like it, some good differentials in there

De Jong, Arnie and young looks like alot of risk. Also be handy to see your full side - there's a striker missing.

Looks decent enough to me. I think I'd be happy with it. Third striker? Which Davies?

Similar predicament. I've gone for Evans Davies, Ward, Cameron, Taylor.

A lot of people moaning that Cameron and Taylor aren't guaranteed starters, so prob best just to sit back and chill while preseason will give us a better picture of what the crack is.

Nice, just usual problems of whether Luis will start yada yada. And when Chelsea have a dodgy fixture you'll have to bring Bruce in. Which isn't good as we don't know if he is nailed on to start (probably not). Might want to reassess Sanchez, stick in Ramsey and upgrade Bruce.

Still.... nice team.

welcome mate! i'd suggest getting a grav

shockingly similar to mine

thing is you'd need 2m to get Costa, and it'll be hard to generate that sort of cash without going with an extremely cheap in your defense. or sacrificing Sanchez but I think Sanchez will do very well

That looks very nice. No obvious flaws. Although I would perhaps suggest picking lesser owned subs than myhill/albrighton. Given that you will barely ever play them, it's not worth risking them dropping in value when their relatively high ownership inevitably falls. Other than that, nice team.

Does Luis not worry you from the off?

Same midfield as me 🙂

Defense is way too weak imo. Gonna have to have to free up some funds in either mid or upfront.

bony and siggy? bony to someone else

I have a few objections to the defence, but these are overshadowed by the prospect of having to play one of Tiote/Albrighton on a regular basis - that's nightmare football not fantasy football.

Why have you gone for Tiote? And two 4.0 defenders will not give you much flexibility. But seeing as all your main defenders are full backs you can prob get away with playing them every game. Kinda.

You clearly have a lot of confidence in the Spurs defence - Lloris is certainly an unusual fire-and-forget keeper pick, but it's not the craziest thing I've ever heard. I do think the double-up might be pushing it though, and the general feeling seems to be that Davies might not be nailed on. For my money you can do better than Davies and Lovren for 10m, but it's a credible, if unusual, team.

Strong team. Do Ward and Chester rotate well?

I've seen a few comments questioning hazard playing time. He's a had a short pre-season

The uber cheap defence would worry me

Cheap defense but it seems solid enough.

I might prefer Costa + Ramsey over Sturrridge + eriksen but either looks fine

Overall, solid team

Luis

Gotta be Luis. Of the 5 Chelsea backs Azpi and Ivan are least secure imo

Hazard and dzeko IMO

I cleaned it up for you

B

A ) IMO but I'm arsenal biased !

By downgrading it.

He's my side ....and I've spent more on defence than you

DDG,
Cahill, JT, Caulker,
Siggy, Ramsey, Hazard, 6.0 - Henderson, Puncheon, Young / Mitch
Lukaku, Rooney, Dzeko

4.0 - Chester, Cameron, Wanyama

Yes / no I think there are better options : Siggy, Mutch, Arnie and possibly Young

What did he say Thomass?

He's a credible pick.

I'll probably have him come gw1.

Too many sources of potential points in that Liverpool midfield for me. Hendo is nicely priced, but I'd want him out after GW 1 either way, and I'm not sure his purchase is therefore justified.

Did you see Jonty's daily hot topic on this? Think it was two days back

Hendo is a respectable pick

B, I think

I also think you could ask this in the main thread

Only need one arsenal mid for the beginning IMO

Prefer Alexis over Ramsey though

Rooney. More people have him, and while there are very good options for a similar price as mata in midfield, there's no substitute for Rooney up front if he comes out firing with his 35% ownership.

Rooney then

Massive goal involvement when on the field

Easy.......Rooney

Has to be both!

Both 😉

I've gone both, but Rooney if forced to choose one.

Thanks lads

everyone that posts a RMT should try to rate at least 2-3 other teams

I like it TexanRed. Keep a close eye on Cameron in case he's not first choice. I've seen a few say they think he may be a risk.

Check Krul/Foster rotation against yours

Luis is a risk

Cameron is a risk and supposedly has. 9 clubs after him

Midfield looks great

Giroud is iffy to me. Not sharp at the moment and really don't like his early fixtures.

Understand you're going with a cheap. 3rd striker but Nuget has the worst fixtures in the opening weeks and you don't want to have to worry your third striker is hurting your team value early doors

I really like this team, although you will not have any cover for Shaw or Luis if they have difficult fixtures. But being attacking defenders perhaps this won't be of concern....

I have the same pairing of Cameron and Taylor. At the moment I'm holding tight on them but appreciate I may have to upgrade by downgrading one of my mids if they do not start. Haz > Fab is something to consider on the off chance...

As I said though, I like it!

I really like it. I won't nick your team though 🙂 Dzeko probably the one towatch in a few weeks when their other strikers are all fit.

4 of your defenders have bad week 1 fixtures and good ones in week 2. Look to Hull & QPR to level that off a bit. Just saying I would want at least two of my defenders to have decent looking fixtures in any given game week, if not 3.

Defence needs beefing up but not sure who you should sacrifice!

I like the team generally though. Good stuff

Looks to be some really good teams about tonight with a few different in each.
I like a lot of them including yours.

Looks like you'll have to play Bojan every week but that's the cost of having both Rooney and Costa.
Maybe downgrade defence a bit and get a better striker than Bojan
Other than that looks solid to me 🙂

Solid team mate, any criticisms would be minor and would be a matter of opinion, like 'are you sure Debuchy is the right way to go....'

Except maybe the choice of Foster as your main keeper 🙂

It looks as if Bojan is playing in the 'hole' so not an out and out striker. Maybe Agbonlar for Bojan? I think Siggy's first game is tough ... maybe bring in Johnson for gw 1?

Mata & Rooney are a must ... I'd even think about Evans for Debuchy tbh

no mata? 😯

8 Can you afford Rooney in there as well Thomass?

7

6 – Too many players that are new in their clubs for my taste

Will you play 4-3-3 sometimes?

Needs Rooney ideally. Bang in form and has great fixtures.

I would probably sacrifice Ramsey to upgrade Ade, or just do a straight swap with Costa

You need a second striker that is nailed on. I wouldn't want to start with a single decent striker, even if it affords that midfield. Downgrade one of Terry or Cahill to Naylor (rotates with Stk well) and upgrade Murray.

It looks tempting but you lack flexibility to get a second striker in if they start performing.

I wouldn't say suicide with the first few fixtures, but would take a brave man to risk the potential of losing early ground against the masses of people who will have at least one of them. Could be genius though!

No

With Mata and Hazard pretty much essential it sucks up a lot of cash that should be being used to buy them.

I like keeper rotation better than Mannone.
I don't think Cameron is likely to start.
I don't like Eriksen as a pick as I think Lamela could take points off of him.

I think you are too heavy on midfield, I would downgrade at least one of them to spread the wealth.

I'd like the problem of Siggy or Austin every week.

Yep it's a nice team. Its the difference between hazard+austin or costa+albrighton

It will be luck which is best

I might copy that team 😀
Mariappa not nailed on. Nothing else looks wrong with it

Very solid. Defence rotates well so can't really complain. Not entirely sold on Eriksen yet and I'm not convinced he will prove to be good value at 8m. Strikers are very good.

Begovic + Huth is a lot of money on Stoke's defence, especially when they are away to the top teams. I would prefer to get a Chelsea defender in their somewhere.

I like the Bojan risk, but coupled with a 4.5 could earn you an early wildcard or points hit if you find the more expensive strikers firing.

That front line wounds my soul

Defence are all nailed on which is good, how do they rotate?
Is Brady in the starting 11 for Hull?
A few captain options which is good.

You could miss out on Mata's points but fitting him in would be tricky!

I take it you are a Villa fan?