Meet the Manager #16 – Tarek Balbaa

Looks good.

Not much different from what most are going with though.

Would like nice with Firmino.

Also Hanley not a good shout

You have the fortunate position to watch others make punts whilst you hold firm

No but I would try a find a way of having both.

Which other transfer would accompany it?

Hold this week imho and then decide

I am thinking going VVD to Matip to fit in KDB.

Switched to TAA

I would not have UTD defence anyways. Overated and far too much hype.

Staying away wifrom United period

Do not forget Tielemans.

F

Lanzini for me. He was unlucky not to score in his last game. Playing just behind and sometimes in front of haller at times.

Personally I'm thinking a 2 week punt on Iwobi given his form and fixtures. Will give a chance to see how Mount gets on against decent opposition and how his minutes are managed when the champions league starts.

I'm considering wildcarding in week 7 so wouldn't waste an extra transfer and I'm not too fussed about his price going up, if he's all he's cracked up to be he'll be worth the extra.

Not keen on strikers but otherwise good, like the Pepe pick

If you could make Wesley into Haller would be ace

That's what I came up with but Ota instead of Digne and Barnes instead of Wesley.

Haller

Haller atm, form and fixtures

Haller

I think Ota should be one of the first picks if you start building a WC team from scratch. But Haller is also a very good pick.

Nah! they will still score goals

I’ll give him some more time. Only one blank

Dropped him on wc. Will revist later

I think that one main problem is the number of injuries (Haller did his share) and the fact that their squad depth for the problem position is limited. Should be better soon.

Next one is MCI and he is more likely to blank than score, but not worth taking -4 only because of that.

No. stats are excellent and their attack goes through him. Scored in International play this week.

No pukkI will score loads more goals before the seasons out.

He’s not on international duty, is he?

Tough to call with Pep roulette but I say yes, he starts

No idea . Would love to have him in amid triple up with Sterling and KDB but it's a rotation risk too far.

Yes as a total guess. Just because so many of his team mates are in international squads

Fo sho.

I'd say 85% sure to start. Rested and needed for creativity.

Do you think Barnes will score more than one goal, to break even (exc potential bps)?

Id prefer Eriksen if you were in WC and believed Spurs were worth investing in.

2 penalties and a tap in. Wouldn't let that game influence your thinking too much, personally I'm still not interested although Spurs fixtures are appealing.

I have him & if he doesn’t haul v palace he’s on the thinnest of thin ice, fixtures or not

Has the fixtures to do well, but doesn't appeal to me at all. Yet

Much prefer auba, don’t think you need spurs cover

Na.

G2g, no hit

I would not do Pukki to Barnes for a hit.

No way a hit for Barnes. Over the season pukki will score more goals than Barnes imo

Cheers all

Interesting one. B right now but may have changed my mind by GW6

B is template, A could be genius

B. But I have Pepe as well. Punting.

Barnes or nothing for me

Looks good

Does Barnes and amount work?

Barnes + Lanzini

Are you sure that’s right? All three matches individually BTTS odds are under 3/1 on the exchanges - that’s a max of 27/1 in an accumulator 30/1 would be crazy odds

80/1 sounds wrong

everyone should have barnes

Possibly but if that's the case he's been trolling us since January

I’ve seen weirder things, Wood on the eye test looks good imo

Well, he's scoring goals from last half of last season tbh. Has good stats too.
I think he'll be fine

Barnes has been on fire since the back end of last season. His stats are excellent. Sure, Wood will score, but Barnes is for real

Barnes is impossible to ignore

Wilson for me

None tbh
Wilson if forced to pick one

Eriksen if he becomes a regular starter again.

Wilson easily imho

Wilson. But I don't really like any of them.

Wilson is great value - form and superb fixtures

Dunno, Ole seemed hopeful though.

Just a knock apparently so I would think so.

I sold him this week. Spurs look disjointed. He looks like a DCM player that happens to have penalties.

If you noticed he was always up top for England, he hasn't been playing that position for spurs, he's been playing to deep for long periods of the game for spurs until that changes I'll give him a miss even though I had him for nearly most of the season last year.

Why Nketiah over Greenwood?

Lovely team

Well balanced team. Could always do KDB for pepe sometime in the future if need be.

Nice
Son Greenwood for Eriksen Nketiah for me

Cracking team. Eriksen is a good decision.

Could do very well

But I’d be trying to upgrade Mane to Salah (penalties & selfishness will continue to keep Mo firmly ahead of Mane’s open play contributions, as it has done for a few seasons now)

And Wilson would be one source of funding - Barnes, Pukki, Jimmy all offer as much if not more than Callum

Also not a fan of Dunky Dunkster but maybe he’s a rotation with Soyuncu & Lawton?

A palace defender may be better with their fixtures

Amazeballs!

Do it.

Nah, give Kane the palace game. Just replace Trossard

Yeah, do that.

Will Stones score more points this season than VVD or TAA. I would rather use Stones to upgrade Wickham to someone like Ayew.

Just saying...

Sh*t, you will be short of cash to upgrade Wicham using stones.

Will Barnes score more points than TAA this season if you used him to upgrade Wickam?

Great team.

TAA and Digne. Find the money.

If you go A, you will want to get TAA in afterwards.

So happy I went with TAA from the start 🙂

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Mount.