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.
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Areet lads and lasses. Hope everyone’s keeping well.
I’ve been having my worst season ever, 150 points off my ML leader a month ago. Clawed that bk to 40 now mainly thanks to TC salah (He TC’d Mane).
I’m trying to stay on top of the good run and have activated my WC.
With being made redundant just before xmas I’ve now just started a new job so i’m not really clued up on the upcoming blanks or doubles etc. Could u lovely ppl please take a look at my WC team and advise if I should change anything or what I need to look out for in the coming weeks.
As always the help from uz on this site is always appreciated
1.4 ITB as well I forgot to mention
Milburn,
Great to hear things are better on the job front and I hope you’re happy in the new place (or at least contented!).
In general that looks fine to me. I tried to make Perez to Richarlison work for you. Not sure how much you have banked but Perez and PEA to Richarlison and Jimenez might be considered.
Well done on cutting that ML deficit too. Shows what can be done in a week!
@ Milburn
Well done on your new job and mini league successes.
The BGWs are in GW28 and ARS MCI AVL and SHU are the teams missing out. Nothing definite for the DGWs as of yet.
Team looks fine. It’s unusual to see a team without KDB.
Only thing I can suggest is that it looks top heavy. How about Jimmy instead of Kun and upgrading Perez (?) to KDB
Cheers lads
Hey guys, another red arrow with a below average Gameweek. 43 points and dropping in my ML too
Took a bit to take out Mane and Lund for Salah and Hanley before price changes forced my hand.
Am I good to go for this week? Starting lineup and all. Ings on the bench?
HELP!
I’d be going with that mate yeah, good luck!
2FTs 1.3m in the bank
Sell Haller for Jimenez?
Play Sidibe or Lundstram?
Ings or Cantwell?
horse
Just my initial reactions (some times they are better than overthinking!)
Yes!
Sidibe
Ings
Cheers GP
I’m in a similar position Horse, I can’t choose between Holgate and Lundstram, Palace v Sheffield United could easily be 0.0 but will Lundstram start, damned if you do and damned if you don’t!
Thanks Padster.
Probably best to leave Lord on the bench as he’s not certain to start
Yes
Sidibe
Cantwell even if hes only have 1return away all season
Hi everyone,
Had a lovely rank rise last GW and now about 170k rank. Despite that I am actually considering a WC…
Is that crazy? Or does it seize on a good opportunity?
Here is the before and after teams. Vardy could be Aubameyang.
Otherwise I’d just move Mane down to Grealish/Traoré and look at Jimenez in for DCL next week (1FT and 0.3m). The things putting me off a WC is potentially wanting it later on in the season and not being 100% on Mane and Vardy.
Thanks for any input.
@Beno. Wow you have an expensive midfield!!
You could downgrade Mane to Grealish/Traore, and get VVD or Robo for Hanley for 4PH. Then move DCL to Jiménez next GW for a decent side.
Yes indeed haha! Even if Mane is back for Norwich it feels quite unbalanced.
You fancy the -4 hey?
I think Liverpool are going to be happy to pick up 1-0 or 2-0 victories so VVD/Robo + 5m > Mane
I don’t like having a lot in the bank so I would get the transfers done in one go. If Pool gets some more cleanies you’ll get the points back.
Just checked Hanley seems to be back in the team so maybe another defender.
Hi All
No idea what to do here, got no money and 1ft.
Should I leave it? Bring back in Vardy for Kun? Take out Mane and bring in Vardy or PEA for hit?
Please help!
Save the transfer and do the Vardy, Pea transfer next gw
Hi guys. I’ve been so busy all week and totally detached of what is happening. The only positive outcome is that didn’t have enough time to bemoan the massive car crash round I had.
Is there any urgent matter which needs addressing or can I roll?
1 FT and 0.2 ITB
Hi Ivan. The only potential issue I can see is Mahrez maybe not playing (i.e. the usual Peptation lottery), but hopefully Cantwell will be fit to autosub in if required.Looks just about OK for this week, so I would roll the FT mate :yes:
Cheers Chip, I think I might just stay put and see what can be done next week with 2 FT.