Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 14
Welcome to the Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 14 article. Having fared poorly the previous week, as many did, we needed to bounce back this week and we did just that with a decent 68 points which saw us rise over 45,000 places and back up to a respectable overall rank of 34,512. Captaining Sanchez helped us massively, as did hanging onto Kun, which in itself feels like a feat given that 4/5 of the committee actually now admit that they sold him on their own teams! Other than those two, Austin got us 9 and Pieters brought a clean sheet and 6 but the rest were left wanting, it does go to show that you can still post a decent score if just a few of your troops turn up. Our big disappointment was of course our actual transfer as we had planned meticulously to finally bring in Coutinho but he unfortunately suffered a bad injury this week. To add insult to that Firmino also limped off too to leave us with a grand total of 4 points between them. Best laid plans and all that. Let’s take a look at how we plan to deal with the situation this week…
Transfer – Sold Coutinho & Lukaku and bought Pedro & Kane
We bring you the site team early this week and that is simply because we have decided to jump in and make our transfers now rather than wait to suffer the inevitable price drops of Coutinho and Lukaku. It would be remiss of us to post this on Friday and only tell you then that we made our moves on Tuesday. Yes we know the dangers of this of course, but it was a small risk we felt willing to take, especially given that had we waited we probably wouldn’t have been able to afford the guys we wanted, in particular our chosen captain.
Like so many other managers our transfer this week, or at least one of them, has been dictated to us as a result of the injury suffered by Philippe Coutinho. With Romelu Lukaku failing to register any returns for three consecutive games the decision was made to cut him adrift and in the process incur a 4pt hit, our first of the season.
So, having decided who we were selling we now had the task of identifying their replacements. Given the fixtures over the coming game-weeks it came down to a straight choice between Harry Kane and Diego Costa to fill the void left by Lukaku. While Chelsea are in great form, Spurs’ next three home games are against Swansea, Hull & Burnley and we simply couldn’t ignore the potential Harry Kane offers. Granted Spurs are struggling somewhat in front of goal but as we’ve seen in the past Kane only needs one chance. The fact that he features in slightly over 8% of teams is an added bonus.
With £7.5m to spend we turned our attentions to the midfield. Had we made the choice to go with Costa up top we would in all likelihood have went with Gylfi Sigurdsson. It was however felt that the lack of Chelsea cover could have dire consequences in the weeks ahead and with that in mind the decision to add Pedro to our squad was a relatively easy one.
THE NEW TEAM IN FULL FOR Gameweek 14
The team picks itself really and there are no surprises, maybe we could have considered Pickford ahead of Cech but Arsenal have only conceded 4 away and West Ham only average a goal a game at home (6 in 6). We hope Bobby (as Klopp calls him) makes it of course but even if he doesn’t we won’t be rushing to take more hits for him, we will let a 1 / 2 pointer come off the bench. As we said in the intro, it’s not always about a perfect 11 sometimes, it just needs the key elements in place, and we feel we have prepared ourselves correctly in that respect this week.
Our Captain is Harry Kane
The decision to appoint Kane as our captain this week was a unanimous one. After all Swansea have shipped 12 in their last four games and even Crystal Palace managed to put four past them in GW13. End of story with that one really!
If anyone is interested in following the site teams progress then you can do so here and we wish you all the best of luck this week with your own teams.
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Fixture Tracker – the next 6 games
Site team is live! 3 days earlier than usual…….
Bound to be a disaster before the GW starts. 😉
Oh well, at least we are not the Community team and we can fix it quickly.
Wow!
Open season or what?
:cuss:
How much money do you have left in the bank?
£0.2m
Hi all – do you think it’s worth getting Kane in for a -8? Planning to captain him, so if it comes off it will be more than worth it and mean he doesn’t become too expensive for my budget. Have 0ITB and would do KdB –> De Roon and Anichebe –> Kane.
Know it’s a big hit and worried KdB will punish me, but feel a Kane rampage coming on…
That’s an awfully big hit for him to make up. Maybe you can justify him as a transfer long term, but I might wait until after United since it is costing you so much. One figures even if he does go off, it would still require a big haul for him to put you in the positive. Not sure to be honest, I can see both sides.
I will say no, but let’s see if anyone else chimes in. They could have some really good points that makes it a lot more justifiable.
We took a calculated hit for him so couldn’t really advise against it. Taking KDB out is a bigger call than taking out an injured Coutinho though. I’m 50/50 on this one. Depends how strongly you feel on Kane. His future fixtures kind of warrant it though.
-8 is a big hit and needs serious extenuating circumstances. I don’t think your front line warrants that. Your biggest concern should be 3 of your team face Citeh and 2 face Chelsea. And to top it of Firming is still flagged. Sometimes we just need to accept that this week wasn’t meant to be and I think this week is your turn. You have no ft, wait till next week and your fortunes will change.
+1
I took an eight-point hit this week, but that was thanks to Coutinho and Shawcross injured, along with Gundogan not playing and Lukaku being Blankaku. On the basis that the moves you’ve mentioned aren’t as a result of injuries (and I reckon KDB will play in a match the size of Chelsea coming to the Etihad), I’d probably not do it, if I’m honest.
Hi swirly I’m contemplating an 8 point hit but not sure I should I have Daniels , Firmino , Courtinho & Holebas all injured plus some players not performing Deeney for one so with price changes I might just take the hit 😉
Just take out Coutinho and Daniels? How serious is Holebas?
Omg @ playing Amat over Pieters last GW. BAD! 😉
Wow, that was a heart pounding 10 seconds that felt like 10 minutes while waiting for the page to load! I saw the site team had been loaded and honestly thought ‘there must be a game tomorrow, wtf, aaaaaaaaah shit, I have 2 free transfers, it’s f*cking late, I’m really tired and the very last thing I can do is lose one of them’. Then the page loaded and I’d read the intro, and all is fine. Thanks gents. It’s not even April fools day, not even close!
Yeah sorry, we just went early and felt the need to declare! Realx!
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Init,
Thank you very much for the early post. I did much the same Saturday night (no committee to negotiate with!), and took Kane (in the absence of any plausible captain) and Siggi for Lukaku and Coutinho (I already had Hazard-just lucky?).
Your early post makes me rest easy. I usually end up Friday night, looking at -8, but this week I think I will rest easy.
I thought the same. I knew there was a midweek games some time, but not now, surely!?
I had already traded Courtinho to Walcott. The exact opposite trade to 4 weeks ago.
I’m at an impasse humans…. Rashford is deadweight (I’d love Kane or Costa instead), i can afford to hang on to Heaton and Holebas, I’d love Allen to be the 5th mid in due time… any thoughts about how that could happen? 2FT + 1.7 ItB
Spurs games look great, but better value might be found in Spurs defence than with Kane.
Already have Walker and no plans to ditch him BB… thanks for the comment..
I’ve not slept much so don’t want to look into your team too in depth but Rushford to Austin would seem like good start. You should still have about the same amount left in the bank to upgrade fletcher or save the transfer.
Yeah, I’d do Rashford to Austin – Southampton have some great fixtures coming up including this gameweek where they play a team who are still yet to register a clean sheet.
good thinking swirly.. I’ll likely go that route..
Thanks DB… Austin has been on my radar for awhile.. i was also wondering if i should go cheaper for a 3rd striker and upgrade Fletcher even more. Mo Barrow or Llorente? Negredo? I’ll probably go with Charlie..
Highaction
Sanchez to Walcott and Rashford to Kane?
Thanks GP… .I’m married to Sanchez and most in my ml don’t have him…. Think I’ll go the Austin route..
Team looks great.
Great job guys.
Under 35k overall is brilliant
Agree with nishant. That is a superb ranking lads very well done.
Keep up your obvious good work.
Nice moves too. No queries with those.