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.
Ramos against Netherlands, or Rojo against Bosnia? Rojo will most likely get the CS, but Ramos has the goal threat..
Milky – Play Ramos and if it doesn’t work out just sub Rojo in.
Barcelona have confirmed the sale of Fabregas to CHELSEA !!
Great signing for Chelsea.
As an Arsenal fan, i’m gutted.
Great player.
Chins – his 1st words were : “Arsenal didn’t want me back” !
#stunning :noshake:
I suppose it had to be that way given we had a first refusal clause built in when we sold him. He would have made a great replacement for Arteta. I just hope Wenger has some signings lined up or it will be another disapoointing summer. I’d take Song back over Cesc though given the number of small skillful mids we already have.
It just hurts to see him go to a rival.
You a gooner HL?
If there’s one thing we didn’t need, it’s another expensive midfield option in FPL. He had the second most assists in La Liga last season.
Evening everyone. Hope your tinkering is going better than mine.
Just wondering what people are doing about there defence, are you filling it with wing backs or centre backs?
Thanks.
most wing backs for me and Ramos, i was thinking of the ball’s in the box points and assist / goal threat
FT,
I’ve honestly no idea mate!
Here they are in full… Maybe you can tell me!
Dani ALVES7.5
Toby ALDERWEIRELD5
Kenneth OMERUO4
Daley BLIND4
Marcos ROJO4
Madjid BOUGUERRA2
Liassine CADAMURO1
Looks good to me chins but if im honest I have only ever heard of Dani Alves from that lot and that’s only because I play fifa!!! I don’t really know what im doing playing fantasy WC all because of a few quid at work!!!
I was just wondering because I have PIQUE and MERTZ and was wondering if I should swap them with wing backs, had to say who will score bigger with this point system.
It’s hard to say who will benefit more because there really isn’t much difference between outside backs and center backs in terms of recoveries. The outside backs will more likely get more points from crosses and all that though.
Any leagues I can join?
Yes Anon, check out the bottom of page 8!
I mean a fantasy league not a predictor
Anon, find a partner, do the Daily Mirror fantasy, then join the FF247 doubles league.
Seems like there’s a fair few in the doubles league that aren’t doubles!
Calvin, i can’t see who is in on my i-pad, but when it starts i should be able to, i will ask for names to the teams.
Yer right there Calvin, they will be outed. When we do the EPL, people will have to e-mail me with the names of both managers + their team names, then i will send them the code to enter, couldn’t do that this time, it was to near to the start of the WC.
So who wants to give my team a look over?
Cesar, Karnezis, Mbolhi
Zabaleta, Juanfran, Blind, Alderweireld, F Johnson, Manolas, Rojo
Di Maria, J Rodriguez, Lahm, William, Bradley, Bentaleb, Beikzadeh, Rahmani
Neymar, Dzeko, Vargas, Martinez, Heydari
Nice depth there Josh. Not sure Juanfran will start though.
Hi Josh, since we’re competing I should step up and help! I think this is a great squad- you’ve gone for strength and depth over expensive stars and I’m excited to see which of these two schools of thoughts triumphs.
A couple of potential banana skins: will Willian start? Same goes for Juanfran, for me. I love the Vargas punt up front, I think he’s a great option, but I’d be concerned you’ve not got another big hitter in there. Can you replace Bradley (who’s expensive) with Bedoya or another cheap USA starter to get a better 4th striker? Giroud/Lukaku?
That’s William as in Carvalho on Portugal haha I knew I should have made that clear. And I could do that, but I’m running with a 3-5-2 at the moment. Still trying to decide if that’s the way to go or not haha. Dzeko is my last option off the bench, but I’ll consider it. And if Juanfran doesn’t start, I can just switch him out for any other defender. How’s your team looking?
Josh, sounds good mate. I have gone with Messi, Neymar, Benzema up top; also Di Maria, plus Oezil, Pjanic, KDB and Valbuena. Defensively we’re set up similarly.
I am tempted by Vargas, a Spaniard, JRod, even Stevie G back in. Will likely change it all again before we start haha!
That sounds like a very strong core of players you have there. I assume Benzema will start right? Midfield looks very strong as well.
Thanks Josh- we’ll soon see!! I think Benzema is the main man up front for France and he’s been sharp in the friendlies. Plus they have an easy group
Right fellas there has been a lot of talk about the rules on the McDonalds site and there is something that i’m confused about:
“Once a match has started, all involved players are locked and unavailable for the rest of the Round.
You can remove players from Your Pitch during the Round, but you will lose any points they have scored in the round.”
Does this mean that you can sub players out that have already played or not?
You can sub players out but you can only sub in players who haven’t played
OK i see, so it makes sense to put players on the field who play first regardless of fixtures then just in case