Gameweek 15 Transfers.

I've avoided Ozil til now so will continue to do so. Stubborn like that.

Looking at next six fixtures it's hard to nail down who to bring in. Arsenal play Villa, Bournemouth and Newcastle in 3 of their next 6 games so I'll take in Ramsey who was a player I wanted just before he got injured.

I think now is the time for a Chelsea defender. They are starting to get it together and their next 6 games look like 6 clean sheets. It'll be Ivanovic or Zouma.

Aenaes

Sanchez out, Coutinho in.

mcgettigan16

Torn between Ozil and Hazard to replace Sanchez

SantryRed

At this stage, anyone without Ozil is nuts, especially looking at Arsenal's upcoming fixtures!

But sure what do I know, I still don't have Vardy :pac:

Ace2007

mcgettigan16 wrote: »

Torn between Ozil and Hazard to replace Sanchez

How exactly are you torn, one guy is in form the other guy isn't.

SantryRed

SantryRed wrote: »

At this stage, anyone without Ozil is nuts, especially looking at Arsenal's upcoming fixtures!

But sure what do I know, I still don't have Vardy :pac:

I say stubborn and you say nuts. Expect Ramsey to score a few in his next 6 fixtures.

Arsenal team really suffering from injuries. An injury to Ozil would make their first 11 look very very ordinary.

mcgettigan16

Ozil is the form player and the logical replacement but something is telling me to take a chance on the Belgian. Good fixtures as well.

Mr. Guappa

I will lose out on resale value with a Sanchez drop tonight. May just leave it though as I need more time to assess the situation.

Current midfield is:
KDB - Ozil - Mahrez - Sanchez - Drinkwater

Under consideration for my Sanchez replacement are Coutinho, Hazard and Barkley.

Benimar

mcgettigan16 wrote: »

Ozil is the form player and the logical replacement but something is telling me to take a chance on the Belgian. Good fixtures as well.

10.9m is a lot to pay for a player with 1 goal, 3 assists and 2 BPs all season. His 'goal' was actually an og by an Arsenal player as it happens!

Chelsea have scored 3 goals in their last 5 league games, supposedly their best stretch of performances this season.

Hazard isn't on corners or free kicks and only might be on penalties.

I wouldn't touch him until he starts getting some FF returns.

EDIT: Chelsea have a must-not-lose CL game coming up which could lead to rotation.

OneColdHand

Ugh, Sanchez is dropping tonight. Again.

Really don't like making transfers this early in the week. For some reason doubling up on Silva and KDB is appealing to me so could bring in Silva. On the other hand, Liverpool have great fixtures, so Coutinho is appealing. If I got Milner in, that would be enough banked to bring in Aguero.

Tough decision. Might suck up the Sanchez drop to give me a bit of time to think about it.

Edit: anyone know why Coutinho didn't play this weekend?

iroced

Sanchez to Ozil. Tonight. Can't afford to wait this week. And Ozil seems guaranteed to get a £0.3m rise. At this point he's almost needed as a blocker.

OneColdHand wrote: »

Edit: anyone know why Coutinho didn't play this weekend?

He was injured in the Europa league game IIRC. Don't know for how long. Apparently not too serious.

mcgettigan16

Benimar wrote: »

10.9m is a lot to pay for a player with 1 goal, 3 assists and 2 BPs all season. His 'goal' was actually an og by an Arsenal player as it happens!

Chelsea have scored 3 goals in their last 5 league games, supposedly their best stretch of performances this season.

Hazard isn't on corners or free kicks and only might be on penalties.

I wouldn't touch him until he starts getting some FF returns.

EDIT: Chelsea have a must-not-lose CL game coming up which could lead to rotation.

Played safe and went with googly eyes

FrClintPower

OneColdHand wrote: »

Ugh, Sanchez is dropping tonight. Again.

Really don't like making transfers this early in the week. For some reason doubling up on Silva and KDB is appealing to me so could bring in Silva. On the other hand, Liverpool have great fixtures, so Coutinho is appealing. If I got Milner in, that would be enough banked to bring in Aguero.

Tough decision. Might suck up the Sanchez drop to give me a bit of time to think about it.

Edit: anyone know why Coutinho didn't play this weekend?

He went off with a bit of a hammy against City, trained later in the week and Klopp said he was 50/50 for today. Can see him back next week.

Ace2007

iroced wrote: »

Sanchez to Ozil. Tonight. Can't afford to wait this week. And Ozil seems guaranteed to get a £0.3m rise. At this point he's almost needed as a blocker.


He was injured in the Europa league game IIRC. Don't know for how long. Apparently not too serious.

Did he play the Europa league match? he went off against city the week before with some sort of hamstring injury.

FHFC

FrClintPower wrote: »

He went off with a bit of a hammy against City, trained later in the week and Klopp said he was 50/50 for today. Can see him back next week.

Klopp has said he'll be available for the C1 Cup game on Wed.

And because of those C1 games I'm considering taking the 0.1 drop on Sanchez and waiting to decide my replacement. Bringing in KdB who has a game on Tuesday would be risky.

iroced

Ace2007 wrote: »

Did he play the Europa league match? he went off against city the week before with some sort of hamstring injury.

Yeah you're right. That was against City! Missed 2 games for an apparently not serious injury. But then maybe he'll be back on fire and Klopp will look a lot more clever than Pellegrini & Wenger who sound like enjoying seeing Aguero & Sanchez having injury relapses over and over again :rolleyes:...

Ace2007

FHFC wrote: »

Klopp has said he'll be available for the C1 Cup game on Wed.

And because of those C1 games I'm considering taking the 0.1 drop on Sanchez and waiting to decide my replacement. Bringing in KdB who has a game on Tuesday would be risky.

Klopp also made a comment after the city game about his injury not being serious, yet he's missed 2 games. why would they risk him in the C1 cup, if he donut's play, that

a) increase rest time makes his available for next GW.
b) means injury worse than expected, may be out for a while.

Aenaes

Klopp: “Philippe had a very intensive session yesterday but we decided two or three days ago that we didn’t want to risk [him] for this game. Now I think he’s fit. I saw him in the dressing room and he looks good. I’ll have to talk with him tomorrow – I think he’s ready for Southampton.”

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/199170-boss-coutinho-should-be-ready-for-southampton

Running Balance

What do people think of KDB for sanchez. Though I see everton have a relatively easy 5 matches and thinking Barkley

FHFC

Yep. Leaving Sanchez till later in the week. Some key league cup games to see how things are for Coutinho, Aguero among others, while most of my potential aquisitions have a game so injury risks everywhere.

MarkSRFC21

Sanchez to kdb done. Kills me to get a player back in the week after I sold him, but I need to swallow my pride and bite the bullet. Was considering silva but kdb is safer atm and I'm not in a position to take risks as it is. But I'm happy with a midfield of KDB- Ozil- Barkley- Mahrez for the time being.

MarkSRFC21

Running Balance wrote: »

What do people think of KDB for sanchez. Though I see everton have a relatively easy 5 matches and thinking Barkley

What's the rest of your midfield

Potential Underachiever

Have 2 FT's.just used one on Sanchez to Alli to avoid the drop. I was planning on making Alli my 5th midfielder anyway, now I have to replace Scott Sinclair later in the week when I assess some players, Barkley and Coutinho looking likely candidates. Have 8.4m to add to the squad somewhere.

2nd Row Donkey

Potential Underachiever wrote:

Have 2 FT's.just used one on Sanchez to Alli to avoid the drop. I was planning on making Alli my 5th midfielder anyway, now I have to replace Scott Sinclair later in the week when I assess some players, Barkley and Coutinho looking likely candidates. Have 8.4m to add to the squad somewhere.

I too have Sanchez and Sinclair who I'll be getting rid of for Alli and a.n.other

My other midfielders are KDB, Mahrez, Kouyate (god knows why) and Barkley.

I can see myself playing Alli a lot and leaving Kouyte as my 5th MF.

bohsman

Sanchez to Ozil looks the obvious move but may do Couthino instead looking at Liverpools fixtures. Leaves me more than enough to do Vardy to Aguero next week.

Dubliner28

What's the latest on Kun & Sanchez.

Will hold off until Friday as usual & after league cup games.

Plan was to offload Kolorov or Williams/Cediric for Alderweireld.

But with Sanchez injury may just bench him and keep 2 FT to bring in Kun for GW 16

Team @ the moment is

Myhill (Schmeichel)
Kolarov Dann Cédric (Francis, Williams)
De Bruyne Barkley Özil Mahrez (Alexis)
Ighalo Vardy Lukaku

Tempted by a 3-4-3 this GW.


Taughts?

FHFC

Dubliner28 wrote: »

What's the latest on Kun & Sanchez.

Will hold off until Friday as usual & after league cup games.

Plan was to offload Kolorov or Williams/Cediric for Alderweireld.

But with Sanchez injury may just bench him and keep 2 FT to bring in Kun for GW 16

Team @ the moment is

Myhill (Schmeichel)
Kolarov Dann Cédric (Francis, Williams)
De Bruyne Barkley Özil Mahrez (Alexis)
Ighalo Vardy Lukaku

Tempted by a 3-4-3 this GW.


Taughts?

Agüero a doubt for Stoke according to the Guardian. See injuries thread.

stephenl15

Francis to Dier, Moreno or Alderweireld? Is Alder worth the extra? I'm thinking he is, Dier has only received bonus points in one game all season

Cartman78

0.7M in the bank.....tempted to get rid of either Kompany or Bellerin for either Dann or Nyom.

Have too much money tied up in Kompany for him to be sitting up the bench injured and Bellerin has been a poor performer for me all along

sheroman01

Ozil in for Sanchez done, but considering a mini clean-up and taking -8 for Zouma+Kane in, Davies+Aguero out. Will mull over it for the week.