Rate My Team thread

highgiant1985 wrote: »

looking for feedback on my initial suggestion. Any areas of improvements people can offer. I'm not sure how to post team so manual method for me unfort my main question is will toure start for liverpool as well. If not I'd swap him in first XI for Evans.

starting XI

Keeper:
Mignolet - STK (H)

Defense:
Ivanovic HUL (H), AVL (H)
Zabaleta NEW (H)
Mertesacker AVL (H)
Toure STK (H)

Mids:
Fellaini NOR (A)
Arteta AVL (H)
Mata CaptainHUL (H), AVL (H)
Silva NEW (H)

Forwards
Bony MUN (H)
Lukaku HUL (H), AVL (H)

Subs:
Evans SWA (A)
Anelka SOU (H)
Lucas STK (H)
Guzan ARS (A), CHE (A)

I wouldn't pick fellani too expensive and will probably play deeper this year. Anelka is a better option than fellani this week imo. Mata hasnt featured in pre season big risk going for him ahead of hazard. Guzan at 5.0 for a second goalie is a waste of money. Wouldnt pick a utd centre back apart from vidic maybe. Basically you have wasted a lot of money with a lot of your picks I feel. My advice would be
1..Pick 3 of the 5 defenders you have picked and go for two cheaper options save atleast 3 million
2 downgrade guzan save 1 million
3 hazard instead of mata save 1 million
4 mirallas instead of fellani save 1 million
5 upgrade arteta to walcott and you should have a good 4-5 million to upgrade some other players

Kagawa and Rooney are not fit for Saturday v Swansea due to playing for Japan / No pre-season and as a result Januzaj at 5mill should be playing in the CAM behind RVP.

MagicIRL wrote: »

Kagawa and Rooney are not fit for Saturday v Swansea due to playing for Japan / No pre-season and as a result Januzaj at 5mill should be playing in the CAM behind RVP.

Welbeck is a lot more likely to play up front with RVP as part of a 2 than Januzaj off of him.

MagicIRL wrote: »

Kagawa and Rooney are not fit for Saturday v Swansea due to playing for Japan / No pre-season and as a result Januzaj at 5mill should be playing in the CAM behind RVP.

He might get a few minutes off the bench, but he won't start. It'll be a similar lineup to the one that played Wigan.

MagicIRL wrote: »

United are currently trying to convince Januzaj to sign a lengthy contract. Giving him 90mins would certainly help their endeavours.

Are you going to take a punt on him so?

MagicIRL wrote: »

I think I might. He's 5mill, and can always go to Brady/Koren/Morrison in GW2 if it back-fires. It's a game at the end of the day, and with a bit of risk it spices things up!

Haha fair enough, there's no point in trying to talk you out of it so let's hope he gets a hat-trick. Could see him picking up 2 minutes at the end too :pac:

Transfers

Player(s) in Player(s) out
Mannone Jääskeläinen
Turner Toure
Silva Coutinho
Sturridge Dzeko

A) or

Cant decide which will score more points throughout the season. Leaning towards A.

sea_monkey wrote: »

not sure about schurrle, fernandinho or benteke

Your front 3 and Coleman are about the only choices I could agree with.

United's defense should be avoided early on so doubling up is a massive risk. Luiz isn't fully fit so may not feature too prominently.

Bale isn't fit, regardless of whether he stays or not so is a waste of just under 1/8 of your budget. Fernandinho is not an FPL player and certainly not at 8.0. I like Schurrle but surely there's better options as he is a massive rotation risk which you cannot take when the rest of your midfield is unlikely to bail you out. AJ is a fantastic prospect for the future but while I can't talk MagicIRL out of playing him you really cannot afford to have him in your squad. The same goes for Colback who is moonlighting as an LB.

There is just far too many questions hanging over far too many of your players and I don't think you're getting much value for the budget you've spent.

The front 3 do look like a potent force with DGW this week as a positive aspect. I'd look at Arsenal and Liverpool for defenders/gk rather than United and just be aware that Luiz may not be fit to play.

What do people think of this? I had Van Persie & Gayle/Chamakh but swapped to Giroud & Soldado.



Szczesny ( Davis)

Coleman Kompany Toure (Chester, Brayford)

Silva Walcott Hazard Mirallas (Morrison)

Giroud Soldado Lukaku



I know I will have to upgrade Davis to a 4.5 gk and will replace Lukaku if it looks like there will be a lot or rotation in the Chelsea forwards

manual_man wrote: »

Draft no. 717



Quinn on my bench should be back for GW2, wouldnt be playing him GW1 anyway, just needed a 4.5 cheapie to use on the very odd occasion. had Ivanovic in but took him out for Zaba, don't really fancy taking a hit after GW1 and i fancy City to keep a CS GW1 anyway. The tentative plan after GW1 is to take out Lukaku for Giroud, then eventually (when Villas fixtures get easier) get Benteke in for Giroud. Think my team has a pretty solid look to it, have doubled up on Liverpool defense which i'm not sure many are doing, but hey no risk no reward (remember Stoke last year??). Anyway we'll see how that goes. Just can't wait for the whole thing to get started now

Nice team. Your starting 11 is almost identical to mine bar Dzeko and Mignolet. I'll weigh in on a few points because your team is quite similar.

I am slightly concerned about Toure's (have him too) injury record and I've a feeling the 5.0 is a justified price with the risk that's associated with him. It could possibly be an early transfer out.

Giroud was a real pain last year when I had him. He's prone to scoring in patches but he's also prone to the odd yellow/red due to his physicality. He's had a good preseason by all accounts but I don't think Arsenal suit his style of play at all. Watched him in the Emirates at one stage against the might of Mickey T last year and I don't think he suits the passing possession game. He needs crosses in to the box.

I was mulling over a Man City striker/midfielder and while I expect them to win against Newcastle in the first game, I can't commit to anyone. I think it's possible that Pellegrini will start Dzeko in a 4-4-2 with Negredo but I would be concerned about rotation should he not score or have a decent game in his first match. Then again he could explode and the bandwagon will begin. Could well be a good punt.

Veronica Sticky Dandelion wrote: »

http://gyazo.com/d0a7f3e56fce7adfb754a4056658fee2

Any thoughts? Are people going to try and get Bale in now since it looks like he's staying put?

I don't see Bale being as good this year to be honest. Soldado and Defoe up front will be nicking a lot of the goals from him. If he stays put, which i doubt, he will probably score about ~190 this season at a guess.

Edit: Colback??

Would Agbonlahor be a good choice this week as villa are playing 2 games this week?

I've gone for Benteke (and will prob hold onto him for a while) but I'd have Weimann ahead of Agbonlahor