Rate My Team thread

GillespieRoad

Advice on this team? Jajelka is out for four weeks, so definitely looking to get rid of him, can't find a good alternative though. Thinking of keeping Ramsey because of the cost back and the relatively short layoff time. Any suggestions here?

G1032

GillespieRoad wrote: »

Advice on this team? Jajelka is out for four weeks, so definitely looking to get rid of him, can't find a good alternative though. Thinking of keeping Ramsey because of the cost back and the relatively short layoff time. Any suggestions here?

Jag to Mertesacker, before Merts price rises any more
Edit - Just saw you can't do that. I don't see the point in holding onto Ramsey though....

Michael D Not Higgins

GillespieRoad wrote: »

Advice on this team? Jajelka is out for four weeks, so definitely looking to get rid of him, can't find a good alternative though. Thinking of keeping Ramsey because of the cost back and the relatively short layoff time. Any suggestions here?

Jag and Rambo out, Merts and Hazard in

sanket

This forum is truly amazing..got hooked to it just 10 days back and graciously fortinet doesnt block it ...anyways back to the topic

After a lot of thought changed my team with two FT

GK - Krul (Gazza)
DEF- Kos,Mert,Coleman,Clyne,Whittaker,
MID- Haz,Walcott,Sterling,Silva,Barkley
FWD-Lukaku,Suarez,Negredo.

Doubled up on the arsenal defence after seeing their fixtures and many were recommending the same.
Now i need a good goalie as Krul is facing CHE and MANC at home and away games are not so disciplined.
Need some $$ to fit rooney in but not sure whom to sacrifice...Just 0.2M in the bank

Any suggestions..

Lemlin

sanket wrote: »

This forum is truly amazing..got hooked to it just 10 days back and graciously fortinet doesnt block it ...anyways back to the topic

After a lot of thought changed my team with two FT

GK - Krul (Gazza)
DEF- Kos,Mert,Coleman,Clyne,Whittaker,
MID- Haz,Walcott,Sterling,Silva,Barkley
FWD-Lukaku,Suarez,Negredo.

Doubled up on the arsenal defence after seeing their fixtures and many were recommending the same.
Now i need a good goalie as Krul is facing CHE and MANC at home and away games are not so disciplined.
Need some $$ to fit rooney in but not sure whom to sacrifice...Just 0.2M in the bank

Any suggestions..

Mannone from Sunderland or McGregor at Hull.

Nalz

Lemlin wrote: »

Mannone from Sunderland or McGregor at Hull.

Agree with both. Tough one as Hull are organized and Sunderland are tightening up at the back.

Which leads me to one of my two questions, what you guys reckon about starting Mannone over DeGea? And should I take a 4 point hit to sell Hazard for Walcott (I already sold Ivanovic for Met this GW)

sanket

Walcott is doubtful for tomorrow's game..Read it somewhere..wouldnt bet walcott against Hazard, he is on a scoring spree.. :pac::pac:

PARlance

sanket wrote: »

Walcott is doubtful for tomorrow's game..Read it somewhere..wouldnt bet walcott against Hazard, he is on a scoring spree.. :pac::pac:

I just logged onto the forum to see if there was any of this talk.

Got a text from a mate saying he transferred him in last night but that he's a doubt now... The same mate takes the p*ss too often to be trusted... Did not want to see any other talk of it on here :mad:

Glad I've held onto my transfers

sionnach

Happy enough with my team except for Mirallas, just hasn't been worth his pricetag at all for me.
At the moment my plan is to bring in Navas instead of him after tomorrow, downgrading Fonte to Chester to afford it.
Any better suggestions? Only £0.2m in the bank.

8-10

sionnach wrote: »

Happy enough with my team except for Mirallas, just hasn't been worth his pricetag at all for me.
At the moment my plan is to bring in Navas instead of him after tomorrow, downgrading Fonte to Chester to afford it.
Any better suggestions? Only £0.2m in the bank.

Nope, I think that's an excellent move to get attacking City cover and will give you a more solid team overall.

Looks excellent really, what's your overall rank?

carraig2

8-10 wrote: »

Nope, I think that's an excellent move to get attacking City cover and will give you a more solid team overall.

Looks excellent really, what's your overall rank?

+1 great team

roryc

Really happy with this team at the minute. Have £1.2m in the bank to transfer Nasri out for Silva next week with my FT, and barring injury I'm set for January. Won't be using the wildcard until end of Jan when I'll reassess and see how Aguero/Ramsey are looking. Will need to dump Howard and Sagna too.

sionnach

8-10 wrote: »

Nope, I think that's an excellent move to get attacking City cover and will give you a more solid team overall.

Looks excellent really, what's your overall rank?

Around 32,000th place Had an absolutely atrocious streak of bad luck in captain choice first 10 games or so

moreau

Nice team rory, a lot of teams will look similar after WC. Really wish there was only one WC. Looking forward to when Kun comes back, at least ppl will have to choose holy trinity (Kun, Roo, luis) or not. Everything looking so template now and will be even worse after WC!

moreau

Looking again at your team rory, I guess the one player to make u sweat is yaya. But u can't have em all!

roryc

Yeah one wildcard would be so much better, it's a lifeline to players who have made a mess of their team. At the same time it gives an incentive to players losing interest so overall I guess it's good for the game.

Yaya definitely worries me, as will Ramsey on his return. Aguero is a must imo, and if Rooney continues to deliver and Lukaku continues to be inconsistent then I'll use the WC to bring Aguero back. I can actually do it easily enough.

Howard, Sagna, Lukaku OUT
McGregor, £4m defender, Aguero IN

A lot will change between now and end of Jan though, and I don't want Nasri in my team.

Dearg81

Lemlin wrote: »

Mannone from Sunderland or McGregor at Hull.

I'd go with Mannone cos of the fixtures, Sunderlands home fixtures are much better than Hulls for the rest of the season.

Lemlin

Dearg81 wrote: »

I'd go with Mannone cos of the fixtures, Sunderlands home fixtures are much better than Hulls for the rest of the season.

I'm going with both and will rotate them. Two starting keepers for 8.7 mil can't be sniffed at.

SureYWouldntYa

Used the January wildcard, anyone got any suggestions on how to improve the team ?

Cech, McGregor
Coleman, Baines, Shaw, Agger, Baker
Whittingham, Fer, Januzaj, Ward-Prowse, Hazard
Lukaku, Rooney, Suarez

PARlance

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Used the January wildcard, anyone got any suggestions on how to improve the team ?

Cech, McGregor
Coleman, Baines, Shaw, Agger, Baker
Whittingham, Fer, Januzaj, Ward-Prowse, Hazard
Lukaku, Rooney, Suarez

How much money in the bank?
Midfield needs to be strengthened, you've probably too much money tied up in the 2 everton defenders.

DJKendo

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Used the January wildcard, anyone got any suggestions on how to improve the team ?

Cech, McGregor
Coleman, Baines, Shaw, Agger, Baker
Whittingham, Fer, Januzaj, Ward-Prowse, Hazard
Lukaku, Rooney, Suarez

Is this the team that will be the result of your wildcard? Pretty awful if so.

Midfield is very weak. Get rid of Coleman and upgrade Fer to Cabaye or even to Sterling. Baines is enough of an Everton defense and should be a good differential for a few weeks until people ship out Coleman for him.

Ward-Prowse hasn't been starting at all recently and has no form to go by. Need to change him.

Agger isn't a consistent starter at all for Liverpool and their defensive record is awful really. Not having an Arsenal defender (or player at all) is bad. Change Agger to Koscielny/Mertesacker.

Could look into changing Cech for a cheaper keeper. Expensive goalkeepers haven't proved to be worth it this year imo.

Should try and fit in Walcott somewhere too. Lukaku - Negredo aswell imo until Aguero is back. Then him.

NinjaTruncs

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Used the January wildcard, anyone got any suggestions on how to improve the team ?

Cech, McGregor
Coleman, Baines, Shaw, Agger, Baker
Whittingham, Fer, Januzaj, Ward-Prowse, Hazard
Lukaku, Rooney, Suarez

That's a really weak MF in my opinion. neither Januzaj or WP are playing full matches, Mutch would be a better option imo. Also why the aversion to Arsenal, they have some of the top points scores in each position, Baines -> Koscienly/Sanga may allow you to get Walcott in Midfield.

NinjaTruncs

Any comments on the following WC team

Howard - Mannone
Coleman - Bardsley - Kos - Chester - Ward
Mutch - Walcott - Hazard - Ramsey - Yaya
Suarez - Lukaku - Aguero/Rooney

Bolded players would be coming in.
If I do the WC in the next week or so I'll keep Rooney and sway him for Aguero later in the month.

8-10

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

Any comments on the following WC team

Howard - Mannone
Coleman - Bardsley - Kos - Chester - Ward
Mutch - Walcott - Hazard - Ramsey - Yaya
Suarez - Lukaku - Aguero/Rooney

Bolded players would be coming in.
If I do the WC in the next week or so I'll keep Rooney and sway him for Aguero later in the month.

Absolutely no point in having Bardsley AND Mannone. Sunderland are deservedly bottom, not a team to double up on at the back. Also would wait until last week of Jan for new signings, as it stands Rooney will be the only starter in your new wildcard team. No point playing wildcard next week just to get 1 more starter. Your team has a good spine, and one you want to keep. So, presuming you've played your other wildcard, you can afford to wait on playing until last possible week to make the right tweaks for the remainder

Just my opinion of course. Not trying to tell you what to do!

Deise Vu

I think this is pretty good. I am using the wildcard mainly to strengthen the subs bench which cost me recently when Ozil, Yaya and Rooney all missed one one day:

McGregor / Mannone
Coleman Nastasic Koscielny Chambers Chester
Yaya Ozil Hazard Sissoko Delph
Adeboyer Suarez Rooney

Value £106.9M, All the money will be on the pitch with decent subs if needed. The wildcards are in bold. Any comments?

kronsington

Hey lads here's my team as it stands with the wildcard in play. Very much not sure about it right now. Is Baines too pricey to have? Not sure about Eriksen either. All thoughts welcome. Sticking with this side I've no money in the bank

Krul, Mannone
Baines, ward, shaw, Evans, Celutska
Silva, Mutch, Hazard, Eriksen, Assaidi
Rooney, Rodriguez, Suarez

Dubliner28

Team at the minute

Krul McGregor
McAuley Fonte Coleman Ivanovic Whitater
Sissoko Cazorla Hazard Sterling Ramsey
Rodriguez Suárez Lukaku

Badly need by wild card , to get a new defence. Happy with midfield and forwards..
Any ideas on defence. Wilkinson , haven't got to may clean sheets and that's what is killing me

BNMC

Deise Vu wrote: »

I think this is pretty good. I am using the wildcard mainly to strengthen the subs bench which cost me recently when Ozil, Yaya and Rooney all missed one one day:

McGregor / Mannone
Coleman Nastasic Koscielny Chambers Chester
Yaya Ozil Hazard Sissoko Delph
Adeboyer Suarez Rooney

Value £106.9M, All the money will be on the pitch with decent subs if needed. The wildcards are in bold. Any comments?

I'd get rid of Mannone, Sunderland will not keep many CSs. Will Chambers play week in week out? Replace with Ward of CP IMO. I'd swap Sissoko for Barkley too.

kronsington wrote: »

Hey lads here's my team as it stands with the wildcard in play. Very much not sure about it right now. Is Baines too pricey to have? Not sure about Eriksen either. All thoughts welcome. Sticking with this side I've no money in the bank

Krul, Mannone
Baines, ward, shaw, Evans, Celutska
Silva, Mutch, Hazard, Eriksen, Assaidi
Rooney, Rodriguez, Suarez

Yes, swap for Coleman. I brought Eriksen in the other day so hopefully he will do the business, has decent fixtures in his next few games, he's worth keeping before you wildcard IMO.

Dubliner28 wrote: »

Team at the minute

Krul McGregor
McAuley Fonte Coleman Ivanovic Whitater
Sissoko Cazorla Hazard Sterling Ramsey
Rodriguez Suárez Lukaku

Badly need by wild card , to get a new defence. Happy with midfield and forwards..
Any ideas on defence. Wilkinson , haven't got to may clean sheets and that's what is killing me

You need to get in some Arsenal cover in your defence and get rid of Whittaker, Norwich defence is shambolic ATM. Again, Chester of Hull, Gabbidon or Ward are a lot better value.

Deise Vu

BNMC wrote: »

I'd get rid of Mannone, Sunderland will not keep many CSs. Will Chambers play week in week out? Replace with Ward of CP IMO. I'd swap Sissoko for Barkley too.

Keepers are funny. Often the best value is with the teams who will be under pressure. As long as they are not shipping too many goals they will rack up 'saves' and bonus points. Mannone has scored 10 points in three of the last 8 Sunderland matches and they have tightened up under Poyet. There aren't many alternatives at the price.

Edit: I will also be alternating him with McGregor when fixtures suit. They dovetail regarding home and away.

Chambers has played all bar 3 miniutes of Southamptons last 6 matches. I saw him in their game V Spurs and I thought he looked useful plus likely to get forward. In any case he is not on my starting team, I only need him or Chester to be playing in the event my main 3 defenders don't play. The main attraction is the 3.9M price tag for a recent regular on a decent team. As I said earlier it is best to have the money on the pitch not on the bench.

Sissoko plays every minute, I had Barkley in my squad earlier on this season, he has too many substitute appearances for my liking.

AdMMM

Pre-wildcard. I have to say I'm pretty happy with the team as it stands, except for what could be an over-reliance on Everton. Could possibly go for the trendy Mannone/Marshall rotation to save a few quid.

How does Colback -> Gnabry, Lukaku -> Rodriguez and Barkley -> Cabaye sound?