My only 'win' this week is holding steady on Haaland while people were taking hits for him en masse. People forgetting he wasn't amazing for the money before he got injured and now we have Toney to contend for the front 2 spots.
Well that spurred him into action. You're welcome folks.
Is he still on pens with Nkunku back?
Would've been nice to find out right? Tbh I don't see how you can take him off them until he misses.
It most definitely is BS and it absolutely makes a difference.
Reverse jinx!
Hahaha.
I went in one week early myself. We can allways play the hindsight game, but:
TAA has to come back in...surely...Pffff! Moved in one week too early on the yeti. Those lost point and the 0,1M extra in the bank better be worth it next week
As a TAA owner, that Bradley performance was worrying too.
How Chelsea didn't get that pen was frustrating for us who had Palmer on the pitch as well.
Frustrating Wednesday.
Yeah let's see. Could still be Palmer but these big forward signing these days come with crazy ass clauses in the contract for Goals/Games ratio and what not so they end up demanding pens. Was Nkunku the pen taker for his previous teams?
You just know he’ll score a hattrick at some point when you’ve transfered him out.Full Darwin tonight. 1 pen miss, 1 booking, 1 assist, 1 premier league record for hitting the woodwork in a single game, 2 points.
TAA could play in midfield which makes him better imo. No way he's gonna stay on the bench, he's up there with the best players in the team.Pffff! Moved in one week too early on the yeti. Those lost point and the 0,1M extra in the bank better be worth it next week
As a TAA owner, that Bradley performance was worrying too.
How Chelsea didn't get that pen was frustrating for us who had Palmer on the pitch as well.
Frustrating Wednesday.
There's better chance of the second coming of Jesus Christ. I've been there with that hope, and come to a point where he's just a really bad finisher who will need proper luck to ever score a bagful across many games let alone in a single game.
Nah that's not a justified comparison, Haaland developed way before Alvarez did so counting the last 50 games is going way too far. This is the breakthrough season for Alvarez:
@ people crying about being influenced by this thread when they're the same ones who come in tagging everyone asking for advice. fecking babies.@Dirty Schwein ended.Also
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Haha yeah I know, people literally said "get Jota" and I went against it. But still fun to complain and blame others
Yeah shite week for me as well. 6.4 million gw rank and drop of 25k rank. Doughty and Tripps on bench laughing at Porro, Estu and Gabriel. Can't complain though as was always going to bench Trippier from that lot and I was 50/50 with playing Doughty or Palmer and went with the attacker.Trippier on Bench
Gordon Assist taken away
Nunez misses a bunch of sitters + a pen
No Alvarez (for Nunez, ironically)
took a 4pt hit for Watkins, who hauled and took away my goalie from getting a CS.
I just want to retire
Alvarez initially became a no brainer pick when Haaland was still there but Alvarez was starting non stop and racking points. He dried up after that and obviously he's not gonna be returning in every game but at 6.5 he was usually a great pick to have. which is why I didn't wanna sell him with Haaland coming back because that has actually been the primary partnership for their team this season. Can Pep break it up now?maybe but I will see it to believe itLet's not be silly now. Haaland is comfortably a better asset than Alvarez. A third of his (Alvvrez) points have come in the last 6 weeks with Haaland out.
I will agree it was a bit mad to sell Alvarez for Haaland this week if you had him and I said this to Moby before the deadline so not a hindsight thing but now that the big oaf is back I expect we'll see Hoolian dropping back into the 10 role and even being on the bench from time to time. It will be Haaland who benefits from the creativity of KDB again like he did last season when he was banging in hat tricks for fun. I expect City with those 2 back to go on a crazy run now until the end of the season.
Foden is a worry now as well. Don't like him wide at all and he's another who'll go back into the rotation pool. Holding until the DGW and then binning for someone nailed.
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I think Alvarez is as good a pick as anyone in that City attack not named Haaland. He ticked along nicely when I owned him. Could bring him in for Solanke in 25 as they've got Newcastle away and then City the week after. They have a double that needs arranging as well though. Foden was a better pick playing at #10 but looks like he won't be getting anywhere near that position again soon.
Yeah if I knew KDB was not gonna start Foden would have appealed more but as soon as you knew KDB is playing Foden's stock crashed. Even against Newcastle once KDB was on the pitch Foden just got removed from anything FPL worthy action. I'm definitely more worried as a Foden owner from kdb playing than an Alvarez owner but obviously that can all change if Pep changes the starting line up. And like I said if Foden doesn't get anything from open play he's absolutely useless.
Yeah Watkins is an easy hold for me after sticking with him through a bad spell. I think/hope he picks back up now with this run until April. Not averse to selling any of Foden (after dgw25), Saka, Bowen, Solanke (and I still own Son as well) if better options become available. If no news on a Liverpool double before Saturday I'm rolling. Might even roll if it is announced as well.
Probably for the big blank week in GW29
Nah. Will need that for the blanks or bigger doubles later on. My strategy is just to use transfers to navigate 25 and 26 but as usual with these weeks they are all entirely squad dependent. There's no set way to navigate them.
Might not be a bad idea but Bowen is always available and Olise... not so much.
Alvarez became a no brain pick because KDB was out injured, he then became an even better pick when Haaland too got injured. Now they're both back and minutes will not come to him as easy as before. The mistake I made when I brought Haaland in for Alvarez ahead of this GW was that I thought he would come in for Alvarez -> reducing his minutes already yesterday. That gamble went wrong.
I'll probably tripple captain GW25 double, and try to manuever through the GW26 blank and GW29 blank without using chips. Then WC sometime between 30-33 to BB/FH the GW34 double and BB/FH the GW37 double.
