Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 18
Welcome to the Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 18 article. Another week and another tumble down the overall. After scoring 37 points we should have not expected anything good to come from it. That score put us in the 3.5 million range for the gameweek and dropped us 37k in the overall. This now leaves us in 117k and adds to our recent struggles. That is three red arrows on the bounce and just think, it could have been worse. During the transfer decision last week we had a fight over buying Andy in for a hit. Thankfully we didn’t, otherwise this could have really been embarrassing to narrate. It is not common that you find great success when your keeper is your highest scorer and we were not the exception. Pickford came to play, Walker got involved and got a nice six points, but other than them there isn’t much to write glowingly about. Sanchez got an assist and settled on 5, Costa got a goal but got himself suspended so that wasn’t ideal. We had one guy score zero, two score one and three score two. Not very impressive and we fully admit that. But as you know a captain can save or sink a gameweek. Quick someone throw us a life preserver!! Another one of the battles we had last GW was over the captaincy. Members of the committee made passionate cases for Kane and slowly but surely swayed demanded the vote in his favour. Costa had won the original vote in slightly controversial fashion, but he had won. However the decision didn’t sit well with some members and before posting our article one member gathered enough signatures for a revote. This time we chose Kane and sealed our fate. Trust has been broken, not sure if time can heal the wounds on the site committee. It will be a long time…sorry, I was just notified there was only a four point difference between the two captain choices. Hmmm, maybe we just move on to the team for this week then.
Transfer – Sold Harry Kane and Bought Zlatan Ibrahimovic
The transfer decision was not the all out brawl it was last week. There was an early push for Costa to go out to make room for Zlatan, but once we realised that it would require a hit to do so, Kane was eagerly brought up as the person to sell. Two point Harry was the exact amount we needed when coupled with our funds in the bank to get Zlatan for no hit. So this transfer was quickly ratified. However there was a second person brought up as a possible hit to fix our Itchy problem. Take a guess…it was Andy. That committee member will be missed. 😉 He was right though about us having problems in our squad, ones that we will hopefully address very soon if they don’t miraculously work themselves out this GW. In part keeping Costa saves us down the line. We would have wanted our Diego quickly back in the fold if we sold him, so we decided to just bench him for a week. So welcome to the team Zlatan, we are expecting big things from you old boy.
THE NEW TEAM IN FULL FOR Gameweek 18
Our Captain is… anybody but Harry Kane!
It is Zlatan Ibrahimovic this week for us. Not only does he carry the pressure of his debut for us, but now we have added to that with the captaincy. Hopefully he doesn’t crumble like his predecessor under the weight of expectations. The Swede is in great form, scoring in five of his last six games and grabbing three double digit hauls. If that wasn’t enough to convince someone of his qualifications then there is the matter of his fixture. United hosts 18th place Sunderland. The Black Kitties have showed some combativeness in the last two weeks, but they are still a team who is more likely to paw at you than scratch. They still sit in a relegation spot and as recently as GW16 lost to Swansea 3-0. So based on form and their fixture we went Zlatan.
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Fixture Tracker – the next 6 games
Wow what a day I’m knackered; just settled down into bed and watching telly with the kids and missus!!
Is everyone set for GW18? I’m hoping my team scores me some big points – team good to go?
Team looks great mate, you not captaining Stones?
It was tough call in the end mate but I think ibra is the safer option 😉
Merry Christmas to all
As i am a new fpl manager. I have joined this week in fpl and also in this forum. I just want to win a weekly prize. so I made a team. I am quite happy with my defence
but can’t decide between which 4 from wat-cry and swa- whu games to take as i think these two games will see atleast 8-10 goals. I give a screenshot of my current team. I want to make a poll of my teams which are given below. can you guys please help me out with this situation??
team no 2
team no 3
team no 4
That’s all a bit confusing… are you trying to make 4 or 5 transfers this week? or field an initial team? I wouldn’t touch Deeney at the moment.. probably team 4 for me.. but i don’t trust Yaya to put up big numbers this week.. or Carroll (so lazy last weekend)… or Amrabat, but i’m guessing he’ll be benched.
Looks like a DFF situation, aka 1 week team.
Not really got the energy left for that now I’m afraid!
Merry Christmas to everyone what a day absolutely shattered;)
Merry Christmas Silvers.
Did you manage a glass or two? :beer:
All the best Mr Silvers!
Ok Ladies and Gents… Merry Christmas to all of you. Curious what the crowd thinks.. Who to bench? Carroll, Defoe, Allen? not a huge headache but I have a feeling that one of these three is going to produce tomorrow.. What say you all?
currently have Allen on the bench.. but against his former club?? who knows?
Highaction,
Well I think you have to play Carroll, more so in terms of the oppo rather than Carroll’s ability.
So its Allen vs Defoe –
I’d be tempted to bench Defoe but most will probably disagree – I just feel United are tighter than Liverpool and Stoke have more chance of scoring than Sunderland.
Although I stuck Defoe in the Tips article this week, I agree with Cookie and his reasoning.
Play Carroll and Allen.
thanks for the thoughts guys… I’ll do something for sure..
Thanks for the team babe. I’ll copy the entire squad, Iheanacho looks like a smart move, I’ll go for him. Him and Stones should give loads of points. Budget but playing for one of the best teams. Man, do we all love Pep or what?
And screw everybody selling Kane. His value will drop. It’s Christmas bitches, where is that spirit. You could have waited another day, but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. We like messing with Raz.
On that note. Happy Christmas all. Hope it is as good and joyful as mine.
Glad you are having a good day Raz mate, Happy Christmas!
Season’s Greetings Raz.
How do you celebrate in the Netherlands?
In the traditional Dutch way I hope, judging by the way he called us babe anyway
That’s what worried me!
Shattered!
I hope everyone has had a great day. I’ve just sat down to watch an old Christmas special of The Royle Family.
Haha I saw that was on but then found Se7en on some film channel – the bottle of port means I am not likely to see the end of it though!
You don’t need the port to miss the end of it 😉
You know me too well
Merry Christmas Mr Kop.
I’m watching too. Jim’s yellow polo shirt and purple tie :big-lol:
Many happy returns GP.
A cracking Tips article. I particularly enjoyed the inclusion of Ake & Jonesy