GW18 transfer thread

yes i'm doing my best to wait to see if utd go's ahead v brighton, will probably sell sancho and rice(bench player) to foden and ESR i'm not sure yet

Firmino is back now in full training too. We should see tomorrow night how involved he is, so a bit of time anyways.

Don't forget that Jota is fairly nailed around the time of AFCON too.

Will probably hold onto Jota because AFCON is soon

Gundogan to Foden is something I'm looking at but need a makeweight for it to happen for a -4

Either downgrade Jota, Alonso, Rudiger, Ronaldo, Watkins to make it happen...

Might do Wilson to Lacazette, would give me a benching headache but I'm sure covid will take care of that anyway.

Southampton - Brentford also in doubt.

On the off chance that Man United Brighton is postponed, I'll have no keeper having brought in DDG for Steele last week and already owning Sanchez. Bad luck really.

Rather keep DDG as fixtures are quite nice.

Sanchez replacement?

Looking at Fabianski (5.0), good penalty save last night. Couple nice fixtures coming up - NOR, SOU, wat, pal, LEE the next 5 and will mainly be playing DDG anyway so more for this weekend. Only 4 CS's this season though.

Caballero maybe, grand and cheap at 4.5 and at home to Brentford the weekend, wouldn't be confident though.

Martinez is quite expensive at 5.5

If going Fabanski be mindful that WHs defence is depleted at the moment, Ogbonna, Creswell and Zouma are all flagged. I think Creswell is nearing return but Ogonna is long term and Zouma several weeks with a hamstring.

If you are willing to go to 5.1m for a second keeper then Ramsdale is now looking like this seasons Martinez, great shot stopper who picks up save points and has a excellent clean sheet rate so far, 8 from 14 games. I played Sanchez instead of him as I thought Sanchez had Covid (rumours were wrong in the end) and I was convinced WH would score v Arsenal. Wont be making that mistake again, from here on in I think Ramsdale is set and forget

Coufal suspended after last night too.

Good thinking alright. My thinking is I only need a keeper for this weekend as will play DDG in other games but sure who knows how many more games will be affected.

Martinez might be a shout so.

It's becoming a skinny gameweek. But where it could get skinnier at any time.

I wouldn't personally, everyone is in the same boat. Some in better shape than others.

You might play a FH and then players you selected in a game gets called off, completely out of our hands.

Will prob wait til Saturday morning to make picks, be a lot of -4's, -8's and more.

Might attack the Arsenal fixture now if it goes ahead. Livra and Wilson to Tierney and Laca is tempting. Laca might be a rotation risk in a few weeks but if I got the next 2 or 3 out of him I'd be happy, he looked really sharp last night.

Ya he had that cracking shot against the bar as well. Only thing is he's so injury prone. Tomiyasu would probably be a safer pick but not as much fun!

I currently have 9 players. In that 9 are VVD, Reguilon and Bilva who are all flagged

I'm more or less fcuked aren't I?

Also might bring in Saka as I only have eight potentially playing this week with the game cancellations. Looking at bringing in Martinez as well for a -4 to have a playing goal keeper and potentially a better first choice keeper longer term as Guaita has not been working out. Have the funds to go Gilmour to Saka but will wait until close to the deadline to see if there are more games called off.

Really like those moves. Yeah he was vice captain so it's likely he'll be given the armband until the end of the season. Auba is supposed to be back training this week though but remains to be seen if Arteta will put him back in the starting 11 any time soon.

A hit when you've less than 11 players is not a -4 and when that new player has a game. -2 at best and that's before he possibly returns.

The late deadline on Saturday makes it very easy to justify a hit or even two when you haven’t 11 starting, certainly for Arsenal and Villa players. If there’s no news by 1.30pm then those games are going ahead. So you’re reducing the -4 to -2 immediately.

Martinelli is the Arsenal mid I’d be looking at over Saka. Think Tierney is a great shout too.