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Wildcard Thread 2016/2017

shineon23

Seen a lot of talk of wildcards on other threads, thought it might be time start up this year's Wildcard thread .

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dsmythy

Damien360 wrote: »

big panic wildcard and not sure I have done well at all. Struggled to get a decent team

Nothing necessarily wrong with it. Bit much spent on defence. Try share a small bit of that love around the rest of the team maybe.

Backstreet Moyes

Any advice.

1.3m left in bank

Foster/Heaton

Shaw/Williams/Evans/Souare/Wilson

Cazorla/Hazard/Lamela/Antonio/Pereyra

Ibra/Benteke/Lukaku

ElTel

Nuts102 wrote: »

Any advice.

1.3m left in bank

Foster/Heaton

Shaw/Williams/Evans/Souare/Wilson

Cazorla/Hazard/Lamela/Antonio/Pereyra

Ibra/Benteke/Lukaku

What's the plan to get Kun back?
If your not gonna play Pereyra in the next 2 GWs I would pick a 4.5m instead.

patmac

Feel I have wasted my wildcard, any advice grateful

0.7m left in bank

Foster/Heaton
Valencia/Baines/Souare/Gibson/Kingsley
Cazorla/Hazard/Sanchez/Milner/Capoue

Ibra/Vokes/Lukaku
Thinking Sterling instead of Cazorla

lassykk

Benimar wrote: »

We have a lot of similar players! (I'm on WC too)

I have Shaw, McAuley, Amat, Hazard, Sanchez, Antonio, Capoue, Ibra and Defoe, so no argument from me on any of those.

I have Benteke to your Bony but thats a toss of a coin and I could change yet.

Where I differ is your GKs and Defence. I really want some Arsenal defensive coverage and the cheapest route is Cech so I'm going with him and either Pickford or Jakupovic.

The only concerns I'd have about your defence is the double up on Man U and WBA. Personally I'm not a fan of defensive double ups, but that could be just me.

I've gone with Williams and Masuaku for now but am tempted to downgrade Masuaku to Kone to possibly upgrade Barkley.

manual_man wrote: »

@lassykk. No plan to get Aguero back in? Overall I think it looks pretty good. Sterling sure is playing well but there's a little bit of rotation risk with Sane fit and available now. Nsue in defense could be at risk of losing his spot to Chambers (who has played RB as well as CB) who Boro just signed. Friend is a safer option now for the same price I think. Double Man U defense is a punt but one which could pay off - an Everton defender instead is a good option also. Bony has massive potential but is it a bit soon to get him? Personally I'd hold off on that one for now (GW10 onwards Stokes fixtures are lovely so there's no rush). I fancy Liverpool mids to score well but you can't have them all and you certainly do have a strong looking midfield lineup there. I reckon Heaton/Robinson is a pretty safe bet if you want to save a little £ (Heaton has very rarely missed a game and I'd guess Robinson is 2nd choice for his PL experience). Certainly a good-looking team though that could score well

Thanks both for your feedback. Very much appreciated.

I think you might be right about the double WBA defence for definite... I do like the idea of the double United defence but it isn't something I have done in the past... If I go Heaton/Robinson I could free up 0.5m to upgrade McAuley to either an Everton def or WHU def

Trying to get an Arsenal def in would be hard as I'm tight on cash!
I could end up with Williams/Masuaku instead of McAuley and Shaw by tomorrow night!

I suppose Sterling allows a sideways shift to Coutinho if he fires better than Sterling or if Sterling loses his place. He has looked on fire though so I hope Pep sticks with him. I had Firmino to start off with but he broke my heart!

I suppose the only way to get Aguero back in would be to downgrade Sanchez to a relative cheapie and upgrade either Defoe or Bony depending on who's going worse

Comments on Bony are good and I'll wait for the press comments before committing to him... Not sure if I fancy Benteke though as Palace have looked poor... might have to reconsider!

Iused2likebusts

I can't shake this feeling about going with a strong defence and playing 4 at the back. What has got into me.

km79

Benteke slowly creeping towards the rise
Need him to hold so I can decide
Himself and Costa will both probably rise tomorrow night negating the .1 I'd make on Costa

[Deleted User]

Yeah, if a few rose tonight so I could get rid, I'd be happy

km79

Keep buying Sterling
Stop buying benteke
Thanks all

skippy15

Think my WC is finalized-:eek:
Foster
Valencia Baines McCauley
Haz Ozil Antonio Capoue
Costa Ibra Bent

Sub: Jaku Kone Amat Hojberg

Likes: squeezing Antonio and Baines , and enough in bank for straight Costa to Kun swap for gw 6
Dislike- May only have 1 playing gk, Capoue/kone as starters in first 11, hojberg amat as weakfish bench options.
Benteke/ Antonio/ baines all be given 4 weeks or so to prove themselves

Calvin

skippy15 wrote: »

Think my WC is finalized-:eek:
Foster
Valencia Baines McCauley
Haz Ozil Antonio Capoue
Costa Ibra Bent

Sub: Jaku Kone Amat Hojberg

Likes: squeezing Antonio and Baines , and enough in bank for straight Costa to Kun swap for gw 6
Dislike- May only have 1 playing gk, Capoue/kone as starters in first 11, hojberg amat as weakfish bench options.
Benteke/ Antonio/ baines all be given 4 weeks or so to prove themselves

Looking like a very solid lineup! I'd have probably went with Evans and Williams for McAuley and Baines to save a bit more, but that's just me :P

neasyerac

Feedback welcomed, Thanks.

3.8 in the bank to get in aguero after ban.

CSF

You're sacrificing a fair amount of the rest of your team to have Costa and Vardy in there IMO.

patmac

Also Vorm and Holgate not sure of their places either.

mectavba

Option B:

Sterling > Antonio significantly (playing Bournemouth at home next week) and Bolasie has not done anything yet to suggest he is a reliable points getter. Not sure who is available at 4.8 though. Koscielny might be a bit of a luxury pick if you are looking to get so many big hitters. Downgrade to a Man Utd 5.5 option and it would give you better options in MF such as Fer who has got a couple of goals already.

Dont be at yourself

Going to roll the dice on one of Pickford/Jakupovic to keep his place, so have both in my squad the moment.

Also contemplating a back 4, as there's serious value there with Valencia, Shaw, Baines and Stones. Amat on the bench to make up the numbers.

In midfield, looking at Hazard, Sterling and Cazorla, with Lamela rotating in and out, and Capoue a fixture on the bench.

Up front, Ibra, Vardy, and Benteke to trade places with Lamela depending on fixtures...

Father Hernandez

Decided on not WC'ing this week after a long long week of thinking.

Left with:
Foster/Jaku (Foster will start for me, not bad fixtures coming up)

Stones/Shaw/Friend/Amat/Olsson (Stones bound to have a CS soon, BPS works in his favour too, Shaw nice attacking feature & getting cleanies, Friend for Boro should do well, Amat is a bench fodder, Olsson I stupidly got in as West Brom coverage who isn't even starting!)

Haz/Sanchez/Firmino/Capoue/Redmond (Haz & Sanchez great attacking options, Firmino I've stuck with as I think he will have a good season, just has hot & cold spells, Redmond I'm worried he'll lose his place soon and Capoue I'm debating whether to start or not!)

Vardy/Costa/Gray (Vardy shows glimpses of what he did last year and may go back on pens, hopefully does well v Liverpool, Costa is a placeholder for Aguero for the timebeing but has nice fixtures and Gray against Hull hoping he'll do well, will look to revamp this trio once Agueros back)

Other thoughts are obviously Ibra, I must be mad for not considering him but feel he costs too much now after the initial price, kicking myself as I had him in all pre season. Redmond could do with replacing if doesn't play well next 2 games. Will keep an eye after this GW and next and then WC to get Aguero back in.

Hoping I've made the correct choice :eek: Any opinions greatly appreciated!

AdpRo

One final decision left for me I think:

Sanchez and 4.5m defender

or

Payet and Baines

Edging towards Payet and Baines but am scared of going forward with no Arsenal midfielder, other players are:

Hazard / Sterling / Mane / Capoue
Ibra / Defoe / Negrado

Any opinions welcome!

stephenl15

Think my wildcard is pretty much set. Happy to play Heaton every week for the time being. Stones could be Williams PVA or Kone but City will surely tighten up soon. Can't see much alternative to Benteke either and think Puncheon is under the radar. Sterlings form is too good to overlook also.

Heaton, Jaku
Valencia, Stones, McCauley, Collins, Amat
Sanchez, Hazard, Sterling, Puncheon, Capoue
Costa, Benteke, Ibrahimovic

FutureGuy

Lads,
I must admit I am a little unsure whether to WC or not. Life has been crazy in last 2 weeks and only really getting back into FPL this evening.

Foster - Jacu
Valencia - Stones - Amat - Friend - Kone
Hazard - Mahrez - Capoue - Lamela - Redmond
Aguero -Zlatan - Gray

Worth wildcarding?

spock.

Pretty happy with how similar my team is to a lot of wildcard teams. Not sure I'd have changed much if I had wildcarded

stephenl15

FutureGuy wrote: »

Lads,
I must admit I am a little unsure whether to WC or not. Life has been crazy in last 2 weeks and only really getting back into FPL this evening.

Foster - Jacu
Valencia - Stones - Amat - Friend - Kone
Hazard - Mahrez - Capoue - Lamela - Redmond
Aguero -Zlatan - Gray

Worth wildcarding?

Nice team. Only thing, and the reason I wildcarded is Sterling and Sanchez showing form and Aguero/Gray bans. You could only have one striker gameweek 5 and if possible (if you choose to sell) you would like to have a 2nd ft to bring Aguero back in.

Iused2likebusts

FutureGuy wrote: »

Lads,
I must admit I am a little unsure whether to WC or not. Life has been crazy in last 2 weeks and only really getting back into FPL this evening.

Foster - Jacu
Valencia - Stones - Amat - Friend - Kone
Hazard - Mahrez - Capoue - Lamela - Redmond
Aguero -Zlatan - Gray

Worth wildcarding?

I'd -4 out aguero which involves getting an arsenal mid. I'd save your wildcard to get aguero back in.

Ziegler1988

FutureGuy wrote: »

Lads,
I must admit I am a little unsure whether to WC or not. Life has been crazy in last 2 weeks and only really getting back into FPL this evening.

Foster - Jacu
Valencia - Stones - Amat - Friend - Kone
Hazard - Mahrez - Capoue - Lamela - Redmond
Aguero -Zlatan - Gray

Worth wildcarding?

I'm planning to WC GW6 and I think your team is pretty well set for that too. That way you get Mahrez and Redmond nice GW5 fixtures and there's a pretty big fixture shift then (as well as GW8). Also Friday night football so there are two chances to profit from Friday night transfer rush.

Shedite27

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

I'm planning to WC GW6 and I think your team is pretty well set for that too. That way you get Mahrez and Redmond nice GW5 fixtures and there's a pretty big fixture shift then (as well as GW8). Also Friday night football so there are two chances to profit from Friday night transfer rush.

I'm a GW6 WC'er too I reckon.

[Deleted User]

AdpRo wrote: »

One final decision left for me I think:

Sanchez and 4.5m defender

or

Payet and Baines

Edging towards Payet and Baines but am scared of going forward with no Arsenal midfielder, other players are:

Hazard / Sterling / Mane / Capoue
Ibra / Defoe / Negrado

Any opinions welcome!

I'd go Sanchez and 4.5m. Wouldn't even be a close call for me. I'd probably stick Kone in as the 4.5 if I had to choose.

Father Hernandez

FutureGuy wrote: »

Lads,
I must admit I am a little unsure whether to WC or not. Life has been crazy in last 2 weeks and only really getting back into FPL this evening.

Foster - Jacu
Valencia - Stones - Amat - Friend - Kone
Hazard - Mahrez - Capoue - Lamela - Redmond
Aguero -Zlatan - Gray

Worth wildcarding?

In the same boat as you and haven't Wildcarded. My teams a few posts up, v similar to yours and I was asking what I should do too. I ended up taking out Aguero > Costa, Mahrez > Sanchez. Then will WC when Aguero is back fit.

Iused2likebusts

Moving to an expensive defence and a 4 3 3:eek:
Cech jaku
valencia stones williams collins evans
sanchez hazard antonio rodwell capoue
gray ibra lukaku

I plan to play 4 3 3 for the next 4 weeks. Ill have good fixtures for atleast 4 of my defenders every week. Ive left 1.6 in the bench which can be used to upgrade antonio or gray or alternatively can fund a shift back to 343. I plan on getting aguero for Ibra .

Ziegler1988

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

I plan on getting aguero for Ibra .

You aren't worried about ManU home to Stoke GW7?

SpaceCowb0y

Final WC team.... I hope :pac:

Cech

Baines - Valencia - Collins

Sanchez - Lamela - Hazard - Redmond

Ibra - Lukaku - Defoe

Subs: Jaku, Capoue, Amat, Koné

Cech will play every week so Jaku even if he loses his place will not be an issue unless Cech ends up injured but will have 5.5 to bring someone else in then.

Collins can and will be transferred out if he loses his place but i think with West Hams nice run of fixtures he is definitely worth a punt over the next while.

Midfield doesn't really need explaining in my opinion.

Defoe looks good so far this season and can always be relied upon to score goals, plus he is basically Sunderland's only decent option up front so you would imagine he will be involved in most of their action.

Lukaku is a worry, he can definitely be hit and miss and usually more on the miss side but he can certainly score big on his day and Everton have some nice fixtures coming up.