FF247 Site Team Game-week 4 FPL Tips
Welcome to the FF247 Site Team Game-week 4 FPL Tips article. It seems a long time ago, but GW3 turned out ok for us, not spectacular, but ok. We scored 53 points vs an average of 42. That leaves us on 194 points so far with an overall rank of 22,450. As for the team itself last week we left McAuley points on the bench, for the 3rd week in a row! Lesson learnt? Clearly not and I think we can all predict what will happen this week, when/if we play him. At least we had Foster in goal and his clean sheet contributed – in fact only Souare let us down at the back as Valencia and Baines scored 16pts between them despite Baines missing a penalty. Hazard’s goal and maximum bonus points gave him 11pts while a Lamela assist was our only other scoring contribution to the team as all our strikers failed. We have issues to deal with this week – our naughty boys Aguero and Gray have caused us nearly a fortnight of sleepless nights!
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TRANSFER DECISION THIS WEEK
We had £0.7m in the bank and 2FT’s to use. We also had the same Aguero issue as most people do and the same dilemma as a result. Just in case anyone missed it we posted an excellent piece earlier in the week which addressed the Aguero scenarios and how you may approach them and it alluded to some potential replacements too, which you can read here – FF247 Tips GW4 – Life without Aguero
We waited and waited on any Andre Gray news but with none forthcoming we can only assume his hearing will now be announced and take place next week which is a bit of a bonus all round really as it means he will be available to play against Hull at home this week!
So it was just the Aguero situation to address then. With the 2FT’s and the obvious temptations which they bring we suspected this may not be a cut and dry vote. And so it proved. We have two mavericks on our panel – one is just a maverick by nature, the other was simply born awkward! They made an early pitch to bring in Lukaku and Ozil and it’s difficult to argue with those transfers given the fixtures of both. However, we do also have three pragmatists to balance things out! Their take on the situation we had was that if we did those moves it would then present an issue in terms of actually being able to afford buying Kun back in without either taking some hits or in essence simply reversing the transfers we had just done, over the next two weeks.
As it transpired the one transfer policy was the one we subsequently decided on. Boring it may be, but also practical it is (thanks Yoda). So which one striker would we prefer to buy, given there were now no other considerations? Lukaku clearly has the fixtures but Costa has the form, and some decent fixtures too. We decided to go with form this time and so our one transfer this week is –
Sell Sergio Aguero, Buy Diego Costa
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THE TEAM IN FULL FOR GW4 –
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Our captain is Eden Hazard and our vice-captain is Andre Gray
Hazard is starting to look like the 2014/15 vintage again and they really liked playing Swansea in that particular season, scoring 9 against them in two games! It’s a bit tenuous and hardly something to base a captain pick on but he is starting to look the real deal again so he is getting our nod this week. The vice shouldn’t really matter and it would probably land on Costa only for our old habit / superstition of not putting it on a player in the same game as our captain. You know, just in case it snows or something. In September…
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Fixture Tracker – the next 6 games
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Morning all and HAPPY FRIDAY!!
The site team has been selected – and here it is…….
Bold and risk taking move i see from the FF247 team
Good idea
Aren’t you worried to have 2 chelsea and captian which high load one match especially they will play Liverpool next week?
Also redmond difficult match and lamela risk to bench
You think of lanzini which will also keep cash?
Morning Mahelmy,
Ultimately we chose Costa’s form over Lukaku’s or Kane’s fixtures (but little form) – having two vs Liverpool next week isn’t a particular concern, it’s not like Liverpool are fantastic at defending is it?
Re Redmond’s difficult match – everyone has difficult matches throughout the season and trying to cherry pick when someone may score is mission impossible.
Lamela is a risk for sure, but again we cannot predict everything and given his start to the season he probably has as much chance as starting as not.
Bottom line – we figured, as per what the article says above, that having 2 transfers for the next couple of weeks was the safest policy, given that we will need to bring back Kun and probably have to deal with Gray.
Cookie
Ever though about a career in politics?
I’d last 5mins GP. Especially when the press starts digging 😉
Skeletons eh?
We all have ’em!
GP – is that a subtle tip for Bony?
Cookie
Considering it now where previously I weren’t 😉
Inside info?
cookie would you consider lamella -> Antonio a good decision esp due to west Hams fixtures?
Morning Cole,
Yes I like Antonio, especially when he is not played in defence. The Hammers do have plenty of options in midfield now, which is a slight concern but for me it’s his place to lose right now.
Lanzini is also a good option and even cheaper. Clearly Payet is the best option but I assume that budget is an issue.
Morning all.
Good luck site team.
Looks good to me this week. Sensible transfer, let’s hope it pays off immediately.
Morning everyone.
Good move lads. The sensible one and the most popular one it seems. Hopefully Costa gets a hattrick with Hazard assisting them all but Liverpool end up winning 4-3. They’ve done it already this season
We’ll agree to disagree on the result Matt
Cookie is a closet plastic!!
Careful now – all this closet talk has gotten Andre Gray in a pickle 😉
Haha you’ll be called in front of the FA Kop
Good morning
For the 2 coming gameweeks would you go for…
1. Özil and Giroud
2. Sanchez and Defoe
3. Özil and Lukaku
I have 2 FT and I´m selling Redmond and Aguero.
Fred,
I think Ozil and Lukaku and pray that Lukaku finds some club form which I’m sure he will soon.
Morning All,
I keep going round and round in circles with this one so any help would be greatly received.
I’ve narrowed it down to these 2 teams, obviously my indecision revolves around rotating the keepers or having DDG as a fire & forget option.
Which do you prefer?
Cheers
Hammers,
both pretty similar teams i see, If i was going down the single keeper route i’d probably go for Cech tbh, 4 home games in the next 6 and only really Chelsea looking as a hard one on paper.
So would you go for cech ad a single option in place of ddg or the rotating option?
Personally i’ve got the rotating option of Foster and Heaton but it doesn’t always work out.
For example, on GW1 i played Heaton and Foster got a clean sheet and then on gw2 i played Foster and Heaton got a clean sheet on my bench, sometimes it’s more headaches than its worth!
At least with the 1 keeper route you just stick him in and play him.
True. I know how much the rotating option will annoy me if I get it wrong
I agree with Photel, rotating keepers is a nightmare and most of the times pretty disappointing. Anyway, I would prefer to go the cheaper route with Foster/Heaton + 4.0.
I prefer the top team Hammers.