Fantasy Football Tips: 5 Essential Transfers For Gameweek 17

5. Martin Skrtel

Team: Liverpool Value: £5.4 million Points In GW16: 6 Liverpool travel to a club in crisis in Saturday's early kick-off. Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay has been told to resign or be sacked by controversial owner Vincent Tan, for having the sheer audacity for asking for transfer funds in January. Meanwhile, Cardiff are hovering just above the relegation zone having won just one game all month and two in their last ten league games. An in-form Liverpool side who are fresh off putting five past a bewildered Tottenham will consider them ripe for the picking. I'm expecting a hefty Reds win here and for Brendan Rodgers's side to keep a clean sheet against a Bluebirds side who have only netted 12 in the topflight all season - the second-lowest goals tally in the league behind only Crystal Palace. Expect a quiet day for Martin Skrtel and co.
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