GW 8 Transfer Thread

TaytoCrisps · 11-10-2014 06:35PM

Barring injuries I might carry a transfer this week for the first time this season. 8 attacking players in midfield and up front so playing 3-5-2 for a week or 2 until I decide what midfielder to drop to upgrade a strikers. Siggy, Di Maria, Silva, Sterling & Fab in Midfield

djPSB · 11-10-2014 08:22PM

Gaillimh1976 wrote: »

Sakho injured as well

Toure & Skrtel !!!!

#CaptainKolo

The Wild Bunch · 12-10-2014 03:02PM

WC TIME BAYBAY

Lemlin · 13-10-2014 11:19AM

This doesn't bode well for Sterling's future playing time:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/12/raheem-sterling-tired-roy-hodgson-england-estonia

Roy Hodgson was forced to defend Raheem Sterling after admitting that the Liverpool player had been left out of England’s starting line-up for their 1-0 win in Estonia because he was “a little tired” despite playing only 45 minutes in the previous game against San Marino.

Dearg81 · 13-10-2014 11:36AM

Lemlin wrote: »

This doesn't bode well for Sterling's future playing time:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/12/raheem-sterling-tired-roy-hodgson-england-estonia

Having watched most of Liverpools games this season I'd have to agree that he's looked tired in the last few weeks. He was awful against Basel and Middlesborough, he kept getting dispossesed and overpowered too easily. He was better in his last game against WBA but no way near his early season form.

I'm gonna keep him for now though cos he has good fixtures and Sturridge is close to a return which will help his cause. His best performance came when he played behind Sturridge away to Spurs.

boccy23 · 13-10-2014 11:52AM

Dearg81 wrote: »

Having watched most of Liverpools games this season I'd have to agree that he's looked tired in the last few weeks. He was awful against Basel and Middlesborough, he kept getting dispossesed and overpowered too easily. He was better in his last game against WBA but no way near his early season form.

I'm gonna keep him for now though cos he has good fixtures and Sturridge is close to a return which will help his cause. His best performance came when he played behind Sturridge away to Spurs.

Decided to jump off the Sterling bandwagon. He was very poor recently.
Have jumped to Di Maria.

hurlingman97 · 13-10-2014 12:03PM

Have 2 ft an am looking at dumping Sterling because gametime could be affected.
Current team:

Krul, Mannone

PVA, Moore, Wilson, Duff, Bertrand

Fabregas, Di Maria, Sterling, Siggy, Diame

Costa, Welbeck, Aguero

Option 1:
Sterling - Hazard
Diame - Boyd
No hit

Option 2:
Sterling - Henderson
Diame - Chadli
Duff - Azpilicueta
-4pt hit

Please help me:)

CSF · 13-10-2014 12:04PM

boccy23 wrote: »

Decided to jump off the Sterling bandwagon. He was very poor recently.
Have jumped to Di Maria.

Reckon I'll make the switch from Sterling to Walcott after the Liverpool v Hull game myself.

Wombatman · 13-10-2014 12:05PM

I'm worried about Man City striker rotation. Aguero, Dzeko and Jovetic. Help me guys. Help me.
Thinking about Falcao + Ulloa -> Dzeko + Wellbeck

SlickRic · 13-10-2014 12:16PM

Aguero will not be rotated, especially with City already chasing Chelsea.

he'll be played until he breaks IMO.

boccy23 · 13-10-2014 12:27PM

hurlingman97 wrote: »

Have 2 ft an am looking at dumping Sterling because gametime could be affected.
Current team:
Krul, Mannone

PVA, Moore, Wilson, Duff, Bertrand

Fabregas, Di Maria, Sterling, Siggy, Diame

Costa, Welbeck, Aguero
Option 1:
Sterling - Hazard
Diame - Boyd
No hit

Option 2:
Sterling - Henderson
Diame - Chadli
Duff - Azpilicueta
-4pt hit

Please help me:)

Option 1 is highly Chelski dependent.
Option 2 makes no sense to me. With Costa, Welbeck, Aguero upfront, why would you take a 4 point hit to bring in a midfielder who will be on your bench.
Why not go with Option 2 less the Chadli add?

POKERKING · 13-10-2014 12:41PM

SlickRic wrote: »

Aguero will not be rotated, especially with City already chasing Chelsea.

he'll be played until he breaks IMO.

+ Jovetic injured again:mad:

OneColdHand · 13-10-2014 12:42PM

Whatever about form, surely fatigue can't be an issue for Sterling by the time the weekend rolls around? He only played 25mins or so yesterday. Surely he's more likely to play now that he played less than a full game (71mins) over the 2 international games.

FutureGuy · 13-10-2014 12:52PM

OneColdHand wrote: »

Whatever about form, surely fatigue can't be an issue for Sterling by the time the weekend rolls around? He only played 25mins or so yesterday. Surely he's more likely to play now that he played less than a full game (71mins) over the 2 international games.

I am cautious about Sterling but he has 5 days to rest and I'll wait to hear from Rogers to speak on Friday.

Wombatman · 13-10-2014 12:55PM

POKERKING wrote: »

+ Jovetic injured again:mad:

Where you getting this from?

Lemlin · 13-10-2014 12:56PM

OneColdHand wrote: »

Whatever about form, surely fatigue can't be an issue for Sterling by the time the weekend rolls around? He only played 25mins or so yesterday. Surely he's more likely to play now that he played less than a full game (71mins) over the 2 international games.

CL games may come into play though. Liverpool only have 3 points from two games.

Sterling is facing into 3 games in seven days.

OneColdHand · 13-10-2014 12:59PM

FutureGuy wrote: »

I am cautious about Sterling but he has 5 days to rest and I'll wait to hear from Rogers to speak on Friday.

I'm also cautious about him, but it's form related. I don't really see how he could be fatigued, unless I'm missing something.

He's a number of players on my watch list that could be worth bringing in (Hazard, Silva, Tadic), and out of the template midfield 4 Sterling is the one at the minute that will make way. But not this week (unless there's something in the press conference on Friday).

OneColdHand · 13-10-2014 01:00PM

Lemlin wrote: »

CL games may come into play though. Liverpool only have 3 points from two games.

Sterling is facing into 3 games in seven days.

Fair enough, but why would he be fatigued now?

SlickRic · 13-10-2014 01:17PM

OneColdHand wrote: »

Fair enough, but why would he be fatigued now?

because he's 19, and he's playing 3 times as much football as last year.

Lemlin · 13-10-2014 03:13PM

OneColdHand wrote: »

Fair enough, but why would he be fatigued now?

Could be a number of reasons. As the user above says, he's 19 and is playing more games than before.

My own opinion is that think Rodgers isn't too fond of losing players to international duty, particularly with England. Have a look at the following:

http://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/liverpool-news-coverage/2014/9/11/6135241/brendan-rodgers-blames-england-causing-sturridge-injury-training

The disappointment for us is Daniel Sturridge coming back injured as he had started the season very well," Rodgers said while speaking on TalkSport today. "We're obviously disappointed because we feel it was an injury which could have been prevented. He has worked so hard over pre-season and looked very fit and strong in our last game against Tottenham."

Sturridge has had something of a history of getting himself injured while on international duty, and it's hard not to think at times that it's as much what he's being asked to do by the England coaches as anything to do with the player himself. And Rodgers has now confirmed as much, placing the blame entirely on England for their mishandling of the player's fitness.

Rodgers also said that England didn't need Sturridge for these two games and, in the past, when Sturridge was even mentioned for an England call-up, Rodgers said he needed to worry about playing regularly before he worried about playing for England.

I think Sterling may well have been under strict instructions from his manager not to play in both games for an extended period. I can't see Rodgers having a different attitude for Sterling on international duty than he has for Sturridge.

OneColdHand · 13-10-2014 03:29PM

SlickRic wrote: »

because he's 19, and he's playing 3 times as much football as last year.

Lemlin wrote: »

Could be a number of reasons. As the user above says, he's 19 and is playing more games than before.

My own opinion is that think Rodgers isn't too fond of losing players to international duty, particularly with England. Have a look at the following:

http://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/liverpool-news-coverage/2014/9/11/6135241/brendan-rodgers-blames-england-causing-sturridge-injury-training

Rodgers also said that England didn't need Sturridge for these two games and, in the past, when Sturridge was even mentioned for an England call-up, Rodgers said he needed to worry about playing regularly before he worried about playing for England.

I think Sterling may well have been under strict instructions from his manager not to play in both games. I can't see Rodgers having a different attitude for Sterling on international duty than he has for Sturridge.

Yeah it's interesting that you mention Rodgers, as I was wondering earlier if it was more a case of Rodgers trying to protect him before he gets fatigued, rather than him being at the point where he is actually fatigued. My own hunch is it might be the former.

Liverpool have 7 games (4 PL, 2 CL, 1 LC) in 21 days coming up. I suppose if Rodgers is trying to protect him, he probably won't start all the PL games, especially as the 2 CL games are vs Real.

Lemlin · 13-10-2014 03:34PM

OneColdHand wrote: »

Yeah it's interesting that you mention Rodgers, as I was wondering earlier if it was more a case of Rodgers trying to protect him before he gets fatigued, than him being at the point where he is actually fatigued. My own hunch is it might be the former.

Liverpool have 7 games (4 PL, 2 CL, 1 LC) in 21 days coming up. I suppose if Rodgers is trying to protect him, he probably won't start all the PL games, especially as the 2 CL games are vs Real.

I definitely think Rodgers and his opinion on international football has a big bearing on it.

And I think he's right to expect players to be rested in internationals against minnows. Whatever about Estonia, England certainly don't need their top players against San Marino.

FutureGuy · 13-10-2014 03:35PM

[I'm going to sit down and trawl over Liverpool stats to see if they are creating as many chances as they were before. It doesn't look like they are, which makes Sturridge less of an option for me.

Sterling/Sturridge looked great when they were playing poorly and scoring 4 goals. Not sure now.

SlickRic · 13-10-2014 03:37PM

FutureGuy wrote: »

[I'm going to sit down and trawl over Liverpool stats to see if they are creating as many chances as they were before. It doesn't look like they are, which makes Sturridge less of an option for me.

Sterling/Sturridge looked great when they were playing poorly and scoring 4 goals. Not sure now.

Cazorla in for Sterling is looking tempting, as is holding off for a week or 2 and getting Walcott in.

Lemlin · 13-10-2014 04:28PM

I've more pressing transfers in defence so will allow Sterling the next few games. He has looked decent in Liverpool's games for me and they aren't playing well but he's still scoring points. Sturridge can only add to his appeal.

Liverpool play:

QPR away
Hull home
Newcastle away
Chelsea home
Palace away
Stoke home

I'd be looking to keep him for at least the next three. Liverpool can't afford to drop anymore points. As various pundits have pointed out, now that they have CL football they need to keep it. No point being a one season wonder like Spurs were.

Walcott will come into my team as soon as he is fit enough which should coincide with the pasisng of those 3 games against QPR, Hull and Newcastle.

daithijjj · 13-10-2014 04:45PM

I will be letting others take the gamble on selling Sterling first :pac:

Even tired and without Sturridge he has outscored Siggy and Fabregas the last 3 game weeks combined.

Mr.Prodston · 13-10-2014 04:58PM

I'm quite relaxed about things at the moment, and to be fair have been all season bar those few days towards the end of the last GW with Nolan and RVP. It's out of my system again, helped by the team I threw up in the Rate my Team thread.

I'm still undecided about whether I'll wildcard but I'm glad I haven't activated it as the price rises have really not done much at all of consequence so far. I don't think I'll end up rocking the boat too much but in saying that I shouldn't be afraid of ditching a player for somebody else if I think it's the right thing to do even if it breaks up the template a little.

I think it's fair to say I've played it safe this season and put into practice (for the most part) the lessons learned from last year. In saying that I had a lot of the right players from the beginning meaning I had no need for hits until I lost the plot momentarily last GW. In saying that bringing in Pelle before he took off was somewhat risky at the time.

I think the break has come at the right time though as I've been able to switch off mostly and things that seemed like great ideas last week are clearer now. I'm not sure any of this has a purpose but just trying to get myself back into the zone again slowly. No more mistakes for another month or so please

Mr.Prodston · 13-10-2014 04:59PM

daithijjj wrote: »

I will be letting others take the gamble on selling Sterling first :pac:

Even tired and without Sturridge he has outscored Siggy and Fabregas the last 3 game weeks combined.

What about those who haven't had him at all? :pac:

daithijjj · 13-10-2014 05:11PM

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

What about those who haven't had him at all? :pac:

I reckon those people might need new underwear by the time he lines out v Newcastle in a couple of weeks if they still dont have him :pac:

FHFC · 13-10-2014 05:14PM

Lemlin wrote: »

Walcott will come into my team as soon as he is fit enough which should coincide with the pasisng of those 3 games against QPR, Hull and Newcastle.

Sounds very much like a plan...

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