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January wildcard

FHFC

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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CSF

Deleted User wrote: »

He's only 5.5, but that's a good point you make. The extra 0.7 would be useful in upgrading a defender.

Yeah, and you're probably more likely to get a goal from Chamakh anyway. Not that you'd ever want to start either.

zarquon

G1032 wrote: »

My WC is currently active.
Essentials I have are: Mert (will probably sell for Kos), Coleman (will probably sell for Baines), Hazard, Aguero and Suarez

I have Silva but do I really really need Yaya? Is he that vital to have instead of Silva?
I think Aguero, Yaya and Silva might be overkill

I live in fear of Yaya as he is destroying me in my league as i'm the only top contender without him. I have now rejigged my wildcard to give me Yaya, Silva, Hazard, Wilshere (with funds to move to Ramsey once back), Aguero, Suarez, Adeboyeur (with funds to move to sturridge if needed). Back lines of Boruc, Chester, Ward, Kos, Coleman. I'm undecided between aspilicueta, Evans or Kolorov for the last defender.

Most importantly is that Yaya is now in my team so i can forget about him! his 13 points this week was a real sucker punch.

CSF

zarquon wrote: »

I live in fear of Yaya as he is destroying me in my league as i'm the only top contender without him. I have now rejigged my wildcard to give me Yaya, Silva, Hazard, Wilshere (with funds to move to Ramsey once back), Aguero, Suarez, Adeboyeur (with funds to move to sturridge if needed). Back lines of Boruc, Chester, Ward, Kos, Coleman. I'm undecided between aspilicueta, Evans or Kolorov for the last defender.

Most importantly is that Yaya is now in my team so i can forget about him! his 13 points this week was a real sucker punch.

When you move Wilshere to Ramsey and I move Ozil the same way our teams are going to be scarily similar.

zarquon

CSF wrote: »

When you move Wilshere to Ramsey and I move Ozil the same way our teams are going to be scarily similar.

During this wildcard season a lot of teams will be similiar. The double gameweeks will break things up but they are a bit away yet.

Gaillimh1976

Don't want to let wildcard go to waste, but nothing jumping out at me

Currently have

Hart (K Davis)

Zaba/Mert/Coleman/Terry (Faye)

Lallana/Yaya/Ozil (Assaidi/Canas)

Giroud/Lukaku/Suarez

Was thinking Hart to Scezny but already have 3 arsenal
Maybe Hart to Scezny and Giroud to ????

Any suggestions welcome...........

Scorpion Sting

G1032 wrote: »

My WC is currently active.
Essentials I have are: Mert (will probably sell for Kos), Coleman (will probably sell for Baines), Hazard, Aguero and Suarez

I have Silva but do I really really need Yaya? Is he that vital to have instead of Silva?
I think Aguero, Yaya and Silva might be overkill

I don't think Yaya is a must have when Silva is available for almost a million cheaper.

Dempsey

jebforever wrote: »

I don't think Yaya is a must have when Silva is available for almost a million cheaper.

You'll have an extra million but you'll have to do alot of praying for the rest of the season. Maybe even resort to creating a Yaya Toure Voodoo Doll...

CSF

jebforever wrote: »

I don't think Yaya is a must have when Silva is available for almost a million cheaper.

Over the last 2 seasons Yaya has brought in 53 points more than Silva. That is significant enough.

zarquon

jebforever wrote: »

I don't think Yaya is a must have when Silva is available for almost a million cheaper.

He is a must have when everyone of your opponents has him. I tried the Silva differential route for a few weeks now and that has not worked therefore Yaya and Silva will both take pride of place in my team now. Sickening to have to spend 10.1m on Yaya though!

Iused2likebusts

Gaillimh1976 wrote: »

Don't want to let wildcard go to waste, but nothing jumping out at me

Currently have

Hart (K Davis)

Zaba/Mert/Coleman/Terry (Faye)

Lallana/Yaya/Ozil (Assaidi/Canas)

Giroud/Lukaku/Suarez

Was thinking Hart to Scezny but already have 3 arsenal
Maybe Hart to Scezny and Giroud to ????

Any suggestions welcome...........

get in aguero for giroud or lukaku . That will involve dropping either zab or hart. Mert to kos will save you some money towards that. Dont think faye plays change him. Id also look at upgrading one of assaidi/canas.

FHFC

zarquon wrote: »

He is a must have when everyone of your opponents has him. I tried the Silva differential route for a few weeks now and that has not worked therefore Yaya and Silva will both take pride of place in my team now. Sickening to have to spend 10.1m on Yaya though!

I fear I will have to finally give in to this unarguable logic in the end, sorry anti Yaya, I'm too logical in the final shake down to hold out any longer....

I'm still going to go for the 'you know who' differential if he's fit for next Gameweek.

For those not sick of me banging on about it....RVP.

Mr.Prodston

Running through options with the wildcard and trying to figure out which is better Ade and Lallana or Eriksen and J-Rod + 1.8?

I guess the 1.8 gets me Hazard rather than Oscar but realising that there's that much in price between them is actually frightening.

G1032

This is a potential WC team for me

I don't like it although it might look grand on paper
I don't like having both Yaya and Silva and I don't like the lack of Arsenal attacking cover. I don't want to sell Cabaye just yet. 0.2 left over though to potentially bring Ramsey in for him
Ozil is not an option though as it stands, although I won't rule him out completely. He'd be easy to downgrade to a fit again Ramsey
Ozil would need to be there at the expense of Yaya

Dont be at yourself

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Running through options with the wildcard and trying to figure out which is better Ade and Lallana or Eriksen and J-Rod + 1.8?

I guess the 1.8 gets me Hazard rather than Oscar but realising that there's that much in price between them is actually frightening.

I currently have Oscar-Lallana-Ade, but I think Hazard could be close to necessary. Have to funds to upgrade Oscar, but I'll give it a week or so yet...

Mr.Prodston

Something that has crossed my mind is that City are playing Spurs (a) and Chelsea (h) in their next 2 games. Would it be madness to stick Cazorla who plays Southampton (a) and Palace (h) and maybe bring Silva back in then. It's not likely his price will rise much if at all and I'll still have Aguero at the same time

IsMiseMyself

It's worth a go. I don't think Silva justifies his price--certainly not with the next two game's he got. Yaya's a beast and far more of a must-have. Carzola could be an interesting differential. Course he could be useless too.

Dont be at yourself

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Something that has crossed my mind is that City are playing Spurs (a) and Chelsea (h) in their next 2 games. Would it be madness to stick Cazorla who plays Southampton (a) and Palace (h) and maybe bring Silva back in then. It's not likely his price will rise much if at all and I'll still have Aguero at the same time

I fancy City to run amok against Spurs (again!) but not likely to be many goals in the Chelsea game

Mr.Prodston

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

I fancy City to run amok against Spurs (again!) but not likely to be many goals in the Chelsea game

True it's just I saw my team and having 3 players playing in the same "tough" game off the back of the wildcard may not give me the boost I need although it's more the Palace game the following week for Arsenal that caught my eye :pac:

G1032

Option number 2
This one without Silva. Don't fancy Cazorla but he's the answer to my lack of Arsenal attacking cover until Ramsey is back

Any thoughts??

KevIRL

G1032 wrote: »

This is a potential WC team for me

I don't like it although it might look grand on paper
I don't like having both Yaya and Silva and I don't like the lack of Arsenal attacking cover. I don't want to sell Cabaye just yet. 0.2 left over though to potentially bring Ramsey in for him
Ozil is not an option though as it stands, although I won't rule him out completely. He'd be easy to downgrade to a fit again Ramsey
Ozil would need to be there at the expense of Yaya

Be wary of overloading on City players, couple of tricky fixtures upcoming and likely blank week in Feb when league cup final is on

biscuits1988

Moussa Dembele anyone as a cheapish 4th/5th mid? Played the 90 in his last four games, bagging a couple of assists and a goal in the process.

Danger781

Wildcard idea I'm toying with..

3 big defenders, 4 big mids, 2 big forwards + 1 off my bench to field a full 11 each week

Danger781

^ Any thoughts lads?

Have Szczesny in goal at the moment so tempted to just keep him and bring in a soton defender instead.

Dont be at yourself

Danger781 wrote: »

^ Any thoughts lads?

Have Szczesny in goal at the moment so tempted to just keep him and bring in a soton defender instead.

I'd get rid of Silva and get in Wilshire/Ramsey, and upgrade Long to JRod, Wellbeck or Lukaku if funds allow. Or swap Erikson for Lallana and get Adebayor up front.

Danger781

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

I'd get rid of Silva and get in Wilshire/Ramsey, and upgrade Long to JRod, Wellbeck or Lukaku if funds allow. Or swap Erikson for Lallana and get Adebayor up front.

I'd like Adebayor I think. Reckon he will do well. Or the new Everton lad, Traore.

[Deleted User]

Considering

Mannone , McGregor
Koscielny, Vlaar, Ward, Turner (Car), Olsson (Nor),
Cabeye , Hazard, Yaya, Cazorla, Mutch
Aguero, Sturridge, Lukaku

Play 3-4-3 every week.

Dont be at yourself

Deleted User wrote: »

Considering

Mannone , McGregor
Koscielny, Vlaar, Ward, Turner (Car), Olsson (Nor),
Cabeye , Hazard, Yaya, Cazorla, Mutch
Aguero, Sturridge, Lukaku

Play 3-4-3 every week.

Seriously no Suarez?

Dempsey

I'd downgrade Cazorla to Wilshere & get Suarez in

Flecktarn

Deleted User wrote: »

Considering

Mannone , McGregor
Koscielny, Vlaar, Ward, Turner (Car), Olsson (Nor),
Cabeye , Hazard, Yaya, Cazorla, Mutch
Aguero, Sturridge, Lukaku

Play 3-4-3 every week.

Ade should be there instead of Lukaku also.

[Deleted User]

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

Seriously no Suarez?

Dempsey wrote: »

I'd downgrade Cazorla to Wilshere & get Suarez in

Have to pretend he's not playing. (stubborn non-Suarez bet)

Flecktarn wrote: »

Ade should be there instead of Lukaku also.

Currently have Ade,Negredo,Lukaku.

I'm not sure I prefer Ade over Lukaku for the run in...