Dugout Discussion

Dugout Discussion – West Ham vs Man United

A hectic afternoon with points aplenty will hopefully continue with the tea-time kick-off at the London Stadium.

With Sergio Aguero emerging from the bench to return a goal and potential bonus points at the Etihad, our attention now switches to the red side of Manchester and their own talismanic goalscorer – Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Heavily backed by FPL managers once again, the Swede takes on the Hammers with 24.1% of the Gameweek 20 armbands strapped to his bicep.

Elsewhere, Jose Mourinho recalls Phil Jones and Marcos Rojo at centre-back as two of five changes to his line-up; Henrikh Mkhitaryan earns his second successive start.

For West Ham, Andy Carroll drops to the bench having started the last four Gameweeks. Mark Noble and Andre Ayew also drop out as Pedro Obiang, Manuel Lanzini and Sofiane Feghouli earn starts.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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  1. ManUtdFan_UK
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Heaton (Pickford)
    Alonso, Chambers, Holebas (Evans, Amat)
    Sanchez, Hazard, Lallana, Phillips (Capoue)
    Ibra, Costa, Origi
    2.6M ITB, 1FT.

    I know my defence needs a little bit of work, but think I can get away with it for now.

    Thinking
    A) Hazard and Origi > Alli and Kane (c) (-4)
    B) Origi > Defoe and leave £1.6m ITB (go without Spurs for now)

    Very tempted by A.

    1. ManUtdFan_UK
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      A leaves £0.1M ITB.

      1. Haggis
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        B

    2. FPLtfs
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      B

  2. BrutalLogiC
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    If I use WC and transfer out Sanchez and then change my mind before the transfer deadline can I get him back in at my current selling price of 11.4 or would I need to pay whatever his full value is?

    1. Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Full value

      1. BrutalLogiC
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        glad I asked!

  3. ThatAsianGuy17
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    zaha to phillips ft now or wait?

    1. william prunier
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Does Zaha play further games & do you wish to catch a further Phillips price rise?

    2. Mockingbird
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      just do it, zaha is leaving.

    3. Cok3y5murf
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      WBA will park the bus against Spurs. Phillips unlikely to score imo.

  4. Big Red Dog
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Best replacement for Mane? Have Sanchez and 0.3 itb

    1. Big Red Dog
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Alli or Lallana?

    2. Lawrø
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Have you considered a cheeky Coutinho punt?

      1. Big Red Dog
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Only if I know he will start. Wondering about Mkhi also but didn't show too much vs West Ham. Any news on whether Phil will be back by then?

        1. Lawrø
          • 12 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          He's back in training, whatever that means

    3. DF
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Reckon I'm going alli with an eye to coutinho after the next gameweek.
      Will take the price drop tonight

      1. Big Red Dog
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        How fast will it take him to drop 0.3?

        1. Jimmers
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          Probably not until late next week - transfers will drop off over the FACup weekend

  5. Pauntley
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    How does this 3-5-2 / 4-4-2 team look going forward?

    Cech (Jaku)
    Alonso, Brunt, Jones, Ake (3.9)
    Sanchez, Hazard, Pogba, Llalana, Phillips
    Ibra, Costa (Barnes)

    1. Dasher0303
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Only thing missing is boro defence. I would do Pogba to Alli and then your 3.9 to friend and it's the perfect team.

      1. Pauntley
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Thanks - I've actually got Heaton at moment so just thinking of tightening up at back. Could keep Heaton and upgrade 3.9 defender to Mid def like Friend or Chambers?

        1. Dasher0303
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          Good choice, but I also recommend doing Pogba to Alli: Alli playing further forward and more explosive, and you have no spurs but double up on Man U.

          1. Pauntley
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 3 months ago

            Have thought of it but spurs fixtures nowhere near as good as Man U and Pogba stats amazing recently - plus he's a good differential in my league who mostly have Spurs mids

  6. joescores
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Top 10 k first time!

    1. Lawrø
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Congrats! 😀

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Congrats, you took my spot.

    3. Mockingbird
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      nice

      1. joescores
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Thank you good fellas!

    4. DF
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Well done. Good on you. Get a grav to celebrate.

  7. Jimmy Boy
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Does this team need a WC? Got just 27 points today.

    Heaton - Pickford
    Walker - Alonso - Barragan - Pieters - Ake
    Sanchez (c) - Mane - Firmino - Siggy - Phillips
    Costa - Zlatan - Barnes

    1. Lawrø
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      I wouldn't wildcard that

    2. DF
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      It doesn't.

    3. Jimmers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Judge a score when all your team have played.

      Wouldn't WC - obviously need to lose Mane and also Siggy (awful fixtures) - otherwise ok

  8. Scotty B
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Heaton
    Clyne Baines Pieters
    Lallana Capoue Sanchez Phillips
    Aguero Kane Ibrahimovic

    Pickford Fletcher Evans Amat

    WC yay or nay?

  9. Niemi
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Origi replacement time.

    Best option for 7.7? Have to be Defoe, right? Rondon is also tempting for 1.0 less, but already got Phillips and 2 attacking players from WBA just feels wrong. Benteke could get back on my radar tomorrow with a good performance as well.

    1. FPLtfs
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Defoe is a really good option.

    2. djenzio
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Defo Defoe

    3. Cojiro
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Why replace a player who is now nailed and plays Swansea soon?

      1. Niemi
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Origi is absolutely not nailed on now?

        1. walkman666
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          I think Origi is now uncertain. If Sturridge is hurt and mane off to Africa for his tournament, it seems that Origi may have a starting role, no? I guess we need to find out more about Sturridge

      2. Lawrø
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Please, please explain to me why you think Origi is nailed.

    4. S.Agueroooooo
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      I'm probably holding with stur injured and mane off. Defoe a good long term option but may have to sit tight for a good few weeks to get return. The forwards feel like a bit of an unknown area at the moment so focussing the transfers elsewhere

  10. Oh Mane Mane
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Grant (Jaku)
    Walker Ake Alonso (Love) (Amat)
    Sanchez Lallana Allen Phillips (Hojberg)
    Costa Aguero Ibrahimovic

    Thoughts?

    Thanks

  11. Coaly
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    a) Cedric to P Jones/Boro def
    b) Siggy to Phillips, Cedric to Bellerin -4

    1. Coaly
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Would appreciate a couple of opinions

  12. Cok3y5murf
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Have to sell Mane and Zaha. 15.4 ITB. Who would you pick? Other mids are Sanchez and Pogba.

    Not very tempted by Phillips for next week as WBA will park the bus against Spurs, so unlikely to score.

    1. Van der Faart
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Phillips has great fixtures from next week on though

    2. Stokelona
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Alli and someone else

    3. djenzio
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Phillips and Alli for me, maybe Lallana

  13. Demel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Grant - Pick
    Baines - Brunt - Holebas - Taylor - Amat
    Sanchez - Hazard - Eriksen - Phillips - De roon
    Aguero - Ibra - Defoe

    So 3 options...

    A) Save transfer and play Holebas at home to Boro
    B) Holebas to 4.9m max
    C) Taylor to 4.5m max

    Time to try and crack the FPL 1000 and maybe...maybe get a slot on The Scoutcast!

    1. Stokelona
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      A

  14. Klopp For The Kopps 😆
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Looks like its that time of the season where Lukaku goes on his Good Run.
    Every season it happens,
    Don't want to miss out.
    Worth losing Hazard for Him ?

    1. djenzio
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      He already had a good run earlier in the season

  15. Jimmy Boy
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Pick two from Eriksen, Coutinho and Alli

    1. Karan14
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Cout & Alli

    2. Van der Faart
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Alli and Coutinho

    3. Teror
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Alli and Coutinho fo sho

  16. Karan14
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    VVD or Brunt?

    Appreciate your thoughts!

    1. Van der Faart
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Bruntinho

      1. Karan14
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        No clean sheets and only attacking points is a worry.

    2. djenzio
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Chris

  17. Backup Dancer
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/public-stats-tables/view/939/

    Just don't understand why it's not happening for number 2 on the list.

    1. Niemi
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Explosion soon

  18. Dasher0303
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    What should I do about this team???
    WC this lot????

    Heaton Pickford*
    Alonso Jones barragan* nyom* Smith*
    Sanchez Hazard* Lallana Siggy* Allen
    Ibra Costa anichebe*
    0.4itb and 1ft

    Suggestions????

    1. djenzio
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Why is Haz marked?

      1. Van der Faart
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Walker is on him already in advance of the game on Wednesday

      2. Dasher0303
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Oh, didn't mean that, but thinking about I would probably get rid on WC. Think it will come down to Phillips/Allen and Defoe to hazard and Barnes.

  19. Teror
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Haz > Alli

    Or is that too mainstream?

  20. JÆKS ⭐
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Dropped from 30k to 70k, awful!

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Only counts on Wednesday.

      1. JÆKS ⭐
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        That's true, but Costa and Sanchez will have to deliver big time in order for me to keep that position around 30k. Have been sitting inside the top 10k easily until that Sanchez haul, everything changed from that point on!

    2. KING_ZLATAN
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Dropped from 58k to 90k ..
      Sanchez(C) and 3 Chelsea left

  21. Jimmy Boy
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Mane > Alli
    Siggy > Coutinho

    Worth a -4 hit?

    1. Teror
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Yeahhhhh

    2. JÆKS ⭐
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      If Coutinho is fit yes

    3. Stokelona
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      I have just done mane to alli and was just pondering the same, also thinking Walcott. Only thing with coutinho is he may get reduced minutes as he finds his fitness so not quite sure it's worth a hit

    4. Les Bleus
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      If Cout is back, then hell yes.

  22. FPL Maldini
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Zaha and Siggy --> Ali and Stanislas

    Good move?

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      in 2 days

      1. FPL Maldini
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Just thinking ahead 🙂

  23. Viper
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Green arrow (so far) after an 8 point hit and my captain benched.

    I'll take it and run!

    1. djenzio
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      who did you captain?

      1. Viper
        • 14 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Sergio

      2. Jimmy Boy
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        He captained Aguero

  24. djenzio
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    18 (-4) from 3 with captain till to play, pretty decent start to the week for once, been having a mare the last month or so, hoping this is the start of a turnaround

  25. Numb
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    I disagree with Differentiator.

    I think your team needs to be in pretty bad shape to make a WC now worth more than one linked to DGWs. If your team is in that bad shape then you're probably not managing your team properly.

    1. Dasher0303
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Not necesssarily. You wouldn't have expected smith to be benched, nyom to be going AFCON when he said he wouldn't, Barragan injured, Anichebe injured, Pickford injured etc.

      1. Numb
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Smith never seemed fully nailed on
        Nyom was always a risk of either going or being banned by FIFA if he didn't
        The injuries, fair enough although I don't think Anichebe is nailed on either

        1. Differentiator
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          Anichebe was 100% nailed on, prior to his injury

          1. Numb
            • 9 Years
            7 years, 3 months ago

            We can agree to disagree. But another reason I wouldn't go 352 is that there are not many other options instead of Anichebe.

      2. Differentiator
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        More of an issue for us 3-5-2ers who want to do a formational change for sure. Also love that we have a heck of a lot of time to think about it prior to the next GW

    2. Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Of course! Don't wildcard now if you're happy with your team!

      1. Numb
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        I'm not 100% happy with it by any means.

        But the DGW approach is tried and tested and now enhanced with the chips. Each to their own though.

        1. Differentiator
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 3 months ago

          Put it this way.... I'm probably going to have 2/3x Chelsea, 2/3x Liverpool, 2/3x Arsenal, 2/3x Spurs going into the DGWs if all those teams have one, and I'll probably own most of those ~10 players in advance of the DGW too. That only leaves 5 spots open anyway.

          Would I rather, for example, have Ross Barkley if he had a DGW over Eriksen with a SGW? No. The gap between the top teams and the rest of the teams is so much bigger than last season

    3. Spike ⚽️
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Cheers

  26. Jonty Rhodes
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Is it worth trusting Chadli? Bought him at 6.4 and hes set to fall to 6.0 today!

    Forster (Pickford)
    Jones, Ake, Alonso (Pieters, Collins)
    Snodgrass, Hazard, Alli, Lallana, Chadli
    Ibrahim, Costa (Anichebe)

    3.2m in bank. 1 FTs

  27. Aubaaaaa
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Heaton Pickford
    Alonso Bellerin Brunt Friend Ake
    Sanchez Hazard Zaha Phillips DeRoon
    Ibra Kane Origi

    1FT 2.1ITB

    Main priority is to transfer Origi (too much rotation risk) and Zaha (going off to ACON). Would still like to have Pool attacking coverage though.

    A. Origi to Defoe/Benteke
    B. Zaha to Lallana
    C. Origi, Zaha to Gray, Lallana (-4)
    D. Origi, Zaha, Hazard to Defoe/Benteke, Lallana/Coutinho, Pedro (-8)
    E. Any other suggestions are welcomed

    Thanks in advance.

    1. Champione
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Zaha > Stanislas, Origi > Defoe

    2. Mr Arsenal
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Keep Origi for the Swansea game. Could be a goal fest and Mane now out.

  28. justmatt
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Up to 13k, highest rank so far/ever... Fingers crossed can hold on until the end of the GW and end the festive period on a high!

  29. Bring the Cavalry
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Is the Barragan injury serious today? If so thinking of doing a straight swap to friend, nice fixtures coming up

  30. Count of Monte Hristo
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Have you seen Pep's post-match interview. So awkward.

    1. Champione
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      same procedure as after every match

    2. Big Red Dog
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      He's so whiny it's really disappointing... Like an unlikeable Mourinho.