This evening’s Members article takes a look over the action in Sunday’s Community Shield showdown between Arsenal and City. Having assessed Alexis Sanchez’ display our lunchtime Technical Area post, we delve into the data to discover for any hints of form ahead of the weekend Gameweek 1 deadline.
Highly over paying
Jim White @JimWhite 13m
Just heard that striker Shane Long is on the move again. £12m fee agreed to take him from Hull City to Southampton. #saintsfc #hcafcOpen Controls
Wtf?
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Screw you! 😉
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and what will 12m buy him 5 days before the season starts?
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£12m is why.
Open ControlsI doubt he wants to sell him but £12m for a player he payed £5m for 6 months ago and didn't exactly have a great season
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looks like soton made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
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Long's not doing too bad out of it either - and he frees up his Thursday evenings
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6 million striker @ Soton... yay! bojan escape plan
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The world has gone crazy
12 million for that donkey who likes to put it aboutOpen Controls
Anyone else worried not to own a 10+ million midfielder?
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No. Value all around 8-10 range.
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Krul or Foster?
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A) Fellaini
B) Fletcher
C) can't wait to be done with preseasonOpen Controls
Quick poll:
A: Dzeko, Fabregas, Lovren
B: Costa, Tadic, WardOpen Controls
Whic one would u choose?
A) giroud and lukaku
or
B) Diego costa and bojanOpen Controls
Which player outside of the big six, and Everton, have you spent the most money on?
Riviere for me.Open Controls
Rooney.
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I've got Mata DDG and Rooney
Open ControlsOh yes. All highly amusing. I really should have known better.
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Any regulars know whether the Metro game is available this year? Can't find it?
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Costa Rooney Sturridge teams...share yours here please?
Krul Elliot
Caulker Clyne Kelly Wisdom Moore
Ramsey Silva Eriksen Hendo Marney
Costa Rooney SturridgeOpen ControlsI do like that just hate having dead weight in the team though.
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Like it, if you earn extra money from your midfield or forwards you can spend that on your defence
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DDG Gilks
Cahill Ward Chester Ferdinand Duff
Ramsey Eriksen Siggie Yound Davis
Roo Costa StudgeOpen Controls
Am I safe with F.Luis, B.Davies, Lovren and Debuchy?
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So Southampton is looking more and more like Feyenoord.
They needed someone to play off of Pelle with JRod out, Long fills that gap nicely.Open Controls
Wisdom starting % chance?
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So seems like the only constant in the chelsea defence during preseason is Ivanovic ? Tempted to fprk out 0.5 more to upgrade Cahill to him
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I'm starting to go off Chelsea defs for initial gw. there is too much uncertainty, no one could say who will start for certain at gk, cb, rb or lb! the expense messes with the rest of your team and you could end up with 6+mil on the bench! I can't see the prices of any particular def going anywhere over :first couple of games so unless we hear anything solid I'm considering starting to build a team w/o Chelsea defs
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Ivanovic less nailed than Cahill I reckon. Only doubt in back four for me is between him and Azpi.
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So if Rojo signs for Utd what happens ? Shaw LB Rojo LWB
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Rojo at CB
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It should be a fascinating battle of minds on Saturday. Two immensely experienced managers go head to head.
Louis Van Gaal V Garry Monk.Open Controls
Nice to see Southampton making good deals with the money they made off selling all their talent 😆
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just saw your comment re attacking rotation. No it doesn't.
Teams show an extreme tendency to keep cleanies at home, against inferior oppositon. No such "extreme" trends are shown by forwards ( matches against top 4 teams excluded, the comment specifically mentioned "16" teams)Open ControlsPlus the team they scored against, plus their own team is 18, so it was easily mistaken for only 2 teams that they supposedly couldn't score against. Really there is hardly any difference between the validity of defensive and attacking rotation, it's just that one costs far more than the other, so is usually far less useful, but with Siggy/Bojan, I'd say it is more viable than having 1 7 priced player and a non starter. Sorry my response so rude, just seeing lots of things on this site that I don't agree with tonight.
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So, do u still starting with Hazard?
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Who seems to be the starting goaly for chelsea?
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I'd say Curtois, i'm super serial.
Open ControlsCurrently on this front 8:
Hazard - Silva - Mata - Ramsey - S.Davis
Rooney - Jovetic - AustinOpen ControlsOk Mr.Gore, do you think thata cech and courtois will rotate or do you think courtois will be the league keeper and cech will be the cup keeper?
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Hi guys, little help please if you would?
A. Evans Caulker + Chester
B. F.Luis Chamber + Ferdinand
Cheers.Open Controls
Can't wait to see which players are bandwagons are GW1
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@evilkagawa 1m
After game Gaal say to Fellaine "Thank you for goal and goodbye." All team laugh! Except Cleverley, he no laugh. He next! 😆Open Controlsreally doesn't make me laugh anymore this account 🙁
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Has anyone got a link to somewhere with expected starting lineups for each team?
Open ControlsReally unsure about Utd defense mow. DDG to Speroni? Don't have Ward.
Open Controlswho did Sevilla beat in EL final?
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yes but not enough to warrant getting him i think
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Was nailed on 3 4 3 then looked at the quality of mids and changed to 3 5 2 , following the masses went back to 3 4 3....aaaarghhhh
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