Gameweek 9 transfers

Gone early on my free transfer this week as well and dumped Bissouma since he has not been playing and have had money in the bank since selling Ronaldo and Greenwood over the last couple of weeks to make a few upgrades. Mbeumo was predicted to rise last night so just wanted to make the move before it would cost more to bring him in. After playing Leicester next week he has a nice run of fixtures and hitting the post twice against Chelsea and playing more as a striker than a midfielder makes me think he could add to the two goals he has got so far this season.

Getting a Chelsea defender makes sense for a lot of reasons but rotation and seeing them clinging to the one goal lead against Brentford for the last 30minutes of yesterday's game makes me reluctant to bring one in.

Need to figure out how to get Son, since last season I reckon he's been in my team for at least 95% of games, I've only taken him out when he was supposedly injured and each and every time I've got stung and brought him back in. This year started off in my team, then Nuno made comment at press conference that the club would revel how bad an injury was after injury at internationals, - he missed one game, then rumour went round he had Covid last week so though best not get him, and he scores. 4 goals and 2 assists in a dire Spurs team - 3rd highest scorer in the game.

Looking at a hit.

Ronaldo, Marcal out.

Vardy, Chelsea defender in.

6 red arrows in a row now... make you want to give up!

Rage sold Ronaldo to Vardy Sat Night

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yeah I got caught in the exact same trap, had Son on WC and then dropped him with that Covid news but he ends up playing and scoring anyway. Reminded me of early last season when Jose said he was injured, I sold him and then he played anyway and hauled something crazy like 17 points.

I think Im stuck now with not having him as it would take 2 transfers to get him and I dont want to go ripping up a WC team so soon. It is frustrating though. Either way Ill have to get him in for GW12 for Spurs good run of fixtures.

Lukaku is on the chopping board for sure. And Benrahama too. Antonio is fine but Jimenez could be upgraded. Werner is oddly tempting me and kinda want Son too. His next few fixtures are not as bad as they look on the FDR.

Then there is Rudiger.

Have 2 FTs so won't panic yet.

I think this is Rudiger in Chelsea training.

Nacho seems to be going under the radar, hes had 3 returns now in 3 games. If he keeps getting starts he could be a good Antonio replacement. Im wondering if Antonio is fatigued and running out of steam, he didnt seem to do much v Everton at the weekend. If he plays 70 or 80 minutes in the EL this week then thats another worry.

Do you think there are good budget strikers? Very few players have any real form and/or guaranteed minutes or even fixtures.

Nacho's minutes seem to be managed this season and Daka is there now to provide more competition for places. Nacho hasn't completed 90 mins yet this season - that's got to be a worry.

Hard to know to Hwang - scoring two against Newcastle nothing major - Like ya wouldn't be rushing out to get Kane in after the weekend.

Mbeumo looks more lively than Toney from what i've seen so far, they do have a nice run of fixtures though, but at 6.4m Toney seems that bit expensive.

Wilson might be a decent shout but it's Newcastle so who knows.

Maupay probably the best shout - but Brighton not a team that will create a lot of chances but should keep ticking over.

Finally I would have thought budget would be 6.5 or less which removes most of the above.

I would love to see the stats of players if you could exclude Newcastle and Norwich. There are so many players who have returned against those two teams that have done very little otherwise

Got in ESR over Mbuemo on the wildcard but I think I'll stick now for the next few fixtures, was he involved much tonight?

Just a reminder.. we all did say Lukaku had a poor run of fixtures until GW7 & then we’d bring him in (like many did on WC).

maybe we overlooked Brentford away because Arsenal & Liverpool also found that one tough.

Lukaku has a dream run now,… stick him out for the next 4 to 5 matches!

If he can't score against Norwich he will be out the gap

Agree on the way Chelsea plays but mainly coincides with the teams they were playing & arguably injuries.

How does Tuchel get Mount , Pulisic , Havertz into that system? He doesn’t & so will revert his formation to more attacking which I believe he will.

I agree on Werner & was so close to getting him in. I’d love to see Tuchel stick with him because it makes it easier going to him over Lukaku & reinvesting the funds then elsewhere

I only brought him in last week for Brentford on wild card so Im not losing patience with him just yet as others are who have had him longer. It was always my intention to captain him v Norwich but must admit Im having doubts now, it seems Tuchel hasnt yet worked out how to set them up to get the best out of him. Im going to try to watch the Norwich game but if he blanks and doesnt even look like scoring I think it'll be a quick move to Vardy