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Price Change Predictions

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Calvert-Lewin	LEE	5.6m	106.0%	Very Likely
Rúben	MCI	5.6m	99.9%	Likely
Van Hecke	BHA	4.5m	100.4%	Very Likely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	100.3%	Very Likely
Palmer	CHE	10.3m	99.7%	Likely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	93.1%	Unlikely
Bowen	WHU	7.5m	87.1%	Unlikely
Marc Guiu	CHE	4.2m	85.7%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	85.6%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.9m	80.8%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	79.1%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	78.7%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.6m	71.6%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	69.1%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	68.2%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	67.6%	Unlikely
Raya	ARS	6.0m	67.1%	Unlikely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	67.0%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	65.4%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	64.2%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	61.8%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.4m	59.1%	Unlikely
Semenyo	BOU	7.5m	56.1%	Unlikely
Haaland	MCI	15.0m	57.3%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	56.5%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	56.5%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	56.4%	Unlikely
Ekitiké	LIV	8.6m	49.9%	Unlikely
Romero	TOT	5.0m	51.7%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.8m	49.5%	Unlikely
Cash	AVL	4.9m	50.8%	Unlikely
James	CHE	5.6m	49.0%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	49.0%	Unlikely
Wilson	FUL	5.6m	44.2%	Unlikely
Flemming	BUR	5.3m	47.8%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	46.8%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	41.5%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	39.8%	Unlikely
Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	5.1m	41.1%	Unlikely
Wilson	WHU	5.8m	40.0%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Anthony	BUR	5.3m	111.9%	Very Likely
Minteh	BHA	6.2m	106.1%	Very Likely
Longstaff	LEE	4.9m	104.8%	Very Likely
Nallo	LIV	3.8m	103.2%	Very Likely
Eze	ARS	7.8m	100.1%	Very Likely
Ndiaye	EVE	6.4m	100.7%	Very Likely
Muniz	FUL	5.4m	101.3%	Very Likely
Mayenda	SUN	5.3m	100.7%	Very Likely
Rodon	LEE	4.1m	100.8%	Very Likely
Gudmundsson	LEE	3.9m	100.0%	Very Likely
Elanga	NEW	6.6m	99.6%	Maybe
Jordan	BUR	4.0m	99.6%	Maybe
Neave	NEW	4.4m	99.3%	Maybe
Yarmoliuk	BRE	5.0m	95.3%	Maybe
McKenna	BOU	4.0m	95.2%	Maybe
Morgan	BRE	4.4m	94.6%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.2%	Unlikely
Balcombe	BRE	4.0m	94.1%	Unlikely
Lammens	MUN	5.1m	93.2%	Unlikely
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	93.0%	Unlikely
Irving	WHU	4.4m	92.4%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	92.5%	Unlikely
Kulusevski	TOT	6.4m	92.3%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	92.1%	Unlikely
Bentley	WOL	4.0m	91.8%	Unlikely
Piroe	LEE	5.0m	91.4%	Unlikely
Nørgaard	ARS	5.2m	90.6%	Unlikely
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	90.4%	Unlikely
Worrall	BUR	3.9m	89.6%	Unlikely
João Pedro	CHE	7.3m	88.4%	Unlikely
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	89.4%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	88.7%	Unlikely
Sels	NFO	4.7m	87.3%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	6.1m	84.4%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	86.9%	Unlikely
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	86.7%	Unlikely
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	86.9%	Unlikely
Danso	TOT	4.3m	86.0%	Unlikely
Coleman	EVE	4.3m	85.6%	Unlikely
Enzo	CHE	6.6m	83.6%	Unlikely

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Watchlists

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Sus
Up	Kelleher	BRE	C, Vs
Down	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:16am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C, Inj
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	C
Up	Andersen	FUL	C
Up	Marc Guehi	CRY	A
Up	van den Berg	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:28am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	B
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Foden	MCI	A
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
Up	Szoboszlai	LIV	C
No Change	Minteh	BHA	B
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	A
No Change	Schade	BRE	C, Vs, Sus
No Change	Anderson	NFO	B, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:34am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	C
Up	Ekitiké	LIV	B
Down	Welbeck	BHA	C, Rest
Down	Woltemade	NEW	B

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:43am

Leagues

Scout League Update – October

9 October 2011 720 comments

Andy

While the October international break has afforded us time to roll out a few new site features, I’ve been beavering away with a “quick” update on every Scout League we’ve got out there this season from Fantasy Premier League (FPL) to the Championship…

Classic FPL Leagues

Six weeks into the season (we scratched off gameweek 1 after all the drama) and there are two folks neck and neck atop the all-important Fantasy Football Scout league. An average of just under 69 points a gameweek sees Jennifer Rutter and Dag Birkeland as the pace setters- Owen McGongle was top until then and will, at least right now, be kicking himself over that Sergio Aguero injury.

Our stat-engorging, Season Ticker-loving and diligent subscribers in the Members League are a little further behind right now but that’s no means not to congratulate Richard Payne for his first six weeks atop of the pile. Pouring over every fine detail of each shot blocked and key passes made got you where you are, right Richard?

While on the topic of Classic leagues I suppose I should give our very own Contributor’s League something of a mention and begrudging congratulations go to my colleague Akers for his early lead 1/6th of the way through the season. I, Andy, find myself slap bang in the middle with my stateside colleague da Beeeeez equidistant in points from the top to Superior Being at the bottom.

Head to Head Leagues

FFS H2H 1/ FFS H2H 2 / FFS H2H 3 / FFS H2H 4 / FFS H2H 5

We’ve now got so many Head to Head Leagues even I could grow a beard in the time it would take to go over the ramifications. Instead, we’ll split our select leagues into two and leave most of the work to another of my self-drawn tables with a quick high/lowlight to follow…

JimI, Verbal, gaspar, Gunner Legion and Super-Hans all have an early lead in the weekly match-ups, sitting top of their respective Head to Head leagues at this break in the road.

Granville and Mark are doing it for the pods as they put on a respectable face for the Fantasy Football Scout fraternity, while I try and glide past the fact another two of my fellow colleagues are currently sat in dead last and would be heading for the Reserve League as things currently stand.

FFS H2H 6 / FFS H2H 7 / FFS H2H 8 / FFS H2H 9

Those are just the first five of nine 20 man Head to Head leagues we’ve now got in rotation. In future, these articles will give more space and time to managers on the rise and wane between updates but, for now, we soldier on with the final four…

JC, Boss Hogg, Dexter4King and mattiesafer are the other four Head to Head leaders at present, as they make an early attempt at forging a place high enough to move up our league structure. In these leagues, falling down the ladder is much easier to do- that’s what I tell myself anyway as el-fozzie, Big Dunc and myself continue our dispiriting performances from the Contributor’s pot – da Beeeeez at least helps out somewhat with a spot in the top six.

You may not recognise the name WillHowe in Head to Head 8, but you should; he helped design this new chapel of Scout we now house ourselves in. Here’s hoping his fortunes improve, then. A name you probably will be familiar with is Westfield Irons, otherwise known as Jon Reeson and Fantasy Premier League winner 2009/10, who is teetering dangerously on the precipice of success and failure. For now at least, he has “reason” (sorry) to be cheerful.

Reserve League
Just a handful of weeks into the season and we’re already down to a “mere” twenty-four managers with unbeaten records in the free-for-all known as the Reserve League. Alan Barlow sneaks the lead from Neil Winnett by a slimline 8 overall points, with twenty-two Fantasy Managers clawing away at their heels as they look to break into the nine aforementioned leagues next term.

European League

As you’ve probably picked up on in the last month or so, Fantasy Football Scout has gone a bit continental. Why Napoli you ask? This is because we’ve spread our wings to provide parallel coverage of the Champions League this season.

We’ve got a more than healthy contingent of European Fantasy managers in the Scout League. You may have seen Granville skirting around the comments, heard him bend Mark’s arm to mention in the Scoutcasts and even shout from the rooftops about his grand start that had him first in England at one point in time. Now, he’ll have to make do with miserly fifth and just third in the Scout League.

Obay Eid’s wildcard-inspired second Matchday sees him top the Mancunian pod-jockey on number of transfers alone with the greatest credit so far going to Emmanuel Martey who is two points ahead of the pair and has the early lead in our European adventure. 141st in the world (and 1st in Ghana) is a none too shabby start.

The Other Leagues

We didn’t get as much time to review as many other games on the Fantasy park this summer but still managed to stop off at a couple more points of interest before the season began. Sun Dream Team is the other big Fantasy game out there with its giant prizes and equally large readership, so we were more than obliged to set up a Scout League.

Covering every game on each Premier League team’s agenda, from the Europa League to the Premier League via the Carling Cup, there’s an abundance of opportunity to snag some bargains if you play your cards right. Sitting with a Royal Flush as another transfer window opens is Gareth Owens and his Inter Bearded Clan. Notorious member of our commenting community Attilla the Bum also finds himself in a respectable 11th place.

And, finally, we’ve got 126 managers with an eye on the Championship and its Texaco branded Fantasy Game . Us in this here league bear witness to Paul Young at the top of the tree, though David Sudlow in third and Colin Gray in second, with an almighty bounty of assists, are not going to let him run away with things.

I somehow find myself joint third in the assist charts and yet still languishing in 76th place. The miserly 7 goals so far this season probably has something to do with it. I’m not bitter.

Hopefully, schedules permitting, we’ll be back with in the next International Break after another four gameweeks of FPL action.

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futbolnotsoccer
14 years, 2 months ago
Alright, this comes per @manamongst's feedback, got the gears thinking and I came up with two teams:

Vorm (Ruddy)
Bosingwa Enrique Simpson NTaylor (Kompany)
Nani Silva VdV (Dyer Tiote)
Aguero Rooney Sturridge

OR

Vorm (Ruddy)
Boyata NTaylor Bosingwa Simpson (Enrique)
Silva Nani Mata (Tiote Dyer)
Aguero Rooney Adebayor

Feedback please lads, this be the last time I want to think of this for the week, got an exam and homework to do. Cheers
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1. applebonkers
  14 years, 2 months ago
  so basically
  A) kompany, VDV and sturridge
  or
  B) boyata, mata and adebayor
  
  a for me
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  1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius�…
    14 years, 2 months ago
    +42! 😉
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  2. Manamongst
    14 years, 2 months ago
    A lot of uncertainty in A, not a huge fan of Boyata, but on second view Bolton have just as much chance or better of keeping a clean sheet. VDV may average about 65 minutes of play (along with Mata...unfortunately). So disregarding the defenders and the shiny name of Kompany,you may be on to something...unless he rakes in some bonus points in the United or Villa match, which they have a huge chance of a clean one there. Just thinking outloud here...obviously.
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2. Manamongst
  14 years, 2 months ago
  I say if you feel passionate about both list hang on to it until before your exam and see the status of Ade and if he appears good to go, roll with that. I'm gonna go with the guy that scored 24 goals in this league with the locked-down starting position, than I would Sturridge (I just don't trust AVB, the Anelka factor or potential for formation changes). I like him as well and at times find myself wishing I had him but wouldn't remove any of my current strikers for.
  
  Full Disclosure: I do own Ade.
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Spectrum-FFS Doubles Champ
14 years, 2 months ago
Hillbilly pete whereabouts in Oldham are you from? I live on Oldham as well
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DV8R
14 years, 2 months ago
Anyone here still have Moses in their team?
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1. futbolnotsoccer
  14 years, 2 months ago
  Nope. Dropped the fool in gameweek 2.
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2. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius�…
  14 years, 2 months ago
  I told him the last time he came down from the mountain - "If you don't bring back ten, you can park your slippers elsewhere ... !" 😉
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  1. Holy See
    14 years, 2 months ago
    Blasphemous Heathen! I still have him as it happens. I am bound. “While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk”. Let us pray. Or drink.
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    1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius�…
      14 years, 2 months ago
      He begged me to let him part the Red Sea, but I told him to take his swanky party tricks over to your house! 😉
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3. Davemc23
  14 years, 2 months ago
  I have him for one final week. If he doesn't perform, he's gone!
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4. Mark
  14 years, 2 months ago
  Have him. Starting Him. Courting him for Picks.
  
  Sweet dreams 😉
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Salah’s Sonnet
14 years, 2 months ago
Hiya lads,

For next gameweek,

Ruddy or Given?

&

Simpson or N.Taylor?

Goota be Ruddy & Naylor right? 🙂
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1. applebonkers
  14 years, 2 months ago
  ruddy (chasing clean sheets > chasing saves imo seeing as 1 clean sheet = 12 saves)
  don't fancy much from either so flip a coin on the defenders
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  1. applebonkers
    14 years, 2 months ago
    actually scrap that go for naylor, i'd rather have my defender up against holt and morison that adebayor and VDV
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    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      14 years, 2 months ago
      Cool, yeah good point, cheers man 🙂
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Torrestar
14 years, 2 months ago
How does my team look for next week?

Vorm
Woodgate Bosingwa Kompany
Dyer Ramsey Mata Silva
Adebayor Rooney Aguero

Given Simpson Brown Ferguson

Now, who do you recommend for captain?
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CatMac
14 years, 2 months ago
Hi all

I have 2 FT this week and 0.3m in the bank, but only really want to shift one player - Wes Brown. Should I

a) Do Brown to Zat Knight (BOL) with their coming fixtures or
b) Arteta to Ramsey and Brown to Shawcross?

No real need to shift Arteta, it just gives me more to spend in defence

Rest of defence is Bosingwa, Enrique, S Taylor, N Taylor

many thanks
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1. Kostja
  14 years, 2 months ago
  B looks good
  a is a horrrrible idea.
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  1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius�…
    14 years, 2 months ago
    I agree with him ... but I would look at Shorey and Assou-Ekotto as well ...
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2. applebonkers
  14 years, 2 months ago
  seeing as knight was dropped last match and boyata is cheaper and a goal threat i see no reason to choose knight personally
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  1. Manamongst
    14 years, 2 months ago
    The 6'7" own goal threat that Knight is
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    1. Manamongst
      14 years, 2 months ago
      knight dropped increased their clean sheet probability 10 fold!
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      1. applebonkers
        14 years, 2 months ago
        last week it was 1-1 when knight was on and 4-0 chelsea when he was off 😉
        i reckon he'll be back next week and boyata at rb but as it stands if you want bolton and aren't splashing out for cahill it has to be boyata imo, even if the difference is only 0.4 between him and knight. have always been amazed at how little a goal threat knight is but he really isn't
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        Manamongst
        14 years, 2 months ago
        Yeah he's actually horrible in the air. The Darko Milicic of futbol, afraid that Cahill will get it going. He's always seemed an extremely gifted scorer. I'd hate to miss out but if I invest in anyone on that squad it would have to be Klass. And that'd be down the road a bit.
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3. megatronaldinho
  14 years, 2 months ago
  if u are in any way confident about playin 3 defenders u cud just do the arty--> ramsey move this week then have 2 free plus extra cash next week. options galore!
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4. CatMac
  14 years, 2 months ago
  cheers guys.
  
  some interesting points there I'll need to digest, but you've put me off Knight 🙂
  
  I did look at Shorey btw Doosra, he might be a better option.
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  1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius�…
    14 years, 2 months ago
    Top man in WBA - always something to consider ...
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SOM.... This is Fellaini�…
14 years, 2 months ago
Any Irish folk use the bye bye tv bills freeview box?
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sachmo
14 years, 2 months ago
Who would you'll start next week - Vorm(swa) or Ruddy (NOR)? They're playing each other!
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1. applebonkers
  14 years, 2 months ago
  ruddy and hope home advantage holds
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2. Manamongst
  14 years, 2 months ago
  Experts and logic would say Ruddy. But sometimes a pocket Jacks hand like Vorm make it through the gauntlet. Sometimes teams don't follow the natural progressions the way Norwich should after a decent showing against Man U. Especially with this layoff, But then again I fancy Swansea to keep the lion's share of the possession and quite possibly shots on goal. So maybe a 0-0 draw with Ruddy getting save points as well may tip it. but the Swans may very well come good once or even twice with all that possession they preach. I just like Vorm as an athletic save guy. But that could amount to a hill of beans @ Norwich. Yeah that probably didn't help at all...
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Gaz Downright
14 years, 2 months ago
"People just think of the drinking, that it finished me in football. I was still playing in the premiership, getting man of the match awards every other game, when I was at Everton at 35. Yeah."

... the lad's right
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1. Gaz Downright
  14 years, 2 months ago
  We were due to play Sunderland on 12 January 2002. That night I drank three and a half bottles of wine, took 11 sleeping tablets, woke up at 6am with the shakes, took a couple more tablets, finished off the wine, fell back asleep, woke up again at 9am, had a treble brandy, another sleeping tablet, a smoke and went to the game. I was in a terrible state, so I had another treble brandy, took another tablet and went out and played a blinder. Afterwards, I went home and fell asleep. Next morning I asked Jimmy ["Five Bellies", pictured below] how I had done. "Look at the table," he said, pointing to a bottle of champagne. "You won man of the match."
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  1. Gaz Downright
    14 years, 2 months ago
    ledg
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