We delve into the Gameweek 5 data this evening in our first members article of the week. Wayne Rooney’s new role for United comes under analysis, as do Burnley and Leicester’s displays up front, whilst a couple of north London-based frontmen are also placed under the microscope after their contrasting weekend performances.
Costa is the perfect striker for Mourinho
Yes ... one that actually kicks goals is always a blessing for the gaffer.
He's a perfect fit. Once again he showed everyone he's the best manager in the world.
I have tried to hate him, but you have to respect the wiley old dog don't you ... just knows how to play a season! Chelsea deserve the league this year, at this stage at least!
Indeed. A brutish and relentless striker who also has aerial ability and skill. He'd be a great forward in any team but his persona fits like a hand in a glove in a Mourinho team
Agree. Killer attitude as well.
Naismith dropped to 5.5m.
🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
😕 should've msde my transfer
No surprise there really. People were getting rid of him as if he was the plague in the last 36 hours.
That's a big drop for his owners, who lose 0.1 selling value now. Glad I got rid for Ulloa before their respective price changes. Basically earned myself 0.2 already.I hope I could do that move, but 0.1m short yesterday.
AR, you're up! Whats the news? Gimme Gimme Gimme!
there you go! 🙂
Anyone else tempted to get Lukaku in? Playing Liverpool and Man Utd next 2 fixtures whose defences look all over the shop not to mention he is fixture proof.
Always scores against liverpool
I'd wait an extra week ... the derby can go either way. Agree about playing him against Man United though!
Yeah I considered it. He ALWAYS scores against us
Any palace fans here? What's the situation with Zaha? Is he likely to get starts under warnock?
Short answer is he is not assured of starts, yet. Unfortunately.
Risers: Welbeck, Wisdom, Naylor, Schneiderlin, Pelle
Fallers: A lot, namely Mata and NaismithLennon, Hoilett, Upson, Wilkinson, Odemwingie, Tremmel, Vlaar, Anita, Lowton, Williams, Aluko, Boyata, Berahino, Besic, and Gamboa (other fallers)
Risers: Welbeck Pelle Schneiderlin Naylor Wisdom
Fallers: Naismith Mata Lennon Hoilett Upson Wilkinson Odemwingie Tremmel Vlaar Anita Lowton J Williams Aluko Boyata Berahino Besic GamboaNaismith 🙁
🙁 Pelle and Welbeck rise and Naismith drops...
🙁 🙁
Welbeck was miles off according to fiso
good to see Naismith nd Mata go downOh wow that was more than I expected. Absolutely chuffed that I have 3 of the risers! TV up to 102.9 now 🙂
Pleased to get rid of Naismith in time too. And also - love how there is now a 0.7 difference between Fabregas and Mata. I for one saw that happening when I did Mata>Fab in GW2 🙂
Btw, if this proves anything its that you shouldn't pay attention to my pre-price-change predictions!
Btw everyone - I did my transfers at 2:35 and I've just realised I got hit with the price fallers, gutted hah. Just in case anybody is waiting for 2:40-45 ish as a deadline in future
ouch man. i've been close a couple of times but done them at 2:15 or 2:20ish. Good to know!
It's 2.45
Not sure if that's a running joke or something in here, but it wasn't 2:45 tonight 😀
have my +1 for being more thorough (though no one cares about the other fallers 😛 )
very true! 🙂
Pelle and Welbz just as I said 😎
You should start a website that advises as to risers and fallers:
totalmuppet.com😀
at least I can still do Moreno + Naismith to Moore + Welbeck but now it costs me 0.2m more haha
What to with this team?
Begovic . McCarthy
Evans . Taylor . Clyne . Moore . Hutton
Sterling . Sigurdsson . ADM . Ramsey . Boyd
Pellè . Costa . Rooney
0.8 ITBEvans out. The rest are fine.
Thanks.
GW6 : Evans ➡ Chambers(TOT)
and
GW7 : Rooney(EVE) ➡ Kun(avl)
Yes?Maybe. Chambers isn't urgent until GW8 though. i own him and probably won't play him until then anyways.
thankfully I bought Naismith for 5.1...
damnit, nvm I bought him for 5.0...
Rooney> Welbeck
Evans> Baines*meant for Danny above
Not sure on getting Welbeck.
Who is the highest ranked player here that we know of?
What's his(/her...gulps) team?
How are the MODS doing?emperikal toure was 32nd I think?
Nice!
I think he is 322. I am living vicariously through my Ivory Coast teammate 🙂
No only 328 fellas 😉
ha timing! well that's not too bad 😉
Haha cheers AR. Don't expect it too last!
Right on cue 😀
😆
Very nice 🙂
Someone was in the top 100 i think. triggerlips is pretty high up aswell
im 932 at moment
Quality Trigger!!
can see team by xlicking on ink
Wow. If u get Chambers you and I will have the same team bar Roon and Welb. Aguero n Pelle here.
Shame I'm Almost 200k behind u
Epic winning!
Well done 🙂
I was 14 after the first day haha. Then went downhill
Top mod is Greek Fan in the 16,000s
All you have to do is look at transfers in and transfers out, it's quite easy to read in my opinion.
I'll start posting nightly price change predictions, would have hit the notables on the head tonight.what are the thresholds though?
i think you will find it mose complicated
It's really not because you don't know how many are WC transfers and if players are slowly rising like Naylor it's nigh on impossible to follow.
Yep. You've got to be pretty dedicated to tracking the slower risers if you want to track when they're gonna rise. And that's even if you figure out what the exact threshold is, which seems to be a mystery apparently.
Dammit Schneiderlin rose, I don't have him as my cash cows.
Any chance he'll rise again this week?I would be surprised if he rose again.
Cool. coolcoolcool
TV check
102.9 after today's rises.102.3
102.7
horrible feeling might lose .1 on rooney this week
he is on on -31% and other high ownership players like ramsey and naismith dropped at -33% and -35% respectively, so it may well happen 🙁
still your TV is great! 🙂no way not with how many transfers it took him to drop the first time
You will
still don't fancy that Pelle move? 😉
102.4 😐
102.4
i dont think people shoud be selling rooney yet anyway
Nope. Would be wise to wait and see for at least one more week. West Ham could be quite the juicy fixture.
Based on what I have seen from West Ham against Hull and Liverpool they will be a really tough opponent for United this weekend, just as they would for pretty much any opponent right now. They look bang on form and confidence couldn't be higher.
What does that have to do with Rooney scoring fantasy points?
The logic is that the tougher an opponent the less likely it is that a player will score well against them. But you know that.
The same "tough" West Ham side which was lucky to concede two to Hull?
So rooney→costa worth a hit ??? In your opinion
102.1
100.9
But iin mm,y defence, last year i ended on 109.2 in 222nd
***my iipads fukd
We can see... 🙂
£101.2
100.7
102.6
102.7
Idiot coz I lost over .5m on Fab n Ivan
Happy enough
102.2
101.5
Thoughts on this team...
Courtouis Gilks
Terry kompany chambers clyne Moore
Di Maria sterling sig Quinn Boyd
Costa aguero welbeck
Thanks!Crouch????? 😀
I noticed that he kept popping up in lots of stat tables. Not the worst idea in the world, though there's too many better options imo
Play two defenders please:
Collo (stk)
Moore (cry)
Duff (wba)
Moreno (EVE)Duff +moreno
Cheers
Duff Moreno
Thanks
If some one told me at the beginning of the season on GWK6 I would have a Burnley defender as my second sub above an Arsenal defender I would have laughed their head off. Duff is a magic man.
You should be playing him
Wisdom against Burnley! Clarets can’t score at all.
Exactly you should be playing Duff. The way I read your comment he is your second sub?
Sorry duff v WBA not exactly a scoring powerhouse
0-0 all over that one
I'd play any defender facing Burnley at the moment. Burnley are only set up to defend. Their attacking options are almost nil.
I know what you mean but I don’t wanna play Duff and Wilson. I know Burnley won’t score but WBA make sneak a goal. I already have Bertrand and Wilson playing.
Aguero or Rooney
And
Wellbeck or UlloaKun, welbeck
Welbeck and Ulloa
Very rare early transfer for me this week. Rambop and m,ata to adm and cesc
Own welbeck and think him, wallky and sanchez will hog their points, so ditching rambadman with a heavy heart
Adm and fabregas are a cut above
No hiits taken, next decioosioon ois rpoopney to whoRambo mata both -0.1 adm +0.1 🙁
Imo
Mata→admI mean i done those moves already
Pelle, Welbeck, Ulloa are the ones....Aguero if you don't already have him.
Tough to pick between the first 3.
After costa, welbeck ios the m,post obviios pioock in the game if u ask m,e
Costa isn't obvious. And he definitely wasn't obvious early on.
He wasnt super obvs early on but he is now
59.6% ownership. That must be pretty much all of the active players. Injury is the concern though especially once they get to the serious end of the champions league. He may get rested a bit then.
Just blanked against the first decent bit of defending he's seen and fixture congestion ahead. Quite happy to go without.
😀Whatever you tell yourself.
Top goal scorer for the 2014/15 season champs at a bargain basement ten an half mil, good luck you muppet
And to you. Cheers, you beric.
He's definitely becoming one, Pelle is starting to look good. Hard to split the two, but Arsenal are the better side, but on the other hand Pelle is the Saints' main goalscorer
Play Moreno or Duff this week?
moreno
Good moves, Rooney > Ageuro if possible next
for Beric *
Thats the plan i think, -4 and ditch cahill, or get ulloa and have loadsa money or just wait, tbf ill probably wait
Risers: Pelle, Welbeck, Naylor, Wisdom, Schnederlin.
Fallers: Naismith, Vlaar, Boyata, Mata, Lennon, Berahino, Upson, Gamboa, Besic, Anita, Williams, Tremmel, Aluko, Odemwingie, Wilkinson, Hoilett.Sorry 😀
Despite utd beginning the season poorly, Rooney is on course for 190 points , just needs to average 5 points per game
The same score he finished on last season, despite oten being in midfieldSurely better striker options though
Only if he stays in the hole, which is very doubtful. Could be dropped altogether if it goes sour with LVG, mind. But I think we'll see that coming.
This. Ridiculous to keep Rooney ATM. Not playing as a forward, and is a negative OOP. He's a premium option on top of that and isn't worth an assist a game or even less.
And like Beric said, loads of other premium,mid and budget options popping up for forwards ATM.Exactly, but also no rush to get rid - not worth a hit
You think so?
I can see it paying off short run and long run with replacements like Pelle, Welbeck and Aguero.
Saints could pump QPR, Arsenal look like they'll run Spurs over with Spurs' current form, and City and Aguero need no explanation.
Rooney on the other hand is playing -OOP, as a midfielder, and sometimes even deeper than his stated role because of ADM bombing forward. I already have ADM, and that's enough "coverage" for me. Not happy to keep a 0-5 point premium forward in my team. I guess it could wait...just not for me.
He was played in midfield for a chunk of last season too.
That's not bad at all, but the way I see it is this:
Rooney 190 points + 4.5 mid 40 points = 230
Pelle 150 points + Tadic 140 points = 290
Both cost roughly the same.
Obviously you won't always play the cheaper one and someone else would take their place, as well as captaincy points, but I think Pelle is good enough to be rated around 9m rather than 7.6 and he's worth more points-per-£ than Rooney imo, which is what its all about.
Rooney or Aguero for this week? On wildcard and might ditch Wayne for Serg
IMO Kun
Leaning that way.Costa Wellbeck Kun frontline 🙂
Kun imo
Kun
So who's not selling Rooney?
Louis Van Gaal. At the moment anyway
Me
help please with my team this week:
Forster Myhill
Moreno Dier Duff Wilson Bertrand
Chadli Siggy Fab Sterling ADM
Falcao Costa Naismith
FT=0 ITB =0
Who should I play?
Should I take -8 for:
A. Naismith & Wilson --> Moore & Ulloa
B. Dier/Moreno & Chadli ---> Baines & Boyd/4.4
CheersChambers or Naylor?
Chambers
What's putting me off Chambers is his next 2 fixtures.
BUT SURELY YOU WOULD BENCH AT CHELSEA ANYWAY
This as well.
THERE'S NO NEED TO YELL 😀 but good point!
Potential cleanie against Spurs with their form, Chelsea maybe not, but beyond that fixtures are fatastic, and he's great value@4.5m in a top 4 defence.
Sold it to me fantastically, thanks Arvin.
No worries.
