Fantasy Football 247 Site Team News Gameweek 9

For whom the Bell tolls

Welcome to FF247 Site Team GW9

There was us giving it the big ‘un’ about the early kick-off, and once again the curse was very real as our captain Son managed a paltry 6pts against Luton. Pah.

The star of the show was a 9pt return from our keeper Sam Johnstone, but 6 pts from Trippier, Udogie and Maddison along with 5pts from Ollie Watkins was not enough to prevent a red arrow this week. Everyone else ended up with 2pts barring new signing Fabian Schar who went one better (worse) with just a 1pt return.

We finished the week with 47pts, 3pts above the average but not enough to prevent a 10k red arrow seeing us drop from 27,566 down to 37,821. Not too bad in the end and we’ll look to get back to winning ways in GW9.

Our Gameweek 8 Result

We have £0.5 in the bank and 1 free transfer to use ahead of GW9. Let’s go see what was decided….

Our GW9 Transfer(s)

Our first 11 look good to go this week but on our bench, It’s looking a little threadbare with 2 red flags and the non-playing Mubama.

We kept things simple with our decision-making process this week. We put it to vote, and the decision was unanimous that we would not only make a move this week but that we would also likely use our Wildcard in GW10 which seems to be the game week lots with said chip in hand are considering.

We then voted on whether we should use our single free transfer to cover our defence (given that we have two red-flagged defenders sitting on our bench) or take a cheeky 1-week punt. That one ended 4-2 in favour of the former. (Sorry Matt)

Our final vote was whether should we sell Estupinan or Bell. The injury to Andrew Robertson offers up a likely run of games for Konstantinos Tsimikas (£4.4m) and with favourable fixtures for the Reds, coupled with solid attacking stats when he did start last season, felt like a gift too good to refuse. Bell makes way and Pervis gets a stay of execution.

With solid fixtures for our starting 11, Tsimikas will have to make do with a spot on our bench, but should we need him, at least we now have that option.

Our plan right now is to play the WC in GW10, we could of course change our mind, I guess a lot will depend on how this game week plays out. As ever, we have a plan, but we remain flexible.

Haaland takes the armband and I for one hope he fails miserably (I don’t own him). Yikes.

To confirm then we have SOLD Amari’i Bell and BOUGHT Konstantinos Tsimikas

Captain – Haaland

Our GW9 team in full…

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