First the transfer. Rodriguez is out for the season which is a great shame because at £6.5 million he was terrific value. The main attribute for his replacement is that he needs to have 2 games this week. That limits it to Everton, Palace, Sunderland or Man City. None of the playing City strikers can be bought for £6.4 (note the difference in price). The highest scoring Palace striker for that money is Chamakh! For Sunderland it's Borini! But Everton provides an interesting and remarkably cheap option of Naismith, and so he's in.
For team selection, in order to maximise the players with 2 games, Sterling drops to the bench and is replaced by Naismith. In defence Shaw replaces Johnson because with Cardiff as opposition there is more prospect of a clean sheet than there is for playing Man City. Sidwell remains on the bench.
The captain needs to be playing two games and Baines offers the best prospect of points. Others playing 2 games are Zabaleta, Barkley, and Speroni who comes in for Szczesny in goal.
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