FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW21
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Two Salah’s would just be greedy…
What a lovely, gracious lad he is, giving his team-mate the chance to complete his hat-trick. Some said. Others, ones who perhaps captained him, for example, used different words… Mo’s ‘generosity’ was probably a 10 point swing, perhaps even 12 if you factor in him possibly taking an extra bonus point, but we aren’t bitter… far from it, we are furious! :rant: we are ‘Claudio Ranieri’ furious.
Despite his errant ways Mo helped us along to 68 points this week, leading the way with 24. If we’d told you beforehand that Kane, Son and Jimenez would get 2 goals, an assist and 4 bonus points between them you’d have nodded along as if it was perfectly plausible, if we said that Jimenez would get the most points from that trio you’d have simply laughed at us. Our defence and keeper managed the same score as Jimenez (8), between the whole sorry lot of them. Martial and Rashford chipped in nicely with 2 assists, a goal and two bonus points between them. Sane came on for an annoying 1 point cameo which denied us any chance of replacing him with some points from our bench, of which there were a lot! Speaking of which, and if nothing else, we do know how to pick a strong bench, that’s for sure. Since we played our wildcard we’ve had 19 and 17 points sat on it, so much for Christmas rotation eh?!
All in all then we finished 18 points ahead of the overall average and enjoyed our second green arrow in a row, this one flinging us up 27,000 places to 52,318th. We seem to be stuck in a yo-yo scenario.
Heading in to GW21 we have 2 free transfers and exactly zero pounds and pence in the bank.
Last weeks result in full…
This weeks transfer decision(s)…
Look, you told us to post this article; to spend precious time writing it is one thing, to spend it telling you that we saved one transfer prior to Santa coming and then used the next one to change sub keepers from Steele to Button, simply so that we didn’t waste a free transfer, would be a ridiculous waste of both our time and yours… And that was exactly what we were going to tell you, until Rashford was flagged up as a doubt. Which suddenly changed everything and our transfer plans changed drastically, and for the sake of the article; more excitingly.
The truth is that we wanted Hazard initially, and latterly possibly Pogba, but even with 2 free transfers we couldn’t see an obvious way to raise the Hazard funds and the Pogba one was hampered by the fact that we already owned 3 Man United assets. Which again is where the Rashford news played into our hands quite nicely. With Lukaku lurking there was always a chance that young Rashford was due for a rest anyway, add in an injury doubt and we felt it was almost now inevitable that he would miss out.
Losing him handily freed up a spot for Pogba and so he is coming in for Sane. That was the straight-forward bit, finding a Rashford replacement was a bit harder. We basically boiled it down to either Callum Wilson or Marko Arnautovic, both of whom have had injury issues of their own lately and both look like they are being nursed back in carefully. Given that Wilson is a bit further along that particular tightrope we plumped for him, he is after all still the 3rd highest scoring forward in the game. We just need him, and indeed Bournemouth, to rediscover a bit of form, the two things may actually not be mutually exclusive.
Planning ahead we still intent to grab Hazard at some point, no doubt for Son once he departs for Asian Cup duty. As a funny aside, the initial (future) transfer suggestion, and hence the article’s title, was that we should sell Kane and buy Salah with his proceeds……. The fact that this suggestion actually got a second vote was even more worrying! Now we know it’s been a long couple of weeks but given that exactly two out of two of those people actually voted for Salah as our captain against Arsenal last week… :oogle: #sighs
To confirm then we have SOLD Sane & Rashford and BOUGHT Pogba & Wilson
Our Captain is Harry Kane
We are backing Spurs to bounce back strongly and they certainly have the ‘plum’ fixture to do so. Then again we all said that the last time these two sides met, and you probably need little reminding if you were one of those who ripped your team apart to bring in Kane back then, but it finished 1-0. And no, he didn’t even get the goal. Our new and slightly unexpected recruit Pogba gets the armband if Kane is suddenly rested.
Our team in full…
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Evening gang. I’d like to wish you all a happy new year in advance. Am I good to go? I ft and zilch in the bank
I’d switch Robbo and TAA I think.
Cheers Init. Are you all set
Not quite. Well, actually not at all yet! Need some recovery time from the site one still
happy new year to u both.
looking good neilos as is
Who would you play out of Robertson, Wan Bissaka, Ings and Dunk. Need to play 2.
Probably Robbo and Wan-B.
Cheers init- have them in that order
Evening
Am I good to go for GW21?
looking good mitro. great team
Cheers Eresh.
Who’s your capo?
hazard too and kane VC
How to fit salah in guys? 1mil and 1 ft.
Not sure you realistically can until you lose Auba. Probably one to save the 2 FT’s for and take a look at it next week.
What i should have said was “+1” 😆
I think your team looks good for this week. I’d save your FT and then switch out eriksen for Salah next week with one of KDB / Martial / Auba downgraded to make it happen.
+1
Hey guys, any advice on what to do with this team?
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Here it is
Probably a save but you do look a bit light up top if Rashford does indeed get a rest. He may not of course but that’s your call.
So who could I bring in, I aren’t too confident on my attack if am honest, was thinking Wilson
Site Team voted for Wilson out of all the options and I did the same transfer myself, it’d be him or Arnie. I think I’d have gone for Arnie had I been able to but I was 0.2 short myself.
Thanks innit
Rashford could face Newcastle. “I think Marcus would be okay,” Solksjaer said. “He’s been working so hard and has been a bit tired. But I think he will be alright. I hope so.” #NUFC – twitter, Ben dinnery
thanks eresh, interesting news
true dawids but i think innit or someone else said earlier that he may be rested/benched as lukaku is back now and sanchez is also lurking too.
Yeah that was me, used it as partial justification in the article too. Just a feeling that Lukaku also needs minutes and some Ole love and even the injury (or not) aside that may have been the case anyway.
thanks for that confirmation and you make a valid point innit. have you kept rash in your team or took him out for another striker?
I’ve taken him out for Wilson. And Pogba, just to confuse Elle
aww elle but good moves mate. most of my office colleagues in the top 10 of our ml opted not to wait and bring him in after the spurs game. since im playing catchup, i got in digne to replace bellerin and upgraded anderson to pogba. the armband atm is on hazard but tempted to go kane. decided your captain?
It’s on Kane at the moment but yeah I’m 50/50 on him and Hazard.
going to be one of those potential last minute switches down to the wire
I don’t tend to switch once I’ve made a decision the night before. Which is what I’m doing now. Looking at the stats there’s not a lot in it, although I was surprised Spurs had scored so many away. The most in the league in fact, and they’re top of the Away only table:
Spurs goals away: 25
Chelsea goals home: 19
Cardiff goals against home: 20
Saints goals against away: 21
Saints ones are a bit skewed of course as they do look miles better under the new guy. Certainly more up for it and organised anyway. It’s almost as if they now have a competent manager!
that is indeed helpful innit and something to ponder in the morning.
need to get rid of billing next week or so to get a better 5th mid. this week, should i play robbo instead of billing in the hopes that robbo may get an assist in a potential high scoring game?
I’d probably play Robbo, it’ll either be that or a cleanie in a 0-0! Most likely the former. That said though I can’t say I’ve seen a great deal of Billing.
good point. think TAA has been getting the most assist points lately among the 2 fullbacks. i take it you are starting him in your lineup?
I’m starting TAA yeah. Then again I’m also starting Bellerin, forever the optimist
Good one init. What’s your final squad looking like