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Almiron an unproven FPL prospect but brings goals and assists to Newcastle

Last Monday evening saw the Premier League debut of Miguel Almiron (£6.0m), Newcastle United’s club-record signing and a potentially exciting differential option for Fantasy managers in the final third of the season.

The Paraguayan midfielder, who joined the Magpies from Atlanta United on a five-and-a-half-year deal in January, played the final 18 minutes of Newcastle’s 1-1 draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers and looked sprightly in his brief cameo, creating a late chance for Ayoze Perez (£6.1m) and demonstrating his lightning pace and dribbling ability in what little pitch-time he was afforded.

Almiron is an all-the-more intriguing midfield option given that Newcastle sit top of our Season Ticker for the rest of the season, meeting only two of the “big six” in the remaining 13 Gameweeks.

The Magpies are also guaranteed a fixture in the Blank Gameweeks of 27 and 31.

The History

Almiron was born in Asuncion in February 1994 and, after being rejected by Nacional at the age of 14 (concerns about his slight physicality remain to this day), the talented attacking midfielder progressed through the youth system and into the senior set-up at Paraguayan club Cerro Porteno.

After 39 Primera Division appearances, five league goals and two domestic titles, the-then 21-year-old Almiron departed for Argentinean club Lanus in August 2015.

Almiron only hit three goals in 35 league appearances for Lanus but was instrumental in their 2016 Primera Division win, before departing for Major League Soccer in December 2016.

It was with Atlanta United that Almiron’s goal involvement statistics started to warrant attention.

In his debut season in MLS, Almiron scored on nine occasions and set up a further eight goals in 30 league appearances.

The Paraguay international bettered those totals in his sophomore campaign, scoring 12 goals and registering 13 assists in 32 MLS appearances.

Almiron also scored in the MLS Cup Playoff quarter-finals, going on to help Atlanta to victory in that competition in his final match with the club.

Newcastle’s January window signing was named in the MLS XI in both the 2017 and 2018 seasons.

According to Who Scored, Almiron ranked second for goal attempts in the 2018 MLS season and joint-eighth for key passes.

The Paraguay international also sat joint-third for accurate corner-kick deliveries and fourth for dribbles attempted.

Almiron’s final goal for Atlanta was a free-kick against New York City FC in December 2018, while he also scored five penalties for the MLS club during his time there.

The Quotes

Rafael Benitez:

We were following Miguel Almiron for a while, and we saw a player with some pace in attack, who can play behind the striker. We have someone who can score goals and give assists.

His impact in MLS has been really good – he’s been one of the best players this year – and hopefully he can give us more competition and more quality in the final third.

Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino, current Mexico coach and former manager of Almiron at Atlanta:

Miguel has a commitment to the team, I’m talking about his commitment to winning the ball back, pressing, he’s a player that’s always working.

He’s an atypical number ten. Because he gives you everything that a number ten gives you and he probably dispossesses players like a defensive midfielder.

So as a player who always works hard, he’s never absent in a game, even a game where your team isn’t dominating the offensive facet of the game.

Warren Barton, ex-Newcastle defender and current pundit based in America:

I think he can do well at Newcastle. You can rotate him a little bit and he can play on the right or the left, but I think he wants to be in the middle. He’s not like a Keith Gillespie-type of winger, someone who will knock the ball forward and run.

I think he’ll be ideal for us if we have two holding midfielders who can get the ball to him as quickly as possible and then he can be that link between the midfield and the forward.

He’s someone who can drop in a little bit when we haven’t got the ball but when we do have it, we can give it to him and he can try to make things happen. That’s where I see him fitting in.

The Prospects

For all the arresting attacking statistics and appetite-whetting YouTube compilations, so much is still uncertain about Almiron as a player and his ability to cut the mustard in the Premier League.

Understandable (and perhaps snobbish) caution surrounds any import from a league such as MLS: for every success story such as Clint Dempsey, there is a Jozy Altidore (who admittedly arrived in the Premier League via a circuitous tour of Europe).

Almiron’s ability to compete in physical leagues in South America is a positive sign, however, as was his determination to get stuck in at Molineux on Monday – even if he did rather milk a couple of robust Wolves tackles.

Almiron’s first challenge is to break into the Newcastle starting XI, which is by no means a certainty in Gameweek 27 given that Benitez has named an unchanged team for the last five league matches in a row.

The man Almiron replaced on his debut, Christian Atsu (£5.1m), looks to be the player most at risk from the Paraguayan midfielder’s arrival on Tyneside.

Almiron mostly played as a central number ten for Atlanta during his two years in North America but, as a left-footer, would seem just as ideally suited to Atsu’s current role in Benitez’s now-favoured 3-4-2-1.

Atsu has shown plenty of industry and fleeting glimpses of skill over the last two months, starting all but one of Newcastle’s last 11 Premier League matches.

A lack of end product blights the Ghanaian winger’s game, however, and he is without a goal or assist in 2018/19.

Perez, the man that Almiron would seem likely to play alongside just behind Salomon Rondon (£5.7m), has only four goal involvements all season, meanwhile.

Newcastle’s lack of goals this campaign might give Almiron’s prospects of a first Premier League start a boost, particularly with more “winnable” games ahead and the need to take three points from teams such as Huddersfield Town (United’s opponents next weekend) to stave off the very real threat of relegation.

The Magpies are the second-lowest scorers in the Premier League this season, having hit the back of the net on only 22 occasions in 26 matches.

United have scored just 13 goals in 16 fixtures against sides outside of the top six in 2018/19.

Newcastle sit bottom for shots in the box this season, while only two clubs have registered fewer attempts on target and big chances.

It is asking a lot for Almiron to single-handedly improve those figures or indeed score a hatful of FPL points in a side that has such a defence-first mindset as Benitez’s Newcastle outfit.

Nevertheless, he has arrived on English soil at just the right time to enter the mid-price midfield debate, with Newcastle’s fixtures appealing for the rest of 2018/19.

Almiron would particularly seem suited in matches when Newcastle are content to soak up pressure (i.e. away games), with his pace and dribbling ideal for swift counter-attacks.

The Paraguayan’s arrival could also boost the appeal of Salomon Rondon(£5.7m), who so often subsides on scraps but who could benefit from the creativity of Almiron behind/to the left of him.

The first impressions of Almiron in a Newcastle shirt – and the footage of him playing for Atlanta – suggested a ‘Hatem Ben Arfa with a work ethic’-type character.

Time will tell if he can make a similar step up to the Premier League as the mercurial Frenchman did but the comparative dearth of attractive £6.0m-and-under midfield options in FPL makes him a very exciting prospect.

382 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Twisted Saltergater
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Anyone know why comments are disabled on this article?

    https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2019/02/13/fools-goal-the-clean-sheet-crapshoot/

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Even the mods have left ffs.

  2. HurriKane
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Almiron's face in this article gives me the creep o.o

    1. Mysterion
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      It's those brows...

      1. Mysterion
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Someone should photoshop Studge in between like this https://i.imgur.com/TACc7KG.jpg

  3. thepirates
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    How would you say I am prepared for dwg and bgw with this team and what long term charges would you make? With current team i hade 0 FT. Got all chips intact.

    Alisson
    Doherty - Robertson - AWB
    Salah - Pogba - Son - Felipe A
    Jimmy - Rashford - Auba

    Speroni, Digne, Bednarek, Camarasa

    1. Dammed Utd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Read all available articles on fantasy football scout and pray

  4. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hope Brighton win today, if they go through they'll have Cardiff (H) and Southampton (H) in DGW32

    1. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      no guarantee, CAR can be played in 35 with che game in GW32

      1. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Unlikely but yeah that is a possibility

    2. Dammed Utd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Predications for today’s FA cup games .......

      Brighton 2 -1 Derby

      Wimbledon 1-1 Millwall

      Newport 0 - 8 Man City

      Folk don’t forgot NBA all star weekend tune in

    3. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      I want them & Chelsea to loose.

  5. Headless
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    'sophomore campaign'? Or his second season?
    Apologies Rigga, but this really grated.

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      It's regarding the MLS, to be fair.

      1. Headless
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Sign of the times i guess.

    2. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Serial lurker in the house!

      1. Headless
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        More an Intruder in the dirt

    3. Skonto Rigga
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Campaign = because I'd used "season" one sentence before that.

      Sophomore = because I felt like being pretentious.

      1. Ruth_NZ
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Not really pretentious seeing that you were referring to a player in MLS.

  6. Azathoth
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    The useless information of the day : Almiron in greek means salty....

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      It's fate that I buy him.

  7. Lionel Ronaldo
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Inside Top 7k and all chips to go.

    Realistic expected final O.R?

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      2nd.

    2. Dammed Utd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Speak English boy

      1. Lionel Ronaldo
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        What part of what I said doesn't look English to you?

        1. Dammed Utd
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Sorry mate what was you asking did not understand the question my fault

          1. Lionel Ronaldo
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            I don't need advice from someone who speaks English as such:

            - "Predications for today’s FA cup games"
            - "who’s your team"
            - "He is cool player"
            - "unless your doubling up in defence"
            - "Your screwed if you have used your wild card"
            - "Us Llorente owners"

            1. Dammed Utd
              • 11 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Give you the Fa Cup predications than your on your own

              Brighton 2 - Derby 1

              Newport 0 - 8 Man City 8

              Wimbledon 1-1 Millwall

              1. Lionel Ronaldo
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                Can't even write scores properly. We badly need a mute function on here.

                1. Comment removed. Please refer to our terms and conditions on posting comments.

                  1. G-Whizz
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • Has Moderation Rights
                    • 6 Years
                    5 years, 1 month ago

                    Keep it civil guys 😉

                2. Dammed Utd
                  • 11 Years
                  5 years, 1 month ago

                  Go do your own Fa Cup predications and start thinking for yourself your a big boy now

    3. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      top 10k

      1. Lionel Ronaldo
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        So actually a net fall in rank? Harsh

    4. jwong23
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      1k to 100k

    5. tisza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      depends how you play it.
      Stick to top 10k template and pick the most popular captain each week and you'll probably get in top 5k.
      you're about 50 pts off top 1k so a bit more maverick and you can drop 5k or get into top 1k.

      1. Lionel Ronaldo
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Agreed. Cheers!

    6. Poseidon.
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      I’m only a few k ahead of you. Think we’re good to go for top 1k

    7. Goat
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Go maverick. I was coming 3k and played too safe. Down to 39k now but still have all chips. 10k still the target

      1. Richd
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Disagree. Look at Joe.

        Play safe and you won’t drop

    8. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      If you are winning a game 1-0 With 30 minutes to go what is the final score?

      Depends how well you play.

      1. G-Whizz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        This

    9. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      122k

  8. sirmorbach
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Lads, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

    What would you do with this lot, having 2 ft and 2.4 itb?

    Fabianski / Guaita
    TAA / Pereira / Doherty / Duffy / Wan-Bissaka
    Salah / Son / Sané / Fraser / Camarasa
    Aubameyang / Rashford / Jimenez

    Would you do

    A. Auba, Camarasa out / Firmino, Pogba in
    B. Auba, Camarasa out / Barnes, Pogba in / upgrade defence later
    C. Sané out / Pogba in / Auba out, Kun in next week
    D. Something else?

    I really don't know what to do and I feel you're much better at this than I am. I'd love some help.

    1. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      C

      1. sirmorbach
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Cheers, mate! Always helpful. Appreciate it.

  9. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    1-0. Rondon (Yedlin A)

    1. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Yedlin wagon

    2. Fantasy Gold
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Huh?

    3. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Robbo to Yedlin
      &
      Auba to Rondon for -8 done !!

      1. Fantasy Gold
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Who are Newcastle playing or is this an inside joke

        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          They are playing a friendly match mate.

          1. Fantasy Gold
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Oh I see. Thanks 🙂

  10. Now I'm Panicking
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Is the picture of Jesus in drag just after he took his wig off?

  11. Hog Roast Junkie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Would you do Firmino to Arnie for free? Think they may score similar over the coming weeks and would free up funds

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      no

  12. Fantasy Gold
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Apart from Liverpool, who else is guaranteed to have no blanks?

    1. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      lei, hud and bou I think

      1. Fantasy Gold
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        West Ham? Newcastle?

        1. Holmes
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          not sure, someone said they may have a blank in 33

        2. Holmes
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          WHM I mean. NEW is probably safe

    2. Goat
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Man city

    3. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Bournemouth
      Leister
      Hudds
      Burnley

      1. Fantasy Gold
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Cheers Amey

  13. Citytilidie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Burnley as well I believe

    1. fr3d
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

  14. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Ozil:

    'When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.'

    1. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Translation:

      “I’m on 350K so jog on Unai

    2. Fantasy Gold
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Or somewhere where they pay you £350k a week to call in sick every day and play Fortnite instead

    3. Poseidon.
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      That is rubish. I started supporting Utd because of the trophies 100%. It’s a club who’s ambition matches my own

    4. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      true that, thats why I dont support anyone...

    5. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      He means nobody will offer him same wages 😀
      It's kinda early retirement for him + playing once in a while for fun.

      (Similar to Sanchez 😀 )

    6. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Does he support Arsenal?

  15. Holmes
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Almiron having fun! 😆

    https://twitter.com/NUFC/status/1096736074058076160

    1. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      😀

    2. Mysterion
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      😀 this lad is permanently flabbergasted, same way Jesus is always on the verge of bursting into tears

  16. Toblerone52 - Zlatan Ibra-H…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Brighton are there for the taking with that lineup!

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      just like every other week

  17. Scotty B
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Rondon is a no brainer for the rest of the season as a 3rd striker isn't he with those fixtures?

    1. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      He might be very useful for the blanks yes.

    2. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Barnes & Rondon are great options right now

      1. Twisted Saltergater
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        only if you're planning to FH in DGW32. I think it's worth caveating that.

        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Yes i am.
          And kamara to Barnes is on the cards when i save a FT.

      2. potatoace
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Impossible to ignore

        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          😉

    3. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      He's 1m more than Shane Long 😉

    4. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      no brainer if you like strikers who dont score goals for teams who dont create chances

  18. Holmes
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    BRI XI: Button, Bruno, Duffy, Burn, Bernardo, Kayal, Stephens, Bissouma, Knockaert, Locadia, Jahanbakhsh

  19. Scotty B
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    West Ham about a blank in 31& 33 don't they?

    1. fr3d
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Look up Ben crellin on twitter. There’s everything you need to know about blanks/doubles for the rest of the season

    2. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      If man beat Che, yes

  20. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hi guys I know it’s early how’s this team for next week looking?? Input welcomed thankyou in advance fellas....
    Fabianski
    Robertson Doherty Kolasinac Perreira
    Salah Pogba Hayden
    Aubameyang(C) Jiménez(VC) Rashford
    Subs- Steele Bednarek Siggy Sterling

    1. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Very good team.
      If you have a FT I'd look to move on Siggy.
      Everton are not the same right now.
      Just a suggestion

      1. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Siggy will be first to go next week mate i used free granite
        Move TAA to Perreira so I can get an extra Liverpool attacker going forward

        1. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          *free transfer

        2. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Good move imo.
          GL 🙂

          1. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Cheers mate best wishes to you and your team too mate

  21. FPL Pillars
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    go on Brighton, beat derby for us!

    1. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      This!

  22. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Who are our triple Brighton which seems like a must if they win in FA cup?

    1. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      If I were to take three it would be
      March, Duffy , Murray

    2. Mysterion
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Ryan Duffy Gross

    3. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Duffy, Murray, Locadia

    4. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Ryan, Gross, Murray

    5. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      meh

  23. potatoace
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Jack Simpson on the verge of a price rise. He must be a product of all the freehits being played this week, surely

  24. royals forever
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Which BGW player would you sell first and why?

    Richarlison
    B Sliva

    Any ideas would be welcomed

    1. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Tough one.
      Prob rich, but he is more likely to have a gw31 fixture.

    2. Je suis le chat
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      I'd bin both for - 4.

    3. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Richa
      Because he plays for lackluster Everton team.
      B Silva is nailed starter atm in city team as pep is singing his praise.
      Can move him on after 3 gw's before gw31

  25. pakornk
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    why is Vardy not talked about more from now to gw31?

    1. Je suis le chat
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      We're keeping schtum about a prospect.

    2. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Didn’t even start the last game

    3. Mysterion
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      8.8m

      1. Amey
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        + out of favor with manager

        1. Mysterion
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          True... similar problem with Maddison keeps getting subbed early

          1. Amey
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Yep

    4. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      if he scores once he will be

  26. Karan14
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Fab
    Robbo • Doherty • AWB
    Salah • Haz • Pogba • Son • Jota
    Rashford • Jimènez

    (Button / TAA / Digne / Kamara)
    2 Fts

    A) Digne to Periera/Kola/Yedlin (Bench Haz)

    B) Haz & Kamara to Auba & Puncheon

    In both cases I have enough money to upgrade Son to Sterling from GW28 onwards.
    Spurs fixtures between GW28-32 (che, ARS, sou, CRY/blank, liv).

    1. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      B for me mate

      1. Karan14
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Auba certainly looks a good option for the next 2.

        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Yep

          1. Karan14
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Think i just have to get him otherwise ill be stuck with Hazard for ever.

            The thing I like about Auba is that I have a route to a premium striker if and when needed.

            1. Amey
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Yeah.
              Kun is easier to get.
              Agreed

              1. Karan14
                • 7 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                Maybe a downgrade to Higuain from GW29 could be fruitful as well.

                1. Amey
                  • 5 Years
                  5 years, 1 month ago

                  😮
                  Yep.
                  Chelsea playing gw31 + dgw 32 (Brighton fixture) would be dream 😉

  27. Richd
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    The teams we have to “fill up on” are just damn awful for GW31. Makes me wanna spew I don’t wanna remove United city and wolves assets for that junk

    1. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      6-7 players will do the job if no more games added

      1. Richd
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        You say that but if you go in with under XI you’re wasting potential value. Having XI in a week is more valuable than DGWers as they are generally more “nailed”

        It’s a really tough decision.

        If we can somehow keep City, and a miracle happens it would be a lot better.

        1. Holmes
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          If it was the last GW of the season, then I would have agreed that we are wasting potential value but when it will have impact our selection before and after that GW, then I cant see much value.

          You can go for 11 in GW31, WC in 32, FH in 33, TC/BB in 35

          Thats probably the only strategy where all areas are covered.

    2. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Same here mate I have so much value ties up in Jiménez Doherty Pogba and Rashford the only striker spot I would give is Aubameyang to Vardy or King I think

      1. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        *tied

    3. Karan14
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Leicester, Bou & West Ham have decent options. But certainly not teams I want to load up on and sell my inform players.

    4. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Yep.
      I have 5 players atm.
      In worse case scenario (Every PL going through & Chelsea going through) will get 4 more players for
      Jota,kiko,Awb,kamara + 1.3m i have itb with 4 FT.

      Playing FH in gw32 & gw 33 should be easy, then going to WC in gw 34.
      (Hopefully this works 😉 )

      1. Karan14
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Similar plan to mine. Only problem is I want use one of those 4 Fts to get a City player in GW28 who will most likely blank in 31 but im sure will score more points than most player up till GW31.

        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Yeah agreed.
          Same here with Auba to Kun plan.

          1. Karan14
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Do you plan to move Auba straight after GW27 though?

            He has a good fixture against Bou at home in GW28.
            Then Kun has an away game in GW29 and hes not good away from home.

            1. Amey
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Not decided yet.
              Bournemouth is better fixture tbh.
              Will see how he plays against Southampton & will decide.
              I'll © him again against Bournemouth if i keep him.
              Rival doesn't have him so he's my differential 😉

              1. Karan14
                • 7 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                Yup if getting Auba makes sense to hold him for those 2 games.

                Think captaincy decision is close this week too between Son & Auba.

                1. Amey
                  • 5 Years
                  5 years, 1 month ago

                  Yep.

    5. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      This.
      Building a decent team (without chips) for gw31 is going to be tough. The players you need to move on to makeway are likely ones you will lose a lot of investment on.

      I'm beginning to wonder if the effort is worth it. A better tactic would be to plan for dgw32 and chip through 31. The only fly in that ointment (and it's a big one) is we have no clue yet on dgw32 landscape.

      All, in all Im beginning to think there will be little yield from all this planning compared to instead casually doing nothing and just freehitting. The likelyhood is you will alresdy own a large portion of players needed to navigate dgw32

      1. Karan14
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Agreed with this too. I will potentially have more DGW32 players in my team than GW31 blank players till then.

      2. EMBOLOFAN
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        enjoy gw 33

        1. potatoace
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Maybe. How many teams we be back in the game after fa cup R6 though. There will be more to choose from , and lots of gw31 crap to get rid of.
          I will potentially have 2fts to work on that. The most a freehitter gw32 manager will have is 1ft.

    6. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      didnt realise you could fill 15 slots with top 4 players

      1. Richd
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        I’m heavily invested in top players and “value players” imo

        Ederson
        TAA Doherty AWB Laselles Valery
        Sterling Salah Son Pogba Puncheon
        Aguero Jiminez Rashford

        Really there’s very few I’d want to sub out and I feel it’s very template?

        1. Richd
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          I don’t really wanna break up the front 7 and then players like AWB and Doherty have been insane value.

          Just seems crud to break it up

        2. EMBOLOFAN
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          depends how much you have tied up in each of these. but sterling/son and aguero will have to massively overperform vs XGI to outscore mane and vardy (for example) in 3 games (28/29/30) vs their 6 games (27/28/29/30/31/33). im assuming youll fh 32 anyway.

          at least planning to downgrade ederson to schmeichel + upgrading lasc to chillwell towards the end isnt bad imo

          1. EMBOLOFAN
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            + you can always get them back with wc right after

          2. EMBOLOFAN
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            leicester v newcastle defence:

            4th big chances conceded vs 19th
            5th for total shots conceded vs 15th
            5th for mins xGA vs 17th

            perr better attacking returns than any newc defender

  28. John Nerdelbaum
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Thoughts on the below?

    Can do the obvious Digne > Pereira move but intrigued by a move for a Newcastle defender which should pay back instantly as Huddersfield are complete gash

    Digne > Schar/Lascalles would give me 1.6m which is short of enabling Kamara > Jimenez but could allow an upgrade of Hojbjerg.

    Fab
    TAA Doherty AWB Bednarek
    Salah Son Pogba Hojbjerg
    Auba Rashford

    xx/Digne/Sterling/Kamara 1.2m ITB

    1. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Go for Newcastle Defender.
      Having kamara & hojbjerg is not ideal IMO

      1. John Nerdelbaum
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        ta

    2. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      digne > perr

      you know its right, just do it

      1. John Nerdelbaum
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        over a Magpie def?

        1. EMBOLOFAN
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          all day. individually better in attack, as a team better defensively and have better fixtures

          1. EMBOLOFAN
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            leicester v newcastle defence:

            4th big chances conceded vs 19th
            5th for total shots conceded vs 15th
            5th for xGA90 vs 17th

            per better attacking returns than any newc defender

            1. John Nerdelbaum
              • 11 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              thanks embolofan 🙂

  29. Karan14
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Anyone thinking of selling Rashford for Auba?

    Or is that madness?

    1. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      If you've not got lots of value tired up then maybe. Don't want to be priced out when you'll want him back

      1. Karan14
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        I dont have too much value tied up in him.
        But all this revolves around keeping Haz which im not sure is even a good idea.

        1. potatoace
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          I'd forget hazard . All he brings is pain and suffering

          1. potatoace
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Ps, I've still not forgiven you for knocking me out of Epics world cup 🙂

            1. Karan14
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Agreed on that mate. Ive owned him since GW4 and ive been left frustrated more often than not even though ive manged to catch all his big hauls.

              Haha sorry about that mate ive not been keeping up with that tournamnet. Hopefully im still in it.

    2. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      why would you do this

  30. Riders of Yohan
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Any thoughts on this team? 1FT & £2.6m ITB

    Fabianksi / button
    Robertson / luiz / digne / bennet / AWB
    Salah / sterling / pogba / son / hoijberg
    Rashford / jiminez / mitrovic

    Get rid of digne, luiz or mitrovic?

    Do I need to get in auba or aguero?

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      digne > per is fine