WC 24/25 thread

it’s nothing short of madness going without Haaland - foden isn’t even making squads atm, I saw a star that every 9 games on average Haaland gets a hatrick. Your going to be up against everyone that has him.

I wouldn’t say its madness but yes you are going hard against EO. I guess I just think you can make a lot stronger team without him.

If I was to give you the choice between Haaland + Robinson + Faes V Watkins + TAA + Robbo over the course of the season, I think most people would pick the second group. So the weeks where Haaland gets a hattrick and everyone has him captained you look awful but over a season if you can do ok with another captain then I think you can match the Haaland teams over a period of team given his price and what sacrifices you need to make. The Watkins team there costs 1.5m less also

Going without Haaland isn't necessarily madness, but that team also has no Son and no Saka so I'm really not seeing the upside there? Also no Arsenal defenders!!

Wildcarding this week is a bad idea I think. Use your two free transfers and bide your time.

ogbene could impact Johnson I think.

If I get another rise out of Haaland, a Watkins fall or a 3.9 goalie I'll go with your option of Robinson, Saka and Jebbison

Yeah, very easy to say that when we’ve just come off a prime Haaland fixture, and Salah being quite captainable in GW4 and 5. But there are lots of potential hat trick fixtures on the horizon.

I'm hoping that Friday nite Watkins and Eze drop in price and that Haaland and Madueke go up, would give me another 0.4m to play around with

Listebing to Blackbox and now I'm tempted to spend that extra million on Raya

Have made a very poor start this Season so going for my earliest ever WC.

Thoughts appreciated on following squad……have tried to pick players with a combination of both favourable fixtures and form.

Raya Fabianski

Saliba Gvardiol Mazraoui Faes Robinson

Saka ESR Palmer Rogers Amad

Joao Pedro Haaland Isak

Best of luck to anyone else pulling the WC lever this week!😉

IMO, seems a bit short sighted.

Double Arsenal defence when they have Spurs and City in 4 & 5. No Liverpool ahead of their run from GW4 onwards?

That team choice looks good to me. On wildcard myself and have also gone for some of the same players. Not convinced about having so much money tied up in a goal keeper and think Man City defense has not proved effective enough at keeping clean sheets to warrant the price of their defenders.

My picks are now on those listed below but may reshuffle again in the morning so any recommendations would be appreciated.

Martinez, Bentley

Saliba, Alexander-Arnold, Pedro Porro, Robinson, Faes

Palmer, Madueke, ESR, Diaz, Semenyo

Joao Pedro, Haaland, Havertz

Good point but think I will stick with Maduaeke for a few weeks anyway as I have felt he has looked a good player in the past and hoping the hat trick last week will help him get a good run in the team. He went off early in the midweek game so looks to me that the manager may have been trying to keep him fit for the weekend. Lots of choices in that price bracket anyhow so will not be difficult to move to an alternative if he does not work out. I think the new transfer roll over rules make it much easier to build up transfers to have in effect a few mini wildcards through the season so think keeping the wildcard is not as important as it was previously. Actually thinking of benching Porro this week as I think Newcastle will score but he is very attacking so will be in my first team most weeks.

Decisions.

6.0m defender, like Robertson or Saliba paired with ESR.

Or a 4.8m defender and Eze.

Either option would need both players to start.

I’m leaning to the latter but I hate the idea of not having set and forget defence.

Yeah. I might trick around with 3 x 4.5m defenders but I’m definitely having TAA in my team.

Haaland, Saka and TAA are the ones I definitely want even though I think it’s zero fun owning Haaland.

It’s not when you don’t Captain him 😁.

I didn’t like the away fixture so went with Isak.

I won’t make that mistake again. Unfortunately I think we will now go Haaland permanent captain.

Well, he is not going to score 2.33 goals per game for the rest of the season, but I am also of the opinion that he may now stay borderline permacaptain.

Think I’m going without Haaland.

Without him I can afford a load of players I enjoying watching so currently swayed by that.

but your team has to work a lot harder than ones with Haaland to keep pace.

There's a chance I wildcard…ideally I'd have either Saka or Palmer in that type of price range but it's probably easier to build a team I like with neither of them unfortunately.

Would probably mean Jackson up top for a few weeks and maybe switching him to Havertz then.

I remember two season ago I was having a discussion with a lad and he was telling me he had no haaland was doing it as a bet and how easy the game was without him and how high up he was etc etc, I thought he was bullshitting but he showed me his team and it was quite high, I put my hand up said well done my bad and i was like i wonder how well youd be doing if you had gone haaland over kane, turned out he'd have been third in the world 11 or 12 weeks in.

It's probably too early to be saying people should or shouldn't be going without him but if you are doing well without him are you sure you wouldn't be doing better with him and do we think that the majority of non haaland teams are doing better on average id doubt it

Id be hoping Foden is back for some cover

Got off to a decent start this season. Have Haaland, Salah and Palmer and picked the right captain each weekend.
However, those lads cost a lot so the rest of the squad isn’t adding much. Plus I want to add Trent.

I think Brighton are off to a decent start and Villa have some decent games coming.

So this is how it currently looks.

Henderson (Turner)

Dunk, Trent Digne (Nedeljkovic, Tuanzebe)

Salah, Palmer, Eze, Mitoma, Onana

Haaland, João Pedro (Wheatley)

My only worry re Konate is re rotation. I’d rather have one of the 3 dead cert defenders for Liverpool.

And anyone other than Palmer from Chelsea is a lottery.

Other than that, fingers crossed.

Anyone tempted by Bruno on WC? Just for the next two

If he was 5.5, I'd be tempted but at the price he is having an impact on getting other premiums in your team, I'd be steering well clear. It's a risk that could come off but there are better risks to play potentially like a double or triple Liverpool/Brighton midfield in the next two games.