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
Our GW8 team in full…
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Is there any news on Havertz? Thinking Havertz to Wood. would also raise some money,. hoping to get Palmer soon
Trained this afternoon apparently. If he’s come through that, he’ll be fine.
See if there is anything posted about it on here or X later tonight. Pics etc..
Thanks. I’ll wait and see
I have d
I have done the move havertz to wood. Considering the next 4 games and to raise some funds
If you were going to TC haaland.
This weekend or next?
The home game would sway me Gavy.
Cheers GP.
Wolfs poor form had me 50/50.
But kdb could be back for the home game too. Will hold off
Has to be Southampton at home. Will probably triple c him too
Hi all,
I hope everyone is well.
Any suggestions on what to do with my team? I have 1FT & 1.1 ITB
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Comment 10…
Hold is fine. Or Pedro may still be out for a while, so could be moved on to say Delap and go 3-4-3.
+1
Looks good to me.
Hey mitro, don’t see any big issues with this team
Diaz has back to back harf games (could still score) him to Johnson maybe.
Or just roll the ft.
Do you mean diaz is a doubt?
No his next 2 games are difficult. Chelsea and Arsenal.
He just flew back from International duty, but no reason he won’t start
Unsure if I should play Kovačić but for who?
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Evening all,
The konsa news has changed my plans a bit. Was going to swap him to either milenkovic or van de ven. Now he is fit should I stick with this and roll the transfer?
Cheers
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I would stick with what you have
From Arteta’s press conference comments, Martinelli may not start, so having Kovacic come off the bench, should be good. Diaz as well, long flight back, so may not start, I guess
Guys would you buy Lewis for Timber?
Yes.
Thanks bud.