fantasy premier league GW17 – the FFGeek Team

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Here’s our fantasy premier league GW17 article where we outline the team for GW17.  As usual we look at the transfers and the debates to get there plus the team selection issues and the captain choice

fantasy premier league GW17 – the FFGeek Team

Firstly here’s the team.  The transfer was injured Man Utd def Darmian out – Leicester RB Danny Simpson in

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Transfers

My overall objective with this transfer was to be left with enough money in the bank for the flexibility to get Aguero in for the next gameweek when Aguero is home to Sunderland in GW18.

To be honest I’m not sure Aguero will even start that game given that he’s just returning to fitness over the busy Xmas schedule which involves Arsenal away in GW17 and then away to Leicester in GW19 on the 29th of December only 3 days after his GW18 game.  However I thought it was worth keeping the money in the bank in any case.  I have £3.6m in the bank which means at Kanes current price if he were the sale target then it would give me £0.3m spare to cover price rises/falls

Then the question came as to whether I needed to do a transfer or should I just leave 2 for next week for ultimate flexibility.  I think in all likelihood everyone in my team will start given that Kolarov, De Bruyne and Firmino were all on the bench for GW16. However at this time of year anything is possible so another bench reinforcement would be ideal.  However Leicesters fixtures over the next few weeks make him not the ideal choice by any stretch.   With Darmian out for the Norwich game and quite honestly not a selection guarantee anyway he was the natural weak point in order to obtain funds.  However assuming Kane was the exit target for Aguero that left £4.3m as the amount I could spend on a defender and leave enough funds for Kane to go to Aguero.  If I had done the transfer yesterday I would have had £4.4m which would have been enough for my first choice transfer of Stoke defender CB Wollscheid.  However that would have left no price buffer so I decided not to go with that.

There were very few other options either.  Smith of Bournemouth at £4.0m but he has little gametime certainty when Elphick is back.  Southampton defender Yoshida at £4.2m was another possibility but again he was only while Koeman was using 3-4-3.  Varela of Man Utd, Yoshida of Southampton and probably the most likely alternative, Hutton of Villa all at £4.2m all were possibilities but all suffered from some degree of gametime risk and virtually no price buffer.

As I said I did think about rolling the transfer over in the hope Darmian would be fit for GW18 but in the end he’s hardly the most secure gametime player anyway so I decided to take the transfer.  It seemed unlikely barring injury that I was going to sacrifice Vardy or Lukaku instead of Kane so I just did it.  It doesn’t sit well with me selling Kane just before a home game to Norwich in GW18  especially given how useless they were against Everton but as I said hard to see me selling Vardy or Lukaku.

Excuse the late article.  I would have left the transfer to tomorrow but it seems Simpson will be going up in price in an hour or so

Team selection

The Man City v Arsenal game is not exactly condusive to clean sheets but I deceided it was more likely than my new acqusition away to Everton so Simpson starts life on the bench.

Nothing else controversial in team selection.

Captain choice

I will do a captain article for tomorrow but for the moment the poll leader of Lukaku gets the nod

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