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Rate My Team thread

grohlisagod

Thought I'd get this going again as people are going to be tinkering left, right and centre.

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manual_man

token56 wrote: »

Just a personal thing but I wouldn't feel comfortable starting Silva this season, seem to be off the pace a bit at the euros and I think he might need a bit more time before he will be back flying in the premier league.
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Silva scored 2 goals and 3 assists at Euro 2012, not bad for a player who was "off form"

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shadowcomplex

BKC wrote: »

I'd take the opposite view. City and United will more than likely keep the most clean sheets so it makes sense to pack your back 7 with their players.

I tend to have my cheapest players in midfield in general bar maybe one big player because I think defenders/keepers/strikers are bigger point earners.

Thats simply just not true and the data of past seasons is there for proof, defenders score the least amount in this game, its usually strikers that score the most like last season but in seasons gone by with Lampard, Ronaldo and fabregas its midfielders that have had the edge

token56

My own team below. Not sure how I feel about it, obviously have to see what happens with Tevez. I did have Aguero and a weaker midfield but if Tevez does stay around and start regularly he should score just as well as Aguero.

GLaDOS

Valid point about Silva, though I'm wary of any of the united midfielders because of rotation.

shadowcomplex

RB100 wrote: »

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good? bad? put it together last night

money in the bank to do Torres-->Rooney

you have too much money spend on defenders and at that your playing 3 at the back, theres no point in spening so much money on your defence and then having an expensive defender on the bench

token56

ScienceNerd wrote: »

First proper draft, any opinions appreciated.

Just a personal thing but I wouldn't feel comfortable starting Silva this season, seem to be off the pace a bit at the euros and I think he might need a bit more time before he will be back flying in the premier league.

Silva - Kagawa/Nani etc would spread your attacking options and give you an extra bit to maybe strengthen your defence/other midfielders.

GLaDOS

First proper draft, any opinions appreciated.

dahat

Another lash at it............

Milkybarsareonme

Mignolet, Fabio, Lescott, Ivanovic, Yaya Toure, Hazard, Frei, Ben Arfa, Bent (VC), Torres (C), Aguero Subs: Foster, Jenkinson, McCartney, Britton

LostBoy101

My 6th draft.

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BKC

hupskip wrote: »

it makes no sense having two defenders from City and a goalie/defender from United.

I'd take the opposite view. City and United will more than likely keep the most clean sheets so it makes sense to pack your back 7 with their players.

I tend to have my cheapest players in midfield in general bar maybe one big player because I think defenders/keepers/strikers are bigger point earners.

eclectichoney

Room for Mata and Hazzard in the same team???

shadowcomplex

shadowcomplex wrote: »

Ok heres mine, I realise there are question marks over Harte with Shorey being signed so ill be looking out for readings pre season games to see if Harte starts, im also banking on Pienaar going back to Everton and ill be keeping an eye out for michu and his price

So what ye guys think

Would appreciate opinions please

Paully D

carlcon wrote: »

Definitely need a better bench, IMO. It's one thing having a 3rd sub as dead wood (Ferguson last season), but to have 3 pretty-much-useless subs is too much. Especially with the likes of City, United, and Chelsea players subject to possible rotation.

I'd also try find a better sub keeper. The key this season will be in finding a cheap starting home/away combo like Vorm/Krul last season. The only time I'd stick a dead-wood keeper on my bench is if I was investing big money into a top keeper to play every game.

I'm looking at Begovic myself. Will have to wait though to see if he's in the first team as a regular.

Cheers.

Mignolet and Krul might be an interesting home/away combination, for those wanting to spend a bit on a their goalkeepers.

FatRat

My (probably) 5th draft. It's extremely annoying trying to pick. Towards the end of last season if you wanted 2 top strikers and 3 tops mids with a decent enough bench.... no problem!!!! Start of the season is always the worst thanks to having 100 million to spend not 110 odd million when your team value increases. I never really thought about that until trying to pick my team now. I'm taking the 3 6 mil range mids/Aguero+Rooney/a few top defenders and average bench route.

A lot of the above will be changed soon. Reading and Chelsea have a blank GW3 so a 2 of them will be gone after 2 weeks. Hopefully Harte starts now. He's an exciting prospect. My front 3 is probably the most popular front 3 atm but after GW3 I'll be getting Rickie Lambert in for Pog. (Thats the plan anyway). I can't see myself changing my front 3 from now til the start unless VP stays with Arsenal. Hopefully he doesn't though. It kind of ruins the fun of the game with him in it to be fair.

RB100

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/478769/213985.JPG

good? bad? put it together last night

money in the bank to do Torres-->Rooney

carlcon

Paully D wrote: »

Pretty ****e bench but that's usually the case for me in this game and I've done well the last few seasons.

Definitely need a better bench, IMO. It's one thing having a 3rd sub as dead wood (Ferguson last season), but to have 3 pretty-much-useless subs is too much. Especially with the likes of City, United, and Chelsea players subject to possible rotation.

I'd also try find a better sub keeper. The key this season will be in finding a cheap starting home/away combo like Vorm/Krul last season. The only time I'd stick a dead-wood keeper on my bench is if I was investing big money into a top keeper to play every game.

I'm looking at Begovic myself. Will have to wait though to see if he's in the first team as a regular.

Paully D

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I've changed it a good bit since my first draft last night. Pretty ****e bench but that's usually the case for me in this game and I've done well the last few seasons.

I thought I'd give a few comments on why I picked who I did rather than the other way around. Of course there's still a number of decisions to be made and work to be done which I will include below each position.

Goalkeeper: - Chances are Sunderland are going to have Cuellar - O'Shea - Brown - AN Other as their back four this season. Whilst not pulling up any trees attackingly, that's a very solid, quite tall back line that won't concede too many soft goals from set pieces. As a counter attacking team they will play quite deep with the focus on not conceding. Last season Mignolet had 11 clean sheets despite missing 2 months with a facial injury, going 78 minutes between goals conceded and I expect him to better that this season. With Reading, Swansea, Wigan, West Ham, Stoke, Villa and home game against Newcastle in his first 8 games, there's plenty of opportunity for him to get off to a good start.

Defence: - I love to go for full backs here as I've found they provide much more opportunity for bigger point scoring than centre backs. I think Cole speaks for himself. Chelsea have a great start and he had 6 assists and 9 clean sheets last season. Chelsea will be far better this season IMO and I can see him keeping more clean sheets than that. Clichy was first choice for Manchester City during their great run in which saw them clinch the title, and I expect Mancini to start out with him at LB. City are probably the best equipped team to keep clean sheets and I think everyone needs to have one City defender in their team. I fancy West Ham to come storming out of the blocks with 8 fixtures out of 10 that they could keep a clean sheet in at the start of the season. McCartney was first choice LB for the vast majority of last season and won West Ham's Players Player of the Year award. Big Sam's teams are always difficult to break down and I will definitely have a West Ham defender in my team for the first quarter of the season at least. Jenkinson is one I'm still not really sure of. He's cheap, almost guaranteed to start for a team challenging at the right end of the table, but Arsenal have a very tricky first 6 weeks and by the end of that time when things get easier Sagna could be back. I'll look into this one.

Work to be done here - Determine what full backs will start for Man City and West Ham and if it's not Clichy and/or McCartney replace them with similar. Decide on Jenkinson or someone else.

Midfield - I'm very happy with this, with players from Man Utd, Man City and Chelsea, all who should create and have numerous chances in most games. Last season Valencia contributed 4 goals and 14 assists, Mata 6 goals and 17 assists and Silva 6 goals and 18 assists. Absolutely huge numbers.

Work to be done - See how Kagawa fits in and whether he'd be a better option than Valencia, look at Mata V Hazard, decide if I'd be better with Yaya Toure as City's representitive in midfield and use the extra cash to strengthen elsewhere.

Attack: - Rooney is definitely in no matter what. Aside from Van Persie, Aguero is the next best striker to choose. However, if Van Persie does end up staying in the Premier League I think I'll have to get him in instead of Aguero. I still think there's a good chance Pogrebnyak is a bust for Reading but there's no better option for that price at the minute.

Work to be done - See how the Van Persie situation develops.

Overall I'm pretty happy, there's lots of representation from big players who will create and score a lot, but as you can read there's still a number of changes I could end up making before kick-off.

Any comments?

carlcon

3/4 of these probably won't make the final cut, but I want to get a team in early just in case I don't get to make a team closer to kick-off.

The likes of Rafael and Tevez are obviously subject to first-team doubts, and the Chelsea/Reading lads were just thrown in because of the double week.

Let the games begin.

PowerData

hupskip wrote: »

I would get rid of Evra and Lescott for sure and replace them with cheaper defenders - this will enable you to strengthen your midfield and alos it makes no sense having two defenders from City and a goalie/defender from United.

How does this not make any sense? Sure, it increases risks, but thereby also has the possibility of increasing my gains.

Furthermore, isn't the midfield the area where you can gain least points, with strikers scoring and assisting more and defenders getting more points for clean sheets?

LostBoy101 wrote: »

I doubt Evra will get you much points and he is in danger of being replaced or dropped.

Should I replace him with Vidic?

LostBoy101

PowerData wrote: »

Hmm, sure, let's try that. My midfielders and subs suffered, but what do you guys think (again)? :P

I doubt Evra will get you much points and he is in danger of being replaced or dropped.

hupskip

PowerData wrote: »

Hmm, sure, let's try that. My midfielders and subs suffered, but what do you guys think (again)? :P

I would get rid of Evra and Lescott for sure and replace them with cheaper defenders - this will enable you to strengthen your midfield and alos it makes no sense having two defenders from City and a goalie/defender from United.

PowerData

manual_man wrote: »

Usually more money spent on attacking players is the way to go..

Get a Rooney or Aguero in there!

Hmm, sure, let's try that. My midfielders and subs suffered, but what do you guys think (again)? :P

average_runner

First draft.

Given

Clichy Cahill Cuellar

Guilherme Kagawa Hazard V der Vart

Pogrebnyak Rooney Aguero.

Subs McCartney, Jaaskelainen, Gorkss, britton

Have to see how spurs shape up and this new guy for swansea also.

What u think?

keano_afc

First draft, in work so cant post a pic.

Vorm Al Habsi

Simpson Clichy Ivanovic Harte Jenkinson

Nolan Mata Silva Lallana B. Johnson

Pogrebnyak Torres Aguero.

Staying away from new signings such as Hazard and Kagawa until a couple of weeks into the seaon.

average_runner

FutureGuy wrote: »

Kagawa is almost certainly going to play in the hole at Man United, right behind Rooney. Nani and Valencia are not in competition for his place, and his main threats are Wellbeck, Hernandez and possibly Young. I think Kagawa is currently the least likely to be rotated out of all the players mentiond above. He is also 0.5m cheaper than Nani and Valencia. Preseason will tell us more but Kagawa fills a very specific role at United, one I feel he will excel at, with Nani, Valencia and Rooney bot helping him and being helped by him.

It seems that he is nailed on to start given Sagnas injury. However, Arsenal have Sunderland (H), Stoke (A), Liverpool (A) Southampton (H) and Man City (A) in their first five games. He's not as nailed on in my starting squad as you might think but he is certainly in contention given his 4.5 m price tag. Once we know how long Sagna will be out, we will get a better idea, but Jenkinson certainly looked capable when given his opportunity last season.

If Van persie arrives that will change

FutureGuy

Munster Magic wrote: »

Will be keeping an eye on Harte alright. Not sure about Begovic either as Sorensen may start but we will have to wait and see I suppose. Frei could be a great bargain if he gets games so hopefully he will

Will Hazard start for Chelsea?

Nailed on imho.

manual_man

PowerData wrote: »

My first try..

What do you guys think of it?

Usually more money spent on attacking players is the way to go..

Get a Rooney or Aguero in there!

Munster Magic

BKC wrote: »

Yes, I would say he is a certain starter. Could be a good player for assists and a few goals.

Scored in their first preseason friendly two days ago.

Knew he scored alright but with all the attacking players Chelsea have now its hard to figure out what way they will line up

BKC

Munster Magic wrote: »

Will Hazard start for Chelsea?

Yes, I would say he is a certain starter. Could be a good player for assists and a few goals.

Scored in their first preseason friendly two days ago.