Rate My Team thread

average_runner

My team so far is:

Green
Skrtel, Ferdinand(rio) Gorkss
Kagawa, Sig, NZogbia Guthrie
Torres, Rooney, Aguero

Subs: McCartney, Allen, Clyne, Cerny
Wondering midfield too week?

roryc

Too much on defence?



I took out Nolan and Hart as they are doubtful to play the first match. Keeping an eye on McCartney who's also not 100%. My main error at the start of every season is having players in the team that are injured/don't play.

My gamble at the moment is Kacaniklic, he started in Fulham's match against Charlton and set up Duff for the goal. he was also central to a few other moves and almost scored himself, just unsure whether he'll start. He didn't get much gametime at all last season.

In saying that, Tevez and Kagawa aren't guaranteed starters either, but I'm pretty set on my GK and FW's. Have £2m in the bank for Rooney also.

Really hate week 1.

audman

What about Scholes guys? €5.5m. I wonder will he get enough game time? Took in a fair few points last season when u look at how late in the season he was introduced.

pzer

any suggestions on below.
think kagawa\hazard and vidic\kompany seem to be on lot teams.

basillarkin

will zabalata start or would one go with lescott

T-b0n3

basillarkin wrote: »

will zabalata start or would one go with lescott

With Richards out, most people feel Zab is a fairly safe bet. I have him myself at the moment.

RB100

done changes to my team last night and got Zaba for Lescott.

hupskip

Auero out, Tevez in?

NEDDURC

Reina, Mignolet,

A Cole, Harte, Hangeland, Clark, O'Brien,

Allen, Kagawa, Walters, Toure, Noble,

Rooney, Tevez, Torres

All comments welcome.

Alpish

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Hopefully this will be my last draft, I have £2m in the bank to get rooney for second gameweek.

How will you get Rooney with 3 united players already?

carlcon

Alpish wrote: »

How will you get Rooney with 3 united players already?

And that, right there, is how you save someone a lot of embarrassment and annoyance in GW2.

Alpish

Any opinions on this team?

carlcon

Alpish wrote: »

Any opinions on this team?

Very solid XI, but very weak bench. Jenkinson will cause you trouble after a week or three when Sagna is back, and Britton got zero goals, assists, and bonus points last season, so there's not much worth in him at all.

If you're looking for an ultra-cheap bench that plays, while keeping your XI, I'd find a 4m defender for Jenkinson, then upgrade Britton to Noble/Michu/Other 5m. (Edit: sorry, I see you already have Noble - Michu looks good to me)

Alternatively, keep your fingers crossed for the first week or two, then drop Cole for Jones, Rafael, or whatever <6m United defender has been playing, then use the saved cash to replace Britton.

Alternative #2: Downgrade Friedel since nobody knows how well Spurs will defend under AVB. Again, use cash to upgrade Britton and change Jenkinson.

Keep Clyne. When more people see him play in midfield, his price should rise and make you a nice profit.

Alpish

carlcon wrote: »

Very solid XI, but very weak bench. Jenkinson will cause you trouble after a week or three when Sagna is back, and Britton got zero goals, assists, and bonus points last season, so there's not much worth in him at all.

If you're looking for an ultra-cheap bench that plays, while keeping your XI, I'd find a 4m defender for Jenkinson, then upgrade Britton to Noble/Michu/Other 5m. (Edit: sorry, I see you already have Noble - Michu looks good to me)

Alternatively, keep your fingers crossed for the first week or two, then drop Cole for Jones, Rafael, or whatever <6m United defender has been playing, then use the saved cash to replace Britton.

Alternative #2: Downgrade Friedel since nobody knows how well Spurs will defend under AVB. Again, use cash to upgrade Britton and change Jenkinson.

Keep Clyne. When more people see him play in midfield, his price should rise and make you a nice profit.

I agree with Jenkinson, his just a short fix.
Was toying with the idea of getting De Gea but I think Lindegaard could feature, leaving my other cheap keeper playing against strong opposition possibly. Also agree with Britton he probably has to go, Michu does sound good or maybe Taarabt.

Mr Whirly

My plan is to drop Cole and Torres after week one, to bring in Rooney and a cheap defender. I also plan to bring in Naismith for the third game week who has been scoring goals in preseason.

Any suggestions?

tomissex

tomissex wrote: »

How does this look? Not sure about the back line...

Vorm - Ruddy
Fabio - Shorey - Kaboul - Shawcross - Lescott
Pienaar - Kagawa - Michu - Hazard - McClean
Graham - Bent - Torres

And I've 2m in the bank to swap Torres out for Rooney after GW1

Any comments?

OctavarIan

Allowed myself to be swayed by Tevez after Mancini's recent comments about him being very important. Settling on this team.



De Gea - Federici
Zabaleta - Clark - Hangeland - Fabio - Clyne
Pienaar - Kagawa - Bale - Yaya - Noble
Tevez - Torres - Graham

Leaves me with £3.0m in bank to bring in either Rooney for Torres or Aguero for Tevez at any point. Will be keeping an eye on Cazorla as well.

tomissex wrote: »

Any comments?

First thing that jumped out at me was Vorm. Personally I'd stay away from Swansea's defence, Laudrup likes his teams to play offensively and I don't think Vorm will pick up as many clean sheets as last season or even close.

basillarkin

I see Dempsey was not on the bench against Charlton in their last pre-season game, is he injured? He has been ever present on my team over the last 2 years. Do people believe that the arrival of Petric will mean that Dempsey will actually play in midfield? I would be interested to hear people opinion as Fulham imo have some nice fixtures starting off.

swoody

cheap defence


Green / Begovic
Demel / Gunter / Clyne / Tierney / Lowton
Cazorla / Toure / Kacaniklic / Hazard / Kagawa
Torres / Rooney / Tevez

SmallBalls

Late starter here, my first draft, any opinions?

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How Soon Is Now

Soooo here we go another year

This is what i have at the moment but more then likely will change it up before weekend.

Federici

Kompany Skrtel Fabio

Yaya Walters Kagawa Allen

Pogrebnyak Aguero Torres (c)

Subs : De Gea Simpson Puncheon Barnett

So any comments???

How Soon Is Now

SmallBalls wrote: »

Late starter here, my first draft, any opinions?

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Bit of overkill with two Chelsea midfielders and two City forwards.

First Explorer

Cerny Begovic
£4.0 £4.5


Fox Barnett Kolarov Cole A Shawcross
£4.5 £4.0 £6.0 £6.5 £5.0


Bale Cabaye Santi Cazorla Noble Etherington
£9.5 £7.0 £9.0 £5.0 £6.5


Aguero Torres Pogrebnyak
£11.5 £10.0 £5.0


Bank £2.0m

Any thoughts? not sure about Cabaye with Spurs and Chelsea his first two games and i keep getting drawn to Torres even though i got burnt by him last season, we all know on top form he is one of the best in the world but it's been a while since he's been anywhere near his best could this be his season? Sooner the weekend comes the better so I can't keep changing my team.

Copper_pipe

Alpish wrote: »

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Hopefully this will be my last draft, I have £2m in the bank to get rooney for second gameweek.

How will you get Rooney with 3 united players already?

Thanks never thought about that

davemckenna25

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Thanks never thought about that

I think Vidic is a very expensive option for utd's defence. Think Ferdinand is guaranteed to start and can then switch for jones/rafael depending on who starts regular after. Think it will Rafael at lb. Free up some money to give yourself a better 4th midfielder.

pzer

pzer wrote: »

any suggestions on below.
think kagawa\hazard and vidic\kompany seem to be on lot teams.

any suggestions on this?
Vidic in or out.........
Kagawa and Hazard too much of a risk so early........

alchemist33

SmallBalls wrote: »

Late starter here, my first draft, any opinions?

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A very expensive forward line, at the expense of midfield and goalkeeper. It's not a popular ploy -- it makes the team quite unbalanced. If you're going to go effectively with one keeper, he should probably be stronger. And having a dud City keeper means you can only have two other City players.

Ramires is a great player but a risky option. Ditto for Lampard. Maybe downgrade a striker and use the money to turn Ramires to a Spurs mid.

deisedude

First go, any suggestions?

holuc

Bit of tinkering done with my team in the last few hours. Just looking for some thoughts. Here it is.

Freidel Begovic

Lescott Koscienly Clyne Cuellar Rafael

Mata Allen Pienaar Michu Kagawa

Tevez Torres Petric

Jimmy Iovine

deisedude wrote: »

First go, any suggestions?

You're a mad bastard to go with Van Persie up there :P.

He's not worth it yet imo. Way too expensive and who knows how his head is at the moment with all the transfer speculation going on. I'd take him out and use the money on upgrading some of your bench players.

Oh and change Kompany as well. He's too expensive also.

Jimmy Iovine

Ignore the formation. Will change that later.

I've got 4.5 million in the bank. I had Hazard in there but I'm not too certain over him. At the moment I prefer the look of Kagawa and Bale.

I am a little concerned at only having two players with DGWs in my team. I don't fancy any of the other Reading players and the Chelsea midfield is too rich in depth for me to pick a guaranteed starter.

Opinions?

Jaaskelainen
Hangeland - Zabaleta - Coloccini
Walters - Bale - Kagawa - Noble
Tevez - Torres - The Pog

Subs:
De Gea - Pienaar - Shawcross - Clyne

eh i dunno

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Thoughts lads. Late getting into it this year

basillarkin

eh i dunno wrote: »

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Thoughts lads. Late getting into it this year

Nice team imo but i would downgrade Terry to Cole and Aguero to Tevez. I wouldn't also have 2 lads from the same team in the backs especially

SmallBalls

alchemist33 wrote: »

A very expensive forward line, at the expense of midfield and goalkeeper. It's not a popular ploy -- it makes the team quite unbalanced. If you're going to go effectively with one keeper, he should probably be stronger. And having a dud City keeper means you can only have two other City players.

Ramires is a great player but a risky option. Ditto for Lampard. Maybe downgrade a striker and use the money to turn Ramires to a Spurs mid.

Thanks for the reply, Davies isn't a City keeper but a Saints and rotates perfectly with Green for the season. I've done a little bit of thinkering with Rooney out for Torres, DGW is just too hard to ignore, and Ramires out for Bale. Maybe benching Bale till GW 2.

Draft 2:

deisedude

eh i dunno wrote: »

Thoughts lads. Late getting into it this year

Strong looking team but you are kinda screwed if one of your first team doesn't play

farranreeboy

Krul

Fabio Riise Santos

VDV Silva Bale Santi Carzola

Bent Agureo Pogrebnyak

i've gone for attacking defence santos or gibbs who's gonna be first choice? other options are ryan taylor rafael the rest of the team are nailed on first choice starters what to ye guys reckon with santi carzola? he'll be ahead of walcott and the ox also he's a free kick specialist http://youtu.be/Fx77iVjGMfc

SmallBalls

eh i dunno wrote: »

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Thoughts lads. Late getting into it this year

Don't think Jellyfish is worth 8.5....Danny Graham @ 6m better option imo,
invest the change elsewhere.

farranreeboy

Krul

Fabio Riise Santos

VDV Silva Bale Santi Carzola

Bent Agureo Pogrebnyak

i've gone for a attacking defence santos or gibbs who's gonna be first choice? other options are ryan taylor rafael the rest of the team are nailed on first choice starters what to ye guys reckon with santi carzola? he'll be ahead of walcott and the ox also he's a free kick specialist just ask iker casillas http://youtu.be/Fx77iVjGMfc

pah

Wondering whats the better option here?



or to get hazard in



Torres will probably go early on maybe cisse(nufc)

would you keep mclean, walters or pienaar from option 1??

EDIT

FUKK it, i'm gonna go all out batsh1t attack for the first fewweeks

Lemlin

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Ignore the formation. Will change that later.

I've got 4.5 million in the bank. I had Hazard in there but I'm not too certain over him. At the moment I prefer the look of Kagawa and Bale.

I am a little concerned at only having two players with DGWs in my team. I don't fancy any of the other Reading players and the Chelsea midfield is too rich in depth for me to pick a guaranteed starter.

Opinions?

Jaaskelainen
Hangeland - Zabaleta - Coloccini
Walters - Bale - Kagawa - Noble
Tevez - Torres - The Pog

Subs:
De Gea - Pienaar - Shawcross - Clyne

Very similar to my own team. You have 8 players that I have.
I think its solid. The only new signing you have gone with is Kagawa which is wise IMO. Proven players are best to go with until it is seen how new signings perform.

I'd be happy if I was going into the league with that team. Can't see anything I'd change. Every player you have is one I've considered at some stage myself, bar De Gea but that's because I go for budget 'keepers.

Jimmy Iovine

Lemlin wrote: »

Very similar to my own team. You have 8 players that I have.
I think its solid. The only new signing you have gone with is Kagawa which is wise IMO. Proven players are best to go with until it is seen how new signings perform.

I'd be happy if I was going into the league with that team. Can't see anything I'd change. Every player you have is one I've considered at some stage myself, bar De Gea but that's because I go for budget 'keepers.

Finally someone replied to my post. I was getting worried :pac:.

Yea I've noticed from looking through the thread that a lot of teams are becoming more and more similar. I'm sure that'll change after a couple of weeks.

The only reason I have De Gea in there is because I wanted some United defensive cover. The better option with regard to alternating home and away fixtures would be a Stoke keeper. Unfortunately I haven't a clue who that's going to be. Sorenson retired from international football this week so that throws another spanner in the works. The last thing I want is to find one of my keepers is a benchwarmer and Jaaskelainen is my starting keeper.

roryc

I'm a little confused about the Fulham defender situation also.

I have Hangeland (5m) at the moment, as he had a cracking season in 10/11 where he scored 6 and assisted 1. Then last season - no goals, no assists. Could someone more knowledgeable than me on the subject explain why?

I'm actually debating whether to upgrade Hangeland to Riise and downgrade Terry to Cole to get the extra 0.5m. Riise picked up 5 assists last season and is one of the top choices at 5.5m, but it depends on what the reason is for Hangeland's goal/assist count disappearing last season was.

hupskip

Well the majority of goals scored by Hangeland were from set pieces so maybe last season the delivery from corners wasn't as good or the fact that he didn't go up for any corners.

LostBoy101

This is my final draft and I will probarly change it again anyway :pac:



I would like some feedback to have some confidence in myself.

EDIT: Is Miyaichi worth getting? might swoop him for Cabaye.

SpaceCowb0y

LostBoy101 wrote: »

This is my final draft and I will probarly change it again anyway :pac:



I would like some feedback to have some confidence in myself.

EDIT: Is Miyaichi worth getting? might swoop him for Cabaye.

Mayaichi could be great value now he's at Wigan, but despite Cabaye having a lack of match fitness i'd still like to hold onto him though, I reckon if last season is anything to go by he could be great this season! Means i will probaly start Noble ahead of him for GW1 but with West Ham at home to Villa that migh not be a bad thing!

Will leave me with a Mid field of:

Pienaar---Cazorla---Hazard---Noble

Still in 2 minds about Hazard though! Might bottle it and bring in Bale for the first few weeks and see how he gets on first!

roryc

Nolan looks like he's injured lads, I've already taken him out.

Prob the best value 6m player if he does get fit by Sat though. Can't take too many risks in week 1...

Took Cabaye out too, may bring him back if hes gtd. a start.

Jimmy Iovine

roryc wrote: »

Noble looks like he's injured lads, I've already taken him out.

Prob the best value 6m player if he does get fit by Sat though. Can't take too many risks in week 1...

Took Cabaye out too, may bring him back if hes gtd. a start.

Any link to this injury news?

roryc

Few sources say he's out with an injured toe.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2176994/West-Ham-suffer-Kevin-Nolan-injury-blow.html (21st July)
http://www.footballaddicts.com/players/kevin-nolan/injury (August 3rd)
http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/fantasy-football-injuries/

hupskip

roryc wrote: »

Noble looks like he's injured lads, I've already taken him out.

Prob the best value 6m player if he does get fit by Sat though. Can't take too many risks in week 1...

Took Cabaye out too, may bring him back if hes gtd. a start.

I presume you meant Nolan here

Jimmy Iovine

Ah Nolan. I knew that. You wrote Noble down in your original post. Ya had me freaked for a few seconds there.