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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5 FT but £0.0m itb. My only cash cows are Trent and Salah, but fancy keeping them both for now. So I’m thinking of either:
1) JP+Dunk to Delap+Faes (roll 3 FT)
2) As above, but also Robinson to Lewis (roll 2 FT)
Which do people prefer? Or any other suggestions?
Save FT
Just JP to Delap?
JP to Ndiaye or Raul would be just a single transfer? Could be an okay way to keep your FTs up
Morning all,
Is this good to go? Have 1FT and 0.1 ITB
Cant decide between Robinson or Collins
Cheers.
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Colin’s goal treath seems a bit better.
I think you are g2g
Looks g2g
Good to go I’d say mate
I’m not sure if these extra transfers are a good thing or a bad thing. It does mean that I can happily ignore my team for yet another week!
Yeah that’s a bit of you alright
Am I g2g?
Temped to do saka to foden because of the yellow. Or is that mad as foden isn’t locked in yet?
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good to go.
Same dilemma Gavy. Holding at the mo. You have a decent bench at least.
Leave Saka
Cheers all. Going to leave as is.
Morning all. I’ve got 2FTs and 0.1 in the bank and wondered how I’m set. Do we think Saka will miss out this week? I’m also not happy with Duran. I got him 2 game weeks ago and you guessed it, he stopped hauling!
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A few risks there. Probably good to move Duran on soon, the fixtures will turn as well. Wissa could be a nice option, but may be a week too early for him. May be Delap or Jimenez if you fid move this week.
I like your team.
Duran looks ace to me. Even off the bench.
This is me. 1FT 0.0ITB. Saka with the lack of bench is not ideal, especially as Lewis is not nailed. Could just hold, or flip Saka to Foden/Son for a few weeks or get somone who plays for Mosquera.
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I’ll be fall-down shocked if Saka doesn’t play Stone.
You do need a bench though, no doubting that