Fantasy Premier League: Pre-Season Thread

RB100 · 23-07-2012 1:46am

manual_man wrote: »

From what i could see on youtube clips, he spends most of his time on the right wing

What i also found out from research was that the reliable source that is the Daily Mirror broke this story... so i'll be holding on to my hat, just for now

Boy, can he dribble though

So even more rotation in United Midfield...and another winger

Scholes will have to retire at some point Fergie

Eathrin · 23-07-2012 2:24am

I have both Mata and Hazard in my team at the moment. No Utd wingers because of rotation, same as City strikers, even though Tevez looks good value at 9m.

Is Rooney worth 12m do you think?

RB100 · 23-07-2012 2:29am

Eathrin wrote: »

Is Rooney worth 12m do you think?

Even though he is costly I think just get him because I said the same thing last season and what happened? 2 hatricks in 3 games

Eathrin · 23-07-2012 2:31am

RB100 wrote: »

Even though he is costly I think just get him because I said the same thing last season and what happened? 2 hatricks in 3 games

I think I have money to spare anyway.
I have Kagawa also but depending on his pre season I may ship him out.

Owen_S · 23-07-2012 2:31am

Eathrin wrote: »

I have both Mata and Hazard in my team at the moment. No Utd wingers because of rotation, same as City strikers, even though Tevez looks good value at 9m.

Is Rooney worth 12m do you think?

Valencia won't be rotated too much after his performances last season(named as our player of the year). Rooney is worth the 12m, but I'm going with Torres at the start.

As for names, I've went with Sungs of Praise, dedicated to QPR's new star.

Eathrin · 23-07-2012 2:36am

Owen_S wrote: »

Valencia won't be rotated too much after his performances last season(named as our player of the year). Rooney is worth the 12m, but I'm going with Torres at the start.

As for names, I've went with Sungs of Praise, dedicated to QPR's new star.

Think Park is worth it at 6m.
I have Pilkington at that price at the moment and I think he represents good value.

It could be a different story if we got Moura.

DazzlerIE · 23-07-2012 9:36pm

Jeez the United winger situation is going to be ridiculous if he signs

far too much risk of rotation

OneColdHand · 23-07-2012 10:19pm

DazzlerIE wrote: »

Jeez the United winger situation is going to be ridiculous if he signs

far too much risk of rotation

Well, i believe he's playing in the Olympics, so mightn't be that bad for the first few games.

RB100 · 24-07-2012 12:12am

DazzlerIE wrote: »

Jeez the United winger situation is going to be ridiculous if he signs

far too much risk of rotation

I mean does Ferguson not think about fantasy football when he signs players!? it's ridiculous!

alchemist33 · 24-07-2012 9:28pm

RB100 wrote: »

I mean does Ferguson not think about fantasy football when he signs players!? it's ridiculous!

If only you knew who was in SAF's fantasy team each week...

FatRat · 25-07-2012 2:24am

Jon Walters scores Stoke's only goal in today's friendly.

swoody · 25-07-2012 2:32am

if anyones interested in stoke defenders.......

Begovic, Wilson, Shawcross, Huth, Ness was the starting back 4 but switched to Sorensen, Wilkinson, Higginbotham, Upson, Delap in the second half

pretty crap game, but Walters scored as per usual and stoke lost 2-1!

manual_man · 25-07-2012 2:35am

please god just let this thing start

swoody · 25-07-2012 2:45am

villa and spurs games are on soon......tom hanks is at portland to watch the mighty villa!

villa:
Guzan, Lowton, Collins, Clark, Warnock, Ireland, El Ahmadi, Bannan, Holman, Weimann, Delfouneso

spurs:
Cudicini; Walker, Kaboul, Vertonghen, Bassong; Livermore, Sigurdsson; Townsend, van der Vaart, Bale; Defoe.

swoody · 25-07-2012 5:41am

Bale scored a fantastic looping header off a good in-swinging ball from Sigurdsson but LA scored a great team goalthemselves. Sarvas with a deft diagonal chip through to DeLaGarza who squares to a wide open Lopes behind the defense 1-1 Bale wears no9 now :eek:

btw VDV pulled a hammy in the 1st half and walker damaged his ankle in the 2nd lets hope there not series.........

in the villa match Bannans cracking strike was brilliantly tipped over by Troy Perkins. from the resulting inswinging Bannan corner, Ciaran Clark is left unmarked at the far post to score with a simple header. timber equalised (i missed it but saw Timber Joey cut a giant log with a chainsaw) 1-1
2-2 villa scored first, lawton taps in from a corner. Timber equalises with a strike from the edge of the area, with the aid of a massive deflection (dunno who scored...some black guy)

villa are mad for the quick passing game but they where actually decent enough at it but have no end product when it matters....the squads has to many average young players!

two good game tho...

timbers bizarre club celebration (i know wrong match but you get the idea)

average_runner · 25-07-2012 8:54am

Did Sigurdson play in the attacking midfield role.

FatRat · 25-07-2012 12:26pm

average_runner wrote: »

Did Sigurdson play in the attacking midfield role.

Looks like VDV was behind Defoe, so Sigurdson was playing in a central midfield role, with Townsend the defensive midfielder and himself the attacking. But It doesn't look like he played in behind the striker...... not when VDV was on the pitch anyway.

I'm contemplating getting a big player from Spurs. They kind of slipped my mind when picking my team.

BKC · 25-07-2012 12:28pm

Does anyone think that Stephen Henderson will start in goal for West Ham ahead of Jussi?

Paully D · 25-07-2012 7:02pm

Gareth Bale has had his ears pinned back too. Will make him even faster :pac:

gareth+bale+ears.jpg

manual_man · 25-07-2012 7:30pm

Chelsea have signed Oscar. Frankie Lamps is on his way, i think

swoody · 25-07-2012 11:17pm

manual_man wrote: »

Chelsea have signed Oscar. Frankie Lamps is on his way, i think

he has a year left on his contract and he said he'd be interested in a move to MLS. might happen sooner then he thinks now!

T-b0n3 · 26-07-2012 1:44pm

Premier League ‏@premierleague

New players added to Fantasy Premier League: MID Oscar (CHE) £8.5m, MID Michu (SWA) £6.5m & MID Yacob (WBA) £5.0m http://bit.ly/FantasyPL #fpl

I know a few people were after Michu.

FatRat · 26-07-2012 2:36pm

JT and Frank Lampard both on the mark for the 2 Chelsea goals in their game today. Charlie Adam scored for Liverpool in theirs. And ne man Jonathan De Guzman was Swansea's only scorer in their game.

OneColdHand · 26-07-2012 3:42pm

Simple question:

Michu or Pienaar (assuming he moves to Everton)?

I can think of 1 con for each:
Michu: new to PL, might take him a while to settle in.
Pienaar: Everton always seem to get off to a slow start.

Fowler87 · 26-07-2012 3:52pm

Throwing this in for anyone undecided on picking Mata and/or Hazard....

Juan Mata: Set up a chance for a teammate every 24.8 minutes on average this season - more often than any other PL player who made 15+ apps -- WhoScored.com (@WhoScored)

seriousfizz · 27-07-2012 1:46pm

Watching Arsenal v. City. Few things of note so far:

City are playing 3-4-1-2. Yaya Toure is in behind Tevez and Augero. Also, wingbacks Zabaleta and Kolarov getting forward a fair bit (although they do that in a 4 man defence anyway).

Zabaleta has scored for City, Toure with the assist. Who knows if City will play this formation week in week out, but it makes their full-backs a bit more alluring for us.

Walcott and Jenkinson the stand-out Arsenal players so far.

Also, Yaya Toure just scored for Man City. Keeping him so! :pac:

FutureGuy · 27-07-2012 1:53pm

seriousfizz wrote: »

Watching Arsenal v. City. Few things of note so far:

City are playing 3-4-1-2. Yaya Toure is in behind Tevez and Augero. Also, wingbacks Zabaleta and Kolarov getting forward a fair bit (although they do that in a 4 man defence anyway).

Zabaleta has scored for City, Toure with the assist. Who knows if City will play this formation week in week out, but it makes their full-backs a bit more alluring for us.

Walcott and Jenkinson the stand-out Arsenal players so far.

Also, Yaya Toure just scored for Man City. Keeping him so! :pac:

Jenkinson has been at direct fault for both City goals...he was caught way out of position both times.

seriousfizz · 27-07-2012 2:18pm

FutureGuy wrote: »

Jenkinson has been at direct fault for both City goals...he was caught way out of position both times.

His positioning was an important factor in the second goal, which came about as I was writing that post. I wouldn't say he was directly at fault for both goals.

Besides getting caught out of position a couple of times in the first half he's made a few important challenges and looks good going forward.

manual_man · 27-07-2012 2:31pm

i have to say Song's passing has been a delight to watch. a few delightful defense-splitting passes, just no rvp to finish them off :pac: Yaya seems to be taking up a centre forward position half the time, definitely re-considering him now

Lemlin · 27-07-2012 3:04pm

seriousfizz wrote: »

Watching Arsenal v. City. Few things of note so far:

City are playing 3-4-1-2. Yaya Toure is in behind Tevez and Augero. Also, wingbacks Zabaleta and Kolarov getting forward a fair bit (although they do that in a 4 man defence anyway).

Zabaleta has scored for City, Toure with the assist. Who knows if City will play this formation week in week out, but it makes their full-backs a bit more alluring for us.

Walcott and Jenkinson the stand-out Arsenal players so far.

Also, Yaya Toure just scored for Man City. Keeping him so! :pac:

I'd imagine Silva would play in the hole though if/when he's fit and available, rather than Yaya.

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