Gameweek 3 transfers

Monsieur Folie

Nuts102 wrote: »

Just my personal opinion i think Chelsea will concede the fewest goals this season in the league. I think you need either a Chelsea defender or a keeper.

I have also got Debuchy for Arsenal i think they will keep clean sheets. So i would say every week i will start those two.

Then i have three cheap defenders Moore 4.0, Wisdom 4.0 and Collocini at 4.5 who are all regulars. So each week depending on fixtures i can decide which of those three i think is more likely to get a clean sheet.

Looking at this week Collocini is at home to a poor Crystal Palace and they have a good chance of a clean sheet.

Thanks for the advice, it's helpful!

You seem to have a fairly solid defence there with two definite starters each week. Does it effect your front line at all, or do your three cheap defenders leave you with enough cash to invest up front? A lot of people seem to have some Chelsea input in defence so I'll need to work towards Terry in defence I think or risk falling behind. I would go for the keeper but I am liking the sound of Krul/Elliot combo for keeper myself to at least guarantee a starter each week and hopefully a few clean sheets for cheap. I currently have De Gea/Howard which aside from being ineffective so far is a complete waste of cash!

I'm laughing at the 50000 people who have transferred out Rooney this week when united just bought Di Maria. They are hardly going to bench the club captain.

Lemlin

Paully D wrote: »

That's what I'm looking at presently too.

I'd also be tempted to throw Lloris in goal and leave him. Then just rotate cheap defenders every week.

That'd give me a front line of Adebayor, Aguero and Costa with Hazard, Ramsey and Sigurdsson plus a £7m-£7.5m in midfield, but anyway, that's a few weeks away for me at this stage and will change dramatically by the time I wildcard no doubt. :pac:

I'm holding off on the wildcard too. Going to give things time to settle. It's also easy to because I'm very happy with how things have gone so far. It's been my best start in a while.

I can't see myself holding the WC past GW6 though.

Paully D

Lemlin wrote: »

I'm holding off on the wildcard too. Going to give things time to settle. It's also easy to because I'm very happy with how things have gone so far. It's been my best start in a while.

I can't see myself holding the WC past GW6 though.

I agree with all of that. I'm on 125 points at the minute which is one of, if not my best ever start.

If I could make it into GW5 without touching the wildcard and getting by on my FT's I'd be delighted. Barring a disaster I should be able to do that.

Manchester City and Liverpool's fixtures really pick up from GW6 onwards, while Manchester United's soon after that start to revert back to normality. I'll be aiming at using my wildcard ahead of GW6 to start moving out the Manchester United players (I have 3 at present, 2 too many probably) and starting to get the likes of Aguero on board.

Lucas Hood

Nuts102 wrote: »

Lahm has been playing in midfield and lb in recent years. Zabaleta is the best rb in the world.

Cool story Bro.

kennyb3

Paully D wrote: »

I agree with all of that. I'm on 125 points at the minute which is one of, if not my best ever start.

If I could make it into GW5 without touching the wildcard and getting by on my FT's I'd be delighted. Barring a disaster I should be able to do that.

Manchester City and Liverpool's fixtures really pick up from GW6 onwards, while Manchester United's soon after that start to revert back to normality. I'll be aiming at using my wildcard ahead of GW6 to start moving out the Manchester United players (I have 3 at present, 2 too many probably) and starting to get the likes of Aguero on board.

+1, the way the fixtures are stacked this year - it makes total sense. Big switch from united to city players for GW6. Also Hull's fixtures turn awful.

Arnold Tanzarian

Right.
Someone tell me what they think of this team. Have my wildcard activated and have changed it up a bit after some helpful comments earlier. Here it is. Lemlin please tell me what you think. I think its a much more balanced team from the one i posted earlier and has much more goalscoring potential with aguero.

Mcgregor

Coleman Dummet O Shea

Sigurdsson Fabregas Mata Henderson Ramsey

Costa Aguero

Subs: Myill Naismith Moore Wisdom

qwabercd

^Lemlin has a big admirer

Swiper the fox

qwabercd wrote: »

^Lemlin has a big admirer

Boards doesn't have appropriate smilies for times like this, has anybody got a good gif to express these sentiments.
Lemlin isn't the blushing type I'd say!

He'll probably be at Lemlin's throat at some stage (who hasn't been;)) and we'll have this to come back with.

Lemlin

Arnold Tanzarian wrote: »

Right.
Someone tell me what they think of this team. Have my wildcard activated and have changed it up a bit after some helpful comments earlier. Here it is. Lemlin please tell me what you think. I think its a much more balanced team from the one i posted earlier and has much more goalscoring potential with aguero.

Mcgregor

Coleman Dummet O Shea

Sigurdsson Fabregas Mata Henderson Ramsey

Costa Aguero

Subs: Myill Naismith Moore Wisdom

Well seing as you singled me out....

Goalkeeper: I'd try and upgrade to Lloris. He's only .5 mil more expensive isn't he?

Defence: Coleman is way overpriced at 7 million. If you want an expensive defender, Chelsea are the only team I'd go with. I'd also go with van Aanholt over O'Shea and would try to work Coloccini in ahead of Dummett. You are leaving yourself a bit short with Dummett and Wisdom as both are in danger of losing their places when others are fit.

Midfield/attack: Looks good to me but I'd drop either Henderson/Naismith for the cheapest player available in that position. The last thing you want to do is leave yourself with a dilemma of who you will play. You'll either go 3-4-3 or 3-5-2 so pick one and stick to it. I'd probably take Hendo out for someone 4.5 and use the 1.5 mil elsewhere if it were me.

Mr.Prodston

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Boards doesn't have appropriate smilies for times like this, has anybody got a good gif to express these sentiments.
Lemlin isn't the blushing type I'd say!

He'll probably be at Lemlin's throat at some stage (who hasn't been;)) and we'll have this to come back with.

How about this?

Edit: I can do better....

SQLDBA

Is Balotelli worth 10 million?

OneColdHand

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

How about this?

Edit: I can do better....

I think your jealous that you weren't asked! Don't worry, I'm sure your time will come*!



*Who should I bring in for Giroud?!

Chesty08

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm laughing at the 50000 people who have transferred out Rooney this week when united just bought Di Maria. They are hardly going to bench the club captain.

It is because Super Mario has arrived!

plus Rooney is contributing zero

HighClass

Chester out Blackett in. Fancy United to keep a clean sheet against Burnley, just hope he gets the full 90.

Nalz

HighClass wrote: »

Chester out Blackett in. Fancy United to keep a clean sheet against Burnley, just hope he gets the full 90.

Rojo and Evans could feature?

Mr.Prodston

OneColdHand wrote: »

I think your jealous that you weren't asked! Don't worry, I'm sure your time will come*!



*Who should I bring in for Giroud?!

I don't need people to ask, and they know better than ask the local crazy man anyway :pac:

Andreas Weimann, to answer your question. Only slightly in jest.

OneColdHand

Anyone have any opinion on when Adebayor might go up? Want to get him in before a price rise, but would like to leave it as close to the weekend as possible.

Bleating Lamb

Have De Gea and Myhill as my keepers at mo...so not exactly working out!!!

Have used my FT to dump Bojan for Jovetivic this week.
Seems Krul or Guzan are best cheaper GK options.....thinking of getting rid of De Gea and using the extra funds to buy likes of Aguero later.
What decent 4m keeper rotates well with either Guzan or Krul?
Cheers for any replies on this one.

Arnold Tanzarian

Lemlin wrote: »

Well seing as you singled me out....

Goalkeeper: I'd try and upgrade to Lloris. He's only .5 mil more expensive isn't he?

Defence: Coleman is way overpriced at 7 million. If you want an expensive defender, Chelsea are the only team I'd go with. I'd also go with van Aanholt over O'Shea and would try to work Coloccini in ahead of Dummett. You are leaving yourself a bit short with Dummett and Wisdom as both are in danger of losing their places when others are fit.

Midfield/attack: Looks good to me but I'd drop either Henderson/Naismith for the cheapest player available in that position. The last thing you want to do is leave yourself with a dilemma of who you will play. You'll either go 3-4-3 or 3-5-2 so pick one and stick to it. I'd probably take Hendo out for someone 4.5 and use the 1.5 mil elsewhere if it were me.

Thank you very much man, appreaciate it!

Ive gone lloris in goals now and replaced coleman with Ivanovic and changed o shea to van aanholt. Im sure Dummet will be playing for another few weeks to be honest. And if i take out henderson i have no liverpool cover, I had coloccini in my team and watching the last newcastle match he didnt ever cross the halfway line so not having him dosnt bother me as i dont think they will rack up many clean sheets. This selection still leaves me with a dilemma alright, but finding it hard to drop either henderson or naismith, think there are the best options for the price range to be honest.

HighClass

Trilla wrote: »

Rojo and Evans could feature?

Yeah, but I can't afford them! Rojo will more than likely be playing this weekend but Evans is still carrying a knock so hopefully it keeps him out!

Lemlin

Arnold Tanzarian wrote: »

Thank you very much man, appreaciate it!

Ive gone lloris in goals now and replaced coleman with Ivanovic and changed o shea to van aanholt. Im sure Dummet will be playing for another few weeks to be honest. And if i take out henderson i have no liverpool cover, I had coloccini in my team and watching the last newcastle match he didnt ever cross the halfway line so not having him dosnt bother me as i dont think they will rack up many clean sheets. This selection still leaves me with a dilemma alright, but finding it hard to drop either henderson or naismith, think there are the best options for the price range to be honest.

The point of "cover" is that you try to have the best player available from each team IMO. I would see getting cover from a team as the following players who all have the potential to be the top points scorer for that team:

Chelsea - Costa/Fabregas/Hazard
United - Mata/Rooney/RVP
Liverpool - Sterling/Sturridge
Man City - Aguero/Yaya/Silva
Arsenal - Ramsey/Giroud/Walcott

Henderson I would not class as cover. Not in a million years has he a chance of being the top points scorer at Liverpool.

Ziegler1988

Arnold Tanzarian wrote: »

Thank you very much man, appreaciate it!

Ive gone lloris in goals now and replaced coleman with Ivanovic and changed o shea to van aanholt. Im sure Dummet will be playing for another few weeks to be honest. And if i take out henderson i have no liverpool cover, I had coloccini in my team and watching the last newcastle match he didnt ever cross the halfway line so not having him dosnt bother me as i dont think they will rack up many clean sheets. This selection still leaves me with a dilemma alright, but finding it hard to drop either henderson or naismith, think there are the best options for the price range to be honest.

Cleanies are the majority of a defender's point haul, so there's no point in picking Dummett if you don't think Newcastle will keep clean sheets. This is a good article to follow for defender bonus points: http://development.totalfpl.com/Articles/313/defender-bonus-point-weekly-gw2

Lucas Hood

HighClass wrote: »

Yeah, but I can't afford them! Rojo will more than likely be playing this weekend but Evans is still carrying a knock so hopefully it keeps him out!

Seems a very risky short term move.

PARlance

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Boards doesn't have appropriate smilies for times like this, has anybody got a good gif to express these sentiments.
Lemlin isn't the blushing type I'd say!

He'll probably be at Lemlin's throat at some stage (who hasn't been;)) and we'll have this to come back with.

Not a gif but why have a gif when you can indulge yourself for over 3 mins

wonski

PARlance wrote: »

Not a gif but why have a gif when you can indulge yourself for over 3 mins

Warn me when you post something like this again, please.

PARlance

wonski wrote: »

Warn me when you post something like this again, please.

I know, it's catchy

Backstreet Moyes

HighClass wrote: »

Yeah, but I can't afford them! Rojo will more than likely be playing this weekend but Evans is still carrying a knock so hopefully it keeps him out!

Evans could feature tonight and Rojo didn't get work permit clearance yet.

Mr.Prodston

PARlance wrote: »

Not a gif but why have a gif when you can indulge yourself for over 3 mins

Oh you

Iused2likebusts

Chesty08 wrote: »

It is because Super Mario has arrived!

plus Rooney is contributing zero

A goal every 2 games for a 10.5 striker is decent. Really don't see the rush with getting in Mario. I do think his ff stats will be better than when he was at city as he will play more but for 10 million I wouldn't be taking the plunge yet if ever.