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I think it's quite team dependent.

If you have a good way to get him in/WC then it might work but for a lot of people, it requires a hit and I don't think he's worth it especially since you'll want to get Salah back for GW9.

I going Kun, Kane, Mitrovic

Not interested in Kane, don't see the advantage over Salah and will want the latter from GW9 onwards. I understand you can have both but it strangles the rest of the team somewhat.

I went Laporte over Tripper to fund Richarlison, so no Spurs assets for me.

It was always going to happen at some point, it’s just a bit of a pain it has arrived in a space where he has nice fixtures and everyone doesn’t.

If he had form then it would prompt more changing, but one game against a defensively iffy side isn’t for me, and outside of this mini fixture run, I’m not particularly concerned.

Yes

Not just yet. I would need to take hits. I have 1 FT with no urgent iasues so going to let it roll over and see if i can get Kane next week, depending on performance against
Huddersfield. Brighton performance wasn't quite good enough for 12.4mil

His form is just so meh.

FMLFPL guys pointed out that most of his good stats that accrued in the last game came after Moura was hooked. His goal was a pen. He seems to be playing as a #10 when he starts with Moura at the moment.

I might be wrong he may well bang in a hattrick but I think more likely is 1-2 goals for which you can get plenty that will do the same for 7m and under. Not for me Geoff.

I ruined 5+ transfers,whole team.lost so many points etc last year because of him
The only way Im gonna bring him is if I decide to WC gw after his Cardiff game,and probably not even in that case

Leading my cash ML and thinking Salah to Maddison (have Richa) and Zaha to Kane for -4. If I can get 20 points from Kane over next 3 I'll be chuffed with the hit.

If Mané can keep matching Salah it's an easy trade to get Mane from gw9 again. If Salah outperforms Mané I'll be sweating like a whore in church...

don't really want to remove Arnie and Aguero is probably the best captain pick this week, so not yet. I'm definitely not ruling out Aguero -> Kane next week, especially if Aguero's minutes are reduced again.

It’s basically for the CAR fixture I presume? As he’s the stand out captaincy option in gw8. Not worth it imo. We have seen too many historical (K)ane fails at home against lesser opponents in the past to make me gamble on him blanking in a fixture like that again. Can’t let FOMO for one week dictate my transfers. Wouldn’t be surprised if old Glenn outscores Kane in gw8 tbh.

Definately going for Kane, doing so for a -8 too - Mendy, Salah, Kamara for Kane, Doherty, Richarlison

If Kane goes wild then it could put any team with Kane ahead of the pack big time - if Kane is a differential with such good fixtures then it's a very hard chance to pass by.

Wildcard still intact, so if it goes badly then I've always got a Plan B

problem with kane, is that he is not a flat track bully, nor a big game player - he is a completely random track bully.
how many of us captained him numerous times just to see him blank vs weak teams, while popping with a hat trick a week later against a mid table team?
he will score 25 goal a season - that is almost a certainty - but when? no one knows.
so, if you bring kane - bring him because of form (which he currently lacks) - not fixtures.

Not this week. Only worth getting kane to captain.
I will be doing Aguero > Kane (C) for GW8.
Doubling up with Spurs with Moura for Cardiff.

Nah.

Sticking to Salah and Kun.

I'm not convinced by Kane, myself, though I wouldn't argue too hard against people getting him, because there's a good chance he could be worth it.

That said, I do find the argument that he is a differential pretty pointless. It's been discussed for years, long before I arrived on this site, I'm sure, but it is the same argument as ownership (obviously). You use it to say that buying Kane could go well, and then to say that it could go badly. Well, that much is obvious, isn't it?

It seems to be one of the major factors of buying Kane. It's the same logic as Salah at the start of the season, but used to come to the opposite conclusion.

Salah: "If he does well, you won't fall behind" [fear]

Kane: "If Kane does well, you will jump ahead" [courage]

Without writing an essay about the logical loose connections, shouldn't our decisions be focussed on the "if he does well" part, and not the "fall behind" or "jump ahead" parts. Those latter parts are solely about ownership, and proving to be biases in our decision-making, as evidenced by you calling for people to "live a little" 😆

Nice write-up regardless, RAE 🙂

We’ve already seen a couple of big 50/50 decisions dividing FFS this season - and plenty of them have ended up fizzling out with none of the choices winning out big time.
I think the Kane debate will be a bit of the same.
Kane will get some points over the next 2-3 to keep his new owners fairly happy, but he won’t be getting enough to punish his non-owners either in my opinion.

If you have a high OR you’ll probably want Aguero (C) this week. If you’re trying to catch up Kane (C) seems to be a good bet.

Seems like a good moment to go for Kane. He is upping his play, has the fixtures and low ownership. Could be the perfect opportunity to go up the rankings.
As it would cost me 8 points to get him this week I'll wait next week and see if I'll get him for only one hit.

Bringing Kane in for GW 8. The biggest attraction is Kane is at home to Cardiff, in a game where Liverpool and City faces each other at Anfield, and Hazard will have to breach a parked bus at Southampton. Chelsea has not been particularly impressive in breaching parked buses thus far.

If your team has no pressing issues, Kane can always be swapped back to Kun for GW 9 against Burnley (H).

If Kane wasn’t on penalties I don’t think anyone would be bringing him in he has looked so bad. Also he would probably require a -4 which would be ridiculous

I think he is worth bringing in, and I plan to do so despite other fires that neeed putting out.

It's a perfect opportunity to get a significant jump in rank. I did the same with Hazard and Alonso just before GW4 and have risen from 323k to 44k in 3 weeks.

Now many teams in front of me have similar teams and the way the fixtures have fallen over the next 2 give me the chance to really get in amongst it.

There aren't that many such opportunities that come around during an FPL season. Live a little, grab them by the balls, and get ahead of the curve.

I'd argue Kane and Aguero, are the only players who could hit big 20pt+ hauls against weak teams. Look at the number of braces/hatricks these two have hit. Sanchez had that impact on single games in past too (at arsenal). Players that you'd fear.
Salah got his points through consistency throughout last season. Last year you'd captain him to get his safe 10pts per week, you'd hope but wouldn't expect to get 20+. Not captaining salah will not kill you especially over the next two. Who's captaining salah over the next two? Then why the need to hold?
Then GW8 Kane (C) vs Cardiff. If you have fear not holding salah for chelsea, how can you go into GW8 not holding Kane?

Problem is I don't think Kane's a fixtures pick. He's no more likely to get a brace vs Huddersfield than most others. Which leaves form, and his isn't good enough for the price.

Yes, next week.
It always takes him some time to find his feet and I expect Spurs to do better with Alli back in the starting XI.
I want another captaincy option to choose from, preferably one with a lot of threat and likely to play close to 90 mins every week.

However I am going to be bringing in Kane as part of a mini-wildcard for an 8 point hit. I have some other issues in my team that I have to deal with so I'm going to downgrade those players in order to bring in Kane:

- Mendy -> TAA
- Dilva -> Knockaert
- Pedro -> Elneny
- Wilson -> Kane

The Elneny pick is solely based on the fact that he is only 4.3M (I'd rather not get CHO since it would take up another Chelsea spot) and that I doubt I will ever need to use my 5th mid. It would give me the following team:

Ryan - Patricio
Alonso - TAA - Yedlin - AWB - Doherty
Hazard - Mane - Richarlison - Knockaert - Elneny
Kane - Mitro - Aguero

As someone who has wildcarded to Aguero - Laca - Mitro, I'm 99% sure I'm just going to hold off & hope for no mega hauls for these three games.

I still think there's a reliance on penalties with him. Those shots towards the end of the match masked a fairly poor all-round performance just on the eye test - pretty sure he misplaced quite a few passes as well as looking a bit slower.

One thing that will change my thinking is if he hits a brace or better vs Huddersfield and is then rested / taken off for Barcelona for some weird reason. Then I'd be really tempted to do Aguero -> Kane just for Cardiff at home, but that's not likely.

I feel like one penalty and some good-looking fixtures is turning everyone's heads a bit whereas I'm more than happy to wait - from about GW15 onwards they have an absolute dream run, so I think the time to get him might be a way off. By which time he might actually be looking more like Harry Kane again - but I'm just not quite buying it yet.

I am doing it. Got 2 free transfers and still got my wildcard, so doing Salah>Fraser and Deeney>Kane, Then save free transfer next week and flip Salah back in again for the Huddersfield game.

Like you say it is very much an individual decision based on what other issues you have with your team, but I still vividly remember putting the armband on Kane in the Huddersfiled(a) fixture last season when he was still a bit out of sorts and he scored a brace in the first 25 minutes........and then there is Cardiff at home to follow...

I have that same gut feeling this tome around

Nope - not until Moura gets dropped will I bring him in. Moura stealing Kane's space and his ability to take loads of shots.

I am in the fortunate position of having enough cash to do an Aguero to Kane hokey cokey in 8 & 9 to give me next three weeks captains

Aguero - Brighton
Kane - Cardiff
Aguero - Burnley

Seriously considering as that Cardiff fixture looks good, not convinced away at Hudd and Hammers Kane will score big though and Aguero ownership and captaincy % those week looks too frightening to gamble on Arry

City never win at Anfield. Looking at making the funds with transfers this week to do Aguero to Kane (c). Cardiff and Huddersfield are the worst teams by a mile.

Is the best move this week? I don't hear anyone talking about swapping him in for aguero for Cardiff at home while aguero goes to anfield. This would potentially only require 2 transfers and do people expect aguero to outscore Kane in that gameweek? You could monitor Kane against Huddersfield and not rip your team up and then make a one week swap for aguero to hopefully catch a big haul against Cardiff!!! I would actually be worried not having salah at home to city.

Personally I think form is irrelevant with Kane. He is a volcano - it's usually a lottery predicting when he's going to explode, you just know that he will. Which is the only reason to get him in. For £10m+ you want a player who hauls a good few times a season.

By the same token witness the way he trolled many managers in the past two seasons when up against 'inferior' opposition - that risk is the only reason to avoid him.

His form tells us nothing.

Although I really dislike that I’m going to take a hit to do it, I’ll be on Kane (c) this weekend.

Mendy and Lukaku to Yedlin (bench player) and Kane will be my moves this week.

This will act as a daisy chain to get Salah, who I don’t own, after three gameweeks (GW10) in for Kane ready for Cardiff at Anfield.

I've decided to not get him, and will therefore be hiding behind the sofa this weekend.

Great fixtures for the next few, but from 10-14 I wouldn't want him (unless him and Spurs click on a whole new level over the next 2 GW's) and would rather have Kun / Lukaku as the big hitter striker

Short terms fixtures are great? After Huddersfield they are:

Cardiff (H)
West Ham (A)
Man City (H)
Wolves (A)
Crystal Palace (A)
Chelsea (H)
Arsenal (A)

So tell me how these fixtures are great? Am I missing something?

I have wildcard to be used in this week and my original plan was Lacazette and Hazard, alongside Salah, Aguero, Maddison and Fraser, Mitro. Then i looked at the actual games in the next three, and i saw Arsenal home to Everton and Chelsea way to West ham, it changed my sentiments. Yes, Lacazette is a very good striker and doesnt nedd much of snif before he shoots but Watford, if Arsenal plys like that vs them that´s a tough match. AS you say, Kane has two, arguably three, very good fixtures and Hazard has one good (Az and i share view on the Chelsea-Liverpool game), and Richarlison also has Fulham like Lacazette, so right now, it´is Richarlison and Kane. But it implies a certain other player out, Alonso, but in my view, getting Laporte or Trippier could in this scenario be as good as Alonso. With wilcard i think this 3 games tactic with Kane can be fruitful, barring injury, and they have to be many, i can save transfers till gw9 or eventhe gw after and then make a wc to manage the fixturesswing. Kind of tired to be template but at the same time always on the wrong side of points, slipping some points every week.

There's a lot of rambling here and banging on about season's past but you need to investigate his current goal threat rather than speculating on what could be.

I need to see a big improvement in his stats before I think about investment.

Spurs have a heavy fixture list and a threadbare squad plus most agree Kane could do with a rest, also there's bound to be some sort of psychological come down from playing Barcelona to playing Cardiff. Plus in terms of the armband, city gw7 hazard gw8 is hardly a bad idea. Also if no wc then he prob has to go in gw9 to acommodate Liverpool's fixture swing. If i was free hitting this week then Kane prob first name in but as we have to manage our transfers I'm happy to avoid and hope for limited damage