Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 26
‘You’re s**t and you know you are, you’re s**t and you know are’ was heard echoing around the streets near to the FF247 offices as we arrived for work on Monday morning. Who was singing it? We’re not sure, but we have our suspicions! As you’ve probably guessed or in all likelihood you’ve come to assume at this stage we got our customary red arrow, our 13th of the season. GW25 saw us pick up 58pts which gave us a GW ranking of 1,758,718. The good news is that we’re still inside the top 1m with an OR of 997,243. Things are bad when we consider that to be good news!
GW25 in summary – It was s**t, that about sums it up. You want the gory details? Ok so, but it ain’t pretty! Wayne ‘I no longer know how to keep a clean sheet’ Hennessy conceded after just 13 minutes, at least he didn’t try to get our hopes up. Our defence didn’t do too badly as we garnered two clean sheets from a possible three thanks to van Dijk & Bellerin. Our midfield wasn’t bad either as they combined for two goals & two assists. Unfortunately though it was Mahrez & Ozil who did most of the damage and them being the two most popular midfielders they might as well not have bothered for all the good it did. We’re not bitter though and at least they performed unlike Dimitri Payet who once again did diddly squat. And so to the forwards who were something of a disappointment. By all accounts our captain Harry Kane had quite a good game and was rather unlucky not to find himself on the scoresheet. Unfortunately Harry we didn’t pick you to have a good game, we picked you to score. Granted Sergio Aguero did find the back of the net but when you pay over £13m for a player you really do expect more. Jamie Vardy also failed to score this week but he’s done more than enough for us over the course of the season.
Transfer decision for GW26 Sold Olsson, Bought Wollscheid
No your eyes do not deceive you. In what can only be described as the most boring transfer we’ve made this season and we’ve made a few, we have sold Jonas Olsson and bought Philipp Wollscheid. When we held our transfer meeting last night we had in fact agreed on a much more exciting & radical transfer…we were going to sell Aguero and buy Costa. However we decided to wait until after today’s press conferences before pulling the trigger. The news that David Silva is fit for City coupled with Costa’s broken nose forced us to shelve that transfer.
So why sell Olsson? Well West Brom haven’t exactly been solid at the back in recent times and with a number of tough fixtures on the horizon we’ve decided that now is the right time to ship out the Swede. With Stoke having kept just one clean sheet in their last seven games and conceding 15 in that period, you’re probably wondering why we’ve replaced him with Wollscheid. With Ryan Shawcross due to return in GW27 we’re banking on him adding some much needed solidity to the Stoke defence. The main reason however is that as things currently stand Stoke are one of only four teams guaranteed to play in GW30. In essence this transfer has been made with one eye on the future. We should also add that we had 2 free transfers so we thought better to “use than lose” and we will again have 2 free transfers for GW27 and beyond.
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The team in full
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Captain – Sergio Aguero
We’ve turned into a fickle bunch in these parts. Instead of selling Sergio Aguero this week we have instead decided to hand him the captain’s armband. Given the fixtures this weekend there was no standout candidate for the armband, so when in doubt captain Aguero! He’s got a great track record at home against Spurs and City will be desperate to bounce back following last weekend’s defeat at the hands of Leicester.
Our vice-captain is Mesut Ozil
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hi everyone
some thoughts on this lot? 1 FT, 0 in bank
defense seems crap.
Could do Alder to a Southampton player? Or Evans to the united lb
Dreamers, I’d sell Evans for Cedric or Huth to get someone who plays GW30.
Hi Cookie – not enough money for Cedric (short 0.1). Huth this week would only go on bench. Doesnt seem worth it then for Huth?
Then I’d save it with a view to doing Evans to Huth next week. You need some players for GW30 mate.
Hi Cookie – is that gw30 item more solid now?
There’s only 2 guaranteed fixtures Dreamers – the Leicester match and the Stoke match. We’ll know after next weekend’s Cup matches but it’ll be a very sparse GW whatever.
ya heard that Cookie. Think last year though when something similar happened, they extended the gw to the Tuesday or Wednesday.
Ideally you should save transfer for the DGWs coming soon, but to improve your points potential this GW, Evans > VvD could be a good move.
Hi B – cant do Evans to any Southampton (4.7 value)
Then best to save FT mate. You can bring in Leicester defender next GW.
cheers B
Morning all,
Team as below, got the ‘right’ XI out?
Not sure who to captain, defensively WBA have injuries and haven’t been keeping clean sheets this season so Lukaku looks good. Spurs/City could go either way: boring or a goal fest, worth a punt on one of them?
All on penalties so not like I can favour one there either!
Thanks in advance
Hi AT.
Seems wrong to have Bellerin on the bench at home – but your other options seem better.
West Brom have been shite of late so ya I’d captain Lukaku if I had him. Well set.
Agree with Dreamers, AT.
Cheers both, yeah I don’t really want Bellerin on the bench but just can’t see them holding out Leicester!
Hi guys and girls,
I’ve been stagnant for weeks now and could really use a wee revamp, so happy to take a hit to do 3 transfers (saving the WC for serious DGW action later).
Any thoughts? Need to shift Baines, Moreno’s not been doing and have been disappointed with Willian. I like the look of SIgursson (although tough next 3 games), Soton defence seems rock-solid at the moment so maybe Van Dijk and then was thinking of City/Arsenal for the other defender but with a blank for City (not the mention the state of their centre halves at the moment) and Arsenal having Leicester and United back-to-back am rethinking that. Not wedded to losing Willian or Moreno if you think others in the team need to go.
Grateful for thoughts. Cheers!
Hey Lionel you may aswell leave Willian in there for the next 3 games.Chelsea have decent fixtures and by then we will know who plays Gw30.Baines to a Saints defender and roll your other transfer,next week Moreno to a Leicester defender (good fixtures and fixture gw 30) would be my advice.
Ps.I’d play Francis over Dier.
Have you got any cash in bank?
Morning chaps,
What a difficult week to pick a starting 11. Can I get a RMT also who would you guys bench:
1. Ighalo
2. Huth
3. Dann
Currently sit 73000th ish position have 1ft which I’m planning to rollover and 4.9 in the bank
Dann over Huth for me.
Okay. Not asked for a while.
Or, around a week at least…
So, 2 questions:
A. Dann (WAT H)
Or
B. Dier (MCI A)
C. Sigurdsson (SOU H)
Or
D. Alli (MCI A)
Thanks!
J.
J.
A and D for me J
A. Is pretty easy.
Alli away to MCI is tough though.
Yeh MCI is tough but Alli has been ace. Siggy is the safest option. My heart says A + D but A+ C would be safer. Maybe have a look at your closest rival/ h2h opponent and that should help with the decision. I’m having serious brain melt down with my team selection this week, I’ve almost even nearly bought a packet of fags after being smoke free for a year!!
db.
I’d play Dann over Huth personally this GW mate
A & C for me
Yep. Not easy!!
+1
With shurridge fit again will firmino game time be affected.
I doubt it tbh.
Form…
no, but position played may