General Chat 2021/22

It gets even better, Brazil turned the abandoned game into a training session for the crowd there and their 3rd choice keeper scored a cracker of a goal against Ederson 😂

I'm not on a wildcard. On a -4 to make those two changes so Ings will have to sit for this weekend anyway.

I see Ronaldo is top 20 in ownership now at 17.5% - and he hasn't play a game yet.

yeah will be interesting to see what happens. Im only effected by Raphinha and can weather him missing one GW. But given theres another international break in October and then another in November this scenario could play out again for those breaks. The problem then is all south American players might go because they know if they dont its a 5 day ban. They'll still have to quarantine on return so will miss the next GW regardless if they go or not. That could be problematic and you'd have to factor into your thinking for transfers.

Any word on the Brazilian lads?

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In the transfers tab under 'List View'. It will show their current price, your selling price and your purchase price.

Looking at the goalkeeper expected goals prevented stat. It tries to measure on target shots from both where the shot was taken and the quality of the shot and compares this to how many goals a goalkeeper conceded.

It picked up on a couple of keepers getting dropped last year though they regained their positions not long after. More interesting than guaranteed.

The only keepers scoring very well in xg prevented so far are Lloris (+2.5) Mendy (+2.2) and Allison (+2.2). Mendy is particularly good here because he is making more saves than the other two and getting clean sheets too. One negative is he is seeing a lot of shots from inside his box. Any drop of form in him and could Chelsea be exposed? The only positive sub 5m keeper is Martin of Brentford (0.3).

At the bad end as they are conceding more than expected from the shots they've faced are..

Krul (-3.8)

Meslier (-2.5)

Pope (-2.4)

Bachmann (-2.1)

Woodman (-1.8)

I cant imagine Meslier or Pope being dropped. Woodman was always dodgy for keeping his spot. So be interesting to see if Krul or Bachmann come under any pressure if they don't improve.

Still a bit to go this weekend obviously, but there are very few in form midfield players really that you can rely on other than say Salah, Pogba/Greenwood

Everyone else has either gone off the boil or has just shown glimpses, like based on 4/5 GW's what midfield player under 7.5m are actually performing and returning and isn't a rotation issue - Grey perhaps? Norwich next at home is probably as good as it gets really.

Grealish/Torres are either rotating risk, or return big in 1 game and then nothing.

Jota has 3 blanks in a row and doesn't play 90 mins

Raphinha is playing with some sort of injury

Seems to be more and more players throwing up a big score and then AWOL in next few games.

Two GW's post WC, and safe to say that Dallas has not worked out given he's now playing RB for Leeds due to injuries - but i can't see anyone worthwhile bringing in for him Neves was also a bit punty, but expected more from Wolves, Nuno going and Jiminez not the player he was.

What are people's thoughts? If you have Jota, do you just keep him cause there is no else?

There isnt really a lot around in that price bracket that is performing consistently. Perhaps Gray, he blanked today but was lively and had a few chances and he plays Norwich next. Im holding Raphina for as long as possible and hoping this injury isnt serious, I think for 6.5m he offers terrific value in an attacking Leeds team where a lot of play goes through him. Sarr also cant be overlooked, again it seems with Watford that if anything good happens he will likely be involved.

For Jota owners theres a right dilemma, he missed an empty net today and also should have scored in the last game. A mate owns him and was raging with him today at another blank where he really should have returned. I think if you own him though its too kneejerky to get rid of him before he plays Brentford, provided of course there isnt news on Firmino coming back. But I can see why some people will sell him. Who to go to though, Greenwood looks great but Cavani & Rashford are going to need minutes and then Uniteds fixtures get tougher in two weeks anyway. I own Greenwood and have that problem with him but right now I havent a clue who I would replace him with. I have considered Grealish but really dont want to go there unless its unavoidable.

Yea so my field is Salah, Saka, Dallas, Neves and Gilmour

Happy to keep Salah, Saka and Gilmour.

Dallas is currently playing RB due to injuries so he's an issue, and i picked Neves cause he was cheap while everyone went for the 6.0 wolves options. I think i need to get rid of one of them - probably Dallas, but it's who do i go for. I have 2 FT so i could get Grey (as he's playing Norwich next) in and someone else like Gallagher maybe. hmm we'll see how tomorrow goes.

Was thinking earlier that the drop in traffic on the match day threads (and boards in general) seems quite evident now. This seasons GW5 thread has had 7.5k views/363 comments. The same gamweek last season had 21.9k views and ~200 more comments.

This seasons GW4 had 261 comments/6.1k views VS last seasons GW4 thread that had 874 comments/32.8k views.

I suppose its directly related to the site update and I suppose plenty use reddit more now as well as its more active. Kinda sad to see but what can ya do.

Would many of the old main contributors be on Reddit now?

Yeah Gallagher is really passing the eye test for me, on set pieces as well and could have a return or two yesterday too if Palace's finishing was better. Think he'll be my Jota replacement

That goes for all the whole site, it was damaged by the shut down and how bad the new version was, in fairness it is usable now again, still more improvement needed, if anything the fantasy football was one of the forums least affected as the game wasn't live when the issues were worst, I miss the forums followed for example, you have to follow each gameweek /captain /transfers now.