FPL Question Time – Consult our panel ahead of Gameweek 6

Got him for a hit and payed off big time!

I kept 2.7m itb to get Hazard GW6 for free instead of a hit.
Bad decision in hindsight.

Pedro to Hazard
Mendy (if injured) or Alonso to 5m ish defender. 2 FTs.

Got him (and Fraser) in on GW4 WC. Only wish I'd stuck the armband on him.

So all those, like me, with both who captained Aguero instead of Hazard lost 13 points overall.

Bought him at 10.6m. First time I captained him yesterday 🙂

Swapping him in for Salah. Just can't see Salah outscoring haz by much (if at all) these coming weeks to justify the price difference

not in any rush the salah/mane v haz role could easily be reversed next week. chasing points rarely turns out well

Waiting for a GW10(ish) WC to bring him in as now have missed the Cardif points and am praying he doesn't go crazy against West Ham.

Of course if Everton score more than 4 goals today I might have to reassess.

Brought him in on WC two GW's ago and he's had the armband ever since, feels good Delia.

Want to ship one of Salah or Mane. Rotation sure to kick in a little bit, but can’t decide which one to keep

Just keeping Mo and Mane. The haul has gone. Next week will be the Reds turn to shine!

Got him in and then (c)'d him last minute. In the end it's just luck. The guy hasn't scored a hattie since 2014. I went for the armband just cos of lower ownership and such a high ownership of Aguero. If it had gone wrong it would have gone badly wrong but there we are

Hazard (C) this GW. 76 (-4) when I count in AWB's 9-pointer. Still have Jiménez, R.Bennet and M. Ryan to go 😉 Green arrow fo' shizzle

There would be need to take out Salah or Mane if you just have/play AWB/Doherty instead of Alonso/Mendy 😉 Alonso and Mendy need attacking returns almost every game to be worth that amount...Salah, Mane & Hazard all to get double-digits next weekend...the best 3 mids in the game 😀

Fixrures do not appeal to me. Turning a blind eye until that changes in 4/5 games time. Hoping salah and co match him in the meantime

I'd made my ft 2 weeks ago but Alli being ruled out made the switch easier for me even for a hit. I captained because I felt Kun's pitch time was going to be managed with a CL fixture coming up

Did Mane ➡ Hazard (-4) this week. Did not captain.

My reasoning was that the move was for 4 weeks, and it had to start with Hazard playing Cardiff and Mane in one of Pool's 3 tough fixtures. It would make no sense to sell Mane before SOU. And it still doesn't.

As for the hit, over 4 weeks, it's just a -1 each week, so I was expecting Hazard to yield profit despite that. Of course, I'm not going to pretend that I was expecting a 20 pointer.

Tbh though, I'm not sure I made the right choice selling Mane and keeping Salah because Mane looked better yesterday.

Not getting Hazard was my biggest mistake, got him on a WC now
Hazard is on fire, he is essential

Not having him has cost me big time this GW, but can't shake the feeling that ditching Salah or Mane now before SOU will have made the sacrifice this weekend completely pointless. The most likely scenario is I hang tight and hope Pedro & Alonso do enough to mollify Hazard's points against West Ham, then rage transfer out whichever Liverpool man blanks/is benched vs SOU for him in GW7.

Really don't understand why people didn't bring him in prior to Bournemouth and Cardiff

Rage/Drunk transferred him and Fraser in as part of a -4 last night. Pedro, B. Silva and Walcott to Hazard, Fraser and Hojberg.

A key reason for my GW3 wildcard was to get both Hazard and Alonso in early! They haven't let me down!!

I think we have missed out on his haul. I know there's a strong urge to go to Salah or Mane to Hazard, but I feel it's more likely to be "chasing points" now. Let's be honest IF both Salah & Mane start aren't they more likely to score more points at home to SOU than Hazard scoring away to WHU. I really wanted to bring Hazard in for last GW, was talked out of it by a friend, a lot of people who were banging on Salah's "underlying statistics" & Shaw's availability as per Mourinho. Had Shaw been ruled out I'd have got him in place of Mane. There's no point crying over spilt milk now, just gotta take it on the chin that u missed out on it & move on. Certainly no point taking out one of Liverpool's mids for SOU home.

Transferred Mane + Mkhi > Hazard + Maddy for this week for a hit. Didn't captain Haz, but still very happy and in profit 🙂

Went Mane to Haz for a hit 2 weeks ago and was called foolish by a friend 🙂 Funny thing is if Rich doesn't get suspended, may not have made those moves

I brought Haz in on wildcard. I dropped Salah and brought in Mane to fund but still keep Liv. asset.

However, if I hadn’t already made the transfer for this week, I would hold Salah through the SouthHampton fixture. Or I’d be looking for 3 budget forwards and keep Salah while also bringing in Hazard. Which I might still do in the future.

Had him from the start. Knew this would be his year after a great World Cup and Sarri Ball arriving at the bridge

Previously sold Mane for Hazard. Didn’t have the guts to put the armband on him though. He’s trolled me too many times with a plum fixture. Happy for the points and the incoming price rise(s).

WC'd early to fit him in and so glad that I did so and captained him yesterday. Happy enough with my 80 with Bennett to go. Shame I'm staring at Fraser's points om my bench too 😆

Got him in GW4, captained this GW 😉

Got him before Bournemouth game. Nice 31 point return in 2 games. Sacrificed Mane for him though

Did not start the season with Aguero. First two weeks I fell way way behind the pack. WC’d week before last with Hazard in the priority.

Very happy I capped him! Totally back in contention in mini-leagues now, a high differential this week.

And to have Fraser too... fpl life is good right now..

in no rush to change but Mane & Mikhi to Hazard & Fraser is enticing. But got to wait for CL fixtures to be out of the way first

The decisions to own or not own Hazard and to play or bench Fraser this week were game-changing ones - unfortunately I got them both badly wrong.

I would love to have owned Hazard, but didn't really want to lose any of Salah, Mane or Aguero, especially with Liverpool playing Southampton next. But if I had brought him in then it would have been a very close call between Hazard and Aguero for the armband.

I didn't think Hazard was worth a hit or a wildcard, but Captain Hindsight has proved me wrong so far - even a hokey-cokey between Salah and Hazard would have been profitable as it turned out.

Benching Fraser and not even putting him first on my bench, though, was just a bad decision. His injury turned out to be less serious than many had suggested and I was afraid of him coming on for a one-point cameo, but his ceiling was far higher than Jorginho's so it was a poor decision.

See also vballer's hulked comment 4 or 5 hours ago which made a strong argument in favour of the Salah -> Hazard transfer:
https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2018/09/15/salah-and-mane-show-promise-despite-blanks-against-spurs/?hc_page=37&hc_sort_by=comment_date#hc_comment_18885425

I didn’t like any of my ways to bring him in without at least two hits, plus needed to deal with my Mkhitaryan problem, so rage wildcarded in advance of last night’s price rise/fall. Saved 0.2 as a result, but was really hoping to be able to wait until GW9 to WC.

Since I want to keep Mane, I financed the move by essentially going Aguero/Auba/Mkhitaryan to Vardy/Mitro/Hazard plus a little cash for a giant couch to hide behind.

Went Mane to Hazard on GW4 WC and still captained Aguero this HE arghhhh

I was between a)Mkhi->DSilva or b)Mkhi+Firmino->Hazard+Arnie.It was 50/50.I bought DSilva.Now i must decide if i want him but mainly how i can fit him in my team without loose Salah.I imagine that if Salah don't return points against Sou it would be an easy decision for gw7.

Pedro & Mkhi to Hazard and ... umm ... McDonald - means I have to play Fraser and not have him 3rd on the bench 🙂

I'd already committed to D Silva over Hazard in GW4 and it meant wildcarding or dropping salah to get hazard in GW5. I did the maths for the next ten gameweeks and didn't see huge upside in tearing my team apart. The maths assumed salah would slightly outperform hazard long term due to his superior goal threat stats, but I knew hazard was on the form of his life.

Now I need to decide how quickly hazard will regress to mean....any tips welcome!

Got haz on a -4 in gw3. 39pts in 3 gwks. Not complaining!

Rage transferred Hazard and Fraser in for Pogba and Mkhi, the minus 4 should be paid off this week alone

I brought him in at 2:00 am today for Salah. A few reason why I did, firstly: his price was going up (and probably will again this week, while Salah's may drop. Secondly: erring for two weeks on bringing Hazard in has cost me 0.1m, and 49pts (factoring in my captain choices), thirdly: the stats are flattering Salah, he's not taking his chances, and Hazard is. Salah is getting crowded out often by defenders and he's not having the same impact a season last year. Hazard has been used to that sort of attention for years. Forthly: West Ham away is basically like a home fixture for their opponents, their fans hate that stadium, and their teams a mess, whereas Southampton are about mid table for chances given up, I can see a 2-0 Liverpool victory tops, and it may well be Mane, Firmino, or anyone getting those goals. Fifthly and finally: 13m is too much for Salah, he's not going to score 300 pts+ this season, and be worth that cost. Hazard will probably get around 200pts and be worth his cost long term.

Nope. I can't bring him in. Never once considered captaining him over Aguero playing Fulham at home. Firmino Dilva, the other possible guy who could have made way did their bit, so factoring in the hit and a non-captain in Hazard, I would have been maybe 4-5 points better off, which really isn't worth a guaranteed -4 in the first place. All of which brings us to Salah. Single transfer from him to Hazard is all I could have done to benefit and that was a hard decision given Salah had Sou GW6.

Can't bring him in unfortunately this week too, which probably means Hazard is off limits for the next few gameweeks by which time he'll probably be back trolling. He crushes me every season (Newcastle last year, Everton the year before...) with a haul when all of my ML has captained him, so this is no different and I'm very calm about it. It'll be fun trying to find alternatives but if there is one guy I'm happy for people to own, it's Azzar. Let's see how it goes in a few weeks.

Pedro, Mhki, Lucas to Hazard, Fraser, 4.5 for -4.
Keeping Salah.

4-4-2 isn't working for Burnley IMO.

Thanks