ok current team is

hart
bosingwa
enrique
warnock
nani
malouda
young
toure
murphy
RVP
rooney


I am proposing
malouda>silva - I fancy silva to be the new lampard, a must have and shedloads of points season long, plus malouda will not play every game now and im losing too much by not covering city
yaya toure>mata - mata is looking good and i fancy him to rack up good points, also gives me some chelsea cover for when they hit top form
rvp>aguero, a cost saving, aguero looking good, in form and as good as rvp may be, arsenal looking pap and i cant see him outscoring aguero
finally to be able to afford all that, i need to go hart>someone 3.7 or less. so reina, howard, begovic??, i fancy the other subs to gain me more points than the possible reduction in moving away from hart hence a net plus. all transfers are planned season long except injuries.

this then gives me

reina/howard/begovic?
bosingwa
enrique
warnock
nani
mata
young
silva
murphy
aguero
rooney

and THAT to me looks like a DAMN fine team. leaves me with 25 transfers and quite frankly not a single player i would like to get into the team so unless there are injuries, im happy. so anyone think im mad or does this all sound like genius?

Looks like a strong team but other players will definitely enter the fray as must haves and then it will be back to the drawing board. Adebayor is looking a decent pick and I think Suarez will really benefit from a returning Gerrard as long as he can stay injury free.

On the evidence of the season so far, you need another Striker.

Why?

The remodelled team has the two big strikers and a strong midfiled. Why bring in say Adebayor just because he is a striker? No real evidence he would outpoint Silva for example.

Back to the original transfers... seems a bit OTT and tinkery especially if losing Hart to afford it. Can you not get Aguerro and Silva another way? Do you really need/want Mata?

I agree, it looks a solid XI, and Silva, Nani and Young are reeling off the points, but I'd wager that Adebayor and RVP (for example) may well outscore them over the season. Just my opinion of course

I agree with the ovine one. Definitely bring in Aguerro and Silva for Yaya, Malouda and RVP, but then look to see who you can afford with the remainder, rather than do an extra transfer to get rid of Hart just so that you can afford Mata.

Mata is nowhere near proven at this level yet. One or two half decent games doth not make a TFF golden boy.

How much would you left? (I can't be bothered to do the maths.) We could then suggest alternatives.

ok i have reconsidered hart, if i do rvp>aguerro, malouda>silva then i need yaya> mid 4m or less. so cahill, downing, lennon, adam (whos now suspended anyway), meireles, n'zogbia, ozman. quite a choice actually, and I havent a clue which of those to go for lol I could even still do the hart move and that would let me stick nasri in. hmmmmmm

would give me
hart
bosingwa
enrique
warnock
nani
cahill/downing/lennon/adam etc etc etc
young
silva
murphy
aguero
rooney

with 26 transfers remaining.

I don't think Adam is suspended... I think it was served against Brighton.

Remember you could change formation. Could consider a manu defender, Jones or Smalling perhaps?

Well I still think that RVP Aguero is akin to chasing after a bandwagon thats long gone, but if you *must* do it, you can at least wait until the Man City team news on Saturday

Touré to Larsson gives you more scope for upgrades. There's not been much value around the 4.0m mark this season.

Yep, a bit of spare cash would help if you need to switch out someone like Bosingwa or Aguerro later.

If you go for Nasri instead of Silva you can save yourself a transfer as you won't need to free up money by swapping Hart

Silva has been class so far this season but I don't see why he'll outscore Nasri over the season, they're both well matched IMO.

As for 3 up top, I've got Ade as my 3rd striker which was a swap for Maluda - as long as he plays, Ade (or Defoe for that matter) will certainly score decent points and is well worth considering

i could go 3-4-4 and have adebayor, BUT that leaves me without enough cover for man city and I am far fro convinced adeayor would outscore silva.

nasri instead of silva is an option - frees up some cash but I am not convinced nasri will match silva for points, virtually everything seems to go via silva. nasril will probably score well, but outscore silva i dont think so. silva will be in most teams as well so i think its also a case of not having him is more of a risk, much like not having lampard used to be.

i will look into larsson for toure, that may be the best option.

the final question is, does this look like a good/worthwhile re-jig of the team? would i be better off doing nothing at all? (which leaves me light of city cover which seems risky given how good they are now). and assuming I go ahead, is there a best time to make these moves or should i just go ahead with it for this weekend?

No, you couldn't

transfers are there to be used just don't go crazy with them - using 4 at a time is unlikely to be good for you in the long run unless you have a number of injuries.

IMO there is too much focus on Silva this season. Yes, I have him in a few teams (to cover the options) but last year he played nearly every minute, yet he scored bigger all. In the last 2 months of the season it was Ya Ya who scored all the midfield points and Silva didn't even get a look in. Ya ya has been a popular pick as a result this year and lets face it, thats not worked out well for people.

5 weeks into the season and its too early to say Silva is essential IMO, especially as he's as expensive as some of the strikers.

You have been warned

Last season Silva and Yaya we're playing different roles. Silva has been given the license to attack without worrying about defending due to Yaya dropping back to a more defensively minded role, i know who i'd rather have! I think Nasri will have less game time then Silva. I'm on Silva!

snap. I had Toure using the old logic but have largely upgraded.

oops was about to say i was drunk since i jjst got back from pub. but noticed that was at 11am

going to make these changes but ONLY if aguerro is starting tomorrow since city play first

rvp>aguerro
malouda>silva
toure>larsson (although he is then the one player in the team im not sure about, plenty of points so far but its larsson..... and its sunderland, so that wont continue) perhaps Adam would be a much wiser choice? i could afford him with 0.1 spare.

SWP

Good call.....I think you could regret dropping RVP and I hate changing keepers but agree Malouda and Toure are suffering from increased competiton for game time this year and would get rid of both.

In terms of replacements personally I would go Adebayor ahead of Silva, but think Larsson is a good shout.........

hmmm good point, perhaps i should get aguerro to cover off losing too many points to city and have adebayor instead of silva. hmmmm

right i dont trust tottenham and they have a lot of away games coming up, silva it is. went with larsson too.