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2016/17 FPL Rate My Team Thread
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Am looking to break the template a bit :
GK : Template
Def: Close to Template
Mid: Before this season, would you ever think you could put Sanchez, Hazard and Aguero in the same side and not have it completely unbalanced ?
Sanchez: Looks like he's playing from the off and is on the back of serious form. He's not been widely mentioned on the forum and I'm worried that we're going down the road of group think. I realise Arsenal fixtures aren't fantastic but has this ever stopped an in form Sanchez in the past ?
Att : I've had Ibra in every draft along with Aguero since day 1. The charity shield shows us that he's a serious operator and only needs the sniff of a chance. Is he that much better than transferring in/out the 7.5 downwards options with best form/fixtures ?
There are some serious players in this category. Wilson, Carrol, Gray, Benteke (Crystal Palace looks a cert after Bolasie)to mention but a few.
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Good team but it adds up to 100.5 million.Okay, here's where I'm currently at. I'll be away on Friday night and unlikely to be sober enough to get near my team on Saturday so I basically need to have it all but done by Thursday. There's some duplication from my last post 10 days ago, but some new stuff too. Bare in mind that this is a team that will be undergoing a wildcard after GW3:
Goalkeepers: I'm happy to go as cheap as possible here and a pick for Foster is a pick for Pulis, and a pick for Pulis is a pick for clean sheets. They open the season with 2 home games out of the first 3, taking on pal, EVE, and newly promoted MID. Jakupovic should start the season as Hull's #1 due to injury and while I'd expect them to have a very rough season, he gives me a playing bench option at the cheapest price possible for a few weeks. You can't ask for more than that.
Defenders: I can see Zouma/Shaw/Stones being my 3 plug in and play season keeper options at the back this year but to injuries, Terry should start the first few weeks at least and it's pretty much a straight swap then. Shaw doesn't need too much explanation. I don't know if Stones will start the 1st game but I'd expect him to start GW2. Even if he doesn't start the first I'm very happy with Friend's fixture in the meantime to switch in. Boro kept clean sheets in almost 50% of their games last season and had 9 in a row at one stage. Obviously it's a huge step up, but Karanka loves to keep things nice and tight and STO, sun, wba gives them a solid start. I'm happy to roll the dice on Brad Smith or Jordi Amat at 4.0m as things stand.
That defence will give me the following games for the first 3 weeks:
GW1 - WHU, bou, SUN (or STO)
GW2 - SOU, wat, sto (or sun)
GW3 - WHU, hul, BUR
Midfield: Hazard is a bit of a punt at that price considering all that has gone on last season but he has looked lively. He seems to have played some games centrally off the striker in pre-season and has nice fixtures to start off. I can afford one premium MID and I'm happy to take the chance considering the uncertainty over De Bruyne's fitness. Tadic admittedly didn't immediately register on my radar, but I read from those far more knowledgeable than me on Southampton that their new gaffer will line up with him playing as a #10 at the tip of a diamond. He should also have their penalties and a bulk of set pieces. With 8 goals and 13 assists last season despite only starting 20 odd games, he looks great value at 7.5m for the first 3 weeks with home games against WAT and SUN. Sigurdsson faces bur and HUL to open the season and thus looks a nice option for those planning an early wildcard despite Swansea likely to struggle. Townsend ended last season on fire and WBA, tot and BOU are a good way to find out if he's a long term option. Capoue is the 4.5m placeholder.
Strikers: Aguero is simply must have. There's a slight risk with Ibrahimovic at that price, but the way I see it is I'd much rather be on him early and able to downgrade to literally anyone else if things go south as opposed to trying to scramble to fit him in. I'm caught in 3 minds over the 6.5m striker option - Gray, Negredo or Long. I really want Gray for GW1, but his next 2 fixtures are terrible. Negredo has 3 solid fixtures but is in a defensively minded side with a manager who has a habit of subbing his striker after the hour mark. Long has WAT and SUN at home in 2 of his first 3 but with Tadic it feels like overkill.
It'll all be blown up after 3 GW's but I think that gives me a solid enough base. Main things I need to sort out are 1) who to go with as the 6.5m striker option, 2) who to go with as my 4.0m defender and 3) who is the best midfielder in that 7.5m or under bracket for the first 3 weeks that is not Tadic or Townsend.
Any thoughts or critique is most welcome lads so fire away.
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Am looking to break the template a bit :
GK : Template
Def: Close to Template
Mid: Before this season, would you ever think you could put Sanchez, Hazard and Aguero in the same side and not have it completely unbalanced ?
Sanchez: Looks like he's playing from the off and is on the back of serious form. He's not been widely mentioned on the forum and I'm worried that we're going down the road of group think. I realise Arsenal fixtures aren't fantastic but has this ever stopped an in form Sanchez in the past ?
Att : I've had Ibra in every draft along with Aguero since day 1. The charity shield shows us that he's a serious operator and only needs the sniff of a chance. Is he that much better than transferring in/out the 7.5 downwards options with best form/fixtures ?
There are some serious players in this category. Wilson, Carrol, Gray, Benteke (Crystal Palace looks a cert after Bolasie)to mention but a few.
What are your thoughts ?
Nice looking team and not too different from my own. The only thing I'd say about having both Gray and Benteke - makes it just a little bit harder if you then decide you then want to transfer in a 2nd premium striker. 2 transfers, most likely involving downgrading either Sanchez or Haz, would be needed. Aguero/Kane/Vardy/Ibra - it's hard to look past these 4 guys as being the top 4 point scoring forwards, so there's definitely an argument for starting off with 2 of them to give you that added flexibility. I think in midfield there's alot more options with the ability to score very well - and many of them are alot cheaper than Sanchez. I can see the temptation in Sanchez, and Benteke certainly has a decent PL scoring record, but my gut tells me having 2 of the big boys up front will be the way to go.0 -
manual_man wrote: »Nice looking team and not too different from my own. The only thing I'd say about having both Gray and Benteke - makes it just a little bit harder if you then decide you then want to transfer in a 2nd premium striker. 2 transfers, most likely involving downgrading either Sanchez or Haz, would be needed. Aguero/Kane/Vardy/Ibra - it's hard to look past these 4 guys as being the top 4 point scoring forwards, so there's definitely an argument for starting off with 2 of them to give you that added flexibility. I think in midfield there's alot more options with the ability to score very well - and many of them are alot cheaper than Sanchez. I can see the temptation in Sanchez, and Benteke certainly has a decent PL scoring record, but my gut tells me having 2 of the big boys up front will be the way to go.
Fair Points. The 2 players I have behind the transferred in Benteke and Firmino are Vardy and Redmond which would allow more flexibility in the forwards like you say, it's tough choices all round
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I picked Stones as i think his price will rise plus i can see him as a starter.
Aywe i have a ? over will he start i did replace him with Siggy but switched back .
Forward line seems to be the best i can pick for now .
Any help with this pick would be greatly apprciated as i had a bad start last season and just didnt recover.
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