Wildcard Thread

I'm a bit confused with the price rises. I WC'd and had all the likely candidates for a price change such as Albrighton. However Albrighton has increased in price yet he's still worth 5.0M on my team. Do I have to keep him on my team until the next GW to avail of the price change?

Shedite27 wrote: »

For what it's worth, I don't think anyone should wildcard until the transfer window closes - teams will change so much after that, GW6 is the best time to see who will be regulars until Christmas

i totally agree and its always my aim to make it that far but have never got past gw 3 in 6 years. Still hanging in there this year but that flashy wildcard button is so distracting.

Lemlin wrote: »

My thinking is I'll try to keep WC1 for early December and set my team up for the Xmas congestion.

WC2 will then be used specifically for a DGW later in the season.

I'm still not convinced all these mid price options can keep it going. Don't get me wrong, Mahrez and Payet (who reminds me alot of Martin Petrov in the way he plays) are keepers I think but the jury is out on others like Ayew.

Players like Danny Murphy used to be great at having short spurts of form like this and then dropped off never to be heard from again for the rest of the season. Antoine Sibierski did it one year at Wigan as well.

My thinking too if
1) WC transfers are not included like last year.
2) I don't have the urge for it in the coming weeks.
Otherwise I may use it during the first international break.

About the mid-price options, I can tell you André Ayew is a much better player than Dimitri Payet. Granted Payet progressed a loooooot on his consistency under Bielsa last year but he had a tendency to spend months without doing anything while A. Ayew has been the central Marseille player during all his time there.
Now, problem is all his good play may not translate as well as Payet's ones in FPL terms (e.g. A. Ayew could be the perfect assist's assister...). At least it remains to be seen.

And you didn't mention him but I'll advice again everyone to stay away from Jordan Ayew. He's a headless chicken at best and has been notorious for his bad temper in France, he 's a bit of the Balotelli of the poor if you ask me!

Mike Ehrmantraut wrote: »

No regrets, and no half measures, glad I pressed the button

I see what you did there





I'm easily pleased at times

MagicIRL wrote: »

Wildcarded just as Sanchez got his assist. Hopefully a sign of things to come!

Couldn't risk the gap getting much bigger this early on, and needed to get Aguero and Sanchez in anyway. Now I've managed to grab Hazard as well, alongside this opening seasons wonderful starters.

It can't go wrong... Right? RIGHT?

Whats the rest of your team like out of interest?

I've Silva, Aguero, Costa, Sanchez pencilled in at the moment but the rest of the team is lacking because of it. Hazard can go in for Costa just about.

Can anyone see Januzaj or Young keeping their place long term, as there's no way I can squeeze mata/depay in come Saturday. May even go Shaw in def and Chadli MF

My potential team line up. Comments are very much welcomed.

Courtois 5.4 Butland 4.5
Darmian 5.6 Williams 5 Clyne 5.5 McAuley 5 Cresswell
Sanchez 11 Payet 7.5 Mahrez 5.6 Barkley 6.5 Albrighton 5/Cabaye 6.6
Aguero 13 Okazaki 6 Benteke 8.5/Gomis 7

I am trying to get Toure into my team as he looks sharp, and would love to have another Arsenal player in there. My team is reliant on Leicester, but they have good games coming up until crunch time in late Winter where they have a load of hard fixtures and where I might be saying goodbye to them.

jimmii wrote: »

I would downgrade a defender to a 4.x that would free up some funds would Gomis & a 4.5 defender for Cresswell be enough to upgrade Barkley to YYT? Or maybe throw in Deeney instead of Okazaki gives you another .5 to play with.

That's a good point. It is a bit unnecessary to have five defenders at a relatively high price. I might look at a defender that starts regularly and use him when he's playing against Sunderland. I did a draft on the site and was close enough to Toure, but would be reluctant to get rid of Barkley, and pick Yaya over Albrighton.

DarraghF197 wrote: »

My potential team line up. Comments are very much welcomed.

Courtois 5.4 Butland 4.5
Darmian 5.6 Williams 5 Clyne 5.5 McAuley 5 Cresswell
Sanchez 11 Payet 7.5 Mahrez 5.6 Barkley 6.5 Albrighton 5/Cabaye 6.6
Aguero 13 Okazaki 6 Benteke 8.5/Gomis 7

I am trying to get Toure into my team as he looks sharp, and would love to have another Arsenal player in there. My team is reliant on Leicester, but they have good games coming up until crunch time in late Winter where they have a load of hard fixtures and where I might be saying goodbye to them.

If you're going to play Courtois every week there's no point having 4.5 in Butland. McCarthy at 4.0 best sub keeper option at moment) If you want Stoke cover I think theres some DEFs at 4.5?

As said there's a lot of money in defence there, I'd go for City or Arsenal cover over Clyne then maybe rotate your remaining defenders.

Coould give you

Chelsea (GK),
United, City/Arsenal, AN Other every week.

I wouldn't go with 3 Leicester attackers unless Albrighton is your 5th MF.

I'd say you need a Chelsea Attacker over Toure (As you have Aguero already) if you have any funds left.

shineon23 wrote: »

If you're going to play Courtois every week there's no point having 4.5 in Butland. McCarthy at 4.0 best sub keeper option at moment) If you want Stoke cover I think theres some DEFs at 4.5?

As said there's a lot of money in defence there, I'd go for City or Arsenal cover over Clyne then maybe rotate your remaining defenders.

Coould give you

Chelsea (GK),
United, City/Arsenal, AN Other every week.

I wouldn't go with 3 Leicester attackers unless Albrighton is your 5th MF.

I'd say you need a Chelsea Attacker over Toure (As you have Aguero already) if you have any funds left.

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I have Cech originally in goals, and thought I'd get Courtois with his drop in price. I understand that there's no need for another first team keeper, but I have to look at worse case scenario like what happened in GW1.

I could actually take out Clyne and get a cheap Stoke defender. I feel like I really want to keep the rest of them tbh.

As for Chelsea attackers, I agree I should probably have some cover. But I can't see any attackers this season that will bag a valuable amount of points. I was thinking about Willian before but he'll be subbed off every game most likely. Costa is a bit of a nutcase as seen just in their free kick there. I also don't feel he'll do as well as last season.

That's one thing I'm worried about, the amount of Leicester attackers I may potentially have. It will be joy every time they score, however, as I'll always bag something!

So after today's games am looking at Aguero to net 2 rises this week....who else might just make the +0.2 do people reckon?....Yaya Yaya a possibility?