GW 14 Transfer Thread

Savage amount of midfielders anyone would want in their team.

Salah, Saka, Son, Mbeumo, Bowen, Gordon, Palmer and maybe a couple of others too.

Really hard to pick 5 and even harder to stick with those 5 for a good few gameweeks without trying to get a different one in. Son is the one I don’t have but I want.

edit - and that’s not accounting for the fact that 3-4-3 is very viable. I currently have Haaland, Alvarez and Watkins and can’t really justify selling any of them so I only need 4 of the above midfielders.

Had planned on getting James in, leave it for a week now

Might switch Alvarez -> Haaland myself this week. Haaland will eat up that Spurs high line and FBs playing CB. Would require dropping Son to MID fodder though, but for 2 FTs. Original plan was Watkins out in GW 15 but might have to re-think that.

Have all cheap defenders myself. I think 4.8m is the most I’ve paid for my current crop.

Im tempted by James too and I’ll want Trippier back in gameweek 17 so I may have to sell one of my strong front 8.

I have

Salah, Saka, Doku, Gordon and Palmer

Watkins, Alvarez and Haaland up front.

Got Gordon at 5.5m, Palmer at 4.9m and Alvarez at 6.5m so very reluctant to sell any of them.

In that case I’d go with Trippier over James but only because of injury likelihood.

Cash out, probably for Trippier but maybe Pinnock

I hear ya and I don’t really disagree with you but I’d rather have Mbeumo for his run over Gordon’s run.

I think Gordon has overperformed and will hopefully lose some minutes as Harvey Barnes is due back very soon. I think Gordon had been overplayed and especially having played in that summer international tournament.

That all said he is playing brilliantly and it will be very hard for Howe to rest him.

I can always swap back in gameweek 17 or 18 if it goes really bad.

Is White a sell? Know he was injured against Burnley but was taken off last couple previous to that and benched Saturday.

Big money for those minutes. Himself and Cash are not value for money right now

I'd wait to look for confirmed news on Alisson before doing the comparison myself.

But, Liverpool haven't kept any CS in the 5 games he has played so far this season, albeit in cup teams. He'd have VVD etc ahead of him now.

On this, I’d say Gordon might turn out to be a Son like player in always outperforming his xg and xgi.

I say that because he looks to be an excellent finisher (better than most strikers currently in prem) and has Wilson and Isak to convert any assists. His team is also very attacking at home

I’m still selling him this week but may get him back if he continues to over-perform.

Are you FHing in 18?

Is it Gordon you'll want back in 18? Seems like a lot of transfers booked in just to have Mbuemo for 4 GWs. I am biased here, I don't see him as this unmissable asset that everyone else sees him as. He has a lot of penalties and 90+ minute break away goals and I'd question how repeatable a skill that is.

You said you have Doku but I don't see him on your team?

FWIW Alvarez seems to me to be your biggest issue, Cash after that

Think I'll sit on my hands this week, had a poor week last week but the fixtures look a lot kinder for my lot this week. Will start planning then next week to shuffle up the defence. Saliba, Tsimika, Cash, Digne and Kabore is getting stale.

Not in love with No.2 at all.

Yeah Watkins has the form but doesn't have the fixtures coming up. Some tough games. The 2 easier games are both away from home too, where Villa have not been great, albeit Watkins has a good number of returns in them. Bournemouth are coming into a bit of form themselves too at home, by beating teams that they should be beating, so they will be a trickier opposition than you'd think IMO. So if you can get through that game with Watkins either not playing or blanking, you've 'won' a bit there.

It's probably the best time to hop off Villa IMO, and then back on again around GW18. The injury doubt kinda of helps my own decision over the line, but I have a massive Haaland shaped factor in my thinking too.

I think that Brighton fixture will be good for Mbeumo too.

I think anyone going for Kelleher is a bit mad. Liverpool always look like that can concede and Alisson was a big reason when they didn’t.

Your other option is fairly tame (not like you) considering you have Colwill and Pau sitting there to pull you out of a hole.

I’d be going more aggressive and try to attack a good set of fixtures by looking at moving out Watkins, Martinelli or Gordon.

You could bring in Darwin or Doku or Foden or whomever you think has a good run. You could even have a ‘floating’ position and change the player every week to target a poor team like Sheff Utd so bring in a midfielder or striker playing against them each week.

I think that way of thinking is more aggressive and has a bigger points potential than shoring up an already shored (real word?) bench.

Looking at the fixtures (the next 3 anyway) and it’s hard not to want another LFC attacker.

You've given me more to think about though

Bowen and Watkins out for Mbuemo and Isak for a hit

Done before price change deadline just about

I hate being one of those people who just comes on and ignores whatever advice is given to them!

I think Isak might be a captain option that GW too