Like it. Good balance there

your midfield is way too strong compared to other areas of the pitch IMO. I'd take out either Malouda or VDV and upgrade Zamora. Defence looks cheapish but decent, dont know why you want luiz on the bench though.

Too imbalanced. Bench too weak.

Simpson has to be one of the £4mill defenders

Well, it's better than most of the others, imo.

Only thing I would say with that is with Cech you are pretty only much getting the 6 points where paying the .5 extra for Cole gets you the potiential assists/goals. But then you'd have to lose Baines....

No Rooney or RVP either, but then their fixtures aren't the best so I can see the logic in the Suarez/Bent combo.

It's a good team though boss.

You have 5 or 6 serious rotation risks and your whole bench will mostly likely not play. This is not a good situation to be in.

yea, great starting 11, but you're going to need to downgrade someone upfront to beef up your bench a bit

suarez is set for a 2 week rest after the copa america final. will he start?

Mata for Valencia normally plays wide left - but is allowed to roam (Similar to Silva at City) - This said god knows what Wenger may do with him... Central AMF could be an idea.

Mata is an skill winger, guess in the nani mould. Not powerful like malouda but quick and skillful. I'm pumped arsenal look like getting him.

Taken a punt on Marveaux, think it might take him a while to get going though... probably more of a reflection of wanting to avoid Barton (as his presence in my team makes me feel a bit sick, rather than for points reasons)... Good value in NEW midfield though, several options... so waiting to see how pans out.

I'm not a Mata expert, but he seems to be in between the 2... depends on exits. Could easily see both the above leaving, and I would guess it would be less risky to have him wide(left) but can play either. I saw interviews where he seemed to want to move centrally (don't they all), but depends on exits.

(if he comes in that is!)

There or thereabouts. Don't think Rafael gives you a guaranteed route into the Utd back 4. Moses possibly worth the punt for the first 3 fixtures.

Not saying they aren't bad '5th men' as they play every week, are relatively cheap and may notch in with the odd decent return - but 150+ points? 10+ goals? Not for me thank you.

I think you may be right - but Wigan also have big problems, so personally I shall also be avoiding them ...

Andy Carroll? He'd have matched Adam if he'd been fit all season and continued his form.

I agree that Blackpool were exceptional, though. People shouldn't expect anyone to replicate the kind of returns that Adam (and Campbell to a degree) were able to get last year.

There was an article about the new BP system last week which can be found here:

http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2011/07/22/the-fpl-bonus-points-moving-the-goalposts/

The new BP system is not ostensibly based on Opta stats per se, but as the article discusses there are one or two categories of Opta stat which seems to correlate with EA index and will be of use.

I have no doubt that there will be more articles on the correlation between Opta data and the EA index but these will almost certainly be members only because Opta stats cost money.

Hope this helps in some way.

I love B as an option with Zamora/Rodallega

Barton - points machine this season

Toure - not sold on his points potential this year with Aguero coming in...

Moses - one of the best cheap players when N'Zogbia goes

Yossi - rotation risk

Ferguson - read lots about him being injured and when fit gets no where near first team!

The rest of your team must be strong, but MF scores on average the most points!

Osman, Walters, Sessegnon

The Scout's analysis above on midfield budgitos is a good place to start.

Personally, I like Taraabt and Sinclair as you can rote them each week. If WBA improve further, then Brunt might be worth some investment. O Hara is another fave.

From a United fan Rooney is the only Nailed on player in United's attack.... The rest is a mystery

As a Sampdoria fan who seen Macheda playing i wouldn't see him ever touching Rooney's playing time. He might be ok in the conference though.

Most United attacking players will be rotated from time to time but not Rooney. He will play almost every minute of every game.

Briggs Left mid.

Riise was a fb.

Another player to add to the ex-watford players team 😉

Burnley fan? 🙂

I think picking the right captain is important this year as always. All of your choices for captain there are riskey.

Torres = wrong!

Some risky choices in there imo - Cahill, Demps,Torres, Rod, Tiote, Brown.

This seems a team that is married to the fixture list. Remember that players like RVP and VDV are fixture proof.

Who you gonna get for Chelseas nice fixtures?

Sorry, not keen on it.

Gks - not keen on any WIG player.
Defs - too expensive
Mids- like Silva and Nzog but the other 3 worry me.
Fwds- have a look at Zamora, RVP as your 12 mill fwd and likely to outscore Roonpig and just get rid of Hot Rod.

Depends how Drogba does vs Stoke then? Who knows!

Spit it out that tripling in defense 😉

Probably not a bad thing... How is it shaping up?

thats potentially a good thing! the generic FFS team was formed a few weeks back and still the RMT's keep coming...

Totally agree. One to watch without a doubt.

I think u r talking about Osman, but he is too expensive and I gave up. Its Cahill or nowhere IMO. I want piece of Tim after GW1. They had cracking fixtures and first time after a while he had proper summer brake.

P.S. Those commenting about low starters blablabla, remember the Law on averages.

Who is your captain GW 1?

P.S. Moses = Boseli

Gks ok.
Defs-super expensive and will Kelly start?
Mids- you can do better than Moses and Albrighton imo.
Fwds-swap Bent and Graham for RVP and Bobby Z.

Morning! 🙂

No problems,

Couple of things...

Gabbidon and Briggs (Do they start? - I am not an expert on Fulham or QPR)

If Tevez stays maybe him for Rooney in GW1?

Yep.

ive posted before but after watching orr for 6+ years regularly at bristol city i really dont think hell cut it in the prem

there is talk down here that hes unhappy at QPR as he isnt likely to start and may be on his way back to us

will he play tho when toure is back?

How does that work then? Kompany only scored 8pts less last season and was classed as mf.

For sure if he is goona start Lescott will pop up with goals

Chelsea - I expect a CM to come in - Modric or Pastore are reported

United - Smoke screen put up by Fergie, I do expect a CM tbh...

City - You never know... Nasri - as Mata on route to Arsenal according to reports.

Looks like Pastore not Modric at Chelski.
We expect Sneijder at United but may have to settle for Anderson - blah.
City signed Aguero and not sure if Nasri will go this year or next.
Oh and Spurs still need a striker! 🙂

Cheers guys.
(as an transfer saga-ed arsenal fan)keeping some budget aside... still quite a bit of transfer movement to be had.

Not sure there will be too many internal transfer/ loan bargains this season, as bigger money being spent externally.

Baines, Ba and Hotlips were all in my first draft team. Then I started to realise that there were better options out there...:?

A relatively pricey back 5 that limits your squad in the key scoring areas of midpark n attack.

Samba and Rafael - cull these first and add some 4 mills like Orr, Simpson, et al.

Raf has played 3/4 preseason games - all at RB getting 2 assists and a goal...

The other game he wasn't in the first team squad