Fantasy Football Live Match Chat and FF247 Site Team Gameweek 35+
Welcome to Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 35+.
GW35+ Deadline; Saturday 11th July 11:30am GMT
Timing is everything…
For those of you struggling to keep up with the rapid deadlines; tough sh*t & :punish: :mosking: It’s posted on site in at least three different locations, including a very handy countdown timer. But if you are one of those, not to name names, (Raz, Ivan & AJW) you may want to pay attention to the following as the next few weeks may prove particularly challenging for you;
GW35+ ends abruptly on Monday night, GW36+ then begins the following day. Which is called Tuesday, just in case you are already struggling to keep up. That one then goes all the way through until Friday night. And then GW37+ begins on Saturday. Which is the day that follows Friday.
As for 35+ itself we have the (now) usual divorce lawyers dream of five games on Saturday from about midday to 10pm, four on Sunday but ending at 8 and then another on Monday. But that’s where you need to start paying attention as 36+ creeps up quickly.
As always we shall endeavour to post the line-ups prior to each phase of the relevant GW and our usual aforementioned FPL Countdown Timer (to be found above the latest comments section) will once again be active.
Tips will be dispensed in the chat below but feel free to get involved in said chat, whether that’s asking for advice or answering others.
The games in full…
FF247 SITE TEAM GW35+
Our GW34+ Result…
Talking of timing our Bench Boost week began well on Tuesday with Pulisic smashing one in which also saw him grab a couple of bonus points. Foster let us down somewhat though as we had that one down as a nailed on clean sheet. Sort of.
In the more reliable corner Pope and Taylor duly delivered on Wednesday against the #bendoverBrady bunch. Taylor even obliged with an assist and the full three bonus.
Seemingly we picked the wrong Man City assets for their routing of Newcastle, but we suspect we weren’t alone in that. Captain KDB did still bring in a semi-respectable 14.
Our decision to keep Salah, or rather dither and not actually make a decision at all, inadvertently keeping him in the process, paid off big time. 18 points big time. TAA did diddly-squat though.
Jimenez doing likewise may have sealed his fate but we shall come onto that later. As for Doherty we just had to laugh, how could you not with a CS and bonus points in the bag after 90 minutes. And then that…
Heading into Thursday with 71 points and 5 players left its fair to say we were eyeing the hollowed ton. Things got off well with both Ings and Aurier doing their jobs. One with a goal, the other with a clean sheet and bagging 5 bonus points between them.
We just needed Man United to hammer Villa, or at least tap them out a bit. It ended up somewhere in-between the two stools but fortunately we seem to be better at picking players from the other side of Manchester (aka Salford) as our trio got 26 between them to take us to a final tally of 114.
This meant another green arrow and a healthy rise of over 50k places up to 33,422nd. Let’s go see what we did with our 2 free transfers.
GW35+ TRANSFER
We have SOLD Jiménez and Doherty and BOUGHT Vardy and errrrr someone we never thought we would buy.
Unfortunately our stooge who lazily couldn’t be arsed to sell Salah last week was given this week off from transfer decision duty. Hence it fell to the other maverick to orchestrate proceedings. And this one never does nothing. Ever.
Jiménez to Vardy was the obvious shout but we couldn’t afford that alone, in fact we were just 1.8mln short. Not an easy amount to find. We could sell Salah but our sensible ones wouldn’t allow that. We could sell TAA, but that was thrown out too. Despite both being likely to be benched this week. Allegedly. The sale of Doherty was mooted and then gained traction. But who would we buy for 4.6mln? It was then suggested we buy Iheanacho and save all the hassle. That idea wasn’t even commented on. Bastards. Just watch him outscore Vardy. So we had 4.6mln to spend on a defender. Not much there. And no suggestions from the Brains Trust so nothing was done and just like that Vardy’s price rose overnight and now we only had 4.5mln to spend.
To cut a long story short (errrrrm bit late for that pal), we had a choice of Jack Stephens of Southampton and Aaron Cresswell of West Ham. Lol. All this to get Vardy. FML. Both have decent looking fixtures. Even Cresswell and his bunch of useless no-hopers, but at least he can cross the ball even if defending is a slight issue.
Amazingly, Cresswell was voted in basically so we can play him vs Norwich this week rather than Stephens vs United. It’s a genius move that we recommend you all make immediately.
GW35+ CAPTAIN
Our Captain for GW35+ will be Bruno
Our Vice-Captain will be Vardy
Bruno won the vote 3-2 with a late surge in the voting. Difficult to argue with as he is the form player of the league and has the added bonus of playing in the final fixture of the game-week on Monday evening.
Our GW35+ team in full…
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CAPTAIN POLL GW35+
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Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Manchester City’s two year European Ban has been lifted an their fine reduced to 10 million Euros after appeal to CAS.
Kop Warrior
Big money wins. Again.
Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
Can’t say I’m pleased but I also wouldn’t trust UEFA’s disciplinary panel as far as I could chuck them so to say I’m unsurprised this morning would be an understatement.
Kop Warrior
Agreed GP. It’s the corrupt policing the corrupt!
Elleffcee
Kop, thats twice now they have got away with it, as you say dosh talks.
Shadow
You do realise you only got away with breaching FFP by writing off up to £50m worth of losses on a new stadium that never even got close to being built?
I’d assume not.
Tornado
UEFA: Make it rain, Citeeeh!
Anyway, what do you guys make of that FPL-wise?
Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
No different to now – standard rotation next season with City having both the league and Europe to focus on.
Tekno-kun
Funny how people say money talks when City are cleared by a considerably more objective and neutral court like CAS rather than make under-the-table deals with UEFA like PSG and AC Milan did to have their punishments reduced (but that’s something no one talks about for some reason). “Manchester City did not disguise equity funding as sponsorship contributions”
People suggesting City have bribed UEFA: Can you read? UEFA had nothing to do with the ban being overturned, that was CAS, above UEFA’s jurisdiction. Also people suggesting UEFA is a force against corruption :big-lol:
WIll be interesting to read CAS’s further documents on the matter as they say that “most of the alleged breaches were not established or time-barred.” That’s the key sentence, will be interesting to get more information on this
Shadow
Makes me laugh that your standard fan throws out money and bribing.
So we didn’t bribe UEFA an organisation known for corruption yet bribed an actual independent arbitrator?
Great fun online today.
Tekno-kun
Yeah it’s a joke Shadow. People posting pictures suggested UEFA got bribed while in reality City went in UEFA’s face and cleared of all charges of breaching FFP by an independent arbitrator. Like I said, can people even read? City getting a 2-year ban for emails while PSG spend 360m euro on Neymar and Mbappe and UEFA let them go… where is the corruption?
Gavy
At least your view isn’t biased :big-lol:
Was praying the ban stuck.
Tekno-kun
It’s innocent until proven guilty Gavy, not guilty until proven innocent. Apparently emails don’t count as evidence in an adult’s courtoom. Will be interesting to read the details as they are revealed, but it seems like UEFA did not have proper evidence to prove that City cheated in this instance.
Drexl
My club QPR got rinsed on FFP…but then very little of the global population watch QPR… in fact very little of West London……lol….some where in there lays a clue
Tekno-kun
Drex, FFP was set up by UEFA in the pocket of big clubs to prevent smaller clubs from investing so as to protect the established top clubs from competition. They have no problem going after smaller clubs like QPR and clubs like PSG avoid punishment by sucking UEFA’s d*ck. City have been in UEFA’s face from the very beginning and UEFA have tried to make an example of them, but they got it stuck to them here.
““And I am in favour of opening things up to more investment, which FFP does not allow for. The clubs that dominate Europe today are those that were built and made investments during an era where FFP did not exist. FFP prevents emerging clubs who want to invest from doing so. That is not normal.
“These rules have fixed a hierarchy, the big historical clubs are bigger and bigger and, obviously, they are all fighting for FFP rules to be scrupulously applied to the others so that competitors can’t come through.” – Wenger
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsene-wenger-financial-fair-play-a4446401.html
Drexl
bang on t-k. whats amazing, (though with FiFA et al nothing is incredulous anymore) is that it is done so damn brazenly…guess the boldest way of hiding is in plain sight….
man u man
Guys I already brought in Jesus for Vardy, I’m thinking of taking a hit to bring Henderson in for Ryan, or maybe something else. Any advice. I plan to use my BB this week and I’m chasing a 50 point lead.
Tornado
Hi, man u man!
I don’t think that hit would be justified. Henderson away to Leicester is not exactly a great fixture.
I am about to use my BB as well and have a very similar team, so I think you are all set.
man u man
Cheers bud.
Gavy
Was going to say the same. I dont like hits on the back row.
MrMajeika
Any advice on what to do here please. 2ft and 1.4m itb. Tempted to downgrade vvd (not sure to who) and do saka to Willian. Would have 5.1m I think for a defender. Also thinking about switching rashford to greenwood and could do DCL to vardy or maybe Jesus. Although going with Jesus would mean 3 city players so big benching worry every week.
Another option is Mahrez to Willian and jiminez to vardy. I think saka should be my priority to go though as he’s not a guaranteed starter. Maybe could go for son?
Any advise?
AJW
Why Mahrez out, Mr M? Is it the only way to have a Chelsea player, or is there another reason? Hope your GW is going well in any case. Bye.
MrMajeika
There are other options. Probably shouldn’t be getting rid of Mahrez really. I can bring in William for saka by either downgrading van dijk or rashford
AJW
Okay I see. Like a puzzle isn’t it?
MrMajeika
Yes very much do that’s why I’m after some advice
Gallant Pioneer (@MitchellC_FF247)
For those who own the player, including myself, this will need to be kept in mind.
He may be finished for the season.
beno1234
Yes I saw this too. Terrible news, poor guy.
I too admittedly had a thought to my FPL team. I doubt he plays Wednesday? If at all this season as you say.
AJW
Yes that’s really sad. Sometimeswwe forget these players are actually human and thus suffer sadness and pain just as we do.
khaledhesham
Please rate my team below
I have 2.8 in the bank with no FT
I suggest to get Digne instead of Lascelles or van dijk or ward
Also what about captain
ragunath.kulasekaran@gmail.com
FH ..looking good?
not sure on Mancity combo like everyone , wary of peptation.
Please rate
Tornado
Looks good to me