Fantasy Football 247 team – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15
We are delighted to announce that FF247 will be running a site team this year, which will be competing in the FF247 Classic and Manager of the Month Leagues as well as taking its bow in the Banterbury Leagues. The main objective of the team however is to give you all an insight into our thinking and planning, which we hope will not only help you with your teams but also prompt plenty of debate, banter and advice along the way. Clearly with over a fortnight still to go until the season kicks off, plenty can still happen with any of the players we have selected – injuries, new transfers in or out, hell we may even have the odd bite to contend with! Therefore please treat this very much as a provisional squad for now and allow us to talk you through it and the thinking behind what we have come up with thus far.
Goalkeepers:
Tim Krul – as soon as the visit of the Champions in GW1 is out of the way, Le Toon face a pretty attractive run of fixtures. We feel Pardew has actually spent wisely this window (that could come back to bite us) and with Captain Coloccini fit and seemingly happy, we believe Krul is great value at 4.5mln.
Vito Mannone – this is one we need to keep a close eye on due to the summer acquisition of Costel Pantilimon from City. Both Sunderland keepers are priced at 4.5mln and once we have determined who is the no.1 they will come in to rotate perfectly with Krul, with our two keepers costing a total outlay of just 9mln.
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Defenders:
Filipe Luis – but what about rotation, we hear you cry? And you’d be absolutely correct to bring it up. However, we feel Chelsea’s opening fixtures are too good to ignore, they have the strongest defence in the league and Jose will be gunning for the Premier League title that he will feel his team threw away last season, despite him maintaining all year that Chelsea couldn’t win it. Can’t fool us Jose! New recruit Felipe Luis is, alongside Cesar Azpilicueta, the cheapest of the mainstream defenders and we feel that they wouldn’t have forked out €16mln to leave Luis on the bench on a regular basis.
Luke Shaw – United’s new left back has been deployed by LVG in the left wingback role in the 3-5-2 formation that United look like they are deploying this season. Therefore, as he will be given licence to join in the attacks we feel that he could benefit from a few assists, maybe the odd goal and could be a contender for bonus points, similar to Leighton Baines. Not only that, but with LVG breathing fire into the United dressing room, we estimate that they will be a more competitive force this season and clean sheets aplenty should be forthcoming.
Rio Ferdinand – cheap, experienced defender, who alongside Steven Caulker should make the Rangers defence more solid. Some attractive looking early fixtures make Rio a good option for us.
Adrian Mariappa – Palace left back and the only likely starter priced at 4.5mln. We need to keep track of Palace’s pre-season friendlies to ensure he retains his place but given the solidity they showed under Pulis at the latter end of last season we feel they are a good bet to continue that trend.
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Midfielders:
Juan Mata – now being played in his preferred and most effective no.10 position. Sat behind Rooney and RvP and with a sumptuous list of opening fixtures, we feel we may just see the Mata of old. If we don’t then he’ll be out of there quicker than you can say Yaya Toure!
Gylfi Sigurdsson – another with potential to be fantasy gold, but with the added bonus of costing just 6mln. A return to Swansea will see increased game time and two goals on his debut makes him difficult to ignore. He showed enough on the rare occasions Spurs did venture to utilise him to suggest he’s still the player that graced the Liberty a few short seasons ago.
Alexis Sanchez – everyone loves an out-of-position fantasy prospect and Sanchez is just that. Capable of playing up top, just off the striker or on the wing we feel he is hard to ignore, despite his 10.5mln price tag. Arsenal’s opening fixtures are mixed and they do face City, Spurs and Chelsea in the first seven matches but we feel, with the Gunners attacking talent, they are more than capable of scoring in all those matches. Whether they win them or not, we don’t care!
Cesc Fabregas – another world class midfielder down at the Bridge. Can be deployed just behind the striker or even deeper but has the ability to get involved in attacks, provide assists, score and it looks like he’s on set pieces as well. At 9mln we feel he’s good value and has the advantage of not being involved much at the World Cup.
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Strikers
Wayne Rooney – seemingly happy with life under LVG at Old Trafford, we consider Rooney a must for our team. Has been in good scoring form on United’s tour of the US and LVG has already stated he sees Wazza as a no.9 or 10. With RvP having spent pre-season on the beach, we expect Rooney to hit the ground running in the league and like Mata and Shaw, will benefit from no European competition this season.
Diego Costa – Jose has been courting Costa for some time and sees the Brazilian Spaniard as the cure to his striking problem. With just Fernando “Row Z” Torres and Chelsea Pensioner Drogba as competition, Costa is the no.1 striker by a long way. With a supply line of Hazard, Oscar, Willian, Schurrle and Fabregas behind him, expect Costa to be one of the stars of the league. Now fit again and with an injury plagued World Cup behind him, Costa scored 27 times in 35 games for Atletico Madrid last season and will be eyeing a similar return this term.
Blanks!
You will have noticed that we have left three spaces blank – one defender, one midfielder and one striker. This is where you, our community, come in. We have 14.5mln left in the bank to fill these spots and would appreciate your thoughts and ideas as to who should be added to the FF247 squad. Do we fill them according to what we have left as of now or do we sacrifice a big name elsewhere to provide more balance? These are the questions we will be asking ourselves over the coming days and weeks ahead of the season and hope you will help us decide as you continue to discuss your own teams on the boards too.
Bigger picture of me.
ah no, you figured it out
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I request the site introduce a report button for users abusing the new picture features. Or a ban Raz button would do the trick. 😉
Figured a ”baby” monkey would cheer you up. Shrugs, cartoon baby’s it is. :finger:
Charlie Brown is not a baby goddamit!
Good grief.
Keep telling yourself that. 😉
Even the FF247 Twitter page refers to Charlie Brown.
https://twitter.com/FantasyFooty247/status/493716807526916096
Two wrongs don’t make a right, bihom. 😉
@ bihom17
Just read the comic page. Like it.
Sort of reminds me of the old days, I used to read a lot of comic books. Maybe I should do that again. Unsure where to start though.
Planning on buying the Berserk manga but that shite is hella expensive… plus it’s more gore and for adults…
Here’s my lineup. Vlaar can come in for Wisdom and I could trade Hazard for Costa.
I must say, this is a brilliant site feature, awesome stuff!
Quite sad it took them so long to create a feature likes this.
:finger:
Anyway, don’t like 2 cheap strikers. Furthermore team is looking dope. Aaaah yes, Newcastle 2-0 down against Malaga, wonder how their defense will hold. Lol. 😛
I saw one Magpie on Twitter claiming they’d come 7th… anyways, cheers Raz, and yes I don’t like 2 cheap strikers either
but with so many options in midfield it lead me to this.
I’d love to have Costa and Rooney up top but the midfield suffers severely.
the obvious James – pretty weak forward line. If going with two, needs someone better than Jelavic in my opinion.Cant see Targett getting game time with Bertrand now signed
Targett is a place filler, Vlaar will be my 3rd defender, up until GW3 after which I plan to wildcard. So, would you take Costa in a 3-4-3 over Hazard? Bearing in mind Sanchez actually makes this an effective 3-4-3 in disguise…
we don’t know how Sanchez will settle but Costa is at home already with Chelsea so yes
That’s a fair point. If Hazard makes little impression during preseason I’ll swap Costa in. Will just need to find 0.5m to cut somewhere…
Where this new RMT how do you select it
Take a screenshot of your team and save it. Then you select the picture by clicking ‘Browse’ under the comment box.
Right how do I take a screenshot on my iPad
Press the home button and the power button at the same time.
Do you mean the pictures? If so its under the comment section/box thingy and it says “upload image” so you can now post pictures of your team instead of typing in out.
how do i’ve take a pic of my fpl team ?
Do you know how to take a screenshot? There should be a ‘prt sc’ button on your keyboard somewhere.
I know there is a print screen button. But where is this picture stored? FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On that note, not doing RMT’s this year. Lol, so forget it, not important. 😛
Well if you’re on Windows 8 if you hold the Windows key and press ‘prt sc’ then it will save it to a folder called ‘Screenshots’
Otherwise it should just act as if you’ve copied the picture. Then you’d have to paste it and save it yourself.
Oooh, found it. Tnx bro.
raz – download the snipping tool. Its free. highlight the area, and use save as wherever you want it
Yes this is a good new addition
Init, I sent you an e-mail.
No, I don’t want a dick enlargement. STOP SENDING ME MAILS TEKNO!
Here you go Raz. Best dick enlargement for you.
Naaah, won’t find it. This one might do a better job.