The Numbers Game – Swansea City

Second that question..

Get Dawson, avoid Foster.

Never even thought about getting one this season.

Me, they were shocking last season and many teams have improved their attacks. Just can't see them improving defensively.

On Dawson at the mo. Good fixtures so hoping for some attacking returns. Not convinced defensively so Foster hit the scrap heap

WBA : BOU 182 bur -62 STK 211 bri -155 WHM 102 ars -418 WAT 330

Two light blues and a dark blue.

End of Season:

WBA : BUR 306 SWA 262 mun -312 LIV -146 new -138 TOT -306 cpl 55

BUR and SWA may be their last chance to stave off relegation.

They don't concede many goals, so last season it may have been unlucky that they didn't keep clean sheets.

There's just so much more options in defence now that going with a Brom player is unnecessary

They will defend well but based on pre-season and last season they seem to find a way to concede atleast one goal every game! So avoiding Foster for that reason but think Dawson is still a good option with his attacking returns.

They got 11 clean sheets the previous season and 16 the season before that. 6 was very low and they conceded 1 goal quite a few times. Fancy them to get at least a couple of cleanies from the first seven plus a goal or two each for Dawson and McCauley. Not a bad return at all for £5m. Their fixtures are much better than say bournemouth, Watford and stoke.

Foster + Myhill is great value. That's the best way of getting 4.5 / 4.0 combo. I hate spending on Keepers.

WBA defenders essential? I think having no WBA defenders is essential 😀

Would like Dawson but he likes yellow cards at bit too much

I had a substantial pre-season bet on them conceding less than 50 goals two years ago at odds of 3/1 after doing research on Pulis Teams. I won the bet by 2 goals.

Last year they were on similar figures but had such a good season they were safe before March time. Have a look how many clean-sheets they kept from March onwards (Hint: not many).

A Tony Pulis team is by far the best 4.5 budget offer whoever the nailed on player is. In this case, Foster.

It's funny how perceptions can take hold.

West Brom were amazing two years ago, but 6 clean sheets last season is terrible. Despite this, their fixtures and pricing is great, so I'm currently on foster and Dawson.

If you ignore that it's WBA and just look at the fixtures you would be interested.

Anyone north of the bottom 4 with a 4.5 keeper and people would be looking at rotation pairs

Losing Fletcher must surely be a blow, he organised that midfield. With those fixtures it seems wise to get a 4.5-5m option though.

Dawson obviously has an attacking threat so I was leaning towards him. However, I was checking the new "Minutes per Baseline BPS" variable in the members tables and Dawson is the worst defender in the whole league that played considerable minutes, also 10 yellow cards is pretty off-putting.

Are there better options in the West Brom defence?

At the moment my whole team is dependent on how confident I am with my WBA picks. Feel like I'll either triple up (Foster, Dawson, Rodriguez) or go without entirely. Foster could be great value but I like de Gea as a route into the United defence. Dawson has goal threat but at £5m needs more clean sheets. Rodriguez could be great value, might even get double figure goals for £6m but injury prone and the Baggies don't like to score goals.

WBA as a team always look to defend first, last season they didn't do that very well. Lots of old players and a thin squad with a few injuries who didn't look hugely motivated towards the end of last season. Increasingly talking myself out of having their players.

Hey Jonty. Interested to hear your thoughts on Kane. You going with him from the start?

Haha

It'll help.

You know it will.

It will wont' it?

I'm curious to hear about it too

He is good - just unlucky apparently.

He is 29, not 50. Can have at least three-four good years.

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Who would Keita 'set free' for a mere 70m?

I used to like you Berbs 😉

That's like buying a 4m enabler in defence so that we can get our premium 8.9m pick up front

We're addressing the positions that needs to be berbs while you lot have brought in Solanke and a full back that was relegated with Hull.. you can't complete deals for Keita or Van Dijk and your best player is bound for Barcelona if not this year then next..

I'd be more looking closer to home mate

Sure it helps Pogba, but much happier that it makes United's defense stronger! Imagine the size of the bus Jose can park now with Fellaini - Carrick - Matic in midfield!

proven PL who has had won more tackles than any United or Chelsea midfielder since 2014/15. No risk either because he wont take a season to adapt. him and lukaku are great buys. pogba will have the freedom to cause havoc now.. i would say in this day n age that is a quality signing.

This sounds like a post by someone who doesn't know how football works.

lol@HT

This comes across as extremely salty. I'm an Arsenal fan and even I would admit that it's a great signing for United, they've lacked a proper DM for a while now (Carrick doesn't count) and Pogba would presumably be able to raid further forward.

pogba moving forward will benefit lukaku?

or steal away his points?

Love your anti Pogba stance. We'll both probably laugh at it after 5 years.

35m for a proven Dm who has good 3-4yrs left in him.

This enables Jose to play 4-3-3 which allows Pogba to play in his natural position i.e., as a box to box midfielder.

Positionally it might help Pogba. Even more so it might help Herrera.

Hmm first of all 35mn for a still 28 year old unless you follow aussie time :p

He will give Pogba more of licesnce to freely roam in between CM and Striker. He hit woodwork far too many times last season. With less of defensive responsibilities he may just the chances in this time :)...Plus with matic being good at throughballs which his 8 assists also show from last season, Pogba and Lukaku gonna have great seasons in all likelihood...

And its fine you Liv fan...Many have hangups still with that rivalry...Its city neighbours which are more of threat now compared to the old powerhouse of 1990s....Each to its own...I just care for Manutd to keep others off the perch 🙂

By that I assume you mean more prolific? Pogba is already getting into dangerous positions but for some reason his rate of goals/assists is poor. Some players just seem to have that steely knack in front of goal, make the correct decisions and don't signpost their intentions to the keeper/defenders. Pogba hasn't demonstrated any of those skills to any great degree so far so yeah the jury is out on whether Matic will make a difference....we shall see.

Isn't he 28?

I don't know how this became a hot topic but you have to respect that its an up vote game. Well done boys its a team effort

Haha

a year on and this whole thread makes me smile