Gameweek 4 Transfer Thread.

To get Torres, it would have to be Mount or Fernandes (Ronaldo will be on pens now) out. Or a -4 to convert the 5th midfielder. Then you are into pep roulette, ill wait until the transfer window shuts before deciding on a man city player i think

Also have Tsimikas problem too

Any word on what Ronaldo's price will be?

Thinking of using the free hit, and bringing in three from Spurs, United and Chelsea, all who I expect to win. Definitely want Ronaldo vs Newcastle, but may wait and see his price. City and Pool have harder away games on paper.

Playing around I came up with:

Raya (Steer)

Tanganga-Alonso-Shaw (Duffy,Williams)

Son-Alli-Pogba-Mount (Gray)

Toney-Ronaldo-Lukaku

For one week only, I'd be happy with that, injury permitting.

Just on this & chip strategy. We talk so much about using TC or BB on DGWs and FH on BGWs etc etc but I was having a look at the top ranked players in Ireland over the last couple of weeks and they seem to have played a couple chips but they have sound 'templatey' teams who have played their chips at the right time to me. TC on Salah GW1 and BB with a solid squad with Antonio & Benraham in GW2 etc. They don't look to be 'dead teams' who just TC the players from the club with easy fixture that week in a bid to get the highest score of the GW.

It's the guy in 3rd place in Ireland currently.

What I really meant is that he just has his team and played the chips at the right time. Instead of holding them off until later in the season when a DGW appeared and spent weeks preparing for it then. Just timed 2 of the chips really well. And he doesn't appear to have a 'dead team'.

Going to wildcard this week. Have had a decent start and want to build on that. I had my team setup for BB in GW2 so have a stronger bench that I want to downgrade

Sorry, 4th!

https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/2532295/event/3

And hasn't finished inside the top 1.5 million in any of his previous six seasons.

Of course it's possible to play a successful chip early in the season. TC on Fernandes or Salah in gameweek 1 this season would be a great return. But it was very much a gamble - plenty of seasons have started off with heavy favourites being held by weaker teams, or players coming back after a busy summer not fully match fit. Generally speaking, playing chips later in the season is objectively "safer". Splurging them in the first couple of weeks typically isn't the sign of a strong FPL player

I think more 12

Although they usually discount players who join the season late

I'll be getting Son but will annoyingly wait till after the international break

Did Jimmi and Wolves in general look like doing much today?

Their fixtures turn big time for the next few weeks....had pencilled in Jimmi for Toney

Wolves looked great - really should have been 2 or 3 up at half time tbh. If Traore in particular had any end product he'd be gold.

Just did Barnes to Greenwood. Least I don't have to worry about Greenwood on international duty

I had been planning to ship him out now too but I think even if he comes on with 20-25 min to go (which is a good chance with Ronaldo who will surely have his time managed a bit) he's a good chance of a goal imo. Keeping him for now.

Who's gonna play is the problem. For the front 4 positions you now have

CF - Ronaldo, Cavani, Martial

LW - Rashford, James

AMC - Bruno

RW - Greenwood, Sancho

Obviously lots of fluidity between Martial playing wide and Greenwood up top too. Pogba plays deeper now I guess. I'm not even counting Lingard and Mata.

James meant to be leaving to Leeds

Have 2 FTs and trying to move around value to get the 11.5 / 12.5 player upfront. I don't mind the odd -4 every so often so I'm not ruling it out. I WC'd during the International Break last season and my 'new' team did quite poor after it. In hindsight, I did it to catch price rises etc but it was a poor decision so won't be doing that again.

Currently looking at possibly doing;

Shaw -> Semedo

Mahrez-> Jota/Torres (depending on the Firmino injury news)

Ings -> Kane/Lukaku/Ronaldo. But I would only then have 10.5 and trying to find 1.0 somewhere is tough.

I would also prefer to dump Barnes & Toney. Barnes is an easy switch to Torres, albeit delaying the move will have cost me 0.2, but if Torres is returning I won't mind. But then I am playing Pep Roulette with 2 different attacking players which doubles the risk.

Maybe the better option is to not rush into any premium moves, and instead delay moving Ings -> Lukaku/Kane over time, along with Mahrez to a cheap enabler like Sissoko or even Gray. I really would prefer to have Lukaku vs Aston Villa though! But he then moves into the tricky fixtures after that. Ronaldo has 2 good fixtures and 2 tricky ones before a sustained period of tricky fixtures. Kane has one nice fixture, then 2 tough ones. I think I might try and hold out until GW7 for a premium and slowly move towards that with Lukaku.