FPL Wildcard Thread 2019/20

Shedite27 · 23-09-2019 4:46pm

My fear with Norwich is that they're far better at home than away.

Home: 2 wins from 3 (NEW, MCI, CHE); 7 Goals & 4 Assists from Pukki/Cantwell
Away: 3 losses from 3 (LIV, WHU, BUR); 1 Goal & 0 Assists from Pukki/Cantwell

You can't bench them for anybody at home, but definitely don't want the double up away. Cantwell is cheap enough to bench anyway

crushproof · 23-09-2019 7:52pm

Ace2007 wrote: »

On Chelsea - with Kante back they may become more solid and at 4.5m with an eye for goal can’t go to far wrong

I'm tempted to get him in as well as they have a great run of fixtures but looking at his stats I wouldn't say he has an eye for goal. Sure he scored this season but before then he's only scored once! However at 4.5 I reckon he's solid

Cartman78 · 23-09-2019 10:01pm

Cartman78 wrote: »

Tick tock tick tock – look at the time….it’s nearly wildcard o’clock :eek::eek:

Floundering at the moment with this shower:

Heaton | Button

VVD | Zinchenko | Johnson | Lowton | Johnson (WHU)

Sterling | Salah | KDB | Dendoncker | Cantwell

Haller | Pukki | Abraham

Just spent a few mins there rage-tinkering and came up with this lot:

Ryan | Button

TAA | Lundstram | Diop | Lowton | Tomori

Cantwell | Mount | Mane | KDB | TBC

Firmino | Agueroooooo | Pukki

GK – really wish I went with Ryan from the start, Heaton was a last minute change

DEF – Digne & Zilchenko have to go; Liverpool not keeping clean sheets so adios VVD and hola TAA….the rest are low cost punts playing for relatively solid-ish teams.

MIDS – Salah to Mane for financial reasons mainly; Mount is a no-brainer; I hate owning Sterling…never had any joy with him now in 4 years playing FPL; Cantwell stays maybe but not happy with double Norwich attack – I think teams will figure them out pretty soon; TBC is still Dendoncker but have 1m to play with

FWD – Firmino…good form; Aguerrooo – nuff said; Pukki – see Cantwell comments above.

Any feedback welcome – haven’t actually pushed the big red wildy button but may do it tonight

Murof · 24-09-2019 1:08am

Going without Salah AND Sterling on a WC is risky business. Maddison is just too inconsistent for me. Also, Ryan has Chelsea away and Spurs at home in his next two. Pope is much better value, IMO.

Just my 2 cent.

ThunbergsAreGo · 24-09-2019 8:34am

Cartman78 wrote: »

Wildy activated...
Ryan | Button

TAA | Lundstram | Diop | Lowton | Tomori

Cantwell | Mount | Mane | KDB | Maddison

Abrahaaaaaaammm | Agueroooooo | Pukkkkkkiiiii

0.6m ITB.

Maddison and Mane flagged atm so will keep an eye on them.

Diop might become Fredericks or Cresswell also.

HEWT enough with that actually

Nice team, could you swap Pope & Montoya/Dunk for Ryan/Lowton?

Lowton contributes nothing going forward and more likely to get save/bonus with the other combination?

Only problem is you will need to not play one of those 8 every week - are you really not going to play Cantwell at home to Villa for example?

Cartman78 · 24-09-2019 8:43am

Cheers for the feedback lads - appreciate it.

I get the Sterling argument - the fact is, I hate owning him and having Aguero up front allows from flexibility if i need to jump to Kane (:eek:), Auba etc.

FWIW I think Mane will pretty much match Salah in FPL this year. Seen a good bit of Liverpool this season and Mane just seems to be getting slightly more space and freedom than Salah.

I'll look into the BRI/BUR blend at the back as well :pac:

steve_r · 24-09-2019 8:47am

I brought in Dunk - Montoya missed a game recently, not sure why

The real mccoy 91 · 24-09-2019 3:55pm

Feels far too kneejercky to be ditching sterling yet but I can build a nice looking team without..

Pope Norris

Lundstram tomori aurier guilbert soyuncu

Kdb dilva maddison salah cantwell

Vardy Abraham haller

Haven't pulled the trigger yet but I feel like I'm plugging holes atm

Pope Norris

Taa Johnson vvd amn guilbert

Sterling dilva salah jwp Ricky

Haller Wesley Gallagher

False Prophet · 25-09-2019 1:35pm

steve_r wrote: »

I brought in Dunk - Montoya missed a game recently, not sure why

He was injured

steve_r · 25-09-2019 4:48pm

False Prophet wrote: »

He was injured

Cheers - I saw Duffy go out and come back into the team but I knew that wasn't injury related but wasn't sure on Montoya

This is my current back 5. I've a spare 1.5m so was thinking of getting Pereria but I'm not sure if he's worth it if Soy is 4.5m.

I don't really like the look of Soy though, doesn't look great on the eye test, whereas Pereira is a really good player

Nerdlingr · 25-09-2019 5:12pm

Leicester arent keeping any clean sheets. They have one all season, first game of the season, and pereria got 3 bonus points in that game. So dont know what Soy really offers, could be better 4.6 players out there? (although i expect them to keep a cleanie this weekend. Newcastle were awful v Brighton)
They've a great run of fixtures coming up until December! so I expect Pereria to come good assist/goals/clean sheets wise (even though he is 6m)

Iused2likebusts · 25-09-2019 6:02pm

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Leicester arent keeping any clean sheets. They have one all season, first game of the season, and pereria got 3 bonus points in that game. So dont know what Soy really offers, could be better 4.6 players out there? (although i expect them to keep a cleanie this weekend. Newcastle were awful v Brighton)
They've a great run of fixtures coming up until December! so I expect Pereria to come good assist/goals/clean sheets wise (even though he is 6m)

They have conceded 5 goals all season the least amount in the league so far. They have the best defensive record yet havent been getting clean sheets. I reckon the clean sheets will come.

dsmythy · 25-09-2019 6:37pm

People are reading too much into clean sheets at the moment. 2 teams have 3 clean sheets. Anyone with 2 is joint 3rd best....

The likes of the Manchester clubs Everton and Leicester are among the best in things like conceding shots from inside the box and conceding big chances. Ruling out any club bar maybe the 3 or 4 worst conceders so far would be foolish. The rush to transfer from teams with 1 or 2 clean sheets is wasteful.

Nerdlingr · 25-09-2019 6:55pm

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Leicester arent keeping any clean sheets. They have one all season, first game of the season, and pereria got 3 bonus points in that game. So dont know what Soy really offers, could be better 4.6 players out there? (although i expect them to keep a cleanie this weekend. Newcastle were awful v Brighton)
They've a great run of fixtures coming up until December! so I expect Pereria to come good assist/goals/clean sheets wise (even though he is 6m)

They have conceded 5 goals all season the least amount in the league so far. They have the best defensive record yet havent been getting clean sheets. I reckon the clean sheets will come.

I reckon they will come too but who's more likely to return bigger points with the games they have coming up? Pereria or Soy? Especially if you've got 1.5m spare! That was the point I was trying to make.

Iused2likebusts · 25-09-2019 10:10pm

Nerdlingr wrote: »

I reckon they will come too but who's more likely to return bigger points with the games they have coming up? Pereria or Soy? Especially if you've got 1.5m spare! That was the point I was trying to make.

Sorry didn't realise that. I'd probably save the money and go with Soyuncu.

Cartman78 · 26-09-2019 1:46pm

The latest, trying in vain to get Son in somehow but it would mean sacrificing Aguero or TAA+Ottamendi.

Feels very templatey and safe

normanoffside · 26-09-2019 4:54pm

normanoffside wrote: »

Wildy Activated.

First Draft:

Pope (Button)

Rico, Robertson, Otamendi, Tomori, Lundstram

Salah, KDB, Mount, Cantwell, Dendoncker

Auba, Firmino, Pukki.

1m in the bank to upgrade a cheap defender or Dendoncker.

Any thoughts?

km79 wrote: »

Why no aguero is my first thought

normanoffside wrote: »

Auba to Aguero, right?

Just need to find 0.2m to do that, should be easy enough.

Still trying to find 0.2 to do PEA to Aguero.
Dendonkey is yet to drop and probably now won't

So I could:
Downgrade Pukki to Barnes
Downgrade Rico to a 4.0 and leave a 4.4m Fodder midfielder

or go a bit more radical and Downgrade Robertson to a 4.5m defender and use the funds to Upgrade Firmino to Aguero.

Anyone have any other thoughts?

Ace2007 · 26-09-2019 5:04pm

normanoffside wrote: »

Still trying to find 0.2 to do PEA to Aguero.
Dendonkey is yet to drop and probably now won't

So I could:
Downgrade Pukki to Barnes
Downgrade Rico to a 4.0 and leave a 4.4m Fodder midfielder

or go a bit more radical and Downgrade Robertson to a 4.5m defender and use the funds to Upgrade Firmino to Aguero.

Anyone have any other thoughts?

Pukki to Wood, will save you a bit more, and wood tends to go on runs.

ElTel · 26-09-2019 5:46pm

normanoffside wrote: »

Still trying to find 0.2 to do PEA to Aguero.
Dendonkey is yet to drop and probably now won't

So I could:
Downgrade Pukki to Barnes
Downgrade Rico to a 4.0 and leave a 4.4m Fodder midfielder

or go a bit more radical and Downgrade Robertson to a 4.5m defender and use the funds to Upgrade Firmino to Aguero.

Anyone have any other thoughts?

Elneny is now 4.3M.
I'd hold Rico if you got at 4M.

Cartman78 · 27-09-2019 10:57am

steve_r · 27-09-2019 11:47am

You talked me into McGinn! Rotates well with Cantwell. Couldn't afford Pereira after it though so went with Soyunco

Pope/ Button

TAA/Otamendi/Soyuncu/Tomori/Lundstram

Salah/KdeB/Mount/McGinn/Cantwell

Aguero/Abraham/Pukki

Relatively happy with that. I'm always more comfortable when I've bench options rather than just fodder.

Going without Sterling/Auba/Kane is a risk that might hurt me but I'm hoping I've picked a solid enough group.

I took a punt on KWP at the start of the season which didn't work - have a bad record of taking a flyer on players (balotelli - shudder) so playing it as safe as I can with this

Cartman78 · 27-09-2019 12:14pm

I didn't realise I was such an FPL influencer :pac:

McGinn looks like a good option tbh - also adds a bit of diversity to the front 8....some of my earlier drafts had double Norwich, Chelsea and City which I wasn't comfortable with.

normanoffside · 27-09-2019 4:15pm

normanoffside wrote: »

First Draft:

Pope (Button)

Rico, Robertson, Otamendi, Tomori, Lundstram

Salah, KDB, Mount, Cantwell, Dendoncker

Auba, Firmino, Pukki.

I Made a Few tweaks and I think I like it better:

Pope (Button)

Rico, Robertson, Otamendi, Tomori, Lundstram

Salah, KDB, Mount, Yarmolenko, Hayden

Aguero, Abraham, Pukki.

0.9m in the bank.
Too much Chelsea?

False Prophet · 27-09-2019 11:47pm

3 Chelsea makes sense on WC.
Good prices, good fixtures, decent form and price rises on the way.

False Prophet · 27-09-2019 11:53pm

Thinking

Option 1 auba and greenwood (greenwood mainly a sub, formation a 442 or 3 5 2)

Option 2
Or wilson and puki with .5 left over ( means Cantwell 5th mid in a 343)

Option 1 is the one I fancy but option 2 seems the safer choice....

thunderdog · 02-10-2019 10:40pm

I was originally planning on wildcarding after the international break but with KDB likely to be out at the weekend I might wildcard this week instead

From:
Pope Button
TAA Otamendi Lundstram Diop Dunk
Sterling Cantwell Salah KDB Dendoncker
Abraham Pukki Wilson

To:
Pope Button
TAA Otamendi Lundstram Rico Tomori
Sterling Cantwell Mount McGinn Mahrez
Wilson Vardy Aubameyang

1.2mil in the bank. 7 changes overall

The plan would be to get KDB back in when fit and Salah back in for GW13 onwards.

(Last season taking Salah out was a disaster, hoping this year will be better!)

Shanotheslayer · 03-10-2019 6:19pm

Wildcarding before a International week is a bad bad bad idea.

ElTel · 03-10-2019 6:53pm

thunderdog wrote: »

I was originally planning on wildcarding after the international break but with KDB likely to be out at the weekend I might wildcard this week instead

From:
Pope Button
TAA Otamendi Lundstram Diop Dunk
Sterling Cantwell Salah KDB Dendoncker
Abraham Pukki Wilson

To:
Pope Button
TAA Otamendi Lundstram Rico Tomori
Sterling Cantwell Mount McGinn Mahrez
Wilson Vardy Aubameyang

1.2mil in the bank. 7 changes overall

The plan would be to get KDB back in when fit and Salah back in for GW13 onwards.

(Last season taking Salah out was a disaster, hoping this year will be better!)

3 transfers (Auba Mahrez McGinn for Salah KDB and Pukki) perhaps and use the WC when you want Salah back.

KDB and Cantwell (rumours of a hammy) injuries have given
me pause on removing Salah this week with a plan for WC around GW13

Looks a decent WC squad but hopefully you wait until tomo.

thunderdog · 03-10-2019 10:19pm

ElTel wrote: »

3 transfers (Auba Mahrez McGinn for Salah KDB and Pukki) perhaps and use the WC when you want Salah back.

KDB and Cantwell (rumours of a hammy) injuries have given
me pause on removing Salah this week with a plan for WC around GW13

Looks a decent WC squad but hopefully you wait until tomo.

Cheers for the advice lads. I went for the WC before reading the comments. Hopefully it works out.

It was the fixtures and potential injuries that swung it for me

machiavellianme · 03-10-2019 11:46pm

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Wildcarding before a International week is a bad bad bad idea.

Just as bad an idea as wildcarding DURING an international break. The week after is where its at!

FPL Wildcard Thread 2019/20

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