Fantasy Football FF247 Team Gameweek 4 WILDCARD!
Ok, so errrm, well, how do we put this, we have a small confession to make! We are on a WILDCARD! It wasn’t planned and it took us a bit by surprise to be honest but when we settled down around the boardroom table and took a look at our squad, or rather what was left of it after the international break had done it’s worst, there was a unanimous verdict and only one answer. And so ensued the usual mayhem. You think it’s difficult wrestling with yourself on these matters, but when it’s a committee decision it can get funny, ugly and surreal all in the space of a short hour. Anyway we are pleased to say that the majority of people came out alive. Some scarred for life, more mentally than physically we hope. We await the police and psychologists reports though. The end result is this. Our wildcard team…
Why a wildcard?
On the face of it we’ve actually had a pretty decent start to the campaign. We have 179 points and we are ranked in the top 1.5% overall. 46,529 in old money to be exact. So while we are fairly satisfied with that – well, we have had a few issues to say the least! We had Jovetic and Sturridge succumb to injury over the break which meant 2/3rd’s of our ace strike force were probably out which wasn’t a great start. We had Ramsey who looks like he or may miss out or is at least a minor doubt. We had Caulker who is away at Man Utd this week but also doesn’t look a great prospect going forward with QPR’s form so far. We had Dummett who lost his place last week. And to round it off we had El Ahmadi who disliked our team that much that he actually upped sticks and left the FPL altogether! That all seemed too much to attend to within the standardly accepted bracket of a -4 or -8 hit and so we hit the wildcard button with reckless abandon! It wasn’t reckless to be fair, it was well thought out and considered and we are not alone this week as many have done the same. Here’s what we landed on after much debate…
Goalkeepers
We wanted a pair of keepers who would rotate nicely with home and away fixtures, who had a fairly solid team in front of them and held a good chance of keeping some clean sheets along the way and who weren’t too expensive! Krul and Mannone fit all of the above and come in at £9.0m for the pair.
Defenders
Our first port of call when considering the defence was to see which teams had the best or more favourable run of fixtures in the short to medium term. Liverpool have a great run and we were uber impressed with Moreno last week and feel he will be good for more goals and likely to be chipping in with assists. Whether Liverpool can actually keep any clean sheets is another matter but surely their comedy defending from last season will be helped with the addition of two new full backs both of whom are fairly experienced. Southampton, Stoke and Swansea likewise have decent fixtures. Ideally we would probably have gone for Clyne and Pieters but our budget was a tad constrained which you can appreciate given our midfield and forward lines! So we are giving Southampton new boy Alderweireld a chance along with Wilson, who seems to have cemented a slot in the Stoke team and is a budget £4.5m as is Taylor of Swansea. Moore makes up the backline as Leicester haven’t got the worst run but obviously we hope he sits on our bench for the most part anyway!
Midfield
We had Ramsey. We like Ramsey. We agonised over Ramsey. We no longer have Ramsey. The reasoning was fairly simple in the end. He’s a doubt for the weekend but may play and we hope he does for those that have him but we decided to take the opportunity to give Angel Di Maria a run out or a trial if you like. He’s got QPR at home, will play for sure, he’s had an outstanding international break with three assists and a goal in that Germany game so he’s in form and he has a new look team around him. The positives outweighed the negatives for us and in reality if he stinks the place out he’s an easy switch back to Aaron. Sigurdsson needs no explanation, he’s going nowhere. Fabregas is a world class player playing for one of the best teams. He will get goals and assists all season and we envisage keeping him for the duration. Sterling is red hot at the moment and cannot be ignored especially with Liverpool’s favourable run of fixtures. We had £4.5m left for our 5th midfielder and in all honesty there’s not a great deal out there but we hope to never see whoever it is in our team anyway! Anyway, we went for King.
Forwards
To Aguero or not to Aguero, that was the question. We expected this to be a hard fought battle but the reality was that there was little resistance. He’s prolific, he’s almost fixture proof and you’d probably have no hesitation in captaining every week if there were no other more outstanding cadidates. Those were the reasons given and so Kun takes pride of place in our team. Costa was an easy one of course. He’s on fire, even when he’s definitely not playing! We will add a caveat to this though – he’s still not been confirmed as fully fit for the game and was having a training session this afternoon to ascertain whether he was or not. We suspect he’s fine but we will be keeping our eyes peeled and eyes to the ground this evening and in the morning for any news. The final piece of the jigsaw is Arsenal new boy Welbeck. This was one that possibly we could have sat and taken a view on, especially as Arsenal’s fixtures aren’t ideal but we felt that we would be transfering him in eventually anyway so in for a penny, in for a pound.
Captain
Now this was a close call. Aguero had many suitors but was narrowly ousted by Sterling. The fact that he’s in form and at home against Villa swayed it plus there’s a small chance he may be deployed even further forward in Sturridge’s absence. Even if he’s not we felt that he had as good a shout as any at getting in on the goals and assists this week and Liverpool looked like they may be hitting some serious form if last weeks demolition of Spurs is anything to go by and he will be central to that.
FF247
Cheeky monkeys
Wow! You kept that quiet
Like the WC team.
Only think I would suggest is stay dropping Moreno down to a 5.0 then upping Moore to a 4.5. Moreno isn’t gonna score a goal like that every week and can’t see liverpool keeping many CS at all because that defence is comical at times (and I am actually a liverpool fan)
That’s what’s put me off Moreno too hammers.
He looks a good player though regardless. Nice job FF247! Good luck.
Great team mate. Sterling Captain would suggest he’s a starter tomorrow? Right?
Also like the punt on Toby, I think he will take Yoshida’s place (whom isn’t that good tbh).
F-ing evil how a WIlcard team can look. Sighs. Here is mine.
Have 1 FT left. What should I do?
Should I take Ramsey out or Mata? Or should I take a risk with both and just go for defense? Or maybe a double take-out? Ramsey and Mata for Sterling and Di Maria?
I was going to Mata – Sterling
Now with Ramsey injury I am about to hit the button on Ramsey – Sterling
I figure if Sterling scores big and you don’t own him you will pay! Also Mata – Ramsey when he is fit solves the Mata headache so it’s a win win.
Hopefully other folk may give different advice
Naaah, you’re right. I was thinking in the long run and even if Mata gets points this GW I don’t see him in the starting line-up this season unless other players are injured or w/e.
Ramsey or Mata to Sterling for sure.
What about a hit?
I’d be relunctant, but if you think Di Maria can deliver, it could be a great idea. It’d also save you the trouble of deciding who to keep!
Just took my first hit, mwahhaha. WIth that hit I’m immediately out of the top 20k, so they better f-ing serve me. 😛
Falcao hasn’t even played and he’s already at 90 percent?
Di Maria had 3 assists and a goal versus Germany, I reckon Germany is a harder opponent than QPR? 😛
I just look at my balls and I think they’ve grown a last in the last 10 minutes. WOW, what taking a hit can do with your balls.
Post above should say they have grown a lot… think they’re even blue-ish now…
bit worried.
Nice Raz! The transfers, that is, not those monkey balls.
HAHA, genius right? They’re light blue. HAHAHA! F-ing awesome. Wish I had light blue balls, oooh maybe the glow in the dark?
LOOK AT MY AWESOME GLOW IN THE DARK BALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’d f-ing dance naked around town.
:bouncy-balls: :dance:
Just checking I can field 3 defenders, that’s the most important. Third might be Hutton. With a bit luck Dummet starts again since Newcastle really looked shite without him, defensively.
Mata has a better fixture against the possibility of Ramsey not playing in a difficult fixture swung it for me!
What does your team look like? Mine will drop 0.4m tonight and I’m ranked within the top 14k. It’s f-ing crazy. Selling value of my team will be 99,7m tomorrow, lol.
This is my team! Still pondering who to move for Sterling lol
Might ship out both for a -8 hit line yourself
And please tell, where do you see Mata play if he starts? With the addition of Falcao I just can’t see it happening.
I can only hope he gets the spot of Hererra in the first match next to Blind.
I was halfway through typing how I thought you should sell mata when my iPad died!
Yeah, basically I think he’s been a bit rubbish recently and that I doubt he’ll get a start. Who’s laughing now all those people who were like oh you don’t have mata and only fabregas fail AHAHAHAHAHAhahanahahahahahahaHAH.
If he starts it will be as a centre back as they’ve got no one better lol
Here is mind at present
Looks good, usually I don’t like Balo but with Sturridge out he could be a decent punt.
Cheers Razman
I like Iva for now and what you can do with Iva the next couple of weeks is even better. You can do a direc swap with Baines after Everton get better fixtures (in about 4 gameweeks). Dude takes all set pieces.
its a wait and see, may need to downgrade to get kun and city coverage from GW6
So wait, are you currently on WC or not?
Yes
I like the Zaha pick a lot!!
Not sure about welbeck and balo as both aren’t quite settled yet IMO…
One is fine but I think two is a bit like two punts – it could really work out, but it also could fail too…
And yea, city cover i think is quite important now actually…
Like the Ivan pick too!!
I really like Moreno but I think 5.5mil is too much for a defender who plays for Liverpool considering last season!! 😮 in all fairness though Liverpool actually have looked more solid at the back, just very, susceptible to a long ball.
So yeah, I think the expensive defence shows in your attack, but still a nice team all in all.
Guys, which combo is better?
1) welbeck, di Maria, fabregas and ivanovic
Or
2) balotelli, Ramsey, fabregas and wilson
Or
3) naismith, sanchez, hazard and ivanovic
The first for me wins by a long shot.
Well urgh, 1.
If Rambo was completely fit than maybe that would make it a harder desicion but I prefer fabregas to hazard any day anyway and I think Sanchez needs to prove to us that he is worth the 10.5mil that he’s priced at. I think we’ll see the full capability of Alexis in the big games this season. Then we can make a deaicion about him…