auldgranny wrote: » Thinking of wildcarding be grateful for any imput Krul Forster Chambers Bertrand Janmaat Cresswell Gibbs Siggy Wanyama Chadli Walters Sanchez Costa Aguero Ayoze
OneColdHand wrote: » Far too much spent on defence, at the expense of your midfield. I'd downgrade a keeper and at least 2 defenders and spend the extra money on upgrading a midfielder. If you could upgrade Walters to a premium mid that would be a big improvement.
auldgranny wrote: » Thank you so much Draft 2 0.7 in bank Forster Krul Chambers Bertrand Trippier Taylor Dummett Siggy Wanyama Sterling Chadli Sanchez Aguero Costa Ayoze
auldgranny wrote: » Thinking of wildcarding be grateful for any imput Krul Elliott Chambers Bertrand Taylor Cresswell Yun Siggy Oscar Chadli Boyd Sanchez Costa Aguero Austin
Nerdlingr wrote: » Ya could go with something like this depending on the money... 3-4-3. Oscar a bit of a wildcard choice, everyone else has either Fabregas or Hazard. Oscar is the sneaky one that could make a few points with chelsea's fixture list the way it is. He's only 9 pts behind hazard with 200minutes less played but is nearly 2m cheaper.
Lemlin wrote: » Alot of the FFS lads were going for him over Hazard to replace Fabregas earlier in the week. I actually had Oscar for the early part of last season until he got injured and he was outscoring Hazard until Hazard hit his purple patch.
OneColdHand wrote: » Just looking at my team, if I was to switch Hazard to Oscar, then I could switch Pelle to Costa. So I can see the attraction in going for Oscar over Hazard.
Gooners wrote: » Wilcarding using some of the advice given above. Krul Guzan Chambers Janmaat Trippier Alderwiereld Yun Sigurdsson Wanyama Chadli Sanchez Hazard Costa Aguero Ayoze Perez Any thoughts or suggestions? Should I change Oscar for Hazard and upgrade Perez and defence?
Bleating Lamb wrote: » Like a lot of people in a bit of pickle with suspensions and injuries,am doing reasonably( by my low standards)... In top 250k. Current Team. De Gea. Krul (inj) Dummett Azpil Chambers (susp). Clyne Duff (inj) Chadli. Fabregas (susp) Sanchez. Siggy. Amoebi Aguero (inj). Bony. Austin Have Team value 101.9m. 4.2m in the bank. And a resale value of 103.3m. Overall haven't a bad squad I don't think, and haven't bad resale value. My question is in looking forward to Christmas period of busy schedule who would ye ditch between now and say 3 Gameweeks time? Have one FT at mo. Will hold Kun if it's not bad injury.....don't see Chadli,Clyne,Duff ,Krul.as Longterm keepers.How could I use my money in the bank well?....no huge interest in Costa. Would ye burn some money and take a few hits to shape team up a bit better?, All advice appreciated.
Benimar wrote: » I think the worrying about Azpilicuetas game time is a bit overblown to be honest. Jose loves him and he's the number 1 LB. Yesterday's change was purely tactical, a goal down to a team parking the bus, Jose threw on the more attacking full back, it's a fairly obvious change to make. And not one that will happen every week. Dave was suspended for 3 games and got straight back in the team, no way Jose is dropping him.
tom_k wrote: » Like many of us up until today it wasn't a bad looking squad. GK - I'd hold onto De Gea as fixtures are OK-ish for December, Krul will likely drop to 4.5 tonight but that's not a pressing issue. DEF - Chambers ongoing disciplinary issues mean I'm looking at getting him out ASAP. The possible rotation of Azpi with Felipe Luis is also a concern especially over Christmas. Clyne plays Burnley next week so I'd hold him. Ongoing injury for Duff, I'd suggest replacing with Yun (QPR) MID - Chadli's lack of gametime means he should be high priority for replacement, consider Downing. I'd hold Fab due to his reliability. FWD - Aguero's injury is likely to mean 3-4 weeks sidelined minimum given his history, I'm looking at replacing him with Rooney depending on how he looks on Monday. Don't know yet how to handle Austin. In short, I think you can afford to wait til at least tomorrow before making any changes but likely candidates for ejection seem to be Chambers, Duff, Chadli and Aguero. There's also midweek champions league games that may cause further woes in addition to what we've seen today and what we may see tomorrow but overall you're not much worse off than most of us. You're in the fortunate position of having considerable funds to cover most purchases too.
Bleating Lamb wrote: » Thanks for a v good reply,sorry only getting back now, yday I transferred out Chambers for Smalling of Utd....they don't have too bad of a run coming up, Liverpool in terrible shape at mo and Smalling has been playing well. Will see how Rooney does tonight...will bring him or Lukaku in for Aguero.
Ziegler1988 wrote: » Can't wait for the wildcard on Thursday. This is a first draft I came up with Big decisions to be made in midfield since I've had Downing since 5.7m. I'm favoring a power 5 with two of Sterling/Eriksen/Cazorla with the other three slots pretty much set. Up front, ManU have good fixtures and then RvP to Aguero is an easy swap. Barnes seems nailed on and has nice fixtures in Jan which will cause selection dilemmas, but oh well (ninja edit: Ah, forgot about Sam Vokes coming back, crap). Spurs have great fixtures and Kane looks amazing for that price. Defence will be chopped and changed a lot for me; only certainty is Terry.
wreckless if true wrote: » wow, mad looking team but very interesting! I realise you are unbelievable at the game, top of my qualifying league but are you sure you think its a good move going that bare up front?
Ziegler1988 wrote: » Austin has 4 out of 6 away from home next. Plenty of time to tinker
Lemlin wrote: » Too bare up front for me. I think you should go with one of Eriksen/Kane and not both. Spurs are too unreliable and have Europa League. You could maybe go with Mirallas ahead of Eriksen. I'd worry about any team without Costa. I know it's went well for you so far but your hands are tied if he goes on another run like the start of the season, and his ownership is so high it'd kill you. For me, at least two big hitters up front is a necessity. Also, why plan to go without the best value forward in the game in Charlie Austin? Madness for me. Too much spent on defence. You plan to field three each week so most weeks it'll be Terry, Jones and a cheapie, so why have two players 4.9 and 4.5? I'd be going for as cheap as you can get.
FrClintPower wrote: » Why Fernandez rather than Naylor? I know its only 0.1m....
Iused2likebusts wrote: » I'd advise you to keep playing the game you play don't have players in your team for fear of their ownership. Things constantly change in this game. Austin for example is in great form but it's going to stop otherwise he is going to hit 30 goals this season it's about getting away from him before its too late. West ham downing are getting great returns is their top 4 output going to continue in the second half of the season i dont think so.One of the reasons you are were you are is because you backed your gut instinct and sold costa. I personally wouldn't have costa in the top 3 Chelsea assets so I think it's perfectly logical to go without him if need be. I'd agree with Lemlin about the layout of your defence you can spend wiser. I can see myself going Aguero and 2 cheapish forwards and a very strong midfield like yourself. Apart from Aguero the best captain options are sanchez and Hazard.
Lemlin wrote: » I agree re Downing but disagree with a few other points.... But sure that's the joy of this forum. Austin has 12 goals in 16 games. I don't see any reason why he can't get another 8 to 12 and finish on 20-24 goals. QPR are a decent side with good attacking players. Their problem is defence and I can see that being strengthened come January and Harry doing some wheeling and dealing. I still think Costa is a premium striker playing for the best team in the league. He will return points. He easily could have had a double against Stoke as well as his haul on Stephens Day. I've found season after season that 3-4-3 is the way to go. Forwards are on the field to score. My expectation is that I'll be going Aguero, Costa and Austin as I had earlier in the season. I'll then be hoping to have Silva, Hazard, Eriksen and Sanchez in midfield and Terry in defence. The rest of the team I worry little about. Whether I'll be able to fit all of those in I don't know. I'm not starting toying around because I'm adamant I'll be keeping my wildcard as late as possible. That has worked well for me every season.
