Gameweek 16 Transfers.

But if I get Yaya then last season will have been for nothing

I now own the three most expensive midfielders in the game
:eek:

iroced wrote: »

Yes.

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Re Yaya. Current team is

Krul/Elliott
Baines Naylor Wisdom Wilson Yun
Sanchez Hazard Siggy Eriksen Ameobi
Aguero Costa Austin
£1.5m in bank

I'm a good pupil and teacher Busts (:P) gave me good advice on a triple transfer

Elliott -> Pantilimon
Wilson -> Chelsea def
Aguero -> any striker bar RVP

-8 but

Aguero has to go (price wise and honestly can't play 4 def)
I need a GK, Panti's on a good run and has tasty fixtures.
With 3 of my def at home (Naylor has Spurs, Baines has QPR and Wisdom have Villa) maybe there's no rush for a Chelsea def for an additional -4.

If I get a < £9m striker I can get Yaya for Eriksen... Sounds knee-jerk but Yaya's FPL form is close to last year standard on his last 5 games.
Considering PARlance convinced me about Sakho's appeal upfront, even if Yaya rises thrice this week I can afford him easily next and should hopefully have had the luxury to see how is Silva at the week-end... Better plan?

What do people think about taking a hit for a goalkeeper? They aren't that volatile when it comes to price rises or falls and it's very easy for them to go from scoring 6, to scoring 2, leaving you -2 on the transfer for the week. Obviously if you're taking a long-term view and intending on bringing in a new keeper as a long-term replacement it's perfectly fine, but in a week where lots of people have as many as 6 injuries/suspensions to contend with, I would have thought bringing in a keeper would be a very low-priority.

AdMMM wrote: »

What do people think about taking a hit for a goalkeeper? They aren't that volatile when it comes to price rises or falls and it's very easy for them to go from scoring 6, to scoring 2, leaving you -2 on the transfer for the week.

Its a no brainer to bring in a replacement if you have a Krul/Elliot/Mannone situation of no playing goalkeeper for the foreseeable future. You get back the -4 in ~2 game weeks and it has none of the potential downside associated with a normal transfer (i.e., no possibility of the player you are getting rid of outscoring the player coming in).

I had 2 FT's this week and used one yesterday on bringing Bony in for aguero.

I'm unsure about where to use my second transfer (and do I need a third)

My team is as follows

Wilson is a doubt, I couldn't read it when I changed him to yellow.

I have 4.2 in the bank and can just about field a team this week without making anymore transfers but with 1 free i'm looking at a couple of options.

A) Wilson to azpi - I don't like stoke's fixtures and presently have no Chelsea defensive cover

krul to Courtois - Burnley's fixtures get tricky too and although i'd ideally prefer a keeper in the 4.5 region that rotates with Heaton I wouldn't be completely against getting courtois.

C) cesc to hazard or ya ya. this is my least favoured option at the moment as I want to keep cesc and he's only gone for 1 match, it also doesn't help fix my weakfish defence which a or b does but am I really mad not to have hazard?

John83 wrote: »

I'm thinking of a -4 hit on these three transfers

1. Dummett -> Clichy
2. Aguero -> Dzeko
3. Berahino -> Sakho

Means I'd start with a team like this:

Guzan
Clichy - Terry - Baines - Naylor - Wisdom
Sanchez - Siggy - Hazard
Dzeko - Sakho

I'd only have one available sub in Boyd because Fabregas and Austin are suspended. And that's the risk. I don't want to be swayed too much from my original plan by the injury/suspension feast last week. I had pre-planned City defensive coverage, with Dummett leaving and getting rid of Berahino. So the only enforced sub is Aguero. Still leaves me on course to bring in Silva for Fabregas and Costa for Dzeko later on.



Any thoughts?

If Clichy was guaranteed to start every games he'd be a no brainer but...
Having said that he started the last 8. I haven't followed this at all so don't know if Kolarov was injured or if Clichy has gained a starting position.

Then your gamble of playing 5 at the back for keeping both Austin and Fabregas could actually work out well this week sinc eyour 5 defs have a very decent chance of a CS.

About your transfer, Sakho for Berahino sounds perfect.
If you can wait for Man City CL game to decide on Dzeko. Aguero will certainly drop tonight so it's up to you if you can swallow a £0.1m loss on him or not.

Hogey007 wrote: »

I had 2 FT's this week and used one yesterday on bringing Bony in for aguero.

I'm unsure about where to use my second transfer (and do I need a third)

My team is as follows

Heaton - Krul

Hutton - Baines - Bertrand -Wilson - Cahmbers

Eriksen - Sanchez - Boyd - Siggy - Cesc

Bony - Costa - Kane

Wilson is a doubt, I couldn't read it when I changed him to yellow.

I have 4.2 in the bank and can just about field a team this week without making anymore transfers but with 1 free i'm looking at a couple of options.

A) Wilson to azpi - I don't like stoke's fixtures and presently have no Chelsea defensive cover

krul to Courtois - Burnley's fixtures get tricky too and although i'd ideally prefer a keeper in the 4.5 region that rotates with Heaton I wouldn't be completely against getting courtois.

C) cesc to hazard or ya ya. this is my least favoured option at the moment as I want to keep cesc and he's only gone for 1 match, it also doesn't help fix my weakfish defence which a or b does but am I really mad not to have hazard?

A and B sound good. A offers more pts potential with Azpi getting forward (and Wilson & Stoke are useless this year) while Courtois doesn't get many pts from saves. Courtois should be nailed on for the whole Christmas period though. I don't know how much Azpi is a rotation risk compared to Terry for example. Last year terry started all 4 games though.

About C. Well Hazard hasn't produced as much as he could have. But despite that and the many opportunities he missed he 's matching Cesc returns. He also started the 4 Christmas games last year by the way (and I don't remember what Wenger was doing with Fab back then). The thing with Hazard is the more you wait the less you'd be able to afford him.
Re Yaya. He's on a glorious run. If you get him in though it has to be mid-term until he leaves for ACON. So that could reduces your options upfront for example. In fairness I'm very tempted by Yaya. His 4 YC are holding me off... for the moment.

Costa starts tomorrow night! How cruel would a hammy be!!

FutureGuy wrote: »

He's fully fit and certainly won't be playing 90. Not too concerned.

It would be hilarious though!

JR6 wrote: »

Costa will not play 1 minute midweek and Yaya wont either seen that he is suspended! SAFE transfers! :pac:

:eek: Jose seems to think Costa will play tomorrow.

2 transfers done.

Chambers out Terry in
Aguero out Rooney in.

Would have loved to have gotten in Yaya but as I'm only 16pts ahead in a cash league with 2GW left I had to cover my rival.

Will be getting Dzeko soon as the league is over as he looks the best option into City IMO

FHFC wrote: »

Kolarov was injured and has just returned. He and Clichy will rotate I'd expect. Last season Kolarov was more usually played against weaker teams where he could attack at will, while Clichy was played in tougher games.

Zab is probably more secure, but Sagna will get the odd game.

Will be interesting to see which of them start tomorrow night as Zab has only been rotated for 3 PL games, and has played the last 4 in a row (the most all season) while Sagna was started against Bayern.

If Zab plays v Roma I'd be slightly worried he'll be rested vs Leicester.

I think Kompany is the only City defender that's guaranteed to play.