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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Hi all,
Who should I get in for Mane? Richarlison, Grealish, Sterling.
I’d prefer Grealish as he’s basically a one man team at the moment but be mindful of 28; that’d take you to 5 blankers I think. Richarlison playing up top is enticing too.
Prob just bench him
Sterling has been pretty quiet of late.
League Cup finalists Villa will I’m sure be buoyed up so Grealish seems fine.
Richarlison is one of those players who never seems to let me down and who I’ll be looking to reintroduce to my side pretty soon. Also no looming blanks with him. Why not get ahead of the crowd and then get another Liverpool defender next week?
Thanks all for your advice. I think I will go with Grealish.
I’d check out his fixtures. Plus that blank. I was looking at who’s-going-to-make-way-for-Richarlison* and shuddered a bit when I looked at Aston Villa’s forthcoming games, and lack of games. Having said that, he is brill.
whose own fixtures make for nightmarish viewing.
Yep and the fact how there will be 5 players with a blank in just a few gameweeks
Team is now
Strong team
Thanks
Nice looking team. Hopefully Deano will start Luiz instead of Drinkwater for Villa and so he can be ready to come in if one of your players doesn’t start.
What to do with this shit team? Got two ft’s.
Just flush it down the bogMaybe remove Ryan.
He has five decent fixtures left though… :buba:
I really like this team. What’s in the bank?
0.9m… I could go for Lundy? Though there are now three potential Lundys in that team?
I’d be tempted by something really boring like Lascelles in for Hanley
All set? Any changes to the bench
Nice looking team, that
That’s optimistic…
I did that the other week with Richarlison, just in case something miraculous happened. Nothing to lose really and it gives opponents a false sense of how you’ve done, until the final reckoning. In a cheap kicks manner.
I’m as optimistic as ever about my team. It looks ready to crash and burn
Yes looks fine, but the bench does need a bit of thought.
I’d have Hayden first then toss a coin, just in case Lunder’s number is up. Going along with the old adage that if in doubt, pick the home player then maybe Soyuncu ahead of Holgate. So essentially a leftwards shuffle.
Best of luck, I think you’ve buried the captaincy curse now.
Yeah I have no idea. I hope so regarding captaincy
Your team looks hella fine. Bloody Jimenez… Every time I see him I get pissed. Haha.
… :hi:
I broke Ings I might as well break Jimenez again
:girl_pinkglassesf:
Evening everyone,
Great articles this week, really enjoyed reading them. Apologies for my lack of input on the boards recently; been here, there and everywhere.
Here’s my team anyway. With 1 FT and £1.5m in the bank, I’m actually tempted to leave it for this week and then explore my options the next. Seems Mane will only miss this fixture and will be back for Norwich onwards – plus any moves would require a hit as it’d be Auba or Aguero coming in with Hayden. And then there’s those blank fixtures in GW28 for the players that would come in.
Sound like a plan, or am I missing something?
Yep, as you are, except swap Greenwood and Kelly.
Cheers, Init. Hope you’re keeping well bud :good2:
Sounds like a plan, though I’d be half-tempted to move Rico along the bench a bit or maybe even start ahead of Holgate.
Yep think you have it right
Thanks guys
Hey Swirly
Your rank is insane and your team is pretty close to mine. Encouraging me to hold on to Mane as well!
You have Grealish uni
Which I don’t so you have a nice team to play in his absence
Evening all!
Really tempted to do a -4 and get in Kun/PEA for Ings or should I stick with what I have and bench mane?
Just stick (a few pins in a (voodoo) doll of your choosing).
That’s the sort of move you will likely do anyway
If I go PEA I would have 8.3 for a midfielder and kun will leave me 7, not many options except for maybe Traoe?
Fancy PEA as he has a decent record against Burnley!
Who you prefer? Kun people Pea? Pea has no competition really.
Prob Auba and a United mid then. Martial or Bruno
Want both of them to be honest!
Does Bruno start?
What about sterling?