GW12 Transfer Thread

Brought in Watkins last week and he blanks against Luton and Forrest. Bring Nunez back in today and the lad could have had two hatricks. Who knows if he’ll start next week after that display

Might look at Saka -> Bruno for 1 GW.

Saka is not doing it this season, from play. 2 goals from play, with a couple of penalties thrown in but he is giving away penalties to team mates too. While penalties are a bonus source of goals, they can't be relied on. According to FPL's own xG metric, he has racked up a combined 0.02 from his last 3 starts. He played over 250 mins of those 3 games too.

Now Burnley are terrible, and open, and could well play into Arsenal's hands who need a win again.

Bruno is playing Luton, who had a big result at home, but tend to concede goals away from home. Bruno has those penalties too, but again can't be relied on. He is probably Man Utd's chief goal threat at the minute, apart from Maguire/McTominay.

Haaland in training

Having a mare of a season after to top 3k finishes. One of my main strategies is never waste a transfer on a defender, so in the last 2 weeks I have brought in Gabriel and Tsimiskas and it has cost me 18 points, I’m annoyed but still another one is don’t let it affect your mood so onwards and upwards, and no more defensive transfers.

Maddison is probably out also. Think I'll double up on Arsenal midfield and get Marrinelli to go along with Saka. Fixtures breed form hopefully

Isn’t there a 3.9m keeper for Brentford playing atm, dunno how long their no1 is out for though

Might go sideways, JWP to Kudos or Doku,

It was said that Flekken had only suffered a dead leg so I assume he'll be back in

Have Palmer the last 3 weeks,no complaints, pulled the trigger early JWP to Doku and Udogie to Mitchell, triple CP defense,in Roy I trust 😃, could be a genius move or an unmitigated disaster

G & A so far tonight for Saka.

Shelving that idea of selling him!

Saka goes off injured.

Twisted ankle, it would need the leg to be amputated before Arteta would rest him

Awful mess up by Tsimikas there now to hand a goal away to Toulouse. Will he start the weekend after that?

It's weird cos Tsimikas fecked up for the goal tonight and taken off at HT.

But last Sunday, him not starting was somewhat of a poor move as Liverpool didn't have any width on the left without him, against a deep back 5. It's not that Liverpool didn't create, they created an awful lot (I think 3.5 xg) and just didn't finish. But the running analysis was still that Liverpool lacked width until Tsimikas came on, and iirc either one of the goal or the Nunez miss comes from Tsimikas making a play on the left hand side, I can't remember which one exactly at the moment.

We know how Brentford will set up in this game, back 5 etc. But the difference between Forest & Brentford is that Brentford will be springing really quickly on the counter. Forest didn't. They will set up to play Mbuemo et all in on goal in fast breaks, and they are good at them.

So, whatever about starting, do you trust Tsimikas to keep a CS over 3 other defenders? Maybe I'm bring pessimistic after a loss but....

I love the Trossard pick but it's very short term

Who are people bringing in for Maddison?

Anyone else tempted to sell Son on the back of the Maddison news? I don't see Spurs being as potent without him.

Yes. Can’t believe he has risen in price overnight. Tough games coming. Tempted to ditch him for Saka

Arteta is an awful hoor for the press conference lies. Remember the stuff with Saka and the England squad before the Man City game too.

Anyways, here is Saka with the squad by the looks of things. This could be another ploy from Arteta again, but like it is Burnley at home, not like it's Man City or a big game again so I'm not sure why there is a need to be so secretive.

First sub.

Starting Torres maguire Gabriel