FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW25
Bring out your dead!
It’s probably fitting, in more ways than one, that we introduce this week’s article with a (Monty) Python reference. The obvious being that we lost one of the great comic genuises of our time this week. RIP Terry Jones. The fact that most of our panel are now old enough to remember the original series actually being aired is probably somewhat depressing, for us anyway!
The less obvious reference is to that band of snakes from the Captain Picks article who all sang a Mane tune but then when push came to shove all whistled along happily to ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’, after switching to Salah at the last minute.
We hope the now infamous Mane Five can all sleep soundly in their beds in the knowledge that they caused mayhem and damage to many a fantasy team. (Two of them are on our panel… :rofl: )
There’s no such moral dilemma for the FF247 Site Team though; we said we were going all in with our TC chip on Mane and we stuck to our word… So at least we stand here before you now, morally bereft of points.
Back to the title of the article and we do indeed bring out our dead. We didn’t even own Salah, never mind TC’ing him. Instead we hoped to soften the blow with a ‘double-double’ Liverpool clean-sheet, and all the attacking prowess of ‘midfielders in defenders clothing’ that they promised to bring to the party. Wolves put paid to that first bit in the initial game and the only attacking return we saw was a solitary assist for TAA in the same game. Them, and Mane, with his stupid injury, managed to get us a whopping 22 points between them. Salah as TC got 48…
Elsewhere it didn’t get much better as Soyuncu, Grealish, Maddison, Vardy and Ings combined for a grand total of 8 points. 8 points…! The latter two barely managed 60 minutes of football between them.
On a more positive note KDB and Jimenez got 7 and 8 respectively and Pope managed to confound expectations with a healthy and unexpected 10.
All in all we ended up with 55 points, somehow 2pts above the average but produced an inevitably ‘Salah-less’ red arrow which dumps us down some 30,000 places to 124,316th.
Deep breaths, and all that.
Our GW24 Result…
Let’s go see what was decided…
Our GW25 Transfer(s)
As if Sadio hadn’t already kicked us in the teeth enough this week, one look at our team and transfer options, or lack thereof, left us guessing he was about to do it again… We had 1 free transfer and nothing in the bank.
Option one was to do nothing and simply bench him. The trouble with this is that we have a sneaky suspicion that even when he is ‘back’ to face Norwich his game-time may be carefully managed in that particular late Saturday fixture because about 72 hours after that finishes Liverpool will be kicking off a CL game in Madrid against Atleti.
Option two arose because of that but also because of a distinct lack of Captaincy options within our ranks. Basically we feared being left further behind without Salah this week. This would of course mean a hit as funds would have to be raised. Our preferred option was to sell either Kelly or Lundstram as both of their places in their respective teams appear to be under threat, for varying reasons. However, neither left us enough money and so instead we have decided to use Söyüncü as our sacrificial lamb. We don’t fancy many clean sheets for Leicester looking at their next few fixtures and when you have both Robertson and TAA you only need one other defender anyway. The replacements were thin on the ground so we have decided to go for Jamaal Lascelles. Newcastle have kept things relatively tight recently, especially at home, so we are happy enough for him to come in and battle it out with the other two for our 3rd spot at the back each week.
To confirm then we have SOLD Mane & Söyüncü and BOUGHT Salah & Lascelles
Captain – Mo Salah
No prizes for therefore guessing where our armband ended up this week.
Our GW25 team in full…
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Wounds licked, etc…
Hi guys please support with starting lineup
And possible transfer
1 ft 5.8 bank
Thinking of getting midfielder for cantwell
Trarore or harry wilson or city mid
Or keep ft?
I would do Snodgrass to Traore or Haller to Jimenez this week personally.
Thought the same on Haller.
Was thinking getting ings for haller next week
Trarore for cantwell is better ?
No Traore in for Snodgrass and leave Cantwell I think.
Up to you which one you do this week – Traore and Jimenez are linked so well that inevitably if one scores well, they both do.
Got you if i sell snodgrass
Who should i put in bench
Williams cantwell hayden?
I think Williams.
Great article again site team. I got a feeling you’re going to do well this GW.
best of luck site team for this gw
Eresh, is your squad the same as the site team ? Does look as though it is.
Not another one
It’s chillingly similar to mine as well, though I swear this is the first time in weeks I’ve actually looked at the site team. I suppose GW histories quickly give the game away with that sort of thing.
I’m even thinking – having no other need to do a lot, as far as I can see – of bringing in Button this week to add .1 to the kitty.
If it is the same, why bother playing the game ?
Put it down to coincidence, Elleffcee.
In defence of eresh12 – who at least isn’t called ereshandthesiteteam11 – his OR is not even close to the site team’s.
There was a joker over on FFF who copied the site team every week but as I’ve often said, his/her OR somehow was better. It was a puzzle and cause of some amusement (to me, anyway).
Not really sure what to do here. 1ft and 0.9 itb. Initial plan was to downgrade soyuncu this week and next week bring ings back but the mane injury has left me doubting that. Slightly tempted to go for auba which would mean taking a -4 and selling mane. Not sure who for though
What would you have to spend on a Mane replacement if you did Maupay to PEA?
8.3m
Richarlison?
That could work but double Everton not too much?
Perhaps. But those two are their best players. FPL at least.
Please guys rate my team below
WC activated
I want to change Lundstram Cantwell Ryan martial but whom to get
If you are looking for straight swaps for those mentioned then I like:
Lundstram to Baldock.
Ryan to McCarthy.
Martial to Maddison/Traore.
Cantwell is a perfect fifth midfielder I think and I would keep him as a very reliable first sub most weeks.
Bro what about only Evans instead of Periera ??