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January wildcard

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If I may be so bold as to start a new thread.

What are peoples plans/strategy for this in Jan?

Is it best to get it done early to try to gain ground and value or wait a while and see if there are any nice new signings about provided your team is on midline shape?

When is generally best for price rises? Do the majority of casual players go on jan 1 and the prices go crazy or is it evenly spread over the month? It's a 10 day GW at the start too, although so is the last week of the month.

Finally, how the hell do we not end up all with the exact same team, or 90% the same at least?

First time playing so interested but I'm sure the discussion would be of interest to all.

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roryc

machiavellianme wrote: »

Just under 116m after playing the WC.
Lost a few 0.1s on Negredo, Sterling and Ozil but the plan was to get Aguero in when fit.
Still stuck at 56k overall but I'm hoping that having most of the dream team means I can push on for the second half of the season.

Very nice - have you been focusing specifically on having an expensive team for the second half of the season, or a happy coincidence? I'm a bit ahead of you in 27k but team value post-WC of only £112m. In fairness though that's without having Ramsey or Yaya during their meteoric rises... they account for £3m+ between them!

You have an embarrassment of riches. Your fifth choice bench fodder midfielder is Cabaye ffs! We have similar starting 11, but your wealth allows you to have Terry over my Sagna and Sturridge over my Lukaku. Barring bad luck you should cruise up the rankings.

8-10

God I hate playing wildcard. Have had so many permutations this week.

Rest of the year who scores more: Oscar or Lallana?

Who's the best midfielder under 6m from now?

Rotate keepers or have one?

I'm so so so far from having my final WC team

Swiper the fox

8-10 wrote: »

God I hate playing wildcard. Have had so many permutations this week.

Rest of the year who scores more: Oscar or Lallana?

Who's the best midfielder under 6m from now?

Rotate keepers or have one?

I'm so so so far from having my final WC team

1. Oscar definitely

2. Januzaj has certainly got the most potential for points

3. I'd hate to have a non playing goalie, they all have weeks when you know they won't keep clean sheets

jimmii

8-10 wrote: »

God I hate playing wildcard. Have had so many permutations this week.

Rest of the year who scores more: Oscar or Lallana?

Who's the best midfielder under 6m from now?

Rotate keepers or have one?

I'm so so so far from having my final WC team

Same its so bloody hard! I'm glad I have my other WC still so that if I mess this one up I can fix it with the other one!!

I would go Lallana due to more game time and should prove better value. Given the same amount of minutes I would say Oscar would edge it though so depends how much you think Oscar will play.

5m-6m is a bit of a wasteland. Despite Janu being Uniteds only midfielder who can do much going forward I still don't think his gametime is locked in yet. I quite like the look of Ki he is playing nice and advanced and with a striker who has a good goalscoring record and he is dirt cheap!

I prefer to have rotators but for now I am going with Boruc and Davis but mainly because I am only really looking at the next 4-5 GWs and not the rest of the season. The potential Man City back to back blank means its impossible to look too far ahead if you have the other WC knocking around still.

who_ru

wildcard played - sitting on just over 1300pts.

Team now is:

Szczesny (Davis)

Bardsley Koscielny Coleman Lovern Faye

Wilshire Eriksen Yaya Hazard Mutch

Aguero Suarez Adebayor.

Unfortunately I had to drop Silva in order to get Aguero in. He bloody better bang them in sharpish.

Alfred Borden

had Coleman from near enough the start but thinking of taking him out with the wildcard, i must be going mad but just frees up so much for me.

maximo31

My Wildcard wildcard option is going to be Andy Carroll!! :eek:
West Ham have a great run of home games and he alternates well with Januzaj.
Signing up Carroll lets me have Suarez and Aguero up front!
Could backfire but worth a shot i reckon?!?! Thoughts.........

machiavellianme

roryc wrote: »

Very nice - have you been focusing specifically on having an expensive team for the second half of the season, or a happy coincidence? I'm a bit ahead of you in 27k but team value post-WC of only £112m. In fairness though that's without having Ramsey or Yaya during their meteoric rises... they account for £3m+ between them!

You have an embarrassment of riches. Your fifth choice bench fodder midfielder is Cabaye ffs! We have similar starting 11, but your wealth allows you to have Terry over my Sagna and Sturridge over my Lukaku. Barring bad luck you should cruise up the rankings.

Focused on it but not ridiculously so by making hundreds of transfers. I play the same tactics every year and usually finish in the top 20k, winning most of my private leagues.

NabyLadistheman

Boruc --- McGregor

Terry -- Gabby -- Coleman -- Turner -- Chester

Ozil -- Hazard -- Silva -- Erikson -- Livermore

Suarez --- Aguero --- Giroud

When Rooney gets fit I will get Ramsey in for Ozil & upgrade Giroud. It's a bonus that Arsenal fixtures are good for the next 2-3 weeks.

Had to do a bit of clipping from my defence to afford Silva but a lot happier with him instead of Lallana.

Thoughts?

WoollyRedHat

Swiper the fox wrote: »

I've heard that mentioned elsewhere, Mirallas will be hanging around the advertising hoardings.
I really cannot see what Martinez reasoning is with McGeady but I would be shocked if it's a success, how does he fit in. I've been to a few Ireland games in the last few years and McGeady has never failed to disappoint. His final ball can be dreadful and he's far too lightweight for premier league football(my opinion of course)

I wouldn't bank on Mirallas but I think McGeady could surprise people and learn to hone his game. Martinez is a good manager, he knows what he's doing.

no12

Jan wildcard any thoughts on how to upgrade my keepers? Taking a punt on Long so I can have Aguero and Suarez up front..

Mint Sauce

Still a bit of my team. Still hoping for another rise of Sturridge just to get a 0.1 profit. Got in Whilshire last night as was rising, wonder will he get the profit, although will probably hold on to him as Ramsey shoing no increase yet and red flagged.

Basically the plan to make profits this week is not quite working so far as still a little short on final ideal team.

G1032

machiavellianme wrote: »

Focused on it but not ridiculously so by making hundreds of transfers. I play the same tactics every year and usually finish in the top 20k, winning most of my private leagues.

Can you please post a screenshot or a link to your team so that I can see your transfers. Want to find out how someone can have a team value like yours but remain very competitive
Cheers

dahat

Ryan Bertrand off to Villa on loan for the rest of the season.

Cantona's Collars

dahat wrote: »

Ryan Bertrand off to Villa on loan for the rest of the season.

He can play this weekend too.

8-10

Made my last WC transfers, happy as I can be though I didn't make any money after having about 7 players go up 0.1

Probably wasn't the right week to do it but man am I glad it's over.

Posada

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Basically the plan to make profits this week is not quite working so far...

Same here. I wildcarded on Monday and have tried to catch rises on Gerrard, Giroud, Sturridge, Kolarov, Wilshere. None of them will rise 0.2 it seems.

I have dodged a couple of falls though, and I got Aguero & Chester before their rises and will keep Sturridge until Rooney returns.

I'm not sure about rises for Hazard/Suarez etc. as they are season keepers. I had Williamson already.

the incredible pudding

If it's any consolation the potential to make profits last week were pretty non existent too. Too much spread on player choices really.

carraig2

Can't upload pic.

Be grateful for any imput

Lloris Mannone

Luis Sagna Coleman Kolarov Whittaker

Hazard Eriksen Ki-Sung Yeung Sterling Huddlestone

Negredo Giroud Suarez

itsnotmyfault

I got aguero in yesterday to catch the rise.

Am I the only one considering getting negredo in should aguero rise again tonight and then getting aguero back in next gameweek?

I'll lose .1 but think negredo has a much higher chance of playing 90 mins and hopefully getting more points.

IsMiseMyself

I'm holding onto Negredo until after the Cardiff game. Probably will buy Aguero in tomorrow or early this week.

I feel like Aguero will get one tomorrow, but so will Negredo, and I'd need a -4 hit to get him, so for that difference, I'm just gonna wait till next week.

irish son

This is my wildcard team.

I'm taking a chance on Adrian as he rotates well with mannone, If he doesn't play I'm happy with Mannone for the next 4 weeks anyway so have time to get someone else in (probably Boruc) by downgrading Ozil after Crystal Palace game.

thunderdog

Anyone saving their WC til next GW? After looking at everyones WC teams today I'm feeling the pressure to do mine!

My main reason to use my WC would be to get Aguero in and to chance my GKs

Swiper the fox

thunderdog wrote: »

Anyone saving their WC til next GW? After looking at everyones WC teams today I'm feeling the pressure to do mine!

My main reason to use my WC would be to get Aguero in and to chance my GKs

Doesn't sound like you need it this week if you only want two new players. I'm gonna wait till the last available week for the same reasons, by then we'll see a few new players in the league and we'll know more about likely lineups for the remainder of the season.

I actually think if I wildcarded I'd only make two or three transfers this week.

HighClass

Still not 100% if I'll use it this week or not..if I did play it now the team would be

Szczesny
Mert, Fonte, Skrtel
Yaya, Hazard, Eriksen, Lallana
Suarez, Welbeck, Sturridge

Subs: Gazzaniga, Ramsey, Gabbidon, Celustka.

Any thoughts?

G1032

120 ish points behind leader in PL
I need differentials now since most teams are very similar
How does team look? It'll be WC team next week or the week after. It involves selling Coleman, Szcz and Mert but I get Baines in. He's a bonus point magnet. Huge money at 7.4m but possibly worth it
Feedback appreciated

shadowcomplex

Toure or Silva?

and

Adebayour or Erikson?

SpaceCowb0y

shadowcomplex wrote: »

Toure or Silva?

and

Adebayour or Erikson?

I have silva and Erikson

going to shift Ozil for Lallana next week and bump J Rod up to Giroud!

Boots234

This is my wildcard team, think I may have rushed into it

http://gyazo.com/25e7d24aad6470b213935b1a181c7db8

Not sure of Valencia but can't afford Lallana. Anyone have any opinion or suggestions??

finnharpsboy

thinking of this maybe, wc played this week, only a few hours of tinkering left

Any advice?