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.
full time
Hey guys.
Messi or Neymar?
Best 8m midfielder?
Thanks.
Cookie
Hey ft – Messi & di Maria for me mate
migs
If and only if you looking for something different then consider Gerrard. but otherwise Di Maria is best option along with Messi.
full time
Thanks guys. I have Messi and Di Maria at the moment was just thinking about switching it.
What about Hulk of Fred?
Thanks.
migs
Some Brazil coverage would be ideal. rather Fred than Hulk but not in place of Messi
full time
Yeah I have Fred, Messi, Lukaku and Dzeko but someone told me that Hulk will get more minutes than Fred, is this true?
jubi
krul – karnezis
baines – verton – evra – manolas
di maria, ozil, gerrad, bruyne
messi – lukaku – fred – muller
am bit confused about the goal keeping line up. only have a good backup, that’s all i have. krul for holland, is it for sure? and i put lukaku as a super sub.
jubi
JULIO CESAR
Jan VERTONGHEN – Cristian ZAPATA – Daley BLIND –
Angel DI MARIA POGBA J RODRIGUEZ, K. BRUYNE
MUELLER, MESSI, LUKAKU
is it ok to hit? in sub :
Goalkeepers
Orestis KARNEZIS
Tim KRUL
Defenders
Konstantinos MANOLAS
Liassine CADAMURO
Juan MONTES
Pejman MONTAZERI
Midfielders
Yohan CABAYE
Nabil BENTALEB
Hashem BEIKZADEH
Fernando GAGO
Forwards
El Arabi SOUDANI
Rony MARTINEZ
Mito21 @FantasyFooty247
@Jubi, Zapata will probably start, but his position is the only one in jeopardy in the back line. So maybe Yepes, Zúñiga or Armero might be a safer option. And make sure you Play guys who Play early in the round first. As you can substitute them out if they don’t do well. So no reason to be playing Belgium guys until you have seen others play go first in your squad.
jubi
krul – karnezis
vertonghen – baines – evra – manolas
di maria – ozil – gerrad – bruyne – valbuena – bentalob
messi – muller – fred – lukaku
how about now?
Cookie
OK chaps this si what I plan to go with unless there are any glaring and stupid things I have missed:
Ryan (Oz) (Karnezis, Mbohli)
Evra, Manolas, Baines (Rojo, Vertonghen, 2 numpties)
Valbuena, Gerrard, Ozil, di Maria (de Bruyne, Bentaleb, 2 numpties)
Fred, Messi, Lukaku (Kokorin, numpty)
Calvin Clyne
Other than keepers (and Karnezis is a great back-up anyway) that’s a great squad Cookster! Good strength in depth.
Cookie
Cheers CC, I’m not 100% convinced on Gerrard – a downgrade of him to a 6.5mln mid and allow me to upgrade my legendary Aussie keeper…who, by the way, is going to make a million saves !!
migs
O ya and what happened to Ronaldo? haha
looks good though cookie I like the differential approach. Fred was phenomenal in the confed cup so also thinking about him. You not backing Colombia at all?
Cookie
no mate – don’t listen to Mito, he talks with his brain – unfortunately we know where his brain is :hippo:
migs
haha good call! Ok noted. I think I am gonna have one of their strikers though just as back up
Mito21 @FantasyFooty247
Colombia is going to storm them Greeks and I have put in a special request to have them insert Yaya in you. #MonacoMule
Mito21 @FantasyFooty247
Do any of those numpties play before your starting 11? If they do, I play them just in case
NIN
Morning Cookster, morning lads. Two from Engerland eh? Ballsy..
Cookie
Afternoon Nin, yeah I’m not totally sold on Gerrard….think of a better alternative?
Mito21 @FantasyFooty247
Henderson?
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
I wasn’t sold on him either, but I changed my mind when I looked at his stats on whoscored.com. He’s gonna get points for balls recovered, balls delivered into the box, and pass completion. In addition he’s also an assist threat due to set piece duties and takes pens. Good enough for me.
Cookie
are those stats for England or the scousers tho?
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
For the scousers… :turtle:
He will probably have somewhat the same role for England though right?
Cookie
sameish role I guess yeah – but vs slightly better oppo
Kop Warrior
I’ve got him as well Tekno, I fancy him to pick up quite a few points.
NIN
Rakitic maybe? Shaqiri?
DaBomb
Lads,
Ive got pretty much no clue what I’m doing with the world cup fantasy, and really need some help..
My current team is (0 in bank) and no subs worth showing:
Courtois
Baines, Ramos, Alves
Valbuena, Hazard, Rodriguez, Di Maria
Neymar, Messi, Lukaku
Have i gone completely wrong with this? what do you guys reckon?
And if i do go with this or any other options, who should be my captain choice?
Thanks guys!!!
Cookie
DaBomb, personally I wouldn’t have both Hazard & Lukaku – other than that it looks a very solid starting XI
migs
Dabomb, absolutely nothing wrong with this team! how is your depth though? Just in case there is n injury to one of these players then you need someone to step in
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
If you downgrade Hazard to De Bruyne, you could maybe upgrade some of your subs to strengthen your squad?
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
Morning guys. Is Paulinho nailed on? Brazil have Luiz Gustavo, Ramires, and Fernandinho who can also play in that position, I reckon two of these four will be starters yeah?
NIN
Tekno – He’s a starter mate.
Calvin Clyne
Hard to call Tekno, I’ve even heard Oscar may not start now. Think Paulinho should probably start though out of that lot.
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
Thanks guys
chins and bellies
The manager has told Paulinho that he’s in his starting 11 despite no regular football for Spuds. I remember reading the quote a couple of days ago.
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
Thanks chins
Calvin Clyne
Haven’t seen anyone mentioning the FIFA predictor game on here. It’s with the same account we use for the FF so not much of an extra leap to play
http://en.castrol.predictor.fifa.com/
http://en.castrol.predictor.fifa.com/accept_tac
Calvin Clyne
No one seems too interested so I’ve created a league! Search for FF247 Followers or just follow the link below and join. There seems to be 5 questions for each match, should be a good laugh!
As already stated it uses the profile you’ve already created on FIFA so it’s really no extra hassle so GET ON IT!!
http://en.castrol.predictor.fifa.com/groups/8034
Tekno-kun (The 69er, Winner of Potty's 1st ever Twitter Comp; twice CL Comp winner, current profession: mage, formerly: big bad dawg; hallway monitor; tranny; wannabe Nazi commander)
I’m in! Guys check this out, it’s bascially a prediction game, doesn’t take up any time at all!
Josh721
Calvin – I’m in your prediction league. Seems fun, but there are so many predictions to make! When I’m watching the games I’m never going to remember what I predicted haha.