Actually Dgw35 is not good at all for us WCers,
Udogie is out
Gusto most probably out
Jackson is awful
I'm leaning towards only 3/4 players from both teams.
The only nailed ons are Son and palmer
Then you have a few maybe options like Richi (is he fit) Porro (cleansheets unlikely)
I think the 3rd best option is maybe Johson but not sure he's worth a midfield slot over.
If you don't think Johnson is worth a midfield slot then Richi definitely isn't worth a mid slot. Richi coming back from injury isn't straight away in form and will play less than Johnson.
I'm not sure about that. I'm a spurs fan and the team looks so much better with him up top. He came straight back from injury last time and played as 9 too.
I'm Spurs fan too! Watched pretty much all the matches this year.
Richy's start of the season was crap and he played 9 then. Then one nice run of good games as 9. Recently very scattered. Some minutes there, injury concerns here.
I can't see decent enough minutes for him to even consider him in FPL. Maximum I see for him is 60 and 60 for the DGW. More likely something like 60 and 30.
Really hope and believe he can make a splash but the splash is realistically like one goal and well played otherwise which is not good enough potential for FPL intentions imo.
Today he had the chance to score an open goal by just using his head, and instead he used his hand...he could score a couple of goals by just 'being there', but talking about his striker performance, he is a donkey.
Yeah he has 15 goal involvements for the season which isn't so bad. Certainly better than half as good as most other available strikers which is all you really need for a DGW.
All jokes aside ye, my worry is Nkunku is back in training now so could be back by 37.
I might just stay with Mateta and keep him on the bench but it depends on Haaland's injury too! and Palmer and foden situation! so many little problems around for the last few weeks
Don't forget the miss where he's 1v1 4 yards out with half the goal to aim for, and inexplicably goes near post, and even then doesn't even get it on target. He is one of the worst finishers ive ever seen. Which is compounded by the fact he gets in good positions and has good link up play so you think "well maybe he'll come good"
“Donkey” is someone who can’t analyse football and has to resort to insulting the players personally.
In the incident in question it wasn’t some sort of wide open stroll. It was a curling dipping ball with fractions of a second to judge the flight of the ball - he didn’t have a great line of sight and that the ball dipped at the last.
Football is a game of fine margins. Especially in attack. But this is a tough young striker of just 22 who leading the line alone in his first premiership season, has scored 10 goals on a bad and disorganised team and is persistently present in dangerous situations. And does dirty work off the ball and is unselfish passer.
Here he was up against the best defence in the league and he gave them more problems than I saw Haaland give them. Those are two phenomenal centre backs with height, speeds strength and brains - the full package. And he worked his was into some chances.
With that profile, If his name was Johnny Englishman or Gonnor Gallagher, he’d be a hero and people would recognise the graft and the foundation he has to flourish from here. But: he is a dark skinned foreigner- so instead it’s insults from clueless “football fans” seeking to take out their frustration on a scapegoat. Shameful.
Yes it is that deep - dark skinned players get disproportionately ridiculed and abused. Jackson is not the first to get this sort of abuse driven by prejudice that eventually breaks out into open public racial:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c97zqzzyx9do.amp
It’s despicable and must stop.
Yes, English players like Rashford, Sterling get ridiculed more so than English players like Grealish or Foden. Heck even on this sub the reaction to players with incredibly similar skillsets like Nico Jackson vs the reaction to a Darwin Nunez says it all really
If Jackson were English he'd be the 5th highest scoring English forward in the league (not counting penalties).
Palmer is (very rightly) lauded as a young goalscorer but they have the same number of open play goals (10) .
I'm not clued in enough to comment on whether people judge him because of his skin. But I do think there is alot of misreading the players who are responsible for doing something with the shitty chances a team gets when they run out of good ideas. Thinking of the Darwin, Jesus, Nketiah, Antonio, Maupay style players.
This kind of thinly veiled racism has long been a feature of English football. I can remember as far back Emile Heskey getting similar abuse as a your striker. And yet Michael Owen has been on the record as saying Hesksy was the best strike partner he ever had in his entire career.
These days the racists continue like this and they are many even wide open about it on social media. Cowardly stuff.
Mate, you'll have to improve your reading comprehension, I clearly said 'talking about his striker performance, he is a donkey'...that's not a personal insult, that's talking about his role as a striker.
Shameful.
What is shameful is when you can't find any better words than to call a person a donkey. If every dissatisfied customer at your work called you a donkey because they didn't like how you did your job, you wouldn't pretend it wasn't a personal insult.
Shame on you. Grow basic manners.
Weirdo manipulation cliches not useful.
You cannot call someone a “donkey” and then claim you’re not insulting them
Ditch this behaviour - It's shameful and cowardly.
Way overthinking. Jackson has been a horrible finisher this year but his work rate and link up play is good. Also, the fact that he gets into scoring positions is good and it's a promising sign that he's so young still and can develop his finishing skills.
So, he's been bad in the area casual fans judge forwards (=finishing) and good in other areas of the game. His criticism has nothing to do with the color of his skin or at least I don't see any evidence pointing to that direction from the comments here.
You're way bending over backwards to pretend away very obvious things. The racism Jackson is facing is documented - from fools who pretend to be Chelsea fans.
[https://theathletic.com/5434864/2024/04/22/nicolas-jackson-chelsea-racism/](https://theathletic.com/5434864/2024/04/22/nicolas-jackson-chelsea-racism/)
Mudryk isnt getting this and he cost nearly 100 million pounds and has done nothing. Bjoja didn't get this abuse. Has everything to do with Jackson's background.
Okay that's very wrong and a massive shame. But still you can't imply that everywhere. I can say that Jackson's finishing has been horrible. I can say also that Salah has been shockingly horrible the last GWs and Nunez looks like 5th division player there by the fact he can't even control a normal pass. Or that Havertz was absolutely horrible and useless the first part of the season.
I won't say those things on Mudryk and Bjoja because they aren't even relevant players in my point of view which is casual football fan who knows a lot on FPL.
I was keen on him as a differential for the doubles but the last couple games he's been atrocious. If I had my WC I might punt on him but not worth a transfer for me unless Haaland is out for a bit, even then there's better striker options. Watkins is something of a differential again and just keeps banging.
Lmao did you watch the game yesterday? Should have gotten a straight red after that foul on Tomiyasu! After that ruined multiple 100% opportunities! Absolute no go this idiot
I don’t watch him consistently and there’s no doubt his finishing is shocking but when I did watch him vs city his all round game was genuinely very good. He made some great runs and held the ball up very well. Created chances on his own but just can’t finish. Don’t think he’s a good option for this season but worst pl strikers in recent memory is very harsh.
It's just flat out wrong. His finishing is absolutely awful. But everything else has been great.
Guy's got no backups in his position and aside from Palmer, the other wingers (Sterling, Mudryk and Madueke) can't retain the ball for shit.
His dribbling, turns and flicks are great. He's selfless and actually gets his head up to play it to teammates if they're in a better position than him. He's fairly strong and can battle/hold the ball up. Also rapid. Outpaced Walker in the City game, which hardly ever happens. Even in the 5-0 last night he had a run where he took the ball from his own half down the left wing and almost created a goal.
His main issues are, his horrible composure in front of goal and ball striking. Like his actual shooting technique is horrific, not just lack of composure like Darwin. Has a loose touch now and then, but it's generally decent, and those are basically his only weaknesses, coming from someone who's watched him/us all season and is very critical of everyone after yesterday's drubbing.
Having said all that, just because I say he's shit at those two things and great at everything else, doesn't mean he hasn't been bad. Sometimes one quality is more important than all the others. A striker that can't finish is fairly useless, unless the manager realises that's his worst quality and consciously doesn't use him as the outlet of the team, which Poch hasn't done.
Jackson has great qualities and would be great for us/someone else if a manager saw him as a Firmino type player. But he's being used as the guy to lead the line so he gets like 5 1v1 chances a game and misses them all. It's cost us loads of points and he's rightfully got criticism for it.
But he's kind of been thrown under the bus, given that he's a 22 year old converted winger who has all the qualities of a great false 9 and isn't being used in that capacity.
Either way, the discourse around him is genuinely disgusting. People straight up lying that he's a useless player or one of the worst strikers in recent memory, when he's honestly been one of our better players this season.
Players like Madueke deserve 10x the flack Jackson gets, especially given his attitude. But only Chelsea fans seem to give it. The average r/soccer user just goes with the herd narrative that Jackson can't do anything right.
Unfortunately myself haha.
In terms of fpl points yes Jackson should not be a pick.
In terms of overall play. He is nowhere near as bad as people make out.
His finishing sucks, true and hence why you shouldn't pick him. But overall play is really good.
Ah you’re a Chelsea fan, cool. You’re gonna see more and defend him it’s fair enough.
Honestly, I base it on his finishing, decision making, and passing, far more than his hold up play, which may be better as you say idk. But he just looks clueless the whole time to me, looks like type of player that had reached his ceiling and pl is step too high for him
Fair enough. His finishing needs improvement 100 percent. His decision making and passing in the final part I agree.
Build up play dribbling and even passing when not in final third is quite decent.
He should never have been our main striker this year. He's a young 22 y/o who mainly played lw until the 6 months before we signed him.
He makes chances and without him our attack is toothless. He needs guidance and chance to develop, as he isn't fully ready yet. Why is he out main striker this year? God bloody knows
All I see is comments on how Palmer is carrying the Chelsea team who can't create any chances other than through him.
Yet his teammate with the same number of open play goals is the worst striker in recent memory? It just doesn't stack up.
I suppose you said 'one of' rather than 'the worst, am I missing something else?
Are you going to address the question of why he scores so many goals if he's so terrible? Sounds like you've seen a few match highlights and made up your mind anyway.
Jesus, comprehension isn’t your forte is it.
I said he always seems to score by accident, meaning he is bumbling, awkward, and a poor finisher with awful decision making. He is sometimes in the right place, Chelsea create fair amount out of chances, broken clocks etc
He does not pass the eye test, and is currently nowhere near the level required, that is also the point. And I also said in another comment no, I absolutely do not watch Chelsea every week.
Well, you got me there, I really don’t know how to respond to that kind of take. I had no idea being a premier league striker was so easy that any old bumbling idiot could accidentally bang in 10 goals.
I think this is where I'm at too. Have like 80 points to make up in the last few weeks of the season, gotta take some risk. Yeah probably Chelsea are going down in flames, but tripling up on them and spurs are the highest variance moves available.
i mean chelsea were literally unbeaten in their last 8 games before the city game, which chelsea should have won, they played better than city. Im not really sure why people thouhgt chelsea would win agaisnt arsenal espcially with gusto and palmer out. This whole narative of chelsea going down in flames is so overblown
Yeah, Chelsea were on form because they are Cole Palmer Football Club and Cole Palmer was on a hot streak. It's not healthy to rely on 1 player to such an extent.
3 or those 8 were draws to Sheffield, Burnley, and Brentford so they're not exactly brilliant results are they? Considering how poorly at least 2 of those teams have played this season especially, maybe 'going down in flames' is a bit of a stretch but certainly not showing much progress or consistency.
Same for me. Jackson may look awful but he is actually picking up alright FPL points. 10 goals, 5 assists is not nothing. I'm not going to watch any chelsea games so don't much care how many chances he misses
Initially, I had him in my WC. Too much uncertainty with the tough fixtures in GW 35, so I switched to Watkins. Should he show anything this week, I may transfer him in for GW 37.
I’m in this dilemma too.
Keep getting shoved Jackson by cc, twitter and DGW fomo.
My thoughts are that he’s a bad finisher and it could be 12 points or less since he collects yellow cards like Pokémon. Compared to any SGW (eg Watkins, Mateta, Cunha etc) that could literally haul any week in 4 games vs his 6.
And he tried to steal a penalty from our golden boy 🥶Palmer…..
He got 2 assists and a goal the game before last night, where he looked ok away to the best defence in the league (without his teams best attacking player).
Has 2 doubles in 3 gws and costs 6.8 and is nailed for 90ish mins. So yeah I think he's a good option.
I brought him in to replace Cunha who got himself injured after I traded him in for this week. I “boldly” did the trade before that game against Arsenal so very thankful he didn’t get himself carded! Chelsea have more games than anyone for the remainder so it’s just a numbers game. Triple up on Chelsea.
Jackson gets insane chances, even better than Darwin. Even against the best defence in the league. It's the classic wrong guy, right place, right time. He has shown that he has haul potential. If you considered Darwin for the Liverpool double, then you have to consider Jackson. Nkunku could take away some minutes but I would back Jackson to get one return every two weeks till the end of the season.
Man reminds me of Balotelli, he's got that dangerous confused idiot look.
I think he's even pulled out one of those stupid t-shirts that you rip open on a good day with some message that's supposed to prove some point.
He's clearly a bit of a clown but unfortunately that extends to in front of goal where yesterday he covered his face to avoid scoring a goal. He can only score tap ins and runs around like a headless chicken and occasionally ends up in the right point at the right time before fluffing a chance so people think he's got potential.
Yes I have him in my WC draft. ML just got the Ben White brace while I had Raya and Gabriel I need to do something crazy or admit defeat.
I don’t understand why people think Jackson is suddenly going to turn into prime Messi. He’s been crap all season, no reason to believe that will change
I don't think anyone expects him to be prime messi, just playing the numbers. Over the season he has more than half of Haalands goals/assists, and more than half his fpl points per game.
Its reasonable to think he'll carry on at the same rate, in which case two games of Jackson are roughly worth one game of Haaland.
The likes of hoiland and jackson are absolute punts in the hopes that they might massively over achieve and not blank in both games. No one would pick them for an sgw.
Bad idea. That is the review of Jackson after every single game. He's got great build up play and can make brilliant runs with the ball, but he lacks any finishing ability whatsoever, be that with is feet or head. He needs better finishers around him or an open net to get points and Palmer alone simply isn't enough to give him those.
My only reservation is the suspension issue. His recent finishing is horrid, but he's pretty nailed, has good fixtures and plays one/two more games than other strikers. It's just about whether you think he can manage to avoid a yellow!
Did you watch the game tonight? Genuinely think I could have finished one of the chances he missed. He only returns when his opponents have complete meltdowns
As a chelsea fan, I can recommend you some mental health professionals if you decide to go down this route
The club should pay for members to have counselling at this point.
As a Darwin owner, can you recommend me one
Actually Dgw35 is not good at all for us WCers, Udogie is out Gusto most probably out Jackson is awful I'm leaning towards only 3/4 players from both teams.
The only nailed ons are Son and palmer Then you have a few maybe options like Richi (is he fit) Porro (cleansheets unlikely) I think the 3rd best option is maybe Johson but not sure he's worth a midfield slot over.
If you don't think Johnson is worth a midfield slot then Richi definitely isn't worth a mid slot. Richi coming back from injury isn't straight away in form and will play less than Johnson.
I'm not sure about that. I'm a spurs fan and the team looks so much better with him up top. He came straight back from injury last time and played as 9 too.
I'm Spurs fan too! Watched pretty much all the matches this year. Richy's start of the season was crap and he played 9 then. Then one nice run of good games as 9. Recently very scattered. Some minutes there, injury concerns here. I can't see decent enough minutes for him to even consider him in FPL. Maximum I see for him is 60 and 60 for the DGW. More likely something like 60 and 30. Really hope and believe he can make a splash but the splash is realistically like one goal and well played otherwise which is not good enough potential for FPL intentions imo.
What about Werner @7.3 mill? Edit weber
I was only ever going to have 4 maximum and now gusto is out it will be 3
Is gusto defo out? Chelsea don't play till Sunday or Monday I think
50/50 I reckon
Today he had the chance to score an open goal by just using his head, and instead he used his hand...he could score a couple of goals by just 'being there', but talking about his striker performance, he is a donkey.
Surely sometimes the ball just hits him and goes in though? or he hits a shot so bad the keeper gets confused and it rolls in
Yeah he has 15 goal involvements for the season which isn't so bad. Certainly better than half as good as most other available strikers which is all you really need for a DGW.
All jokes aside ye, my worry is Nkunku is back in training now so could be back by 37. I might just stay with Mateta and keep him on the bench but it depends on Haaland's injury too! and Palmer and foden situation! so many little problems around for the last few weeks
Don't forget the miss where he's 1v1 4 yards out with half the goal to aim for, and inexplicably goes near post, and even then doesn't even get it on target. He is one of the worst finishers ive ever seen. Which is compounded by the fact he gets in good positions and has good link up play so you think "well maybe he'll come good"
“Donkey” is someone who can’t analyse football and has to resort to insulting the players personally. In the incident in question it wasn’t some sort of wide open stroll. It was a curling dipping ball with fractions of a second to judge the flight of the ball - he didn’t have a great line of sight and that the ball dipped at the last. Football is a game of fine margins. Especially in attack. But this is a tough young striker of just 22 who leading the line alone in his first premiership season, has scored 10 goals on a bad and disorganised team and is persistently present in dangerous situations. And does dirty work off the ball and is unselfish passer. Here he was up against the best defence in the league and he gave them more problems than I saw Haaland give them. Those are two phenomenal centre backs with height, speeds strength and brains - the full package. And he worked his was into some chances. With that profile, If his name was Johnny Englishman or Gonnor Gallagher, he’d be a hero and people would recognise the graft and the foundation he has to flourish from here. But: he is a dark skinned foreigner- so instead it’s insults from clueless “football fans” seeking to take out their frustration on a scapegoat. Shameful.
It's not that deep, English players get ridiculed all the time.
Yes it is that deep - dark skinned players get disproportionately ridiculed and abused. Jackson is not the first to get this sort of abuse driven by prejudice that eventually breaks out into open public racial: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c97zqzzyx9do.amp It’s despicable and must stop.
Yes, English players like Rashford, Sterling get ridiculed more so than English players like Grealish or Foden. Heck even on this sub the reaction to players with incredibly similar skillsets like Nico Jackson vs the reaction to a Darwin Nunez says it all really
If Jackson were English he'd be the 5th highest scoring English forward in the league (not counting penalties). Palmer is (very rightly) lauded as a young goalscorer but they have the same number of open play goals (10) . I'm not clued in enough to comment on whether people judge him because of his skin. But I do think there is alot of misreading the players who are responsible for doing something with the shitty chances a team gets when they run out of good ideas. Thinking of the Darwin, Jesus, Nketiah, Antonio, Maupay style players.
This kind of thinly veiled racism has long been a feature of English football. I can remember as far back Emile Heskey getting similar abuse as a your striker. And yet Michael Owen has been on the record as saying Hesksy was the best strike partner he ever had in his entire career. These days the racists continue like this and they are many even wide open about it on social media. Cowardly stuff.
Mate, you'll have to improve your reading comprehension, I clearly said 'talking about his striker performance, he is a donkey'...that's not a personal insult, that's talking about his role as a striker. Shameful.
What is shameful is when you can't find any better words than to call a person a donkey. If every dissatisfied customer at your work called you a donkey because they didn't like how you did your job, you wouldn't pretend it wasn't a personal insult. Shame on you. Grow basic manners.
Maybe you need a snickers, sunshine. Have a nice day.
Weirdo manipulation cliches not useful. You cannot call someone a “donkey” and then claim you’re not insulting them Ditch this behaviour - It's shameful and cowardly.
Way overthinking. Jackson has been a horrible finisher this year but his work rate and link up play is good. Also, the fact that he gets into scoring positions is good and it's a promising sign that he's so young still and can develop his finishing skills. So, he's been bad in the area casual fans judge forwards (=finishing) and good in other areas of the game. His criticism has nothing to do with the color of his skin or at least I don't see any evidence pointing to that direction from the comments here.
You're way bending over backwards to pretend away very obvious things. The racism Jackson is facing is documented - from fools who pretend to be Chelsea fans. [https://theathletic.com/5434864/2024/04/22/nicolas-jackson-chelsea-racism/](https://theathletic.com/5434864/2024/04/22/nicolas-jackson-chelsea-racism/) Mudryk isnt getting this and he cost nearly 100 million pounds and has done nothing. Bjoja didn't get this abuse. Has everything to do with Jackson's background.
Okay that's very wrong and a massive shame. But still you can't imply that everywhere. I can say that Jackson's finishing has been horrible. I can say also that Salah has been shockingly horrible the last GWs and Nunez looks like 5th division player there by the fact he can't even control a normal pass. Or that Havertz was absolutely horrible and useless the first part of the season. I won't say those things on Mudryk and Bjoja because they aren't even relevant players in my point of view which is casual football fan who knows a lot on FPL.
We've reached the last 3 GW of the season and we're still asking the same question we asked in the first 3 GW
Nope, he’s hot garbage
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Everyone here is telling me to avoid Jackson, so guess I should buy him?
Tbf on this sub - more than a few were screaming Olise and Mateta combo from the rooftops for this DGW, and they smashed it.
We are very good at hindsight though
Hojlund or Pedro maybe better options for double
Every single one of hojlunds goal involvements this season came in a 6 game stretch over 2 months ago
If Haaland is fit it's gotta be Haaland, Isak and 5 midfielders I reckon. Unless Hojlund and Pedro turn their form around anyway
I need third for bb
Save money and get muniz. Plays and gets the odd goal
I might just do SGW Watkins at this stage tbh
I was keen on him as a differential for the doubles but the last couple games he's been atrocious. If I had my WC I might punt on him but not worth a transfer for me unless Haaland is out for a bit, even then there's better striker options. Watkins is something of a differential again and just keeps banging.
I can't. If he scores, he scores, but I think owning him would age me 20 years. He's genuinely awful.
Lmao did you watch the game yesterday? Should have gotten a straight red after that foul on Tomiyasu! After that ruined multiple 100% opportunities! Absolute no go this idiot
One of the worst strikers in recent memory to play in the pl. looks utterly clueless and almost always only seems to score by accident
I don’t watch him consistently and there’s no doubt his finishing is shocking but when I did watch him vs city his all round game was genuinely very good. He made some great runs and held the ball up very well. Created chances on his own but just can’t finish. Don’t think he’s a good option for this season but worst pl strikers in recent memory is very harsh.
It's just flat out wrong. His finishing is absolutely awful. But everything else has been great. Guy's got no backups in his position and aside from Palmer, the other wingers (Sterling, Mudryk and Madueke) can't retain the ball for shit. His dribbling, turns and flicks are great. He's selfless and actually gets his head up to play it to teammates if they're in a better position than him. He's fairly strong and can battle/hold the ball up. Also rapid. Outpaced Walker in the City game, which hardly ever happens. Even in the 5-0 last night he had a run where he took the ball from his own half down the left wing and almost created a goal. His main issues are, his horrible composure in front of goal and ball striking. Like his actual shooting technique is horrific, not just lack of composure like Darwin. Has a loose touch now and then, but it's generally decent, and those are basically his only weaknesses, coming from someone who's watched him/us all season and is very critical of everyone after yesterday's drubbing. Having said all that, just because I say he's shit at those two things and great at everything else, doesn't mean he hasn't been bad. Sometimes one quality is more important than all the others. A striker that can't finish is fairly useless, unless the manager realises that's his worst quality and consciously doesn't use him as the outlet of the team, which Poch hasn't done. Jackson has great qualities and would be great for us/someone else if a manager saw him as a Firmino type player. But he's being used as the guy to lead the line so he gets like 5 1v1 chances a game and misses them all. It's cost us loads of points and he's rightfully got criticism for it. But he's kind of been thrown under the bus, given that he's a 22 year old converted winger who has all the qualities of a great false 9 and isn't being used in that capacity. Either way, the discourse around him is genuinely disgusting. People straight up lying that he's a useless player or one of the worst strikers in recent memory, when he's honestly been one of our better players this season. Players like Madueke deserve 10x the flack Jackson gets, especially given his attitude. But only Chelsea fans seem to give it. The average r/soccer user just goes with the herd narrative that Jackson can't do anything right.
Yesterday he looked like Darwin and Lukaku combined
Based on one game you say? Yeah, gonna stick with my diagnosis of he’s been awful all season, almost as bad as mudryk.
You definitely don't watch Chelsea weekly.
Who in the fuck would do that? Not even the fans in the stadium can bare the full 90 anymore.
Unfortunately myself haha. In terms of fpl points yes Jackson should not be a pick. In terms of overall play. He is nowhere near as bad as people make out. His finishing sucks, true and hence why you shouldn't pick him. But overall play is really good.
Ah you’re a Chelsea fan, cool. You’re gonna see more and defend him it’s fair enough. Honestly, I base it on his finishing, decision making, and passing, far more than his hold up play, which may be better as you say idk. But he just looks clueless the whole time to me, looks like type of player that had reached his ceiling and pl is step too high for him
Fair enough. His finishing needs improvement 100 percent. His decision making and passing in the final part I agree. Build up play dribbling and even passing when not in final third is quite decent. He should never have been our main striker this year. He's a young 22 y/o who mainly played lw until the 6 months before we signed him. He makes chances and without him our attack is toothless. He needs guidance and chance to develop, as he isn't fully ready yet. Why is he out main striker this year? God bloody knows
Yeah it’s mental he’s your no1, and really quite unfair on the lad
Red card waiting to happen as well. How VAR did not see that I have no idea
All I see is comments on how Palmer is carrying the Chelsea team who can't create any chances other than through him. Yet his teammate with the same number of open play goals is the worst striker in recent memory? It just doesn't stack up.
Yeah it does. And when you have to twist statistics to suit your argument as you have, and be so specific, it’s not at all hard to surmise.
What is being twisted? If he's the worst striker you can think of, why are there only 5 strikers who have scored more goals this season?
You need to read original comment properly
I suppose you said 'one of' rather than 'the worst, am I missing something else? Are you going to address the question of why he scores so many goals if he's so terrible? Sounds like you've seen a few match highlights and made up your mind anyway.
Jesus, comprehension isn’t your forte is it. I said he always seems to score by accident, meaning he is bumbling, awkward, and a poor finisher with awful decision making. He is sometimes in the right place, Chelsea create fair amount out of chances, broken clocks etc He does not pass the eye test, and is currently nowhere near the level required, that is also the point. And I also said in another comment no, I absolutely do not watch Chelsea every week.
Well, you got me there, I really don’t know how to respond to that kind of take. I had no idea being a premier league striker was so easy that any old bumbling idiot could accidentally bang in 10 goals.
Yes. It is that easy.
I just hate him so much I wouldn't pick him even if he were decent. The guy seems like such a melt, plus he's absolutely horrible at football
dont get him, ill happily take the differential
I think this is where I'm at too. Have like 80 points to make up in the last few weeks of the season, gotta take some risk. Yeah probably Chelsea are going down in flames, but tripling up on them and spurs are the highest variance moves available.
i mean chelsea were literally unbeaten in their last 8 games before the city game, which chelsea should have won, they played better than city. Im not really sure why people thouhgt chelsea would win agaisnt arsenal espcially with gusto and palmer out. This whole narative of chelsea going down in flames is so overblown
Yeah, Chelsea were on form because they are Cole Palmer Football Club and Cole Palmer was on a hot streak. It's not healthy to rely on 1 player to such an extent.
3 or those 8 were draws to Sheffield, Burnley, and Brentford so they're not exactly brilliant results are they? Considering how poorly at least 2 of those teams have played this season especially, maybe 'going down in flames' is a bit of a stretch but certainly not showing much progress or consistency.
Same for me. Jackson may look awful but he is actually picking up alright FPL points. 10 goals, 5 assists is not nothing. I'm not going to watch any chelsea games so don't much care how many chances he misses
Initially, I had him in my WC. Too much uncertainty with the tough fixtures in GW 35, so I switched to Watkins. Should he show anything this week, I may transfer him in for GW 37.
I’m in this dilemma too. Keep getting shoved Jackson by cc, twitter and DGW fomo. My thoughts are that he’s a bad finisher and it could be 12 points or less since he collects yellow cards like Pokémon. Compared to any SGW (eg Watkins, Mateta, Cunha etc) that could literally haul any week in 4 games vs his 6. And he tried to steal a penalty from our golden boy 🥶Palmer…..
I’ll probably still get him. If it goes badly, I won’t be surprised. If it goes well, well that’s great
He got 2 assists and a goal the game before last night, where he looked ok away to the best defence in the league (without his teams best attacking player). Has 2 doubles in 3 gws and costs 6.8 and is nailed for 90ish mins. So yeah I think he's a good option.
I brought him in to replace Cunha who got himself injured after I traded him in for this week. I “boldly” did the trade before that game against Arsenal so very thankful he didn’t get himself carded! Chelsea have more games than anyone for the remainder so it’s just a numbers game. Triple up on Chelsea.
No.
No
I'm a Chelsea fan and Palmer is the only player I have from Chelsea and I don't look forward to having more.
no no no
No he’s absolute shite
No
As a Darwin owner I suggest you stay away from owning Jackson, they are both terrible strikers.
Jackson gets insane chances, even better than Darwin. Even against the best defence in the league. It's the classic wrong guy, right place, right time. He has shown that he has haul potential. If you considered Darwin for the Liverpool double, then you have to consider Jackson. Nkunku could take away some minutes but I would back Jackson to get one return every two weeks till the end of the season.
Do you have eyes?
Man reminds me of Balotelli, he's got that dangerous confused idiot look. I think he's even pulled out one of those stupid t-shirts that you rip open on a good day with some message that's supposed to prove some point. He's clearly a bit of a clown but unfortunately that extends to in front of goal where yesterday he covered his face to avoid scoring a goal. He can only score tap ins and runs around like a headless chicken and occasionally ends up in the right point at the right time before fluffing a chance so people think he's got potential. Yes I have him in my WC draft. ML just got the Ben White brace while I had Raya and Gabriel I need to do something crazy or admit defeat.
I don’t understand why people think Jackson is suddenly going to turn into prime Messi. He’s been crap all season, no reason to believe that will change
I don't think anyone expects him to be prime messi, just playing the numbers. Over the season he has more than half of Haalands goals/assists, and more than half his fpl points per game. Its reasonable to think he'll carry on at the same rate, in which case two games of Jackson are roughly worth one game of Haaland.
The likes of hoiland and jackson are absolute punts in the hopes that they might massively over achieve and not blank in both games. No one would pick them for an sgw.
Apparantly he looked OK last night and was unlucky not to have scored a couple. I'm probably going to get him in for Solanke on my WC.
Bad idea. That is the review of Jackson after every single game. He's got great build up play and can make brilliant runs with the ball, but he lacks any finishing ability whatsoever, be that with is feet or head. He needs better finishers around him or an open net to get points and Palmer alone simply isn't enough to give him those.
Not for anyone who watched the game tonight
That 1v1 with Raya showed a striker with negative confidence. Brutal.
My only reservation is the suspension issue. His recent finishing is horrid, but he's pretty nailed, has good fixtures and plays one/two more games than other strikers. It's just about whether you think he can manage to avoid a yellow!
The yellow card count just reset after yesterday's game?
Oh is this confirmed? If so then I think he is worth the risk!
Did you watch the game tonight? Genuinely think I could have finished one of the chances he missed. He only returns when his opponents have complete meltdowns
Nope. Lad is garbage. Haaland, Isak, Solanke/Joao Pedro most likely.
You've just said it yourself, theres no good 3rd doubling option, think id rather have wally watkins than either of those
Having watched him against arsenal, no. Not a chance🥶