GW37 Thought Process: Trossard, Beto, and midfield punts

The penultimate gameweek is almost here

ℹ️ There are fewer than two weeks until the season ends.

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Another quick turnaround (Friday evening deadline), so let’s jump straight into team selection.

This stage of the season demands transfers, and there are often several strong picks, even with only 2 gameweeks left.

My team is no exception.

Gameweek 37: 1 free transfer now, or 2 next week?

Here’s my Gameweek 37 bus team:

1 free transfer and £0.5 million in the bank to spend.

At this transfer crossroads, I have only two options: use 1 FT in each of the remaining GWs, or roll this week and use 2 FTs in Gameweek 38.

The only thing I’m willing to see burn this season is Arsenal’s title hopes.

My fellow Data Dribble Spurs fans and I right now

There are 3 questions to ask:

1️⃣ Do I need to do anything?
2️⃣ What’s the opportunity cost of not making a move?
3️⃣ What’s an advantage of making moves next week?

As for the first question, there are two important factors: squad quality and potential rotation.

There are several players I’m not too keen to start this week: Marcus Tavernier (£5.4m), James Hill (£4.2m), Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£5.8m), Pascal Struijk (£4.2m), and I also have some doubts about Antoine Semenyo (£8.1m).

The reasoning is straightforward.

I won’t play any Leeds players to avoid clashing with my Brighton stack of Verbruggen, Van Hecke, and Hinshelwood – as you know from previous articles, I’m not only bullish on their defence but also on Hinshelwood, who has been one of the best-performing midfielders recently. There’s no way I’m benching any of them against a team that’s firmly on the beach.

As for Bournemouth, the City match-up puts me off, as it’ll likely cap Tavernier’s upside, especially given that penalty duties seem to have been handed to Junior Kroupi.

I’m somewhat willing to play Hill, as the Cherries are strong at home: there’s a chance it will be a tight game, and a DEFCON two-pointer feels like an 80% certainty (he has a 77% success rate in the post-Christmas sample).

Assessing Antoine Semenyo (£8.1m) is a proper headache.

Manchester City are facing the following schedule: