The Weekly Scout Picks

This team selection, or “Scout Picks” represents my chosen 11 for the current week based on a 4-4-2 formation with total disregard for any budget and with no particular fantasy game in mind.

This has now been extended to also include 3 substitutes which will normally allow an alternative defender, midfielder and attacker. This allows me to recommend some alternatives, perhaps some possible budget options. On some occasions I may also use these to allow me to pick those players who are classified in a variety of positions across the various games – Ashley Young being a prime example.

Please don’t take this selection as gospel, this is merely a list of players that I’ve identified as potential point scorers for the fixtures to come that week. These attempt to take into consideration such factors as the opposition, injuries, form, suspensions etc. Past experience have proved I can be spectacularly right and wrong in my selection so take the rough with the smooth and, like all the opinions I offer on the site, use it or dispose of it as you see fit.

Scout Picks

For Gameweek Twenty Four

  • Krul
  • Vermaelen
  • Kompany
  • Huth
  • Silva
  • Morrison
  • Bale
  • Valencia
  • Ba
  • van Persie
  • Agüero
  • Taiwo
  • Donovan
  • Zamora

Recent Comments

  • Dynamic
    Is Dempsey playing today or not, people saying different things? »
  • Henry Hill
    Come on Scotland! »
  • I'm reserving my judgement on this Messi kid until he faces Titus Bramble
    Was hoping Mancini would build a snowman and put a Kompany shirt on it and play that ahead of Savic #mcfc great tweet… »
  • CABAYE4
    Mackems getting carried away again! Looking forward to a more competitive derby though :P »
  • colonel shoe
    +1 huths -2 points is a serious blemish in an otherwise good afternoon thus far »
  • jkisthe1
    it could be worse Ajay, you could have Cisse Despite that i still outscored my main rival, he has Komps as well. It… »
  • Avon Barksdale
    Boy do I need him to do something, changed him to captain this morning after a certain Chris Glover convinced me it ws… »
  • Ali Dembaba
    Truly am serious! http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1347285/event-history/24/ »
  • blind faith
    laughin at all you people tellin me for the last 3 weeks u cant have both sess and mclean! wel its stil payin off for… »
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Goalkeepers

Player Club Factors
No Change Krul NEW A, Vs
No Change Hart MCI B, Vs
No Change Kenny QPR C, Vs, Rest, £
No Change Mignolet SUN B, £
Up Al-Habsi WIG B, Vs, £
No Change Foster WBA B
No Change Vorm SWA B, VsX, £
Down Hennessey WOL B, Vs
No Change Sørensen STO B, Vs, Rest, £
Up Bogdan BOL C, Rest, £

Defenders

Player Club Factors
No Change Kompany MCI B, Vs
Up Huth STO B, Vs
No Change Simpson NEW B, Vs, £
No Change Riise FUL C, Vs
Up Bardsley SUN B, £
Up Senderos FUL B, Vs, Rest, £
Up Taiwo QPR B, Vs, £
No Change Evans MUN B, VsX, £
No Change Taylor NEW B, Vs, Rest, OoP
Up Rangel SWA B, VsX, £
No Change Clark AVL B, Vs, OoP, £
No Change McAuley WBA B, £
Down Johnson WOL B, £
Up Vermaelen ARS C
Down Enrique LIV B, VsX
Down Assou-Ekotto TOT A, VsX

Midfielders

Player Club Factors
No Change Bale TOT A, VsX
No Change Dempsey FUL A, Vs, OoP
No Change Silva MCI A, Vs
No Change Sessegnon SUN A, £
No Change Valencia MUN A, VsX
No Change Walters STO B, Vs, OoP, £
Up Moses WIG B, Vs, OoP, £
Up McClean SUN A, £
No Change Sinclair SWA B, VsX, £
Up Ben Arfa NEW B, Vs, Rest, OoP
Down Mata CHE C
Up Barton QPR B, Vs
Up Sigurdsson SWA B, VsX, £
No Change Ireland AVL B, Vs, Rest, £
No Change Donovan EVE B, VsX
No Change Morrison WBA B, £
Up Buzsaky QPR B, Vs, Rest, Inj, £
Up Murphy FUL B, Vs

Forwards

Player Club Factors
No Change van Persie ARS B
No Change Agüero MCI C, Vs
Up Ba NEW C, Vs
No Change Zamora QPR B, Vs
Up Dzeko MCI C, Vs, Rest
Up Bent AVL A, Vs
Up Morison NOR B, £
Down Fletcher WOL B, £
No Change Rooney MUN C, VsX, Inj
Down Sturridge CHE C
Down Welbeck MUN A, VsX, Rest, £
No Change Crouch STO B, Vs
No Change Adebayor TOT C, VsX
Up Odemwingie WBA C, Vs, Rest
Up Keane AVL A, Vs, £

Selection Factors

A, B, C Current Form
Vs Favourable Fixtures
VsX Unfavourable Fixtures
Rest Rotation Risk
Inj Injured/Returning from Injury
OoP Out of Position
£ Potential Bargain
Sus Suspended/Near Suspension

Suspension Tightrope

Player Team YC
Lowe BLA 9
Terry CHE 8
Barton QPR 8
Cattermole SUN 8
Song ARS 7
Meireles CHE 7
Fellaini EVE 7
Huth STO 7
Shawcross STO 7
Caldwell WIG 7
Henry WOL 7
N'Zonzi BLA 6
Cole CHE 6
Luiz CHE 6
Lucas LIV 6
Barry MCI 6
Naughton NOR 6
Larsson SUN 6
Hunt WOL 6

“I do not agree with this decision, but we can do nothing. I do not agree. I explained to Mario and he understood.”

Roberto Mancini explains his begrudging acceptance of Mario Balotelli's four game ban