Gameweek 12 Transfers.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

So so tempted to shift Sanchez as it would allow me to bring in Alonso, Arsenal mid ( thinking Ramsey or Walcott) and Costa.

I'm thinking Sanchez will gradually move out left for Giroud.

Main concern is Arsenal have a real nice run and Costa will pick up a suspension soon.

Edit - feel like I have 45 minutes to decide due to impending price rises.

Who would be the 2 players making way for Alonso and Costa?

There will be so many tears after the international break injuries .......

Deleted User wrote: »

So so tempted to shift Sanchez as it would allow me to bring in Alonso, Arsenal mid ( thinking Ramsey or Walcott) and Costa.

I'm thinking Sanchez will gradually move out left for Giroud.

Main concern is Arsenal have a real nice run and Costa will pick up a suspension soon.

Edit - feel like I have 45 minutes to decide due to impending price rises.

Can't you swallow the £0.1m loss on Alonso.
Once he'll be back to his starting price he'll rise a bit slower and with the international break on, I'd say from Tuesday onwards there should not be a lot of activity on the transfer market.

Mike Ehrmantraut wrote: »

Lads, any advice? Know it's bit of a gamble doing transfers this early on an international break, but....

At the moment have front 8 of:

A) Sanchez, Coutinho, Firmino, Allen, Gundogan, Aguero, Lukaku, Austin

Very tempted to go
Sanchez, Coutinho, Firmino, Hazard, Allen, Costa, Lukaku, Austin

Or
C) Sanchez, Hazard, Firmino, Allen, Gundogan, Aguero, Lukaku, Austin

B means (madness) transferring out Aguero, but so far Costa has been a match for him and gives me an extremely strong midfield

C would be transferring Coutinho to Hazard and leaves me enough itb to upgrade Lukaku to Costa if needed.

Any opinions or preferences, or should I just turn off the phone and leave things as they are?

I was actually tinkering with my team around your B option.
Personally, it would allow Sanchez Hazard Firmino KDB (Whelan) Aguero Costa Vokes.
Basically, Costa for Agüero and KDB instead of a double Chelsea/'Pool/Arsenal mid.

Despite that, now, tonight, I'd favour C. But if you have a little bit of flexibility regarding these moves (I mean if you don't currently have 0 ITB when doing them) I'd suggest to wait and swallow the price rises. Again I'd expect the transfer activity to ease during the break. The South American have a very tough break this time (particularly Argentina & Chile that are gonna play key games in order to qualify for WC18 and with little rest when back). So Sanchez & Agüero could be rested for next GW.
Costa will have to prove he can apply his Chelsea form to La Roja again (his last couple of games saw last year evil Costa back and Lopetegui did not enjoy it) so he'll be fired up for Spain games.

Mike Ehrmantraut wrote: »

Lads, any advice? Know it's bit of a gamble doing transfers this early on an international break, but....

At the moment have front 8 of:

A) Sanchez, Coutinho, Firmino, Allen, Gundogan, Aguero, Lukaku, Austin

Very tempted to go
Sanchez, Coutinho, Firmino, Hazard, Allen, Costa, Lukaku, Austin

Or
C) Sanchez, Hazard, Firmino, Allen, Gundogan, Aguero, Lukaku, Austin

B means (madness) transferring out Aguero, but so far Costa has been a match for him and gives me an extremely strong midfield

C would be transferring Coutinho to Hazard and leaves me enough itb to upgrade Lukaku to Costa if needed.

Any opinions or preferences, or should I just turn off the phone and leave things as they are?

Can you get Haz and De Roon for one of Pool mid plus allen/gun?
Ah misread it That front 8 without Kun looks awesome. I sacrificed Coutinho last week. Good luck.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'd be worried about Willian taking Pedro's place when fit and available. I think Willian is first choice.

As fhfc said I think with the formation change they need their front 3 to be able to score goals. This is something willian isn't good at. In there old 433 you had another attacking mid Oscar or Fab capable of chipping in with a goal and willians workrate on the right was more necessary as they also had that defensive disaster Ivan behind him. I'd still prefer hazard but I'm prepared to wait barring injury Pedro will start v boro and he should keep close enough to hazard points wise. Chelsea then have spurs and city after those games I'll have had the transfers to readjust my team to get hazard in. I'm looking at -8 to get him now so I think my best option is Pedro instead for free. Playing regularly Pedro is a 10 million mid due to his career stats. If he keeps his place the next few weeks I'll end up doing a Chelsea mid double up with hazard. If not it will be Pedro to hazard.

I need a rest

FHFC wrote: »

I think the double up is an option too from GW14. Less of a lottery than the Liverpool mids possibly.

And could free the cash for perhaps Kane up front if needed.

If Pedro keeps his place my plan would be Sanchez hazard coutinho firmino Pedro and play 352. I think Liverpool mids are great value.

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

As fhfc said I think with the formation change they need their front 3 to be able to score goals. This is something willian isn't good at. In there old 433 you had another attacking mid Oscar or Fab capable of chipping in with a goal and willians workrate on the right was more necessary as they also had that defensive disaster Ivan behind him. I'd still prefer hazard but I'm prepared to wait barring injury Pedro will start v boro and he should keep close enough to hazard points wise. Chelsea then have spurs and city after those games I'll have had the transfers to readjust my team to get hazard in. I'm looking at -8 to get him now so I think my best option is Pedro instead for free. Playing regularly Pedro is a 10 million mid due to his career stats. If he keeps his place the next few weeks I'll end up doing a Chelsea mid double up with hazard. If not it will be Pedro to hazard.

Yeah as I said in a previous post, the key change for Chelsea is Conte. He finally settled on his strong back 3 "basement" coupled with the double "washing-machine" of Kanté-Matic (that's how we'd nickname them in French 'cause they get the ball back in dangerous areas and turn them into good attacking plays thanks to their good passing technique, they "clean" them in a way ) allows:
- his wing backs to be very attacking making Alonso a great def option,
- his front 3 to mainly focus on their attacking duties making all of them great FPL prospects.

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

If Pedro keeps his place my plan would be Sanchez hazard coutinho firmino Pedro and play 352. I think Liverpool mids are great value.

Are you sure that's possible?
I just quickly tried it with Agüero Lukaku upfront and with only £31.3m spent in defense and I'd need a £2.9m 3rd striker and I think I have a decent team value...

iroced wrote: »

Yeah as I said in a previous post, the key change for Chelsea is Conte. He finally settled on his strong back 3 "basement" coupled with the double "washing-machine" of Kanté-Matic (that's how we'd nickname them in French 'cause they get the ball back in dangerous areas and turn them into good attacking plays thanks to their good passing technique, they "clean" them in a way ) allows:
- his wing backs to be very attacking making Alonso a great def option,
- his front 3 to mainly focus on their attacking duties making all of them great FPL prospects.


Are you sure that's possible?
I just quickly tried it with Agüero Lukaku upfront and with only £31.3m spent in defense and I'd need a £2.9m 3rd striker and I think I have a decent team value...

I'd be selling lukaku. Selling him after next gw.

iroced wrote: »

Are you sure that's possible?
I just quickly tried it with Agüero Lukaku upfront and with only £31.3m spent in defense and I'd need a £2.9m 3rd striker and I think I have a decent team value...

"Only" 31.3m spent in defence? Pfft, amateur :P

Light at the back now so that will influence my decision