If you can tear yourself away from Sky Sports and its never-ending stream of transfer gossip for just a couple of hours, there's another Fantasy Football Gameweek to plan for. We're into Gameweek 24 now and while the pageantry of transfer deadline day is addictive, so too is the virtual kind. Like our real-life managerial counterparts, we will be looking for last-minute bargains to add to our Fantasy team while worrying about keeping hold of what we have (unlucky if you had Yohan Cabaye) between now and the closure of the window at 23:00 GMT. Players of our What Culture! Fantasy Football League, if they haven't done so already, can take a leaf out of real-life manager's books and make wholesale changes to their sides. Using the wildcard, players can give super-busy Cardiff City, who have signed six players this month, a run for their money by ringing the changes. It's only active until Saturday, February 1st, however, at which point it will run out at 11:30, so turn off Sky Sports and give your Fantasy team some attention. We have some cracking fixtures lined up this weekend including the Tyne/Wear derby as Newcastle play host to Sunderland, while table-toppers Man City clash with Chelsea on Monday. As always, these fixtures have a direct impact not just on the Premier League table but also on our What Culture Fantasy Football League, and here are 5 Essential Transfers For Gameweek 24.
Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.
