Gamesweek 20 Transfers.

Invincible

Could be time to get out of Rooney, not even a sub today.

jolim24601

He was injured yesterday, I'm going to wait for more news.

Max Power

Michael Carrick might be worth a look. 2 assists today.

CSF

Looking at Walcott and Benteke in for Fletcher and Johnson, will wait til Friday to make sure.

Phoenix Park

Are we satisfied Gibbs is nailed on to start for Arsenal? It looks that way to me. Looking at ways i can downgrade Baines to get rid of Shane Long.

callaway92

jolim24601 wrote: »

He was injured yesterday, I'm going to wait for more news.

You believe that?

Did you see how bad he played last week?

S.M.B.

Reports that Fergie has said he's out for 2-3 weeks.

CSF

S.M.B. wrote: »

Reports that Fergie has said he's out for 2-3 weeks.

This Rooney absence could postpone the RVP rest if Welbeck is out too

SlickRic

Tevez ---> Benteke for the next two GWs I think.

I'm gona hold out on changing my defence until the WC.

Santi101

Silva back out for either Mata or Bale for me.

CSF

Santi101 wrote: »

Silva back out for either Mata or Bale for me.

Why? If you rate Silva strongly enough to have in your team in the first place, surely you should be fairly happy with his fixture relative to the other 2 this week?

NN215

need to ship out shorey (reading)
any suggestion for a good cheap defender ?

Santi101

CSF wrote: »

Why? If you rate Silva strongly enough to have in your team in the first place, surely you should be fairly happy with his fixture relative to the other 2 this week?

Silva in was only a short term change for Bale when he got injured and City had Reading home that week. Couldnt afford Mata by 0.1m. I can afford any midfielders this week though.

Mata is just better than Silva, Silva doesnt like shooting for some reason whereas Mata does the same pretty passing but is a genuine goal threat too. What a season he's having.

Steel Dog

Fergie sayin Rooney could be out for two to three weeks with a minor knee ligament injury.


http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Football-News/2012/Dec/wayne-rooney-to-miss-two-to-three-weeks-with-knee-injury.aspx

Steven81

Nolan in, next matches Reading, Norwich and Sunderland

Steel Dog

NN215 wrote: »

need to ship out shorey (reading)
any suggestion for a good cheap defender ?

Ben Davies of Swansea (4.1m)

roryc

Steel Dog wrote: »

Ben Davies of Swansea (4.1m)

I'm thinking either Davies or Gibbs to replace Rafael.

CSF

Santi101 wrote: »

Silva in was only a short term change for Bale when he got injured and City had Reading home that week. Couldnt afford Mata by 0.1m. I can afford any midfielders this week though.

Mata is just better than Silva, Silva doesnt like shooting for some reason whereas Mata does the same pretty passing but is a genuine goal threat too. What a season he's having.

I agree with you. I have Mata and not the other 2, I was just wondering why you were suddenly picking now.

irish son

Steven81 wrote: »

Nolan in, next matches Reading, Norwich and Sunderland

I'd hold off til tomorrow anyway, he is due to drop tonight.

Shane732

Looks like it might be time to jump off the Sterling train.

Santi101

CSF wrote: »

I agree with you. I have Mata and not the other 2, I was just wondering why you were suddenly picking now.

I wouldnt consider Silva as a long-term option at his price, cannot justify it this season IMO. Suppose he did what I wanted short-term, got me 8x2 last week vs Reading as captain, 2 today. Decent enough but I doubt I'll go near him again until I see a major upturn in his form.

Santi101

Shane732 wrote: »

Looks like it might be time to jump off the Sterling train.

All aboard the Puncheon train!

manual_man

Gareth. Bale. that is all

keane2097

These last couple of weeks go to show you can't trust short term upswings in the fortunes of the defences of bad teams, Norwich, Villa etc.

richieffff

Evans>Gibbs
Walcott>Bale

After Bale's performance I'll to get him tonight or else I won't be able to afford him

Santi101

I can see Villa getting relegated tbh, very inexperienced side all over the park. They have the odd good match in them alright but over a season I think they will be in trouble come May.

frisbeeface

Benteke or Berba, what do people think? Is Ruiz fit again for Fulham?

LostBoy101

I'm not so sure about jumping on the Bale bandwagon as Aston Villa are a pretty poor side so I'm going to wait it out another week.

keane2097

frisbeeface wrote: »

Benteke or Berba, what do people think? Is Ruiz fit again for Fulham?

He came on today.

joeKel73

I'm looking at two transfers with a -4 hit, even though I said last week I wouldn't again!

Rooney > Suarez
Yaya Toure > Mata

I expect Rooney to drop in value (injured 'til 12 Jan) and Mata to maybe go up after a good performance again... so will probably put it through tonight. Bit uneasy getting rid of Yaya Toure when they've a few handy games coming up but Mata is really in form at the moment.

Lemlin

Gazzaniga (only 4 mil goalie who appears to have played) and Mata in for Jussi and Sterling.

Not a penny left in the bank.

Would have preferred to have got Bunn but he's 4.1 million now.

My front 7 is now Mata, Michu, Bale, Walcott, Torres, Suarez, RVP. With Puncheon to provide cover.

irish son

LostBoy101 wrote: »

I'm not so sure about jumping on the Bale bandwagon as Aston Villa are a pretty poor side so I'm going to wait it out another week.

I'd like to wait until the next game week too but he could easily rise .3m before then, may have to take another hit this week to avoid it.

A_Sober_Paddy

Thinking of this

Tevez out
Berba In

Yaya Out
Mata In

And that would leave 1.1 in the bank

Steven81

J o e wrote: »

I'm looking at two transfers with a -4 hit, even though I said last week I wouldn't again!

Rooney > Suarez
Yaya Toure > Mata

I expect Rooney to drop in value (injured 'til 12 Jan) and Mata to maybe go up after a good performance again... so will probably put it through tonight. Bit uneasy getting rid of Yaya Toure when they've a few handy games coming up but Mata is really in form at the moment.

Dont know if i will do the same or Yaya to Bale, will wait til after game to do Rooney to Suarez

G1032

Oh God. Gonna have to get Bale in. I'm also gonna have to take a hit to do it. Jussi + Silva out and Guzan?? + Bale in

jolim24601

G1032 wrote: »

Oh God. Gonna have to get Bale in. I'm also gonna have to take a hit to do it. Jussi + Silva out and Guzan?? + Bale in

wth is jussi injured or something? guzan is playing just awful goalkeeping i would not put him in unless someone paid me money to do it.

Fizman

Think I might leave Bale until next week, and do Rooney -> RVP tonight.

A_Sober_Paddy

jolim24601 wrote: »

wth is jussi injured or something? guzan is playing just awful goalkeeping i would not put him in unless someone paid me money to do it.

Didn't see todays game but Guzan was unlucky against Chelsea, could have done better for only 1 of the goals and still made a number of great saves

roryc

Think I need to get rid of Rafael this week, but prob gonna wait until tomorrow/Friday to make a decision. He goes down tonight but I won't lose anything in re-sale value until he goes down a second time this week.

Option 1 is Zabaleta who seems to be getting regular gametime for City and can score. City have Norwich up next and Stoke the following week, he could easily get 2 clean sheets here.

Another option is Gibbs leaving me 0.5m to upgrade Cazorla to Mata after his game against Southampton on Jan 1st. Arsenal have a horrible start the New Year whilst Chelsea are pretty strong, I'd like to do this swap but not until January. Mata is on the rise though, could even go up tonight.

Finally I can go budget and pick Davies of Swansea leaving me 1.8m in the bank. With this I could upgrade Cazorla to Mata AND Fletcher to Ba. This is looking the most likely option tbh.

Phoenix Park

I don't think Mata will play the next two games though. Hazard rested today, surely Rafa has a one game rest in mind for Mata too?

roryc

Phoenix Park wrote: »

I don't think Mata will play the next two games though. Hazard rested today, surely Rafa has a one game rest in mind for Mata too?

Hopefully! I don't want to get him in until January so could do with him being rested next game, might stop his price rising too.

Phoenix Park

roryc wrote: »

Hopefully! I don't want to get him in until January so could do with him being rested next game, might stop his price rising too.

I'm not sure obviously. If i were Rafa i'd pick him but what do i know. I don't have him myself but i've Rooney and Long up front which i wanted out tonight (i've two free transfers). However i want Mata in too soon enough and he's going to rise and rise over the next week or two. Therefore I might do Rooney to Berba, Sterling to Mata (which i can afford) and put up with Long as a third sub against United and hope to field 11 by the end of the matchday!

jolim24601

Phoenix Park wrote: »

I don't think Mata will play the next two games though. Hazard rested today, surely Rafa has a one game rest in mind for Mata too?

imo chelsea suck significantly harder without mata, kind of like tottenham without bale. i would think rafa plays him in every game.

qwabercd

Yet again my team has slowly but surely become a complete mess.

qwabercd

roryc wrote: »

Hopefully! I don't want to get him in until January so could do with him being rested next game, might stop his price rising too.

Same as. Planned to wait until jan wildcard to get bale and mata. Gonna pull the trigger on bale this week and wait it out with mata.

extra gravy

What are Tevez owners doing with him? I had originally planned on keeping him for the season but now not so sure.

Lemlin

extra gravy wrote: »

What are Tevez owners doing with him? I had originally planned on keeping him for the season but now not so sure.

I dumped him for Torres.

G1032

jolim24601 wrote: »

wth is jussi injured or something? guzan is playing just awful goalkeeping i would not put him in unless someone paid me money to do it.

I need money to buy Bale. Begovic is my other keeper. Guzan won't get a game. But I haven't looked yet at alternatives. He just came to mind.

G1032

Lemlin wrote: »

Gazzaniga (only 4 mil goalie who appears to have played) and Mata in for Jussi and Sterling.

Not a penny left in the bank.

He hasn't played in any of the last 3 matches

Shane732

Why are people ditching Nolan?

Rdg, Nor, Sun, DGW (QPR & Arsenal)

I wouldn't ditch Jaas at all. If anything I'll be looking to get an extra West Ham player in.

Shane732

roryc wrote: »

Think I need to get rid of Rafael this week, but prob gonna wait until tomorrow/Friday to make a decision. He goes down tonight but I won't lose anything in re-sale value until he goes down a second time this week.

Option 1 is Zabaleta who seems to be getting regular gametime for City and can score. City have Norwich up next and Stoke the following week, he could easily get 2 clean sheets here.

Another option is Gibbs leaving me 0.5m to upgrade Cazorla to Mata after his game against Southampton on Jan 1st. Arsenal have a horrible start the New Year whilst Chelsea are pretty strong, I'd like to do this swap but not until January. Mata is on the rise though, could even go up tonight.

Finally I can go budget and pick Davies of Swansea leaving me 1.8m in the bank. With this I could upgrade Cazorla to Mata AND Fletcher to Ba. This is looking the most likely option tbh.

I'd hold on to Rafael. I am anyway. Next two games are WBA and Wigan. If United are going to keep clean sheets at all this season they should certainly pick one up over the next two gameweeks and you'd expect them to pick two up.

United have Liverpool and Spurs after that. I'd give Rafael two weeks.

Naturally that's assuming he'll be fit for the next match. If anyone knows for definite that he won't be - tell me!! I'll need to ditch him.