Grab, Avoid or Bore Off!
To help you decide or just confuse you a bit more, we have asked 3 of our writers to pass judgment on what players you would do well to pick up and what players are better left out of the fray. We hope this is a simple straightforward formula that can assist you in your decision making as we ride out this International Break. We avoided including players like Siggy, Sterling, Ramsey or Costa as there is really no point. There seems to be overwhelming consensus on these cats.
Grab – You need this player on your squad. On the Def/Keeper categories if they select Grab, they will give us a name or two from said team. For example…
Grab-De Gea
Avoid – It’s a trap don’t get suckered in.
Bore off – If you have him play him, if you don’t have him don’t bother getting him. Really not worth the extra effort.
Rate my team, I need changes, they’ve been misfiring :
De get/krul
Lovren / jagielka / ferdinand / bruce(hull) / duff (Burnley)
Hazard, silva, Ramsey, ward prowse, bentaleb.
Costa, Rooney, naismith.
2.5 in the bank.
Thanks a lot.
Abusee – Your defence could do with some work i think. How about Bruce out for someone like Janmaat?
JWP/Bentaleb out for Sigurdsson stands out too. Siggy is a bit of a ‘must have’ this season.
Thanks, I’ll move bruce out, and jwp, if the funds allow it. Thanks for the help,
I haven’t been on here in a long while.
Begovic – Krul
Moreno – Jones – Clyne – Taylor – Wisdom
Ramsey – Fabregas – Sterling – Sigurdsson – Clyne
Falcao – Costa – Welbeck
The 5th midfielder is King not Clyne!
TMW – Nice double Southampton coverage… Calvin will be proud of you 😉
Team looks sweet, mate. Bit brave going with a United defender now, although, Rojo and Blind should shore us up a bit.
NIN – Who’d you go for instead? Thoughts on Falcao?
TMW – Janmaat is an option. He’s been quite impressive so far, is fairly cheap and the Toon have some good fixtures. As for Falcao, i don’t think he’s a bad pick just now but i’ll need to see how he gets on in a weak, out of form team before splashing 11m on him.
NIN – you not think the fixtures are too good to leave out for Jones? Should I keep Falcao or raise funds for Di Maria / Aguero?
TMW – I’m about to head out for the day so just a quick reply. I’d rather wait and see how United look defensively, what with the new arrivals etc. I cant comfortably say that dropping Falcao is correct, because he’s such a good player. I’m going to see what happens vs QPR and if it looks like he’s in the first 11 from the off, and looking good, then i’ll be buying him straight away. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit to see him tear it up from the off though.
Right, i gotta go now. Chat to you all later. Happy tinkering.
Nin
That sounds good tactics to me, well I hope so because I am also following it !
Short term balo, long term probably falcao; first see how many minutes he plays…
Agreed.
Does anyone, anywhere on here think Mata is worth holding onto? I understand there’s doubts about his role, but if I get rid of him for his fixture at home to QPR and he starts, I’ll kick myself.
By the way, I love the article. May I suggest an MLS version? “Grabavoy, Bore Off”.
Morning Bryan. I would sell Mata, if you don’t have any other more pressing issues that is. At least we know the likes of Sterling/Stevie G etc will be first 11.
Evening NIN! I’m just worried that everyone is jumping on the media perception that he’ll be the fall guy. We all remember the recent Costa debacle, and would rather hear LvG’s thoughts directly, than base my transfer on pundits’ lineup predictions. However, you’re right, I’m toying with bringing Sterling in, and he has a great fixture anyway. Was just hoping to use my FT to ship out Riviere for Welbeck. I guess that could wait.
Anyways, congrats on your recent MLS performances, they’ve not gone unnoticed by me. Nothing short of amazing! Keep it up mate!
Yeah, the presser next week should reveal more about the situation. Personally, i think he, along with van Persie, are the most likely to suffer a loss of minutes (not that van Persie gets many these days anyway!).
Cheers mate. Things have been going my way recently, to say the least.
Morning Bryan. I agree with Nin and would sell, unless there is something that really does need attention. It would appear he will be the one to lose out with the new signings.
Anyway, you kept Costa last gw so you’d only have a taster of our pain last Saturday if he did play, score 2 goals…..and you’d sold him!
Exactly B-Bash! I wonder whether keeping Mata would be another ‘differential’, in terms of doing something in spite of public opinion. As you say, keeping Costa really worked out for me. Though… maybe I shouldn’t test my luck a second time, eh? haha
Its one of those risky ones isnt it? Personally though, looking at the form that Sterling is in, Liverpool’s fixtures, and compare that to the form United have shown so far, and now its all wait and see what LVG will do with Mata, its more of a risk not to buy Sterling.
Yeah. I guess when it comes down to it, there isn’t much difference between a starting Mata vs QPR and a starting Sterling vs Villa (though many may disagree with that!). However, because Sterling’s almost certain to start it’s less risky to get him. I’m gonna wait til the pressers and probably do that transfers unless LvG says Juan’s the man for him. Tricky, it’s like stick or twist.
Sell Mata mate quickly
Musungu, is that because you think his effectiveness will be reduced, or that his starting place is in jeopardy?
Firstly I think he is not playing well with the present MU structure ( eg last week he was terrible ) and now with the new signings I can see him not playing. In the short term he will not give you FPL value but I had him in my starting team so I do think he has class, I changed him for Sterling
That’s the change I’ll probably make this week Musungu. Mata > Sterling.
It kills me though, cos I rate Mata and think if he does start given Man U’s fixtures he’ll bring decent points. Damn you Di Maria!
I have Matta and will hold him and see if Walcott plays soon. Should be a good trade
Walcott’s back end of the month, looking to make his comeback vs Spurs
my team so far is
forster
taylor pieters lovren
ramsey fabregas sigurdsson sterling
aguero diego costa pelle
gilks wasliewski boyd
I’m liking my midfield just not convinced on any others. What do you guys think got 1m in the bank and used wildcard
You’re on your WC now? If so, and it was my team, I’d change my keeper combo to Krul/Elliot (though that’s strategy’s an acquired taste) and swap Pelle for Welbeck. Heck that would even give you more dosh to improve your defence/bench.
does courtois for forster, wasliewski for clyne and pelle for naismith any better giving me 4 decent defenders 4 midfields and 3 strikers. was thinking welbeck but cant scored and playing city, villa, spurs, chelsea aren’t easy fixtures to score.
Sorry, Dlynton, I took your wildcard had gone and you 1ft
I wouldn’t bring in an expensive keeper. They’re a graveyard for bonus points, and there’s better value in investing in defenders who can at least contribute offensively.
Naismith is a fashionable choice, but he he wouldn’t even be in my top 10 choices if I were fielding a front 3.
Dlynton
I would be looking to sort out Wassy first. Use the 1m to get a playing defender who you can rotate based on fixture. Colocinni, VanAanholt, Chester?
You are missing a defender as well
Hmmm, figured DDG, ROoney, Mata, Albrighton, Terry and co would’ve dropped by now already. Glad I kept my FT.
I think this international break has shown that, with the new price algorithms, a WC isn’t the money making tool it was last year.
Hi Bry, this is odd but I now read all your comments in a broad Yorkshire accent!
What’s tha on abaat? Does tha know nowt? 😉
If you think my accent is broad, I’d love you to meet a few of my mates from Bradford. You’d need an interpreter! It’s quite funny to see you say that, cos I actually think my accent’s comparatively noninflected compared to my White Rose comrades.
I knew it wouldn’t be the same money making tool. I figure I would lose a lot of teamvalue during the break, I will still lose some but not as much as I first figured. So that’s cool. I’ve had a decent first 3 weeks would be crazy if my SV would below 100 pounds. It’s at 100.2m now but will drop once Rooney,Mata,Albrighton,Terry,DDG go down. Sighs. Much harder to earn back that money and be on break even.
Rooney and Mata still haven’t gone down in the past week so I’m not worried about losing too much value. Maybe they’ll both go down 0.1 in the coming week, but I can handle that. Naismith’s the only player to have risen 0.2 so far. Glad that I’ve chosen this year not to care about squad value!
Being conservative is the way to go. 😉
My team by the way:
DDG – Gilks
Pieters – Chambers – Terry – Hutton – Dummet
Fabregas – Ramsey – Mata – Siggy – Albrighton
Pelle – Costa – Rooney
The obvious move is taking out Mata and I was going to do that because of decreasing value and the impossibility to get certain players if they did drop too much. However that changed, wonder if I should doing something about my defense first. It’s a waiting game. 😉
Mata > Sterling is the main move. Still is. But that defense… >.<
DUMMET WAS A REALLY BAD PUNT!