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Cech Out for Three to Four Weeks

18 August 2011 1160 comments
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Petr Cech has been ruled out of action for three to four weeks with a knee injury.

Andre Villas-Boas today confirmed his number one keeper will be unavailable for selection until the end of September:

“Petr Cech yesterday suffered a medial ligament injury and will be out for three to four weeks. It was the end of training, a normal training incident. He fell awkwardly with his weight on top of him. We expected much worse when we saw the incident.”

This should see him miss a run of fixtures that reads (WBA, NOR, sun, mun, SWA). Immediately this brings Hilario and Ross Turnbull into the equation. Hilario was on the bench for the game at Stoke last weekend and, of the two, looks likely to get the nod.

Both come in at 4.5 and with those next two home games in particular catching the eye, some Fantasy managers may be willing to turn their back on nailed-on, pricier options such as John Terry and Ashley Cole and take a punt- Chelsea are strong favourites to pick up clean sheets in both fixtures.

Cech will now be removed from the Watchlist in due course.

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  1. vova
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    How is my team guys?

    Given Vorm
    Komoany Enrique Simpson DeLaet ACole
    Surman Moses Sinclair Silva Sessegnon
    Bent Rooney Torres

    What do you think? Would I be mad to captain Torres? Is Lampard a safer option?

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  2. Christopher Kiwomya
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    For those people who slaved for weeks to settle on a team for GW1 and who werent affected by the login nightmare. What information did you get from GW1 to justify changing your team now at the second attempt? For me, if it wasn't for Baines actually playing games I dont think I would be making many changes. Maybe Hughes > Senderos. Possibly I may have picked Suarez knowing he would start the season. But did people really see enough from the likes of Torres and Aguero in 1 week to justify changing their original plans to accomodate them?

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    1. Cooper123
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      In the case of Torres, a lot of people were waiting for GW2 anyway to see who AVB would pick up front

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    2. Frazek
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      I'm making very few, merely reacting to Everton actually playing, Chelski fixture run and, latterly Hilarious goalkeeping fiasco at Chelski.

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    3. Mr. Greedy
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      I hear you brudda but what can we do? You feel obliged to make changes with a free wildcard to everyone. I was waiting on who would get the nod out of Torres and Drogs and then get them in for GW2 and GW3. Aguero came from nowhere though. Seen him play, maybe 10 times in La Liga but never seen him play like that.

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    4. kez97
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Aguero made a big impact against Swansea

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      1. Christopher Kiwomya
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        I just dont think 1 week is enough. I put alot of thought into my original team and no half hour cameo is good enough to change that. Thats not to say Aguero wont end up being an fpl must have.

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        1. Arselona
          • 14 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          imagine what he can do with 90 mins 🙂
          I reckon the 'cameo' was merely an intro..

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    5. Matty D
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Malouda is not on form -> remove
      Taarabt is possibly over-rated -> remove
      Suarez is on form and fit
      Torres is a changed man from last season

      And it's a free wildcard, what's not to love?

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      1. Christopher Kiwomya
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Arguably only the Suarez point actually changed in GW1. The only question marks were whether he would actually start the season and he has. But Malouda and Taarabt didn't suddenly become overrated after 1 game, and surely the main reason for not choosing Torres in the first place (Drogba) is still there.

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        1. Matty D
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          Points well made.

          I think Taarabt's stock also dropped along with QPR's. He went from being the best player in an up-and-coming side to being the best player in a side that needs to get its act together ASAP. (Players like Brunt become more appealing).

          Malouda just didn't look as fit and sprightly as he could have, and falls victim to grass-is-greener syndrome.

          The Drogba risk to Torres remains, as you say, but the rewards could be exceptional.

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          1. Christopher Kiwomya
            • 15 Years
            14 years, 4 months ago

            I can get on board with small like-for-like changes and tweaks, like losing Taarabt. But judging by some of the RMTs people are going for a complete restructure to accomodate front lines with Torres and Aguero. Like someone pointed out above, people may have been planning to get 'the Chelsea front man' (whoever it may be) in GW2 all along. So i guess my beef boils down to the Aguero bandwagon 😀

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    6. Arselona
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      With this extended unlimited tranfer extension, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. So might as well have fun recompiling your squad so you can curse at it next wk all over again. 😉

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      1. Mr. Greedy
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        True dat

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    7. J0E
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      actually lots of changes. suarez is better value than carroll and more likely to be a regular pts scorer. RVP is stuffed without better service. rooney is the best MAn Utd attacker to have. N Dyer has proved himself to have potential. Aguero is a force to be reckoned with. Wolves look better for attacking pts than I would have thought. Henderson is preferred to Kuyt....lots of questions were answered.

      toure is just as good as silva for pts.

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      1. Christopher Kiwomya
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Are you sure you didn't already know the answers to most of those questions prior to GW1?

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      2. Marknlard
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Don't know that N Dyer proved much. I think I'm going to have him, but only because he's cheap and so am I.

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    8. kennethrhcp
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      i wish we didnt receive the free transfers up to gmwk2. had it planned to do rooney to torres/drogba. have now made 5 changes. i had rooney & 2 low priced forwards, i now have 2 high priced & 1 low. iv downgraded malouda slightly & downgraded hughes to senderos (might change that back) but for those 5 changes iv used 17 transfers... damn indecision 🙂

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      1. Christopher Kiwomya
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Im glad because its allowed me to juggle things around to get Baines in immediately without taking a hit.

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  3. Arselona
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Brunt Enrique Baines

    or

    Adam Ward Distin

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    1. Arselona
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      No takers? Too hard?

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      1. RedGun
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        first one imo

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  4. Fishy
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    what do you think about this team
    Given Begovic
    wes brown, richards, senderos, bosingwa, simpson
    taarabt, a.young, larsson, n.zog, moses
    torres, aguero, saha#
    only weakness i think is midfield ?

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    1. SMOOTH
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      i have
      silva for taarabt
      dyer for larsson
      ruddy for begovic
      kompany for richards

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  5. Sir Jose Wenger returns
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    No I have shoved Hilario between the sticks I have two potential options developing;

    1)Jose Enrique and Saha

    2)Baines and Graham

    Me thinks Graham with two home games and also superstar Baines is a tasty option but have more certainty about 1 which could be a better safe option... thoughts??

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    1. Christopher Kiwomya
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      2 for me

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  6. Voronin
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    So everyone going Hilario?

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    1. MCM
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Not me. Even when Chelsea's defence is still good, they can still be beaten, or concede with him. Remember the Community shield last year? 3-1. Okay, sure it was United and still Pre season but he didn't really do a good job and he hasn't played much, if not, at all since then.

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    2. Arselona
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Nope

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    3. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Nope , sticking with Given for the three weeks

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    4. Frazek
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Don't make me laugh.

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    5. Voronin
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Ok, ok, so is everyone keeping the likes of A Cole? I havent tinkered with my team yet but am about to emark on a 48hr marathon tinker session....!

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  7. Cooper123
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    N'Zogbia; a decent buy? Can anyone comment on how he played at the weekend?

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    1. Arselona
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Not well, masses have jumped off his bandwagon including myself, but his impact in the team is still too early to tell..

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      1. chendog
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        i keep saying this. everyone slates him for how he played last week. why, i don't know. he should have had 2 assists but for wayward finishing, and is a must for GW2 imo

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        1. Arselona
          • 14 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          I agree with the fact that everyone is being too haste in slating him.. I had to get rid of him to accommodate my new squad composition.. although to be honest, his performance last wk didn't help the cause.

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  8. cte1
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Dilemma on captaining Torres is AVB needs to keep Drogba and Anelka happy too, so if Torres gets a well deserved goal you can see AVB bringing him off, and letting one of the other 2 strikers have a go. Will he ever be left on the pitch long enough to complete a 2 or 3 goal hike? Not sure.

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    1. Arselona
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      I dunno about managers getting players off so that others can 'have a go' - meaning no disrespect to your point but this ain't sunday football for 6 year olds.

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      1. CFCTom
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        And all this Anelka was upset to be on the bench at Stoke is trollox. Also, AVB is a manager of a professional football team, I really don't think he got there by believing you should take off goalscorers, IMO they are valuable don't you think?

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    2. Marknlard
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Yeah, if Torres is on a hat-trick, AVB will definitely take him off as that wouldn't be good for his confidence.

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  9. Sir Jose Wenger returns
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Enrique and Saha or Baines and Graham

    Please help with opinions!

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  10. keotes
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Sess or Larsson?

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    1. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Was Sess , moved to Larsson

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    2. Christopher Kiwomya
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      sess

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  11. Futbol Heritage
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Fear this Faux WC might have done my team more damage than good.
    Anyone care to RMT?

    Hilario Vorm

    Jag Kompany Warnock Simpson De Laet

    Young Silva Nzog Sess Moses

    Torres Suarez Zamora

    Leaves me 1m to upgrade Hilario to Given when Cech is back

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  12. keotes
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Sess or Larson

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  13. drughi
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    moses and pennant or dyer(swansea)and sessegnon ?

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  14. SMOOTH
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    anyone doubling up on chelsea?

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    1. SMOOTH
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      at the back i meant

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      1. drughi
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        me, alex and hilario

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  15. mikeywoodward
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    is saha fit for this week?

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    1. stdunited
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      yes

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  16. Jinswick
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Why does everyone think Bosingwa will continue to start for Chelsea? Ivanovic is back fit so I hear so surely he's likely to come in?

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    1. Camzy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      He was on the bench against Stoke. If any game was right for Ivanovic, it was that one, and he didn't play. I can see Bosingwa starting regularly now to give Chelsea some attacking width down the right which they badly need. None of their right sided attacking players are naturally widely inclined. The all want to come inside.

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      1. Arselona
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        I'm sorry, I must have a sick mind..

        But +1 on Camzy's point.

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  17. blawrence95
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Please slate team.

    given (ruddy)
    Kompany Lescott Senderos (simpson) (De Laet)
    Downing Yaya.T Moses N’zogbia (Ferguson)
    V.Persie Bent Carroll

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  18. Dan
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Senderos nailed on?

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    1. applebonkers
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      stapled on, i.e should play

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      1. Frazek
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Senderos should clearly avoid going near a B&Q or Rymans anytime soon.

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    2. applebonkers
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      baird was on the bench so that suggests senderos and hughes is preferred to hughes and baird

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  19. blawrence95
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Please slate team

    given (ruddy)
    Kompany Lescott Senderos (simpson) (De Laet)
    Downing Yaya.T Moses N'zogbia (Ferguson)
    V.Persie Bent Carroll

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    1. Futbol Heritage
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      No chelsea Cover?

      I would consider Torres over RVP.

      Also cant really see Caroll outscoring Suarez long term.

      Suarez also has penalties and is 0.5 cheaper.
      Liv fixtures arent great - Downing and Caroll might be overkill

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    2. heco87
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      That's a bit like going back in time 1 week.

      Suarez > Carroll
      Rooney > RVP
      Downing> Silva
      Yaya > Sessegnon
      Kompany/Lescott > Bosingwa / A Villa defender

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      1. heco87
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        messed up half way through those changes, but you get the gist

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  20. Fishy
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    what do you think about this team
    Given Begovic
    wes brown, richards, senderos, bosingwa, simpson
    taarabt, a.young, larsson, n.zog, moses
    torres, aguero, saha#
    only weakness i think is midfield???

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  21. Dave Bauer
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Is Hilario going to play then? I've seen nothing to say it'll be him that gets the nod...

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    1. CFCTom
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Almost certainly, Turnbull isn't good enough, I don't know if Blackman is in the squad and Courtois is loaned to Atletico Madrid. Plus Hilario is our sub keeper so it makes sense. Also he was good in pre season, saved a penalty. Albeit he gave it away but still, yes it will be him. 99% sure.

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    2. heco87
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      He was on the bench last week which is perhaps the best indicator but I agree it's not certain

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    3. Sir Jose Wenger returns
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      theres no one else

      I remember one game when cech got sent off and there was 3 subs made Jon Terry played in goal.. maybe him?

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      1. Scroobius Mac
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        I asked this earlier but in the ridiculous scenario that a team was left without a keeper and somebody went in goal and saved a Peno - would they get the save points?
        Also wasn't the Terry game the one where Cech busted his head open?

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        1. CFCTom
          • 14 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          Thats a vulgar way of putting it.

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          1. Scroobius Mac
            • 14 Years
            14 years, 4 months ago

            Well it was hardly a nice thing to happen either.

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        2. Sir Jose Wenger returns
          • 15 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          Actually you may be right... cech was injured and they had made 3 subs

          I think you only get points for the position you play in in FPL which is why you get OOP prospects doing so well like coleman last season

          How many points do goalies get for scoring I wonder.. Foster went looking for one at the end of the west brom game last week

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          1. Scroobius Mac
            • 14 Years
            14 years, 4 months ago

            Closer inspection of the rules.
            Goalkeepers get 6 points for a goal.
            It appears any player can get penalty save points as there's no player specific mention in there.
            However I don't think that a player would get regular save points.

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  22. ivanm
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    A.Youg/Nani or Baines ?
    have in mind next few fixture.

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    1. Sir Jose Wenger returns
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Is youg that new signing for Blackburn?

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      1. ivanm
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        i meant A.Young (ManUtd)

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  23. dcarlito
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Yaya or Arteta??

    and Suarez or Bent??

    Opinions please.

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    1. kez97
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Yaya and Suarez

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  24. Scroobius Mac
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    I can see two things happening in the Spurs game tonight
    1) VDV scores two and sets up another leading to a bandwagon tomorrow and an every mother and his dog having him on Saturday.
    2) VDV's hammy/calf blows business to continue as usual.

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    1. Sir Jose Wenger returns
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Yes well predicted but nothing can be done... bandwagons exist, there are unlimited transfers to allow a LOT of tinkering but doesnt really do much about the fact spurs play both manchester clubs in consecutive weeks and VDV looks like a bad option if modric leaves and they fail to sign adebayor as even if he is VDV he will not be able to carry the team on his back.. he played well with a good team around him last season

      Bandwagon will hopefully fail at the weekend if it happens and hopefully wil improve my mini league prospects

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  25. My nipples were so cold the…
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    What the shiz is going on.

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    1. Scroobius Mac
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Mods deleted a comment, for some reason it goes haywire when this happens.

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  26. Drip Doctor
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Another 4 goal haul form Saha would be nice this weekend.

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    1. Sir Jose Wenger returns
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      goodluck!

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  27. Mak_Gold
      14 years, 4 months ago

      A) Silva + O'Hara

      OR

      B) Toure + N'Zogbia?(already have Bent)

      Also,is Gibbs out of Sunday's game?If yes,then how many games will he miss?Thanks.

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      1. heco87
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        A)

        Gibbs - I think he's out for 2 weeks but may be wrong.

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        1. Mak_Gold
            14 years, 4 months ago

            Cheers. 🙂

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      2. kez97
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        RMT

        Given Vorm
        Cshill Shawcross Kompany Simpson Hughes
        Yaya Young N'Zogbia Jarvis Tiote
        Aguero Rooney Doyle

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      3. spuq
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Question about price rises after Saturdays games.

        Will Aguero's and Suarez's value rise regardless if they the play or not after 400K ppl buys him after week 1 ?

        If price rise would not be frozen he would be +0.3 by now.
        I want to know if those transfer we are making now will contribute to price flocculation's or will it be like a new start of the season?

        Is anything confirmed about this ?

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        1. The Mighty One
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          All transfers for these first two weeks will be reset to zero. Price changes will only take place based upon activity from SAT morning onwards.

          Aguero will still increase a decent amount over the next couple weeks though, but not quite as much now that lots will have him this week.

          Also, I think I had a price flocculation of my own back in '89 when I was looking through a bargin bin of vinyl albums at the record store. I stumbled upon a pristine Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy and bought it for a buck. Wow.

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      4. Goalarov
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Which combo?

        A: Baines-Lampard-Beckford

        or

        B: Lescott-T. Cahill-Torres

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        1. kennethrhcp
          • 15 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          b

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