GW8 Captain

Ziegler1988

Can't look past Aguero despite his form. Payet VC although it would be KDB if I didn't have the rule of not C/VC players from same match

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

Aguero without a doubt. This really should he the most one sided vote of the season so far. VC super kol probably.

manual_man

De Bruyne (NEW)

Kun. This is the week where (relative) normality is restored :pac:

GLaDOS

Thinking Vardy or Mahrez

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Thinking Vardy or Mahrez

This is the captains thread! Agueros points expectancy is about the same as the two of them combined this week!

Colking

I'm tempted (yet again) by Aguerro. Mostly in the hope that other fools have gotten rid of him and I will be vindicated by not only keeping him but captaining him at the correct time.

Realistically though this might be a pipedream.

The more realistic (in terms of current form) options are for me personally, to Captain one of Payet, De Bruyne or Mahrez.

If Silva is back mid week and looking sharp it might tip my hand in favour of Aguerro, otherwise I think I'll cpt someone else.

I have a feeling that Newcastle will put in a decent shift against City and this could limit the returns. On the plus side if Pellegrino knows his business (and I reckon he does) he'll be reviewing the gaps that Mbabu (who I hope will become a very good player for Newcastle) was leaving at left back that Pedro didn't exploit but De Bruyne et al might.

spock.

De Bruyne (NEW)

Aguero(c)
Francis(vc) sure why not.

manual_man

De Bruyne (NEW)

spock. wrote: »

Aguero(c)
Francis(vc) sure why not.

How will you feel if Aguero gets injured in the warm-up

iroced

De Bruyne (NEW)

jimmii wrote: »

This is the captains thread! Agueros (& KDB) points expectancy is about the same as the two of them combined this week!

The biggest problem here for me is that you'd be giving £13m and a major captain spot to a City player who's form is utter crap and whose expectancies are inversely proportional to his points returns. And oh dear oh dear his expectancies are huuuuuuge !!!!!!

:P.

GLaDOS

jimmii wrote: »

This is the captains thread! Agueros points expectancy is about the same as the two of them combined this week!

Aguero's points expectancy and Aguero's points delivery have been at extreme odds this season :pac:

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Aguero's points expectancy and Aguero's points delivery have been at extreme odds this season :pac:

Thats irrelevant though.

manual_man

De Bruyne (NEW)

iroced wrote: »

The biggest problem here for me is that you'd be giving £13m and a major captain spot to a City player who's form is utter crap and whose expectancies are inversely proportional to his points returns. And oh dear oh dear his expectancies are huuuuuuge !!!!!!

:P.

I agree, and yet I don't :P . Aguero's form is poor, for sure, but he's too much of a class act for that to continue. As long as he comes through the CL game unscathed - a highly competitive game, should improve his sharpness - I feel he'll be in a good position to finally get back to doing what he does best in the PL - score goals. Silva is definitely an important factor in this though - I'd say one would be hard pushed to find a midfielder that has assisted a striker more times in the PL than Silva has done for Aguero! City typically stronger at home too, against weak opposition, so definitely Aguero for me this gw

GLaDOS

jimmii wrote: »

Thats irrelevant though.

You don't think form is relevant?

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

iroced wrote: »

The biggest problem here for me is that you'd be giving £13m and a major captain spot to a City player who's form is utter crap and whose expectancies are inversely proportional to his points returns. And oh dear oh dear his expectancies are huuuuuuge !!!!!!

:P.

You may as well spend it somewhere sure!

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

ScienceNerd wrote: »

You don't think form is relevant?

As long as his expectancy is high that is all that matters. As long as we don't think this is now Aguero norm and we expect him to do what he has always done historically he is by far the one to go with.

GLaDOS

jimmii wrote: »

As long as his expectancy is high that is all that matters. As long as we don't think this is now Aguero norm and we expect him to do what he has always done historically he is by far the one to go with.

Fair enough, I think Agueros shít form lowers his expectancy. I reckon Mahrez and Vardy have a damn good expectancy considering their form, Leicester's attacking play and Norwich's poor defence.

Have you captained Aguero every week?

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Fair enough, I think Agueros shít form lowers his expectancy. I reckon Mahrez and Vardy have a damn good expectancy considering their form, Leicester's attacking play and Norwich's poor defence.

Have you captained Aguero every week?

Him or Sanchez other than GWs 1 and 2. Until Saturday it hadn't been much fun!

iroced

De Bruyne (NEW)

manual_man wrote: »

I agree, and yet I don't :P . Aguero's form is poor, for sure, but he's too much of a class act for that to continue. As long as he comes through the CL game unscathed - a highly competitive game, should improve his sharpness - I feel he'll be in a good position to finally get back to doing what he does best in the PL - score goals. Silva is definitely an important factor in this though - I'd say one would be hard pushed to find a midfielder that has assisted a striker more times in the PL than Silva has done for Aguero! City typically stronger at home too, against weak opposition, so definitely Aguero for me this gw

jimmii wrote: »

You may as well spend it somewhere sure!

Did you check my linked post ?

It was a response to Busts about how risky & problematic I thought it could be last week to back both Sanchez & Walcott considering the money they're using (Busts was debating Walcott in) and their late returns.

Now, seeing how greatly I jinxed myself with that post, why not applying this to my good self (not that I don't want to help Busts or any other FSAer) :pac:...

KizzyMonster

Hazard (SOU)

Played my wildcard and took Aguero out. Too expensive to have on team when not in form. Will return to captaining Mahrez..

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

iroced wrote: »

Did you check my linked post ?

It was a response to Busts about how risky & problematic I thought it could be last week to back both Sanchez & Walcott considering the money they're using (Busts was debating Walcott in) and their late returns.

Now, seeing how greatly I jinxed myself with that post, why not applying this to my good self (not that I don't want to help Busts or any other FSAer) :pac:...

I did but I actually had no idea about what it was meant to mean lol! Going with two heavy weights from one side is definitely problematic as the value in the 9m+ player is really tied to them being captainable and with two you obviously aren't going to be captaining one at all.

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

KizzyMonster wrote: »

Played my wildcard and took Aguero out. Too expensive to have on team when not in form. Will return to captaining Mahrez..

Or you could think that Agueros 20 shots in the box vs Mahrezs 13 from just under 100 minutes less played mean Aguero is totally due!

Paully D

De Bruyne (NEW)

Aguero.

De Bruyne vice.

NotCominBack

Martial (ars)

Sanchez will be permacaptain from here on in

SlickRic

if there is any justice in the world, Aguero will smite all the doubters with the full extent of his powers.

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

SlickRic wrote: »

if there is any justice in the world, Aguero will smite all the doubters with the full extent of his powers.

A record single week score would be pretty fun!

FutureGuy

I 100% do not want to captain Aguero this week.

I 100% have to captain Aguero this week.

breffni bogballer

Payet (sun)

Think i"ll take a 2 week gamble and go for kun,and if he fails i"ll call him kun*

Scorpion Sting

De Bruyne (NEW)

It has to be Aguero who gets the armband. He's too good of a player to continue blanking and against a ropey Newcastle defence I fancy his chances to at least get 1 if not more.

pmasterson95

Sanchez (MUN)

jimmii wrote: »

This is the captains thread! Agueros points expectancy is about the same as the two of them combined this week!

Has this not been said every GW?

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

pmasterson95 wrote: »

Has this not been said every GW?

Don't recall seeing it before. Anyone who may have said it in GW 1 was obviously crazy.

Nib

Payet (sun)

Aguero can feck off. I definitely won't be captaining him this week. I don't care if he's playing Shitehawks United, not a hope.

Will probably go with De Bruyne or Sanchez, undecided.

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

Nib wrote: »

Aguero can feck off. I definitely won't be captaining him this week. I don't care if he's playing Shitehawks United, not a hope.

Will probably go with De Bruyne or Sanchez, undecided.

So you're saying you're a fan :pac:

Iused2likebusts

Aguero no hesitation.

iamanengine

De Bruyne (NEW)

Giving it to Aguero and have done since GW3. I don't know how much longer I can keep the faith!

ShaneU

Payet (sun)

De Bruyne, and I have Aguero.

Rikand

De Bruyne (NEW)

Aguero.

But if he doesn't deliver this week he's out the door

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Sanchez (MUN)

Do man city have champions league this week?

Iused2likebusts

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Do man city have champions league this week?

Ye away in Germany wed night. I don't think they will hammer Newcastle. More a case of get the 3 pts get to the international break and hope to get some of their injured players back.

Ziegler1988

De Bruyne (NEW)

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Do man city have champions league this week?

Monchengladbach away tomorrow

Benimar

Aguero, but the way this season is going maybe I should throw it on Russell Martin

Father Hernandez

De Bruyne (NEW)

Aguero to bag 7 or 8 to make it up to all of us who has been let down by him so far, heard it here first...

I can feel it.

FHFC

De Bruyne (NEW)

Lads. There are two possible explanations of the whole Aguero situation. I.e. have half as many points as Jamie Vardy and fuppin Lukaku.

1) Jose Lex Luthor Mourinho discovered a sky blue version of kryptonite and had it sewn in to Agüeros jock strap. His powers have faded overnight. He's finished.

2) This is a statistically improbable variance from expected returns. No other variables have changed. The quality of his teammates hasn't drastically reduced. Increased if anything. They haven't changed manager or tactics. He hasn't stopped having very decent underlying stats. (Granted they are down a bit the last couple but overall very good). In the past he has scored well with and without Silva.

I might even do some graphs later!

My biggest worry over the captaincy is Newcastles tendency to dig out a good performance against the 'top' sides while being disinterested and comically rubbish against everyone else.

Can't see me not captaining Aguero though. If he scores a couple tomorrow night the hysteria might die down a little.

Ziegler1988

De Bruyne (NEW)

FHFC wrote: »

My biggest worry over the captaincy is Newcastles tendency to dig out a good performance against the 'top' sides while being disinterested and comically rubbish against everyone else.

Can't see me not captaining Aguero though. If he scores a couple tomorrow night the hysteria might die down a little.

Last four times Newcastle have visited Etihad in league:

Man City 5-0
Man City 4-0
Man City 4-0
Man City 3-1

TheDazzler

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Last four times Newcastle have visited Etihad in league:

Man City 5-0
Man City 4-0
Man City 4-0
Man City 3-1

Conclusion? They're improving

Aguero for me.

Ziegler1988

De Bruyne (NEW)

TheDazzler wrote: »

Conclusion? They're improving

Aguero for me.

Actually getting worse . Last season Aguero and Silva were unplayable in this fixture and then both hauled off before 60 mins

jimmii

De Bruyne (NEW)

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Last four times Newcastle have visited Etihad in league:

Man City 5-0
Man City 4-0
Man City 4-0
Man City 3-1

So we're looking at a 2-2 then hmm

FHFC

De Bruyne (NEW)

Colback could be out for Newcastle this weekend. That would be a major loss for them. One of the few players with a bit of heart and battle.

skippy15

This could be the week captain aguero makes up a lot of ground on casual type players, up to sanchez last week the big hitters have proved rusty at best.

So by next week I should have Sanchez Aguero and Hazard in by next week-so come on big hitters earn your ff price tags!

FHFC

De Bruyne (NEW)

FHFC wrote: »

Lads. There are two possible explanations of the whole Aguero situation. I.e. have half as many points as Jamie Vardy and fuppin Lukaku.

1) Jose Lex Luthor Mourinho discovered a sky blue version of kryptonite and had it sewn in to Agüeros jock strap. His powers have faded overnight. He's finished.

2) This is a statistically improbable variance from expected returns. No other variables have changed. The quality of his teammates hasn't drastically reduced. Increased if anything. They haven't changed manager or tactics. He hasn't stopped having very decent underlying stats. (Granted they are down a bit the last couple but overall very good). In the past he has scored well with and without Silva.

I might even do some graphs later!

My biggest worry over the captaincy is Newcastles tendency to dig out a good performance against the 'top' sides while being disinterested and comically rubbish against everyone else.

Can't see me not captaining Aguero though. If he scores a couple tomorrow night the hysteria might die down a little.

I went for a table instead! See general thread to avoid further turning this into the Aguero discussion thread.

Lemlin

De Bruyne (NEW)

Aguero.

Last week I went with Martial for a change and he delivered fook all too. The 90 minutes of watching Kun was pure torture though.

He is too good for this form to continue.

Necronomicon

Back to Aguero this week for me. Newcastle are probably the only team that would make me choose fixture over form - would be agony to watch him play against them not having him captain.