out hes background. He is the next big manager coming from Germany with Tucel. Bayern wanted him but he said no.

    2. Uncle John from Jamaica
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Fantastic if only he was in the premier league more might be tempted to comment.

      1. Pino
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        IT shows that PL clubs shoud give young managers a chance.

  23. devils advocate
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Are some people ignoring Allen because he was predominantly a defensive mid in the past and had the attacking stats to reflect this?

    Are they ignoring the fact that at Stoke he's now playing as a No.10, or are they not aware of his new role?

    1. Malcolm Tucker for England …
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      yes

    2. Twelve years a slave
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Strangely most avoided him because he was too cheap. Faulty logic.

      He showed tonight that he is genuine starter quality, no matter what his price

  24. La vida FPL
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Allen or gundogan?

  25. FPL Maldini
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Who to replace Walcott and Shaq with?

    Already own Cout, Firm and Capoue

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Lol at selling Wally

      1. Twelve years a slave
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Ronke sold him

        1. The Bandit
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 5 months ago

          Lol at him too then

  26. Manani
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    sterling>hazard (-4)??

  27. Uncle John from Jamaica
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Anyone seen any word on how long Valencia is out for?

  28. Bubz
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    Reckon Austin will rise tonight?

    1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      dont think so bubz

    2. fedolefan
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Players have been rising at 80% recently. Austin is at 88%.

    3. FPL Puppy
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 5 months ago

      Hasn't the price changes been quite off these past days?
      I've seen some players rise when they were only at 80-90% on fplstatistics.

      He's too close to +90% for me to hold on to do Deeney -> Austin tomorrow. Might aswell do it tonight and sleep better knowing that I didn't miss a potential price rise. 🙂

      1. Bubz
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 5 months ago

        Think Im going to go for it too

  29. Malcolm Tucker for England …
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    9 years, 5 months ago

    http://alchetron.com/Carel-Struycken-834931-W

    THAT'S where i know Bradley from..