Week 34 - 09/10 Season Final Team

Fulop

       Bale   Smalling  Mancienne

Walcott   Malouda   Nani   A.Young

   Kalou   Van Persie   Anichibe

...and so we face the final curtain. It's always sad when the Premier League season ends - the thought of having to wait over 3 months for the new season to start fills me with dread, but at least that will be tempered slightly by the World Cup this summer. 

Anyway, the above is what I settled on for Week 34. The ultimate cheap keeper & defence, with Fulop, Bale, Mancienne & Smalling costing me a grand total of £11m, which means I had the money to splash out on my 7 attacking players.

I wanted an Arsenal midfielder so decided on Theo Walcott at home to Fulham, who should should start out on the right wing & get forward plenty enough. As some of the guys on the chat room this morning will know, I toyed with the idea of spending £23m on Lampard but I had to field two sub-6 players to do it, so stuck with Malouda. I'm sure Lamps will top 20 points nonetheless but I think it was the sensible choice. 

I'm paying full price for Nani, but at home to Stoke he should have a field day & Ashley Young is a real hunch...it's his last chance to grab a World Cup squad place so I expect he'll look to take players on & shoot from everywhere.

RvP was the 2nd name on my team sheet after Bale as I think he's in for a huge game today, Kalou will continue in an attacking role for Chelsea & Anichibe is my other hunch for Everton. It's a bit of a mismatched strikeforce but its one I feel could do pretty well.

That's it! I quite like my team & hope it could be good enough to finish in the Top 300 (if everyone plays), but we shall see. Players who almost made it include Lamps, Arsh, Babel & Rodwell, so expect a hattrick from all 4. Please let me know what you settled on for Week 34 (obviously I don't have to ask you for any barndoor ideas!) & good luck to Alex & Stephane as they battled it out for The Blog Cup prize!

Finally - Back in June 2009 I started writing the blog anonymously as "Assistant Manager" mainly to save face in-case it failed miserably (and so my mates in my private group wouldn't know it was me!), but the whole "AM" thing actually worked well. However, as it's the end of my first season I thought it would be a good time to reveal a bit more about myself!

My name is Nik Argiropoulos (my Dad is from Greece - I was born in England, have lived here all my life & don't speak a word of Greek!), I'm 27 & I live in Woking in Surrey (45 minutes outside London). However, I'll continue to be AM for the purposes of the blog :)

Thanks for reading, thanks for contributing, good luck for the final week!

Cheers,

AM

 ;)

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