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Round of 4194304 next.
Has anyone done well in this ?
Ward will come of the bench to replace Dennis for me.
.... I was going to go for 4.2 Bachmann as my second keeper before the deadline yesterday but worried that exactly this might happen I just straight-up switched 5.0 De Gea for the 5.5 Martinez.
Hold on to your transfer(s) for as long as possible ....
Man United v Brighton suspended at weekend.
There is a good chance the Premiership will be put in lockdown after tonight's game.
I have three of Chelsea and three of Liverpool in the other scheduled games for today, but apparently there's been a small Covid outbreak in the Chelsea squad so we'll see. I read James might be one of them ...
I really hope so, if the few games left on the schedule are played this weekend!
Haha, never! Don't think I've gone beyond five gameweeks in the cup before.
Personally I think teams should keep playing where possible, in three weeks I can't see the situation changing much.
If two apposing teams have fit quads etc let them play, and just accept some games will be cancelled.
We could resume in January and still have games cancelled.
I've no idea what the right thing to do is. I'd like to see games continue where possible and maybe have them behind close doors (or at reduced capacity) which seems sensible ...
I had a good GW17 (78 pts./3441 OR) and have nine players available for GW18, assuming any or all of the games on Sunday are not postponed. With one transfer to make I'll have to wait until the deadline on Saturday and then pick from the four teams playing in that day's fixtures (Sunday's teams are too risky). But the pickings are slim among those four. All I can see to do is transfer out the disappointing Antonio (despite his promising fixtures) for Watkins. I'd been holding Antonio for one last game week as he was supposed to play Norwich, but who knows when that'll happen so I think I'll just plunk for Watkins ....
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Remember the 13:30 deadline tomorrow!
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I have seven players for tomorrow as it stands, seems futile making transfers to compensate. I may make one just before the deadline.
I have 2.4m in the bank which gives me options.
I see a lot of people on Twitter debating taking hits or not. The argument against is that many will take hits, and by making just a single transfer, you're already four points ahead of many teams – which might be significant in a gameweek that's unlikely to be high scoring. And if you bring in a player only to cover the games that are being played, you have another transfer to make later.
On the other hand, if you can bring in a player with a decent fixture (and who's ideally an option in the gameweeks after), and that player does well, you're likely to get a good gameweek rank.
Looking at my own team, I might get eleven players without making more than one transfer, but it doesn't look like Hwang is likely to play (don't know about Bernardo Silva either). I could take a hit, but there aren't many players I 'm considering. If I can field ten players, I'll be happy.
Just made a transfer which I may have done in normal circumstances, I got rid of a underforming player that's blanking and got a player in who is playing a team that ships goals for fun. So 8 players likely to start and injured Origi which would make 9 though unlikely he will feature.
Problem taking hits is after the deadline a Sunday game could get canceled plus with games in close proximity players brought in could get rested.
Sounds like a good move!
Indeed. Someone pointed out on Twitter that they would only take hits for players playing today, just to be on the safe side. And unless we can be sure that the fixtures go ahead as planned, I'd be cautious of taking any risks.
Winning the FPL or cup is nearly as hard as winning the top prize in the lottery.
Newcastle signings next month will be interesting now that they have got new oil rich owners with money to burn like Manc and chelsea.
Yes, it takes some incredible amount of luck and skill to manage winning the cup!
We have to expect bigger names rumoured to Newcastle now that they have all that money. But how appealing are they as a club?
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Glad I waited, regarding FPL ... but only 8 players now. I have just enough to do Matinez to Ramsdale and maybe Antonio to Lacazette for a minus 4 and the latter as vice captain. Or maybe just Ramsdale (and vice captain).
Gotta wonder if any games will (or should) go ahead now ....
I'm thinking about doing the same re. Antonio and Lacazette. Watkins was also my preferred transfer in, but with this game off, Lacazette looks like the only other option to consider – or Martinelli if taking a gamble.
My vice is currently on Cancelo, but if tonight's game is indeed on, then it might not be a bad idea sticking the armband on a player we know will play - like Ramsdale.
That's significant numbers, for sure. It only makes it worse when you consider that football is a contact sport that also involves a lot of traveling to and from games…
Ouch! I could easily have been one of them if I was a bit faster sorting out my team this afternoon. There's obviously the chance of a double for players like Watkins, but it certainly put a lot of teams in a bad position. If this gameweek goes ahead, we're certainly looking at the possibility of the next one being postponed.
In my job I am required to have vaccinations I had my Booster 2 month's ago, regarding football players I can imagine it is a lot more complicated and it would be difficult to make it mandatory for a number of reasons. If it was made mandatory we will see some players go to another country to ply there trade where they don't have to have the vaccine.
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In the end I sold Fornals and got Rowe in, I looked at Watkins though decided against it, too risky to take any hits as don't want to lose more ground.
Forgot about the Cup competitions, I am still in all three I qualified for.
It's indeed very strange that they left the decision to postpone the Villa-Burnley game so late. Given the circumstances we're in, I'm not at all surprised if we'll see the PL taking measures you mention above @Fire_and_Ice_Returns, either by a break from all football, or behind closed doors games.
Very true, there are no doubt several factors that might explain the number of unvaccinated players, beyond scepticism of the vaccine itself.
But from what I read (and I don't have a source for this) only 68% of Prem players have been double jabbed. [It's 90% and more in other leagues and in the NFL & NBA it's near 100%.] I doubt it's even a health or ideological issue for a lot of them. They are young, healthy, strong guys who may just feel they have better things to do and don't care or don't realize or haven't been well informed/educated by their clubs, league and representatives.
Anyway, off my soapbox (and I realize Vax doesn't solve everything, to say the least, but it would help): playing cautiously I just opted for Ramsdale, 9 players and no hits ...
PS Leeds are so depleted they have a 15 year old on the bench. And if he comes on he'll be the youngest player in Leeds history, I think ....
It's a very different gameweek, with so few games being played. I see we have a few "dead" teams now too, seeing the lack of transfer activity from a few managers. A couple of managers have likely sorted out their teams before the news broke about the Villa-Burnley game, captaining Watkins. Most managers have fortunately captained players that we can expect to play this gameweek – like Salah, captained by 17 managers. Good luck everyone!