Woohoo! Way early in the season, but right in there. Feel pretty good about my team too. FOR NOW...lol.

I can see the same thing happening to me this season as last year. As soon as i swap a striker, the one i get rid of for doing fuck all ends up scoring most weeks, and the one i replaced him with suddenly stops scoring.

So if you want a tip for a striker to add to your team, select Dzeko. Because i'm about to get rid of him now...

I'm already on the fence as to get shot of Wayne Rooney or not... Man Utd are lacking creativity and pace, Rooney thrives on good service in the middle of the park and there is no one to provide it. Di Maria will attack the byline and the wing when Shaw isn't getting forward but I don't think it'll be enough.

Aguero took 23 seconds to score from the bench last night and Jovetic banged in two, if he can stay fit and on form he will get 25-30 goals in that City team.

I dumped Giroud, thought about going for Balotelli (death or glory) but he's too expensive and would have to mess with the rest of the team to get him.
Went with Jovetic who now probably wont score again all season.

37th place two weeks in a row, I need to step it up!

Chambers & Debuchy Leicester away + Hutton at home to Hull

Yeah that's a horrible defence for Gameweek 3 :winkwink:

Dzeko is injured atm so it's probably a good call, I think it's a lot more difficult to find 3 quality strikers compared to last season. There seem to be more options for midfield players this season.

Beaten 4 - 0 by MK Dons tonight, that's absolutely shocking! :Oh crap

Well last week I took out Mata and the bastard scored a goal and picked up 3 bonus points.

If you're going purely on performance it doesn't make sense to have any Man United players in your team atm because they are truly woeful. Burnley away, QPR home & Leicester away, if they don't win those games then their season is already over.

This nonsense of playing 2 strikers up front needs to stop, none of the top sides play with 2 out and out strikers.

I wish they'd hurry up and add Di Maria to the Fantasy Football, I'm eager to see how much he'll cost. I'm guessing £10/10.5 Million

Jovetic reminds me of Aguero the way he plays, I agree he has the potential to score a lot of goals this season. Man City have the best squad again this season but if Chelsea can avoid injuries to their key players I still think Chelsea will win the league this year.

Aguero is too injury prone, I'll be surprised if he gets through the season without an extended spell on the sidelines.

Balotelli won't even start for the first few matches until he regains match fitness but £10 is reasonable for someone who has the potential to score 20 goals + per season.

£7.9 is great value for Jovetic IF he players every week and can score regularly, it'll be interesting to see how he does against Arsenal & Chelsea.

Every single week I want to make at least 2 or 3 transfers, trying to maintain some discipline with my transfers compared to last year.

So difficult... :Oh crap

Same here, I need to redo the whole team and use my wild card already :1orglaugh

I did exactly the same as soon as jovetic got his brace, and I see this morning giroud may be out until after xmas. For once, I had some decent timing (assuming jovetic plays/scores lol) :)

just signed in! looks cool:thumbsup

I doubt Jovetic will do what he did last GW but you never know. Anyone knows why Aguero has played so litte so far?

Diego Costa just made the list BTW :(
http://i.imgur.com/Sjah4yU.png

Good stuff Oren! :thumbsup

Fuck, I read that this AM!!! I should know this, but let's say you made a transfer yesterday and want to go back in and change it. Is it too late to do that and not take a hit on points?

Well I agree, but as someone else said, seems to be more difficult to find a decent striker/value this season. Lots of squad rotation etc, who can you say is going to get 20+ PL goals this season and be pretty sure they will? Not too many on the list, and even the shortlist will be all pretty pricy, so you gotta have weaker players elsewhere etc.

Which is obviously the point lol, but yeah, seems trickier this year :)

I think once you confirm it, it's a done deal buddy.

Di Maria is in the listings now, 9.5 million. Risky buy I think right now but decent price if he hits the ground running. Still not convinced Man U will stick to the 3-5-2 formation, I see it being changed for away games if not completely.

He's not match fit yet. He'll probably be starting the next match though if Dzeko is injured

Diego Costa "might" be fit for the weekend against Everton, plus there is the international break for 2 weeks after this Gameweek. It's a hamstring injury though, which is what kept him out of the Champions League final in May so he may be rested.

I wouldn't be resting him against Everton though, they gave Chelsea one hell of a game last year.

The trick is to try and find at least 3 or 4 players in your team that are bargains. I.e. at least 2 defenders who play each week for £4.0 and at least 1 or even 2 midfielders for £6.0 - £8.0 Million

ATM Sigurdsson is looking like the midfield bargain of the season but that depends on if he can keep up his form.

Jovetic has already gone up £0.2 in value this Gameweek :(

Eric Dier would have been a bargain at £5.0, he's increased £0.2 this Gameweek and now costs £5.3

Di Maria is cheaper than I thought he'd be! I agree with you though, £9.5 is a lot.

I'm not convinced by anything Man United are doing atm :Oh crap

I am going to wait til the deadline to do anything, with my luck i'll transfer a new player and he'll injure himself right before the game.

i start from now ;) i hope it's not late :)

Well Costa is officially out for the Everton game :disgust

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...a-miss-4124060

On Aguero... Looks like the dailymail newspaper got a shot of Kolorov taking him out in training and ran with it. None of the pics showed anything like him being carried away etc. Today its being reported he finished the training session.

On Costa... first reports were that he could be out for up to 6 weeks with a hammy issue. Chelsea came out the day after to say it was a "minor muscular injury" & "He will be monitored over the next few days.". This injury could be the perfect excuse to keep him back from international duty and as Paul mentioned above Costa's hamstring is made of glass these days.

Press conferences should be going on today but unlikely that we will get more info so both will be a risk in any FPL team this week as City face Chelsea in GW5 so they will not want their top strikers risked.

It will be interesting to see if Balotelli and Di Maria start this GW as lot's have jumped on these bandwagons without even knowing if they will start. Can't believe their starting prices given that Sanchez is 10.5 and both these guys are 10 and 9.5m. Jovetic had one GW and everyone has gone mad for him but GW4/5 he plays Arsenal and Chelsea. The Premier League transfer deadline is Monday and then we have 2 weeks of for international's roll on GW3 :thumbsup

Paul really? your trusting an article with no quotes at all :upsidedow The article headline says he is out then in the article it's written.

"Costa stayed inside for treatment during today's training stint at Cobham although Jose Mourinho has yet to rule him out of the trip to Goodison."

Sorry my bad, I've been keeping updated on Costa and that was the most recent article. I should have read the full article before posting.

Personally I don't think he'll play but saying he was officially out was incorrect, my mistake!

Sorry about that folks!

I could see Balotelli starting Gameweek 4 because he'll have a few weeks to get match fit.

I don't see Di Maria or Balotelli starting Gameweek 3 though.

Jovetic is good value but there is no guarantee he'll start over the next few Gameweek(s)

Dzeko doesn't have a serious injury, he's only a doubt and Negredo is back around Gameweek 6

I agree with you that i don't think he will be risked given the injury history of this guy and the fixtures they have coming up!

I'm not seeing much value in the striker department right now tbh, Jovetic has had a flyer of a start but doubtful if he can keep it up with Aguero almost match fit. Can't wait for tomorrows games, I made some changes and I feel a bit happier with my team, still a couple of people I need to tinker with but overall I'm looking forward to it.

Lets see if that is gonna bite me in the ass come Monday :1orglaugh

hot damn, wtf is going on with man united?

oh, out of nosiness.. who is Poppy's team in the league?

Also looks like jovetic is starting :)

Also just seen Ross has a team of 9 :winkwink:

Can't believe you used the Wildcard Ashley :)

Do you support Man United? I do and it's awful! I don't recognise that team atm and if we can't score against the promoted teams then we're gonna get taken apart by the big teams!

Rooney as captain hasn't worked out great for most of us this week! Looks like most of us are gonna have a stinker this week with a Striker as captain

no mate I am Yid Army :thumbsup

one fuck of a rollercoaster ride all the time lol, but so enjoyable :1orglaugh

Racist! You can't say that anymore :winkwink:

I've been to White Hart Lane a few times (Supporting Spurs)

Great atmosphere, great fans!

haha I bet :) I remember taunting a friend after Chelsea won the Champions League Vs Bayern Munich! Bloody cruel way to miss out on Champions League football, things could have been so different if Spurs had of got back into the Champions League that year!

Things are looking good this year under Pochettino, who knows... if they can do better against the top 4 this year they could be a punt for 4th. I think they'll run Liverpool or Arsenal close this year for that final spot.

I thought Man United would be competing for a top 4 spot again this year, NO chance!

in other news, fuck norwich and all who sail in her... home draw cost me a 10/1 4-timer :Oh crap

lol yeah, it's a strange one to try and explain to non-football fans :upsidedow


mate, it's the way it goes for us lol. We achieve so much for such a small ground, and not having an early CL run and the benefits that brought/brings, yet we shoot ourselves in the foot year after year with poor spells. How we got pipped to 4th by woolwich the other season is so typical of Spurs :1orglaugh

I wouldn't change a thing about us though - I love the emotional highs you can only get with the lows, to be at the same level and whatnot year after year I'd imagine is something that just wouldn't give me the same adrenaline rush as eg the Bale hat-trick against milan then knocking them out at the lane, I need those blows like woolwich pipping us, or chavski winning the CL to block us, to appreciate the highs that much better :pimp

oh... the wildcard - what's that part about then? As I thought you can make 1 free transfer per week.. I have never really bothered with fantasy football until this season in anything more than a casual stab at it, but looks like I'm missing something there?

and bah, I had a bit of luck this week playing noble purely because skrtel was injured, but swapped my captain from ivanovic to jovetic... bollocks :Oh crap

You've got 2 Wildcards you can use in the season. The current Wildcard you can use at any point in the season and when you activate it you can make unlimited transfers for that Gameweek. So if you have a bunch of injuries or if you just want to change up your team entirely you can use it, the 2nd Wildcard you can only use in January between Gameweek 20 & Gameweek 23.

I like to save my Wildcard until the last few months of the season, Ashley uses his earlier in the season. There is no right or wrong way to use a Wildcard, just use it whenever you think it'll be most effective.

WTF! Everton 3 - Chelsea 6

I did not see that score coming!

I really regret subbing Costa now, he's scored twice!

ahhh right. Used the 1st of mine already lol, did not realise how that worked :1orglaugh

I am dontbitezsuarez


Man, the media had it wrong about Costa! Thankfully he's in my starting 11, but I did remove the captaincy and give it to Rooney. ManU look like shite in that formation.

Crazy game that was between Chelsea and Everton and man, Stoke at ManCity!!! I fucked up and traded Begovic for Krul...ugh.

So yeah, i took Costa out of my team for this weekend because i kept reading that he was injured. And replaced him with Jovetic.


Now i wish i was dead...

Game week 3 is Complete.


Some really crazy results this week with Stoke beating City 0-1 and the 9 goal thriller at Everton. ManU continue their terrible start being held at Burnley and Arsenal like all seasons lacked the cutting edge to beat a far weaker team away from home. Super Mario looked dangerous so i am sure we will see more from him. Di Maria looked good but he seemed to be far from EPL fitness levels. For me the kind of results we saw this weekend is why the EPL is the best league in the world. Of course we are missing some of the worlds greatest players but the quality of the teams all the way through the league means anyone can beat anyone.

Now its the international break with the transfer window closing out today in the UK at midnight. The 2 Week break is upon us and i expect to see a real crazy amount of changes to peoples teams come the start of GW4.

20 points separating the top 10 players great work to all and keep it going as we have a very exciting league emerging here!

:1orglaugh a lesson for all right here... Don't do transfers when you have been drinking as anything can happen :helpme

Better than I thought I'd get after dropping my 3 Stoke players for the Man City match.