GW22 transfers

FHFC

km79 wrote: »

I think it's FAR from certain costa will start.
Chelsea scored 3 without him against Bournemouth and again last week
Hazard pedro Willian all played well
Who does Conte drop ?
I think he may make a point and not start him
It's Hull at home after all

Food for thought anyway

Agree with this. And if he does start how will this kerfuffle have affected his mentality and form. Could be good reaction, could be bad.

I'm more inclined to gamble on Pedro.

km79

FHFC wrote: »

Agree with this. And if he does start how will this kerfuffle have affected his mentality and form. Could be good reaction, could be bad.

I'm more inclined to gamble on Pedro.

I have pedro and I won't be taken a -4 to get costa in as it would have to be for Kane
Makes no sense to me
I'll go without for the rest of the season I think
Only had him for 2 weeks anyway
And of course he got suspended in one of them

Pete Moss

Hojberg has been stinking up my bench for months now. He's bench-fodder, but I would prefer someone, at that price range, who is more of a guaranteed starter and could possibly surprise me with a return every now and again

Do people think Davies (Everton) has cemented his place in the first team? He played well against City and Everton have scored well in the last two games with him in midfield. My biggest concern would be where Schneiderlin goes when he comes into the team and how Davies would fair for game time when Gueye comes back

I'm thinking De Roon is the safer option, but Davies looked much more attack-minded in the City game on Sunday and Everton's next 5 games look good

siblers

Was listening to Off The Ball last night, they were saying that it could end up that they will give Costa a new conract to the end of the season and then let him **** off to China, Conte wants him to stay so they can win the league. I think he'll be too important for them to stay on the bench but it depends on what happens with his contract. He may end up signing a new long term contract, I won't bring him back anytime soon though

km79

siblers wrote: »

Was listening to Off The Ball last night, they were saying that it could end up that they will give Costa a new conract to the end of the season and then let him **** off to China, Conte wants him to stay so they can win the league. I think he'll be too important for them to stay on the bench but it depends on what happens with his contract. He may end up signing a new long term contract, I won't bring him back anytime soon though

Too important for rest of season
But not for this weekend imo
More important that Conte shows him who is boss
Not that there is much doubt about that I'd say

siblers

Pete Moss wrote: »

Hojberg has been stinking up my bench for months now. He's bench-fodder, but I would prefer someone, at that price range, who is more of a guaranteed starter and could possibly surprise me with a return every now and again

Do people think Davies (Everton) has cemented his place in the first team? He played well against City and Everton have scored well in the last two games with him in midfield. My biggest concern would be where Schneiderlin goes when he comes into the team and how Davies would fair for game time when Gueye comes back

I'm thinking De Roon is the safer option, but Davies looked much more attack-minded in the City game on Sunday and Everton's next 5 games look good

It's hard to know A lot of times when these young players first come on the scene, they are explosive at the start but after a few weeks the pace of the league starts to catch up to them and they end up being dropped.

2nd Row Donkey

Near impossible to tell at the moment. He wasn't even making the bench for most of this season and at one stage carter_vickers (a lad who came up through the ranks) was named on bench ahead of him.

He did play against villa in the cup last week and in one of the CL games after spurs could no longer progress from the group.

Poch has the option of reverting to 2 x CBs (Alder and Dier) or playing Davies at the left side of 3 x CBs.

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2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Near impossible to tell at the moment. He wasn't even making the bench for most of this season and at one stage carter_vickers (a lad who came up through the ranks) was named on bench ahead of him.

He did play against villa in the cup last week and in one of the CL games after spurs could no longer progress from the group.

Poch has the option of reverting to 2 x CBs (Alder and Dier) or playing Davies at the left side of 3 x CBs.

That in reply to me?

2nd Row Donkey

Stephanie Happy Peep wrote:

Will wimmer start for spurs do we think lads? Could be a cheap way into their defense

Stephanie Happy Peep wrote:

That in reply to me?

Yes it was.

2nd Row Donkey

.. Actually on the Wimmer thing.

Poch has thing for playing a right footed player (Alder) on the right side of the CB pairing and a leftie (Vertonghen) on the other.

.... So when Alderweireld got injured a few weeks back, Dier (right footed) was drafted in to cover but when Vertonghen missed a chunk of games this time last year (coincidentally) Wimmer (a leftie) got a run of 7 or 8 games in the team alongside Alderweireld

.. That still doesn't rule out Ben Davies playing though.

[can't believe I have a working knowledge of the preferred foot of the spurs back line].

Lucas Hood

I think most football managers prefer having a left footed left sided CB.

2nd Row Donkey

Ake 4.3

Had to bring him in last week to free up cash for Ibra.

Hold or suggested replacements...

0.0 itb so budget in 4.3, already have Amat as a non playing sub.

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Lucas Hood wrote: »

I think most football managers prefer having a left footed left sided CB.

It becomes a lot more important when it comes to the left side of a back 3. I still think it is up for grabs between Wimmer and Davies from what I have read, the only thing it does is increase the likelihood that Rose will start every game at left wing back

Father Hernandez

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Ake 4.3

Had to bring him in last week to free up cash for Ibra.

Hold or suggested replacements...

0.0 itb so budget in 4.3, already have Amat as a non playing sub.

I brought Yoshida in at 4.2, seems nailed on at the moment to start with Fonte frozen out. Nice fixtures coming up too (LEI, swa, WHU, sun)

Holgate is the other choice at 4.1 I was looking at, if he is nailed on he's a great price for Everton defender who have a nice run of fixtures (cry, sto, BOU, mid, SUN) until Spurs 4th March, depends if you have Baines already though.

dahat

Barnes to Kane then Ali to a 5th mid .

This leaves me with:

Pedro Philips Sanchez Coutinho
Kane Lukaku IBRA

I can do the above for a -4 , this gives me 4 possible captain choices each week. I'm hesitant to shift Ali but that front 3 is pretty strong.

Opinions?

km79

dahat wrote: »

Barnes to Kane then Ali to a 5th mid .

This leaves me with:

Pedro Philips Sanchez Coutinho
Kane Lukaku IBRA

I can do the above for a -4 , this gives me 4 possible captain choices each week. I'm hesitant to shift Ali but that front 3 is pretty strong.

Opinions?

Yeah I like that but why the -4 ?
Just bank and do it next week

dahat

km79 wrote: »

Yeah I like that but why the -4 ?
Just bank and do it next week

Already used this weeks one. No problems with -4 each week, it's standard for me at this point.

Mr.Prodston

This time last year I'd have already signed up to the Ben Davies Society, he's such a wasted FPL asset stuck behind Rose.

2nd Row Donkey

Father Hernandez wrote:

I brought Yoshida in at 4.2, seems nailed on at the moment to start with Fonte frozen out. Nice fixtures coming up too (LEI, swa, WHU, sun)

Thanks. Im drawn to this one the most even though I already have VVD. I think he's more likely to get a run of games than Holegate.

dsmythy

siblers wrote: »

It's hard to know A lot of times when these young players first come on the scene, they are explosive at the start but after a few weeks the pace of the league starts to catch up to them and they end up being dropped.

I think it's more opposition managers see they're a danger and plan for them. It's then you find out how good they really are.

carnie

My preliminary musings for this week

A: Holebas to Baines/Coleman
B: Ali/Eriksen to Pedro (This is only for this GW either Ali/Eriksen will be straight back in on Saturday)

The whole Diego thing is annoying me at the moment. I'll probably just wait for the presser.

I have a feeling that City might be like a wounded animal this week and **** **** up for Spurs, but in saying that, you can't make a bad backline good.

Anyway, any thoughts? If you were to go with B who would you swap out?

clairewithani

carnie wrote: »

My preliminary musings for this week

A: Holebas to Baines/Coleman
B: Ali/Eriksen to Pedro (This is only for this GW either Ali/Eriksen will be straight back in on Saturday)

The whole Diego thing is annoying me at the moment. I'll probably just wait for the presser.

I have a feeling that City might be like a wounded animal this week and **** **** up for Spurs, but in saying that, you can't make a bad backline good.

Anyway, any thoughts? If you were to go with B who would you swap out?

Good point

domrush

Lads have Siggurdson and Origi in the team with 2 in the bank, how should I proceed with these two? Happy with the team otherwise.

patmac

domrush wrote: »

Lads have Siggurdson and Origi in the team with 2 in the bank, how should I proceed with these two? Happy with the team otherwise.

Origi could fill his boots at home to Swansea, Siggi to Pedro/Stanislav maybe.

pimpmyhat

Diego Costa
as is heart is obviously not at Chelsea,
Is this going to affect his performance? fans on his back etc
Or do ye still see him performing to a high level?

2nd Row Donkey

carnie wrote:

I have a feeling that City might be like a wounded animal this week and **** **** up for Spurs, but in saying that, you can't make a bad backline good.

Not convinced. Think there is something bigger going wrong at city. There'll be a reaction of course and they are at home but I can see them conceding a few.

manual_man

2nd Row Donkey wrote: »

Not convinced. Think there is something bigger going wrong at city. There'll be a reaction of course and they are at home but I can see them conceding a few.

yeah i can see them conceding a few too. City will get on the scoresheet themself too i'd bet (extremely rare that they don't score at home..)

edit: 5/1 for both teams to score and Spurs to win i'll have a piece of that :pac::pac:

siblers

domrush wrote: »

Lads have Siggurdson and Origi in the team with 2 in the bank, how should I proceed with these two? Happy with the team otherwise.

Who are your other midfielders? You may as well keep Origi, Defoe has a tough fixture away to WBA and Giroud not guaranteed to be fit.

domrush

siblers wrote: »

Who are your other midfielders? You may as well keep Origi, Defoe has a tough fixture away to WBA and Giroud not guaranteed to be fit.

Alli, Lallana, Stanislas, Capoue, Siggy
Costa, Ibra, Origi

siblers

carnie wrote: »

My preliminary musings for this week

A: Holebas to Baines/Coleman
B: Ali/Eriksen to Pedro (This is only for this GW either Ali/Eriksen will be straight back in on Saturday)

The whole Diego thing is annoying me at the moment. I'll probably just wait for the presser.

I have a feeling that City might be like a wounded animal this week and **** **** up for Spurs, but in saying that, you can't make a bad backline good.

Anyway, any thoughts? If you were to go with B who would you swap out?

City are so shambolic at the back that even if they do put in a good performance they will still be exposed at times throughout the match. Unless Pep changes his philosophy between last Sunday and this weekend, then Spurs should in theory score 2 or 3. They are defending like a team who are bottom of the table

dr.kenneth noisewater

domrush wrote:

Alli, Lallana, Stanislas, Capoue, Siggy Costa, Ibra, Origi

Could do with some Arsenal cover

ElTel

domrush wrote: »

Alli, Lallana, Stanislas, Capoue, Siggy
Costa, Ibra, Origi

You should wait as long as possible. A few are hoping to get an indication/hint of Liverpool's line up Friday night/Saturday morning as their the early KO.

Third striker spot has been a problem for me too. Tried Origi already...
Origi to Barnes and upgrade Capoue, giving Ziggy another week or Origi to Giroud/Lukaku and downgrade Ziggy

Shanotheslayer

I imagine Chelsea Press conference is tomorrow? Morning? Going to wait until then to do a Giroud to Costa. Even if he doesn't start I'd expect him to come off the bench and then prove a point to Conte by scoring.

dsmythy

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

I imagine Chelsea Press conference is tomorrow? Morning? Going to wait until then to do a Giroud to Costa. Even if he doesn't start I'd expect him to come off the bench and then prove a point to Conte by scoring.

The panic if he says of course Costa plays after his drops.

km79

Man City confirm new signing Gabriel Jesus is available to face Spurs this weekend https://t.co/oEHPycVfvE

Shanotheslayer

dsmythy wrote: »

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

I imagine Chelsea Press conference is tomorrow? Morning? Going to wait until then to do a Giroud to Costa. Even if he doesn't start I'd expect him to come off the bench and then prove a point to Conte by scoring.

The panic if he says of course Costa plays after his drops.

Aye. Would work out perfect for me the. Got the value and got Giroud in. So would be a straight swap back with MITB if it's the case. I imagine he'll say something along the lines of " Everybody is fit " or something or other.

FHFC

Giroud at home to Burnley.

Costa at home to Hull.

Is that really worth a transfer lads??

km79

FHFC wrote: »

Giroud at home to Burnley.

Costa at home to Hull.

Is that really worth a transfer lads??

Not that giroud is now fit no
Imagine if costa only plays 20/30 mins and desist score.......price drop that night for sure
He will be nearly there anyway

Iused2likebusts

With giroud now supposedly fit I'll either do Defoe to lukaku or Phillips to firmino.

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

With giroud now supposedly fit I'll either do Defoe to lukaku or Phillips to firmino.

Firmino still your preferred Pool mid? Leaning that way myself, although I think I might hold off on one till after the blank at this stage. Only about 2 'scary' fixtures in that period and a possible blank in 28.

patmac

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

With giroud now supposedly fit I'll either do Defoe to lukaku or Phillips to firmino.

Why would you do either? Philips at home to a woeful Sunderland defence or Defoe away to a WBA team without Nyom and not setting the world alight.

Iused2likebusts

patmac wrote: »

Why would you do either? Philips at home to a woeful Sunderland defence or Defoe away to a WBA team without Nyom and not setting the world alight.

I reckon firmino will fire again now that coutinho is back. I'm also going to the game so would really like some attacking coverage. My ideal transfer would be Defoe to sturridge as I'm set up for a 1 WK punt

Irish Raven

Thinking about transferring alli and giroud out for sanchez and crouch...

team would be as follows...

Heaton
Brunt, baines, alonso, mcauley
Sanchez, hazard, erickson, phillips
Zlatan, lorente

Allen, crouch, friend on bench

Any thoughts....

siblers

Get rid of Lorente, Swansea are muck

AnneFrank

i'll be getting the jesus from city, i just might wait a week to see where he plays

Irish Raven

siblers wrote:

Get rid of Lorente, Swansea are muck

They muck until chelski sign him! Which will be next week!

siblers

Irish Raven wrote: »

They muck until chelski sign him! Which will be next week!

Where he will most likely be on the bench

Iused2likebusts

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

I reckon firmino will fire again now that coutinho is back. I'm also going to the game so would really like some attacking coverage. My ideal transfer would be Defoe to sturridge as I'm set up for a 1 WK punt

No hint of line-up available ? I believe those twitter accounts aren't accurate and delete tweets when wrong.

So without knowing Sturridge will start it's a gamble. Not one I'd take even though I want to.

raiders11

Also have no Liverpool cover at moment, was hoping that team would be leaked before deadline too and would also be leaning towards Firmino...
Just hope I can get WiFi as I check in on an old FF star at the Barnabeau on Saturday..

pimpmyhat

Since I will be starting sanchez and giroud against burnley.
Can ye see the logic in playing tom heaton.
potential save points and in the extreme unlikely event arsenal don't score it wouldn't be a disaster.
As he would rack up a big score to compensate.
I suppose worst case scenario is Burnley would concede with neither giroud or sanchez involved.
Burnleys future fixtures look good so I'm not specifically getting him in for this gw.
Any opinions would be great? thanks