kronsington wrote: » I haven't seen Yaya'a name mentioned much on these forums. Are people avoiding him after his ridiculous tantrums and comments? He's likely to stay at City
Mr.Prodston wrote: » Yaya who?
CSF wrote: » Don't really have a strong opinion either way on the Davies discussion but I would be very surprised if he was the only Tottenham signing this summer. You'd think Pocchetino would have demanded more from the board.
'I think we have a very good squad already,' said Pochettino. 'Of course we always want to improve and it is possible we will add to the squad. But there will not be many changes. 'Last summer the club made a big overhaul and I believe in these players.' The Argentine manager also insisted that expensive signings were no guarantee of success - something his new club learned the hard way last summer - and promised to avoid 'mistakes' in the transfer window. 'We are always looking to build - but without making mistakes - so you should not expect big changes.'
Lemlin wrote: » http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2698837/Mauricio-Pochettino-says-Tottenham-not-make-signings-summer-new-boss-promises-play-attacking-football.html
roryc wrote: » I dont think Siggy has played in their pre-season games yet.
CSF wrote: » I'll take it with a pinch of salt under the assumption that Pocchetino couldn't be nuts enough to value THAT squad THAT highly. A huge amount of players yes, but a serious absence of good ones.
Lemlin wrote: » It's a better squad than he had at Saints and look at the results he got there. Spurs aren't a bad side. Players like Lloris, Vertonghen, Walker, Lennon, Eriksen, Paulinho and Ade are proven and others like Chirches, Chadli, Bentaleb, Townsend, Soldado and Kane all have definite potential.
Benimar wrote: » Finding it hard to pick a team due to the level of uncertainty over so many big players. I usually WC after 3 weeks but was going to avoid it this year. Starting to lean towards picking a team for the first 3 weeks only and WC'ing.
FHFC wrote: » Interesting debate you raise. My first experience of the game last year and I wildcarded after about 4 weeks. Gained value but team didn't actually score well after it for a while. Second wildcard went very well though. Then coming up to the cancellations and DGWs I'd have given my right arm for one. The lad who won my league kept his WC till around then and the boost he got won it for him. I'm not opposed to points hits, and my plan this year was like yourself to keep the original wc till last 1/4 of the season and try to gain maximum advantage then. I was gonna take a few hits as required in first 5 or 6 GWs to adjust team and get on bandwagon price risers. I get the impression from most other posters that early wildcarding is the way it is and most seem set to use it within the first 3 weeks. I'm still very inexperienced at this craic and may very well hit the wc button in week 2 myself when I realise my plan above is clap trap so would be an interesting one to see what others views and plans are. A poll might be interesting if someone could set one up.
Nib wrote: » Help me, please. I seen a FF team name the other day but I can't for the life of me remember it. I think its a play on the name of a new player in the EPL. Not much to go on I know.
Iused2likebusts wrote: » anything to do with Ings
Nib wrote: » Ings can only get better! And I'm pretty sure it was you that posted it? Thank you very much. Edit: Max 20 characters.
Iused2likebusts wrote: » ingscanonlygetbetter;)
Iused2likebusts wrote: » Ive always wildcarded at the first international break and am going to try to wait till the 2nd international break this time around but it will definetly be one of those 2 options. I dont really see the benefit of holding onto your wildcard till late in the season a lot of the time DGW's dont pan out as you plan plus most of us with forward planning can get in enough dgw players anyway. Ive only bothered looking at every teams first 8 fixtures as I know Ill have wildcarded by then and with that in mind I think Ill be going all out attack.
CSF wrote: » I'm sure he didn't up sticks and leave a club where he was doing so well like Southampton (a club who sells their best players) and join Tottenham (a club who sells their best players) without being given the opportunity to improve their squad on being slightly better than the one he had at Southampton. All the other managers got a decent wad of cash to spend, why shouldn't Pocchetino?
FHFC wrote: » Glad to hear a few opinions. I felt last season I'd have gained a lot of advantage if I'd had the WC around the DGWs / Cancellation weeks. I put plenty of effort into planning, too much maybe, and it possible to get numbers of DGW players, but not necessarily your ideal DGW players if you know what I mean.... I like the idea for now of using hits early if needed and keeping the WC, but I'm not hung up on it at all costs, if I find myself of a -12 some GW I can always hit the button. So as manual man says I'll play it when I need to to, but unlike manual man I have some idea of when I'd like to. Busts, last year I think the first international break was pretty bad for price rises etc, I did it the week after that and it was excellent. International break 2 might be a better time all right, but last year transfers were very quiet both breaks till the after the second set of internationals so the advantage of a long week is minimal as far as I saw last year.
Iused2likebusts wrote: » Ye I think if you make .2 or .3 you have done well. I do recall that the following week between GW 4 & 5 turned out to be a good one. There is luck involved as in a random player scores on a sat that is 90% on his way to a price rise will get the .2 whereas the next week a player that scores is 90% on the way to a drop before the bandwagon kicks in with him scoring. Between GW4 and 5 is good as you get a gameweek to see the effect on teamsheets of all the deadline transfers including players that have now been dropped due to new arivals.
swoody wrote: » Ben Davies starts for spurs tonight against Toronto on BT Sport 2
FHFC wrote: » I gained about 1m gross the week I did it. I also signed Ramsey thinking I'd get a few prices rises off him before the bandwagon crashed! . On the down side I also signed Ben Arfa....
