I like the triple Chelsea and United Coverage and your keeper choices. B Davies may not be nailed on, yes. There's also C Davies and Ward. Or you could upgrade Ferdinand to Caulker and pick a different 4.5 like Pocognoli.

Swap him for C Davies.

I think Ward works best for you at that price, rotate with QPR

I don't like your QPR players. Luis is 100% nailed on imo. Until Man U bring in a quality centre back and an experienced full back, I can't see Man U keeping many CS, you could always switch to Debuchy once Arsenal's fixtures improve. I'd downgrade Sanchez to Ramsey and Evans to a 4.5, then try and improve Austin.

It really depends on how well you think Costa will adapt. A is objectively the better and more high scoring set of players, though I imagine you're benching Albrighton and so you'll rotate Banjo based on fixtures.

Fab will be a good option in the short term due to his set piece duties, which apparently Leicester are really vulnerable to, so he should get a couple of assists. Over time I think he'll lose ground to Hazard.

B) - Bojan is an unecessary risk.

I like it overall. Perhaps you're putting a little too much into defence though, and could downgrade one of your bench defenders because your starters could simply be left in for every game.

Is your plan to rotate between Hoilett, Banjo and Sig? I don't know if any of them will produce consistently in all honesty.

If you need funds for another move, you could also downgrade Yaya to Silva and use the cash to upgrade either Fabregas, Dzeko or Hoilett.

There could be some rotation between Mutch and Hoilett.

Hoilett, Bojan and siggy rotates very well.

Sterling is a bit of a risk. But he may be explosive from the off. I think Hazard should be there. 200 points the last 2 seasons with Costa more prolific than Torres/Eto. Lose Bruce as he isnt nailed, try Moore from Leicester. I like it tho

Sterling to Siggy/Arnie and Austin to Dzeko and you are good to go.

Love the presence of Sterling and the tripling of United and Chelsea. I think your team is perfectly fine as it is, though you might want to drop Albrighton for another 4.5 like Wanyama or Marney, purely because his high ownership at the start could lead to a value drop. Of course, that's only an issue if you want to trade him in at some point.

The template team is something like:

Krul Mannone
Terry Davies Evans 4.5 Wisdom
Ramsey Mata Eriksen Siggy Albrighton
Rooney Costa Jovetic

Great team, there's really not much I can suggest there apart from adding Sterling who I reckon will go off like a rocket. I know you're skeptical but I'm even considering captaining him, such is my enthusiasm.

I like this one much better!

Vlaar's a bit of a worry for me. And I'd prefer Siggy instead of Puncheon, but each to their own.

My only point would be no big hitting defender.

Ward. Will play every game

£10k to enter. 50 teams. Winner takes the lot

I'm in Australia. My league is a $30 buy in. 20 goes into the pot for the classic league and 10 for the H2H. League has roughly 20 people so 400 for the classic split out 250-100-50, and 200 for the H2H split out 150-50.

Anyone?

I agree B is better.

Joetivic is good in preseason but preseason doesn't carry much weight since most other teams are not playing starters. He looks good but the sample size is small. Plus what happens when negredo and aguero come back - he won't play much.

Lukaku is a beast, he will score 10+ goals.

Hazard is a beast, he possibly has better help this year with fabergas and costa.

I would upgrade Young to Siggy, but overall ok

Looking good. Is there anyone you covet?

I'd take half your remaining funds and upgrade one of the defenders to someone with certainty of starts. Perhaps N Taylor, Colo, van Aanholt or Pocognoli.

Marney? I am not a lover of Bojan - I think he'll flop and his price will plummet. Austin I do not really know a lot about. The defence could do with a little man hug tho!

Lack of Arsenal would concern me and I don't like Jovetic at all.

I don't like any QPR players - which rules out Austin and Caulker. I'd keep an eye on Taylor, Swansea could bring someone in. Otherwise, I like it. I fancy Jovetic to start after Dzeko had a rather exhausting WC with Bosnia.

E

You don't believe Chelsea will keep cleanies against two of the weakest attacking teams in the league?

Gamboa will most likely displace Wisdom. Who is your third striker?

Surely if your going 3-5-2 you need 2 strong strikers ? Seems slightly imbalanced to me

B

Eriksen and £0.5m in the bank that is

Sterling

Hard one this. I'd be tempted by Sterling because Pocchetino's Spurs team are still something of an unknown compared to Liverpool imo.

Eriksen

Eriksen

Eriksen is premium midfielder that has been priced wrong. Take advantage while you can, I can see him being 9m + next season.

BDaives > Ward

You have coverage so don't worry too much. I do think you'll need Haz early on tho.

B Davies is a bit of a worry at this stage. If I were you I'd flip to C Davies or Ward.

City mids are fair enough; they're expensive and there's no indication who's going to fire. I'd definitely have one of the Chelsea mids, perhaps making a couple sacrifices elsewhere to trade Eriksen for Fabregas.

You do have costa though

Cameron could go either way. I reckon you can trade into him later on if you need to.

I like the rest of the team though.

Looks solid.

Cheers lads. Cameron's a great pick for that price. Won't pick him if there's a doubt. If Vlaar goes to United or Saints he'll be straight in there for Evans or Clyne and then get a 5m or less option.

Paulinho is not a good choice in midfield.

Downgrade one or two of your defenders and upgrade your midfield

If you're going for a heavy defensive side I'd look at Vertonghen instead of Koscielny and Baines instead of Terry. I'd shift things to upgrade Paulinho as well.

I'm not sure if this is the right part of the year for a diamond-studded defence.

Your defense is far too expensive! I can see the approcah you have taken but there are ways to downgrade that defense and still be effective like terry/cahill for Ward then upgrade paulinho who def shouldnt be there. If you want to take a punt on pelle fair enough but i would downgrade him to austin or bojan then use them funds agin to upgrade that midfield

Made a few adjustments.

De gea (myhill)
Baines kosecny Coleman, filipe luis (dumment)
Paulinho Ramsey silva (traore, James)
Costa giroud pelle

Not set on luis looking for a more attacking mid and also thinking of saving .5-1 mill and spending elsewhere. Also thinking Nasri for silva and upgrading elsewhere.
I would like to keep paulinho

It's entirely possible, especially with the plethora of options in midfield. But he is young, full of energy and has no real fitness or injury problems right now. Gerrard might be rotated due to age and Lallana isn't back yet. So at least to start with, Sterling will be the midfield linchpin and he's in blistering form against half-decent defences. If he does well from the beginning, he might just make himself irreplacable.

One of the front 8 can't play in you starting 11. Downgrade one of them and use the cash to bolster your defence.

Wow, double Palace is a new one, especially without Mariappa. I personally think it's good enough, even if B Davies is still a question mark. Consider replacing him if there's no certainty reached either way. You can always buy him later.

Bartley and Bruce. Wisdom as the third

I would go A

Both decent. I personally wouldn't have that much in defence, but each to his own.

Strangely, I don't have a lot of confidence in our defence atm. Everything hinges on whether Coleman will be fit for the start of the season. We were forced to play Hibbert against Celta Vigo and they tore him apart. IF Coleman is fit and raring to go, different story and Baines is a good pick.

Would replace Sanogo with a 4.5m then use the 0.5m to upgrade Vertonghen to Kompany.

dont like the Sanogo punt but it could work for the first game

I'd put him in the "wait and see" pile.

Looks pretty good, though I don't think Sunderland / PvA will keep to many clean sheets for their initial gameweeks

I'm guessing you'll play 3-5-2?

nice,

although not sure on Austin (Long or Crouch are the same money).
Like lamela but waiting to see if he stays in hole like preseason.

I would go for O'shea over Van Aanholt but think I just go for people that performed in previous years,

Who of your front line do you bench?

A

A, because I'm not sure if Luis is 100% starting.