FF247 McDonald’s Fantasy Football World Cup Team
A 23 man squad? Rules that contradict themselves? A site we can’t trust to load up properly come transfer time? Players we have never heard of? Players valued at £1.0m? This all looks a bit odd… Must be World Cup time, bring it on, we love it!!!…. Welcome to our first ever World Cup ‘Rate My Team’ and to kick proceedings off FF247 has it’s very own fantasy team that is entering the competition!
The site address to enter is Mcdonalds Fantasy World Cup, you can register here. The official site league is called FF247 – simply enter this in the search bar on the league section and press JOIN!
Here is the FF247 team as it stands. FF247 welcomes suggestions and criticism aplenty but don’t be offended if you get it back! We jest, of course. Sort of. He has been known to bite though! FF247 himself will be around to discuss the team itself on this article thread and will take on board your thoughts and suggestions for changes ahead of the deadline on Thursday and there will be updates throughout the tournament as to the teams progress and hopefully thoughts on selection and strategies as it progresses.
And the subs…
This is by no means the final squad that FF247 will go into the competition with but rather an initial attempt at building a squad. A lot will depend on the feedback tomorrow and what is learnt from your own submissions and findings. The final squad will be published later in the week.
We also welcome your own Rate My Team posts on here as you begin to finalise those squads and starting line ups. Thoughts on formations, players or teams to watch, bargains, strategies or just whatever you want to post are welcome as always.
Busquets or Paulinho?
Paulinho for me.
Better team, easier group and offers more going forward.
Agree. It’s just that he costs 0.5 more, and I’m really struggling to free up that amount of money.
Well you didn’t tell me that! 😉
What other options do you have at the same price?
Anyone fancy Costa in World Cup?
Is he even fit? I’m nervous after the champs league final.
And aren’t spain partial to the ‘false number 9’ formation with cesc playing the most forward role?
The B- I was very tempted for a while to take a punt on Torres (bear with me…). I think he suits their style of play much better than Costa does, and a smart man would stick him in their starting team instead. That said, Costa is the marquee signing… I too worry about his fitness, but currently have him in my squad since the Spain midfield is too tricky/expensive for me to think about
If he was fit i’d expect him to be one of the top scorers, tread carefully.
A midfield quandary: does anyone know if Dzagoev of Russia is nailed on? If he’s not, 4.5m is a lot of money to spend. I have Bentaleb and Bedoya as two playing cheapos already, and Di Maria, Lahm, Valbuena and De Bruyne as my current first choices. I could trade him in for a someone cheaper and then upgrade elsewhere
Made some changes to my team:
Cissellen (Karnezis, Zemmamouche)
Baines – Evra – Zaba (Bernardez, Cholevas)
Di Maria – Paulinho – Gerrard – J-Rod (De Bruyne, Bentaleb)
Messi – Neymar (C) – Benzema
Got rid of Busquets and Lahm for Gerrard and Paulinho whom offer both offensive and defensive potential. Downgraded F. Johnson to Bernardez (Honduras CB) to finance the moves.
Whatcha think?
Is Balotelli a good call?
Not for me, i think there’s a good few players in that range who’ll do better.
Please share NIN?!? Was thinking Dzeko, Costa or Balotelli. Any of them any good?
There’s lots i’d rather have than Balotelli. Drogba, Costa (fitness worries) and Hulk come to mind. There’s some outside shouts too in Gotze, Mandzukic, J. Martinez and Sanchez. Balotelli might do the business, it’s a very tight, solid group though so his chances may be limited.
RULE UPDATE
Every 2 balls recovered 0 1 1 1
Ridiculous.
Oh FFS.
Does this mean defensive mids points potential has judt been halved?!
So are we back to Wingers over DCMs now?
Fekking feck.
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