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Price Change Predictions

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

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Chalobah	CHE	5.2m	99.0%	Likely
Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	5.0m	87.2%	Likely
Cash	AVL	4.7m	88.6%	Likely
Saka	ARS	10.1m	96.9%	Likely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.8m	93.1%	Likely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	98.1%	Maybe
Roefs	SUN	4.7m	88.9%	Unlikely
Burn	NEW	5.1m	85.7%	Unlikely
Rogers	AVL	6.9m	79.6%	Unlikely
Muñoz	CRY	6.1m	69.5%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	80.1%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	80.7%	Unlikely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	77.6%	Unlikely
Szoboszlai	LIV	6.6m	75.0%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.8m	71.7%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	76.7%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	73.7%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	6.0m	70.1%	Unlikely
Lacroix	CRY	5.1m	71.3%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	68.0%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	66.6%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	66.8%	Unlikely
J.Palhinha	TOT	5.5m	66.3%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	63.3%	Unlikely
Amad	MUN	6.3m	58.7%	Unlikely
Merino	ARS	6.0m	48.8%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	53.9%	Unlikely
Gordon	NEW	7.2m	47.0%	Unlikely
King	FUL	4.5m	52.2%	Unlikely
Tarkowski	EVE	5.4m	43.0%	Unlikely
Sessegnon	FUL	5.4m	47.1%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.4m	51.0%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.5m	42.5%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.5m	30.6%	Unlikely
Anderson	NFO	5.4m	46.1%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	47.5%	Unlikely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	44.4%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	46.7%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	39.6%	Unlikely
Wilson	WHU	5.8m	38.4%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Gabriel	ARS	6.3m	105.2%	Very Likely
Botman	NEW	4.9m	102.2%	Very Likely
Maguire	MUN	4.4m	101.4%	Very Likely
Baleba	BHA	4.7m	99.7%	Likely
Mac Allister	LIV	6.3m	99.3%	Likely
Enzo	CHE	6.7m	95.9%	Likely
Young	AVL	4.4m	99.3%	Likely
Pedro Porro	TOT	5.4m	98.8%	Likely
Boateng	BUR	4.8m	98.7%	Likely
Ngumoha	LIV	4.4m	93.8%	Likely
Obi	MUN	4.3m	96.9%	Maybe
Alderete	SUN	4.1m	96.5%	Maybe
Ortega Moreno	MCI	4.8m	97.3%	Maybe
Byram	LEE	3.9m	96.3%	Maybe
Matete	SUN	4.4m	95.7%	Maybe
Arrizabalaga	ARS	4.2m	95.6%	Maybe
Travers	EVE	4.4m	94.3%	Maybe
Akinmboni	BOU	3.9m	93.6%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.4%	Unlikely
Pinnock	BRE	4.3m	94.7%	Unlikely
Gruev	LEE	4.8m	89.5%	Unlikely
Sonne	BUR	3.9m	91.5%	Unlikely
George	CHE	4.9m	95.2%	Unlikely
Knight	BHA	4.5m	91.7%	Unlikely
Gannon-Doak	BOU	4.9m	91.7%	Unlikely
Cox	BRE	4.0m	90.5%	Unlikely
McGill	BHA	4.0m	90.7%	Unlikely
Spence	TOT	4.4m	87.8%	Unlikely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	89.7%	Unlikely
M.Bizot	AVL	4.3m	85.4%	Unlikely
Agbinone	CRY	4.4m	86.4%	Unlikely
Jordan	BUR	4.0m	86.7%	Unlikely
Ndoye	NFO	5.6m	82.6%	Unlikely
Hato	CHE	4.7m	87.1%	Unlikely
Abbott	NFO	3.9m	84.9%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	86.3%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.5m	86.6%	Unlikely
Carvalho	BRE	4.8m	83.7%	Unlikely
Patterson	SUN	4.3m	82.6%	Unlikely
Elliott	AVL	5.3m	82.9%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Vs, Sus
No Change	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Sels	NFO	B
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 6 Dec, 2025 12:36am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Muñoz	CRY	A, Sus
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	de Ligt	MUN	B, Inj
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Andersen	FUL	B
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	B
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A, £
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 6 Dec, 2025 12:41am

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

Last updated: 6 Dec, 2025 12:48am

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

We’re back. As the Olympic flame begins to flicker, the football season crunches through the gears to take up the pace. Today’s Community Shield is the official curtain raiser and offers up a Man City vs Chelsea clash that will surely whet the appetite for the feast to come.

The first Dugout Discussion post of the season is here, then, with our Chatroom also open for those who fancy some real-time exchanges.

The team news from Villa Park goes a lot like this…

Chelsea are without one of their new midfield signings, as Marko Marin continues to nurse a hamstring which threatens to derail his double Gameweek prospects. Without the option of Marin, Roberto Di Matteo looks to be going with a 4-3-3, which could similarly shift to pack the midfield with a 4-5-1. Significantly, Juan Mata starts along with Eden Hazard: the Spaniard looks to be playing on the right of compatriot Fernando Torres, with Hazard given the left flank role. Mikel holds a midfield start, with Frank Lampard and Ramires alongside him. John Terry skippers the side in a familiar back four which has Branislav Ivanovic in the right-back role and David Luiz given the nod over Gary Cahill who sits on the bench.

City are without both Gareth Barry and Micah Richards through injury, while reports of a back problem for Joe Hart are confirmed as Costel Pantilimon starts in goal. Ahead of him it looks like a familiar 4-4-2, although there is talk of Roberto Mancini lining up in the 3-5-2 that he’s used throughout the pre-season. Stefan Savic is given the nod alongside Vincent Kompany who recovers from a knock to start: Lescott is presumably being preserved for next weekend. Pablo Zabaleta and, interestingly, Aleksandar Kolarov both get starts, with Clichy benched. It could be we see Zabaleta employed as a defensive three, with Kolarov and James Milner used as wing-backs. David Silva is kept on the bench after his Euro 2012 campaign and, with Barry also absent, Nigel De Jong gets the nod alongside Yaya Toure. Carlos Tevez will be expected to provide the support for Sergio Aguero up front; Mario Balotelli is out of the equation through conjunctivitis, apparently.

Let’s hope the match is a sight for his sore eyes. Enjoy the game.

smuggs

13 years, 3 months ago

anyone tempted to go with both of stokes keepers for 9m seems that its hassle free and gives an extra 1m to spend

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rabinhio
13 years, 3 months ago
what if stoke leak goals....begovic is the starter
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1. smuggs
  13 years, 3 months ago
  i can see them getting 3 clean sheets in the first 12 and with all the save points and i want miss if they ever save a pen i can only me being 10 points or so worse that swaping 2 keepers and i can have wba,villa and newcastle and sunderland centre halfs playing the 2 home starters each time with a big hitter seems so much more solid than having a 4.5m defenfers in my team
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  1. GREENDREAMS11
    13 years, 3 months ago
    9 clean sheets between them last year Suggs. If that's ok by you then go for it but anything can happen in a season.
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    1. smuggs
      13 years, 3 months ago
      i think they will have 3-4 more cleans not as much midweek footie this season just a thought might not go ahead with it
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      1. GREENDREAMS11
        13 years, 3 months ago
        I think a cheap defence is the way forward personally so I'm not going to try to deter you but it just means you are stuck with stoke fixtures each week difficult or hard. 2 other cheap keepers from different teams could give you a better spread of home/easy games if you planned it a bit better. Check to see if anyone has g/k rotations for other cheap goalies , might be a better option.
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Salah’s Sonnet

What does anyone reckon of this team? i'm rather liking it...

de Gea - Federici
Hangeland, Lescott, Williams - Gorkss, Fonte
Yaya, Ramires, Bale, Siggy - Kacaniklic
Tevez, Torres, Graham

2m in the bank

Comments much appreciated, thanks.

cuterandy

Charity Shield is jinx for FPL

anyone know if ridgewell will be playing centre half or left back for wba

Mr Wizard

Can anyone see Ramsey starting at arsenal? He had an impressive Olympics..

Krny

anyone think lukaku would be a good punt.

Mr Wizard
13 years, 3 months ago
For 6.5 nuggets, graham all day
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Benko123

mata vs ramires?

Big_Andy_GAWA
13 years, 3 months ago
RDM said Mata "would be eased into the season." I think Ramires will play both games in DGW, hence the reason I have gone for him. . .
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scoopyb

Jaas /cerny

Cole, zabal, ass ek, /barnett Bertrand
Kaga, pienaar, gevinho, cazorla /sterling
Graham, tevez, Torres

Currently have 3m, what are your thoughts?

Not to sure about Gervinho, but a striker as a mid, hmmm

gdog2244
13 years, 3 months ago
His forehead is too big
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1. scoopyb
  13 years, 3 months ago
  Lol, Good for headers!!
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gdog2244

Best mid at 6.0 or below?

vkel
13 years, 3 months ago
Allen/Maloney
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vkel

what is United's back four??

Dark_Mata
13 years, 3 months ago
its for defending 😉
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