Right I am currently 5th in my superleague and 50 points off the top. I am pretty sure I have a lot more transfers than at least 2 of the people above me as I still have 21 left! Now I guess I need to work out a: what changes I should make to this team and b: what would be the best opportunity to use some of those transfers to close this gap, which I know is very doable, especially with 21 transfers, if I can use them well.

My team as it stands is
reina
jones
enrique
warnock
silva
bale
murphy
larsson
aguero
rooney
RVP

£0.3m to spare and 21 transfers left.

Held onto this team since well before christmas so I am thinking there must be some better options now to help me catch up, but looking at the team I am not even sure who I would change as it looks pretty good to me!

any assistance appreciated, I must win this thing this year!

Shipping out Warnock would be my priority - Jones you might as well keep if you have hung on to him this long through his recent injury unless there's any news that suggests he's not going to be back soon. But you'd only have 3.1mil to spend on a defender - do Sunderland have anyone that cheap who's a regular starter? If not Walker could be the way to go and then wait for good 3 > 0s etc to make use of your abundant transfers.

I think you hve been to busy admiring your team - with 21 transfers left Jones shouldnt still be there and Murphy should have gone when Fulham went out of the cup imo

Murphy was on great point scoring form at that time though. He also has a nice game on saturday which saved him in my teams (that still have him) last night.

Can definitely shift him out next time your preferred option starts though.

Aww we play differently then - nowhere to go with Fulham players on sunday so missing out on the extra game if you want a cup player!
I dont mind getting out of players at the top so to speak.
Going back to a team with 21 transfers - surely you have to be proactive rather than play very passive?

21 is too many as my stalling, passive teams confirm......

I'm saving them for the tinkers on the big players rather than messing around with cheapies. Shame there aren't 21 good striker tinker opportunities to come

Agree with Joey on doing Warnock to Walker especially with Spurs still in the FA cup. If you're desperate for points now maybe look at rotating players who are in the FA Cup (e.g. Rooney Sturridge after this weekend for Chelsea home games against Birmingham and Bolton, then back to Rooney for the sunday game away to Norwich). Either that or wait for better opportunities (3 > 0s).

incorporating cup players for extra games will gain you enough points on the leaders and should hopefully force them into some transfers and that will work in your favor towards the end.

The problem with the current lot of 2-0's etc is that it involves taking out a player who could really hurt you in a single game. Rooney, Aguero, Silva, Dempsey, they are all capable of big points in a single game, which is making any tranfers difficult at this time. I think a lot of TFF players are going to end up wasting transfers right now, and gaining next to nothing. It's time to be patient and sit tight, let those people use up their transfers for nothing, and then catch up with better opportunities in March and April. I suspect there will be the chance to string together a lot of daisy chains with a lot of midweek extra games later in the season.

but go ahead, if you want, take out Rooney, and watch him then score more in one game than your replacement in 2 or 3 games! :p

hmmmm well with 21 transfers i probably dont need to wait, plus if i wait i risk falling further behind and i dont want that gap any more than 50. id like to gradually close that gap and get my nose infront in the last couple of games, with transfers to spare for whatever is the best looking final fixture at the time to guarantee victory. i like the current team, except the couple of defenders, but somehow others are scoring more (i got 96 this week, several teams in my league got 125-130!! and i have no clue how since i had persie, the latest points scorer and rooney who got 2 goals as well)

Personally I would be willing to take the risk of transferring Rooney out even if it is just for 2 games as someone like Sturridge or Mata could easily bag a goal or two against inferior opposition. As you will only have 5 players available for selection in the FA Cup (Bale may not play aswell?) I think you need to increase your coverage.

Its your defenders that hurt you this week as 2 didnt play and only 1 C/S from Reina. Others may have had Walker, Richards etc. Not having Mata would also have made a difference. Warnock>Walker and Rooney>Sturridge/Mata for me.

gone for walker, had no idea he had that many points, not really been looking that closely for a while, hence the 21 transfers.

i may go for rooney>sturridge after this weekend and then back to rooney for norwich *IF* he starts, else leave sturridge in for west brom and bring rooney back for the inevitable start against tottenham. could bag me some extra points with no risk fo rooney scoring 6 and screwing me over.

I would bolster that midfield by ditching murphy and larsson for Dempsey and Mata. You might want to think of rotating in Sessegnon when you can. Defo get Walker in for Warnock. Rooney can also be rotated for the likes of Ba etc. at the appropriate moment (whenever that it???? )

ummm, where do i get the extra 2m i need for dempsey and mata?

i could swap larsson for sessegnon to put me on 50m but thats it.

ok think i may take advantage of the chelsea 2-0 over man u

rooney>sturridge
larsson>mata

(after checking both are starting for chelsea, would have liked lampard as well or instead of mata but i cant have him unless i take out silva and im not sure if i should risk taking out silva with the easy blackburn game, i may lose more points than i gain, then again lampard may score 6, hmmmmmmm)

then on sunday
sturridge>rooney
mata>sessegnon instead of larsson (then puts me at exactly 50m vs 49.8 with larsson)

ok now thinking

jones>assou-ekotto
reina>friedel

to give me a semi spurs block with walker who i now have, and enrique my only other def.

which then would give me

friedel
assou-ekotto
enrique
walker
silva
bale
murphy
larsson
RVP
rooney
aguero

with 0.2m left and 17 transfers.

this weekend if the right players are starting i can then do
rooney>sturridge (or drogba?)
larsson>mata

then after the 2-0 over man u, sturridge (or drogba?) > rooney
mata>sessegnon

this then leaves 13 transfers.

does that sound like too many transfers used up in a short time? i think it would certainly strengthen the def and hopefully gain me some points on the leaders with the 2-0, and after that it would just be striker rotations for any good 2-0 or 3-1 that appear.

In the short term I'd say Reina is more likely to play in the cup than Friedel...so possibly hold off that one?

The 2-0 doesnt get my juices flowing particularly but I do think Mata is a decent pick longer term so may be a good time to engineer him in anyway?
Problem is with the 'big 3' up front flexibility is limited...

I'd say the benefits of Rooney -> Adebayor and Larsson -> Sessegnon would outweigh any 2-0 benefits...

im not doing rooney>adebayor that would be insanity, the second i do it rooney will score a hattrick while adebayor stands around looking bored and gets booked.

im not even convinced about sessegnon, hes only scored 20 points more than larsson during the entire season so far which is well over half way through, and hes .2m more. i may do it anyway but im not entirely convinced.

ive just gone off the idea of friedel and ekotto after checking their fixtures, they have a few easier ones from april (but even those are mostly away games) but march looks bad and its arsenal away after the cup game (which will probably see a lot of players rested for that arsenal game).

so at the moment i think im back to just
rooney>sturridge or droga (whoever starts)
larsson>mata (if mata starts, if not then not sure as i cant afford lampard)

the other possibility ignoring the 2>0 is reina>krul and then i can do larsson>mata! perhaps this is the best option longer term, and although i dont then have a keeper in the cup, newcastles fixtures do look pretty tasty for the rest of the league.

infact that even brings the question, should i go for Ba perhaps instead of aguero (cos i really dont fancy dropping rooney or rvp).