Site Team Gameweek 1
Hello and welcome to Site Team Gameweek 1. Seeing as FPL opened about 4 months ago, you would think we would have spent hours formulating our plans for the team, endlessly researching the stats and pre-season appearances of the players and balancing our budget to accommodate the must haves and the dark horses.
No. We all forgot about it until the Taskmaster that is Mito, clipped us round the ear and made us do stuff. Well, even then it was just to say if we liked ‘his’ team that he had created for us.
( …and even still we have our suspicions that The Legend played Twitter roulette and copied the first template he found).
But guess what? We all, in the main, loved the draft. A little tweak here and there to justify our enormous salaries but by and large we felt great and FPL could start in five minutes time if it liked.
Then Watkins came off injured.
Then Robertson did his ankle.
Then Toney had a knock.
Then Watkins was OK again.
And going to be playing in the middle!
It’s great to be back!
The Squad
OK so we know what you’re thinking and yes, we have taken the plunge on Tsimikas. His three assists and nice fixtures have us on the end of the line. We double him up with Trent and the obvious Mohamed Salah pick rounds off our maximum Liverpool exposure. Curiously Jota wasn’t given any thought so we must all be happy without him.
We don’t want to be faffing about with goalkeeper transfers at any stage (except maybe the wildcard(s)) so we’ll spend just £8.5mln and go all in on Watford with Bachmann and Foster offering an assured goalkeeper each week (don’t mention the ‘C’ word).
Joining the Liverpool lads in defence then are Luke Shaw, Luke Ayling and Ben White – who really should have been called Luke by his parents. We will likely use 3 defenders most weeks at the start and those will likely be our Liverpool two and Shaw but incase we don’t and/or we need a sub we are nicely covered.
Bruno is in and it shouldn’t take that much explaining and we have Raphinha and Harvey Barnes rounding off the spots in there. We usually always like the look of Leeds’ and Leicester’s attack and these two seem quite assured there and each for a favourable price as well. Burnley’s Josh Brownhill is the back up.
Our attackers are Danny Ings Ollie Watkins, Michail Antonio and Ivan Toney in what will now be known as the *drumroll*
‘AN-TONEY-KINS’
… we’ll work on that and come back to you …
There you have it. We have no plans to play early chips or wildcards and will see where the game takes us this season.
Captain
I don’t think this one needs any explaining, nor does the vice.
The Site Team
The Site Team of 2021/22 is made up of:
Inittowinit
Kop Warrior
Mito
Floydeth
Gallant Pioneer
Rosco
TheSwirly
Summary
We are all hoping for a more normal season than last when it seemed that the virus was strangling not only FPL but football itself and the return of supporters and normal match schedules are hopefully also back for good.
Good luck to absolutely everyone from us all at FF247 Site Team.
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Decided to go 3-5-2 for the starter. The 4-4-2 is very tempting with the 4M playing defenders, but that forces way too many transfers by GW4 and one injury can really hurt me. Bit of a punt this one, but I have plenty of options to switch mids around in 2 transfers. Ideas?
That looks good and yeah if you also went with Tsimikas you would have a problem with him Amartey in a couple of weeks and I hate nothing more than having to use transfers on cheap defenders just to be sure of having a starting XI. That is the only thing that bothers me about not having a 3 front as I also favour the two formations you mentioned, just hate that my third forward is not someone who will start even if it is just to get me 2 points on occassion.
Was my thinking as well. Also it’s a bit of a shield really. If I think which differentials under 8M can score a brace, Greenwood and Jota are definitely up there. And I don’t wanna be chasing from the start.
The only thing I miss is a cover for the Villa defense, since Martinez is highly owned, but I am not convinced in their form anyway, plus they go in a horrible run after GW3.
Amartey is just a filler. He will sit on the bench in case Greenwood or Jota miss out in GW2 (if they don’t replace him till then). Then one of them will likely be downgraded to Raphina and I can use the extra 1M elswhere.
I don’t disagree with any of that.
Finishing up looking at the pressers and will go and try and finalize my team now.
Who else is having issues with which mancity player to sign?
Everyone. Leave room for kdb seems to be a popular opinion….
But mahrez could be worth having even if he sits on the bench every now and then.
Help please?
This is the plan ideally until the break.
By then will assess Ings and Greenwood and see what happens.
Open to ideas and thoughts
Two 4,5 midfielders could be a problem in the future if you want to bring in someone who seems to be in form… otherwise it looks good…
They more like place holders. Will probably sell Ings if it’s not working out and a mid and go to a 442
Not a huge fan of Greenwood in terms of fantasy. With rashford out might be worth the punt. Maddison and Barnes at 7m give you .5 to boost one of your bench players
With Rashford and Cavani away I think Greenwood could get a lot of chances
Tell you what, this is all getting pretty dull, nearly everyone has 7 or 8 players exactly the same
Anyone starting with out salah is MAD. Imo, then 3 or 4 after that have class fixtures
Common misnomer. Only the people you have seen have similar players.
Unless you have checked all 6 million players?
Yep. Grealsh, Son and Mount are owned by over 20% and I have barely seen a team with them in it, just the occasional one. Kane is owned by 17% and I have not seen a team yet with him.
Ye probably a fair comment but you get my point
I do.
I’ve Read as many comments as I can to find anything, thought maybe quicker just to ask though, any changes to site team or locked?
I don’t think it is locked. Watkins could go, we just haven’t had that conversation yet. Guessing Ings, DCL or Wilson are the likely replacement if we do decide to sell.
Go hav a chin wag then… chop chop
Rafa says DCL is available