BGW 32 - Transfer Thread

I used my free hit earlier in the season so had been planning for this game week so ensure I'd 11 players.

My starting XI for it right now is:

Raya,

Trippier, Henry, Gabriel, Castagne

Saka, Bowen, Salah

Kane, Watkins, Toney

I've 1 free transfer had org planned Toney to Solanke as expected Toney would get a booking and it's part of a longer term move to free up funds to bring Haaland back into my side for game week 34. The way things are now though I'm thinking of just rolling the transfer and then I can do 2 in game week 33.

Gone for Mitoma to Eze with my free transfer to bring me up to potentially having 10 for BGW 32 but will very likely take a -4 to get rid of Chilwell as well. Will wait on the move taking a hit as the few I have done so far this season have not gone well.

thinking Grealish/Mitoma out for Ramsey/Eze - going with the form players. That will get me 11 with a -4

Yeah you can check chip usage here: https://www.livefpl.net/chips Live FPL is one of the main sites I use. Based on that in the top 10k 28.43% have used free hit and 42.8% of teams overall.

Personally I'd expect 80% of managers with the chip still available to them to use it this game week 32 with the rest either saving it for game week 34 with all the doubles or inactive managers who won't use it before the end of the season.

If your playing it safe on FH, I would consider that going for in form players, and not taking too many punts. Saka's form is borderline punty at this stage. Given he missed the penalty and Jesus is back, will he still be on penalties? Jesus has 4 goals in 3 games. I can't see any good reason not to get him in on a FH.

Don't get the love for your defence, Arsenal are leaking goals as are liverpool and newcastle, Villa on the other hand are flying defensively and you don't have any of them? TAA/Robbo didn't even start the Chelsea game where they got a CS.

I haven't looked at the numbers, but i'm sure Toney could easily be Jesus, and even keep Saka if you really wanted to. I would bet that Jesus would outscore Kane FF points wise this week too.

Do you need to play the FH now? might there be another opportunity in the future - at some point Newcastle and Brighton will have a double as will City and Brighton, your unlikely to have 3 Brighton and 3 newcastle players atm- maybe 3 max. Unless you only have like 7 players then may need to weight up the benefit of actually playing it, as you say - if you don't have TAA/Salah, they are likely to be 0.2/0.3m more expensive by the time you can get them in

I have 5 Brighton & Newcastle players at the moment, with a very easy transfer to make it 6. It's actually in one of my DGW 34 plans!

I think it was 7 players I would have had for BGW 32, fitness permitting, before transfers. Not worth taking hits this week either when I have the FH.

My initial thought is to take out Jesus, he doesn't return enough in FF for me. Get someone in with a dgw coming up.

Very unusual to see a team without Haaland. Best of luck on his dgw!

Jesus has 4 goals in last 3 games????

Not sure about Kane, Tripper or white. Newcastle and arsenal both leaking goals, so are you relying on them for their attacking threat?

likes if Jota be worth punt on FH team. Kane likely only to score one if that whereas pool could score well being at home.

would probably be starting Ramsey over Olise,

Hopefully you didn't take this advice 😕

Jesus scoring great and only back, and I bet he outscores halland, de bruyne, mitoma, rashford, combined this week,

FH active and plenty of messing done already. Pure standard looking FH 32 team still. Midfield will change as want to get a 2nd Liverpool attacker.

As of now with 0.9 ITB:

Johnston

Trippier (can't go against him as everyone on non FH will own him and EO killer), TAA, Robbo

Salah, Saka, Martinelli, Bowen, Maddison

Watkins, Jesus

Inversen, Mings, Guehi, Greenwood.

Robbo, Saka and Bowen will change more than likely. A villa defender in Mings will fill one spot maybe. Saka could be a Liverpool attacker. Just knocked in players at the time to catch a few price rises early in week.

Maddisson passed the eye test last weekend v City and was dangerous. Surely he can click this weekend..... Bowen is pure punty and just a hunch of mine. Could all change. Love Gakpo/Jota beside them then over Saka. A bit differential then.

Selecting the right Palace player who will go off is a flip of a coin, and so difficult last few weeks.

As of now, I'm with Gakpo. As it's Gakpo v Bobby where they play but Jota is up against Nunez down the flank. Jota has started every game also in last number of weeks since the international break in March, while Gakpo hasn't and was rotated v Chelsea. Gakpo also can get more potential points as a MF. You can spin the narrative whatever you want if it favours your pick! It's all if's and but's. I'm 90% sure I'm gonna take the punt on Gakpo as my 3rd option.

*I see Gakpo may rise tonight and Saka drop so I'll do the transfer now on FH to save the potential funds. And might get Saka back in then for 0.1 less if decide.

I kinda read it as he'll have saka in FH team, but at a cheaper price as he'll have sold him and then bought him back cheaper.

Sorry, FH is active since the weekend. I'm chopping and changing so will have more ITB on my FH team if the above rise and drop happens.

I was half looking at Martinez in goals, he could pull in these random out of nowhere scores (2 x 10pt's, 11 & 9 pointer this season) And on FH you like a punt.

Nice picks but I'm more for an Arsenal attacker over a defender. And a Villa defender also something to think about. You could gain serious ground with Son, Castagne & Jota if they hit.

If we knew that Nunez was starting, would people on FH pick him (over Gakpo/Jota/Robbo)?

I have no stats to back this up, but Nunez and TAA seem to play quite well when they play together, bit like Grealish and Haaland, it's just a pity that Nunez doesn't seem to start the last few weeks.