FF247 Site Team News GW8

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Welcome to FF247 Site Team News GW8

Going into any international break, it’s good to go out on a high, safe in the knowledge that you don’t need to worry about your squad for a while with various players then hopefully avoiding injury when playing for their country…

Our Gameweek 7 Result

Unfortunately, that wasn’t the site team. What actually happened was a 31-point collection that represented a gameweek rank of around 9.5m and 15 points below the average which, itself, was pretty low anyway. And what led us to this hugely disappointing scoreline? Well, poor Ezri Konsa hobbling off early on against Man United in what would have been a clean sheet didn’t exactly help. What else? Well, how about our captain joining the eight other players who didn’t score more than two points?! Yeah, thanks Haaland.

Our list of gratitude applies to two players from that disastrous gameweek – Bryan Mbeumo and Cole Palmer, who scored eight and six points respectively… almost half our entire score between them.

Other than a big fat red arrow to an overall rank of 2,462,638, that’s all we can say about that week. We mustn’t dwell!

We have £0m in the bank and two free transfers to use ahead of GW8. Let’s go see what was decided…

Our GW8 Transfer(s)

Often on the back of such a shocking gameweek, it’s easy for an FPL Manager to make hasty decisions early on. Dodgy transfers, big hits or simply deleting your team are the big three, but this seasoned bunch resisted thay trio. Instead they… forgot about it. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

Fast forward to Wednesday and the Whatsapp group starts pinging with various screenshots and polls and, without hesitation, the results were unanimous. And the team we’re turning to that will hopefully relieve our woes? Spurs. Yes, that’s right, the same team that capitulated to Brighton, giving away a two-goal lead to go down 3-2. “Prime candidates then”, we hear you sarcastically say.

Well, Smartie Pants, both Brennan Johnson and Micky van de Ven have caught our eye for the golden combination of attacking form and some nice looking fixtures coming up. Starting with West Ham at home, the games look tidy right up to December, bar an away day at Man City. So those were the two players agreed on coming in, and those going the other way? Konsa still carries a doubt even with two weeks of recovery and Eze has not translated the potential into points, so they seemed the most logical sells. And an extra bonus?! We now have £0.1m in the bank. Cha ching!

The rest of the team picks itself, with Haaland once again the most popular choice for the armband. Our bench is still lit up like a Christmas tree, but hopefully we won’t need to call upon it anyway.

To confirm then we have SOLD Ezri Konsa and Eberechi Eze, and BOUGHT Brennan Johnson and Micky van de Ven.

Captain – Haaland

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PREDICTED LINE-UPS

Back by popular demand! Well, sort of… Drafthound have changed their line-up approach this season and what it means for us is that we are no longer able to display a live feed of it on here due to some technical difficulties. That said, what they have done looks great and is still only a click away so if you want to access those they are HERE

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