Rate My Team thread

Mr.SlumDuck wrote: »

Have you anyone in mind? I had Sczesney but felt having both him and Kos was risky. Im not too fimilar with GKs tbh.

I think 9.5m on Soldado may be too big a risk too. He's 9.5 and Giroud 8.5m. Any combos you would suggest?

danbrosnan wrote: »

I think cech is first choice because of the double game week and the fact that mourihno will have a very very tight defence...

I dont know much about soldado and the fact that he is new to the premier league would make me want to pick someone else at the start... Some one like bertatov or long?? They gonna score because they have scored double figures the last few years...

:eek:

Soldado is fantastic value. He will start every week and will become the focal point of the Spurs attack if Bale leaves and if Bale stays he will be assisting Soldado. The only risk is by not having him. Granted Giroud looks rather tasty but Wenger seems to like Poldi and is chasing another forward. Walcott makes the most sense for a nailed on Arsenal attacker.

Just because a player scored double figures last year doesn't mean they will this year and Long only scored 8 goals last year anyway. Koscienly is a great option IMO and I'd rather him than the sir chesney any day if you have a choice to make!

in all games last year long had 13 goals and 6 assists, his 26 and hitting peak and in my opinion will have a great year this year if he and anelka get it right and stay fit...

There's my team, slate me if ye want, and defo I know soldado a great player..

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

You have a not so small fortune invested in defense. Vidic is too expensive and a great likelihood of conceding early on. Also O'Shea is 1.0 too much for a bench defender about 2.0 too much in defense minimum.

Lampard is very much a gamble. Coutinho is grand but relying on him as your main heavy hitting mid is dangerous. Why do you have Carrick? Same goes for Diame.

I'm sure you're aware that Sturridge is only working his way back from fitness so may not start the first week? RVP yeah grand and you have faith in Anelka and reasoned your answer there so grand.

Do you have a plan RE: Goalkeepers and GW3?

Also if Chelsea concede in GW1 you're goosed. The midfield is your main area of concern. I'd switch Vidic to a 4.5 defender anyway and O'shea to 4.5 or 4.0 freeing up atleast 2.0 to use on midfield.

You can't afford luxuries of much beyond the bare minimum on the bench if you have RVP and certainly not have 20 million on your bench

TBH i think Chelsea will hammer hull and villa... i think they will walk away with the league this year.. thats why i have a lot of faith in them, lampard still a cracking player and will get better under mourinho this year, carrick i suppose i have him because he had a good season last year and is cheap.. no plan for gw3 at all my brain cant even fathom that far..

danbrosnan wrote: »

TBH i think Chelsea will hammer hull and villa... i think they will walk away with the league this year.. thats why i have a lot of faith in them, lampard still a cracking player and will get better under mourinho this year, carrick i suppose i have him because he had a good season last year and is cheap.. no plan for gw3 at all my brain cant even fathom that far..

Carrick is very expensive for a player who will do very little. This is FPL he will really only be rewarded for assists or goals. 1 goal and 4 assists last season is hardly a great return for 6.0.

Ok grand you have faith in Chelsea to not concede while hammering Villa and Hull, it would be difficult to argue that. Will Lampard play both games in a midfield already jammed? You might get away with it this week but you can't rely on him every week. Then you'll have Diame or Carrick replacing him every week or 2.

Unfortunately you have to plan ahead in this game. As it stand you have 4 DGW players who will miss GW 3. The fact that Given won't play anyway may be irrelevant to this. Either way you'll have to transfer one of them out to field a full side assuming nobody else picks up an injury. Once again you are reliant on Diame and Carrick to keep you ticking over which isn't a good place to be.

Like I said you have to be extra smart about the rest of your players with RVP in the team. My current team is on the last page somewhere and I've sacrificed my defense a little but have picked players who will play consistently for the most part. However midfield is a large proportion of your points and your team is very reliant on Liverpool being successful and Arsenal/Spurs/City twiddling their thumbs. Plenty of time yet before next week and a lot can change

Any thoughts on this squad?

Mignolet,Boruc

Coleman,Mertesacker,Collins,Toure,Cole

Hazard,Walcott,Snodgrass,R Morrison,Sissoko

RVP,Lukaku,Anelka

still a few things to maybe change by the weekend, but I do like this draft.



i think Bony is going to tear shít up, and I'm getting him in now.

Well folks,what you think of this team. Trying to be a little different but maybe I failed?!!

Jaaskelainen (Boruc)
Turner (Nor), Lescott , Toure. Subs : Pieters,Turner(Cardiff)
Morrison, Mata , Arteta , Silva. Sub : Kim
Van Persie , Lukaku , Bony.

Love to hear some feedback……..

Not sure if I haven't spent enough on my defense.

I'm happy with my starting 11 only problem I'm having now is selecting my subs.
I hav 20 million to spend on 1 goalie 1 defender 2 midfielders

At the moment it stands at Mannone 4.5 Chambers(southampton) 4 Morrison(westham) 4.5 and Sissoko 6. with 1 million in bank
But I'm unsure if I can do better!

Tony_Montana wrote: »

I'm happy with my starting 11 only problem I'm having now is selecting my subs.
I hav 20 million to spend on 1 goalie 1 defender 2 midfielders

At the moment it stands at Mannone 4.5 Chambers(southampton) 4 Morrison(westham) 4.5 and Sissoko 6. with 1 million in bank
But I'm unsure if I can do better!

Chambers to Brady/Koren from Hull for 5mill imo.

roryc wrote: »

This is exactly what I'm getting at, although I'm not sure the example above is the best scenario despite it being the players I have! Dzeko and Lukaku are risks, and if you have Ravel (or another £4.5m) would you be forced into playing him?

What people need to do is what you have done above. Pick their team without RVP, then pick their team with him. Hopefully you only have to shuffle a few players around, and then just measure the difference between the teams like for like over the first three gameweeks, which IMO are crucial. I've tried this and the non-RVP team always comes out on top. For others, having RVP might suit them better. The annoying thing is a large number of casual players will simply pick RVP and then look at the rest of their team. Lets hope they don't get rewarded...

Long terms plans are always best but the start of the season is different due to the fact that the majority of people use their wildcard early. I'm certain read on FFS that 90% of the top 100 managers last year used their wildcard in the first three weeks. Can't find the article though, anyone else remember reading this?

I've just been doing that.

It's either:
Hazard + Countinho + Soldado

or

Ramires + Paulinho + RVP


I think what's making it REALLY difficult to decide, it the fact that there's a lot of good mids and forwards in the 7.5-9.5 category. So essentially you can have all 7 mids and forwards in this category, which is very, very tempting. If you go with RVP, it's RVP + 4 guys in the 7.5-9.5 range + 2 other cheaper players.

Edit: I sort of plucked Ramires and Paulinho out of thin air, not certain they would be my first choices, but it would be someone in that price range.

Edit 2: I suppose the other option would be to downgrade Coutinho to someone really cheap. So instead of Soldado + Countinho I would have RVP + someone @ 4.5. But I really don't like the idea of starting a mid at 4.5 all the time.