Pickford
Azpi-TAA-van Dijk-Coleman-Laporte
Salah-Zaha-Sterling
Jimenez-King

Thoughts?

When is Sakho or Tomkins back from injury?

Ritchie a good move?? He’s now a Defender on penalties & corners?

A. Maddison, Fraser & KDB + 0.5

B. Tielemans, Brooks & Sterling

Have Salah too.

A) Richarlison

B) Felipe Anderson + £1 m to spend elsewhere

What do you think of this layout of funds?

6.0, (4)
7.0, 5.5, 5.5 (4.5), (4.0)
12.5, 12.0, 8.0, 7.5, 6.5
6.5, 6.5, (4.5)

My reasoning is that strikers this year are poor. You can probably guess that I’ve got Sterling and Salah, which causes compromises elsewhere.

Advantage is that the different prices mean I have flexibility, maximum money on the pitch and a midfield packed with high points potential.

My main fear is that only the 4.5 defender sub will actually start for their team, so I’m vulnerable to injury/rotation.

Ryan
TAA , Cathcart , Digne
Lucas Moura , KDB , Siggy , Fraser
Vardy , Abuameyang , Rashford

Thoughts ?

Rmt guys..all criticism greatly appreciated 😉

First of many drafts to follow:

Ederson, 4mill
Taa, robbo,stone,4.5,4
Sterling,salah,zaha,tielmans,4.5
Giroud,king,dcl

For anyone interested in Burnley's penalty takers this season (and I'm sure you all are!):

Over the last two seasons, Burnley have been awarded 6 penalties - 2 in the Premier League, 2 in the Europa League qualis and two in the FA Cup. These were scored by:
EPL v Southampton - Barnes (Wood had been substituted)
EPL v Brighton - Barnes (Barnes won the penalty, Wood was on the pitch and on a hat trick)
Europa v Aberdeen - Barnes (Wood had been substituted)
Europa v Olympiacos - Wood (Wood won the penalty, Barnes was on the pitch)
FA Cup v Barnsley - Wood (Barnes on the bench)
FA Cup v Leeds - Wood (Barnes on the pitch)

In yesterday's first pre-season friendly, Burnley beat Fulham 1-0 with a penalty by Wood (with Barnes on the pitch) following a foul on Ben Gibson.

Now in the seasons prior to the last two, Burnley's penalties were mostly shared between Sam Vokes and Danny Ings or, following Ings' transfer to Liverpool, Vokes and Andre Gray. As a rule, there was one main penalty taker (Ings and then Gray) with Vokes getting the spot kick duties if he earned the penalty.

Following on from yesterday's result and looking at the past two seasons, it looks like this is still the rule, with Wood the primary penalty taker unless Barnes wins the penalty (or Wood is off the pitch).

Admittedly, Burnley hardly provide a fertile source of penalties, but with VAR in operation, there could be an increase this season (Burnley would likely have been awarded at least a couple more penalties last season if VAR had been in place). The only potential spanner in the works is the arrival of Jay Rodriguez who was West Brom's penalty taker last season so it will be interesting to see how he fits into the pecking order. I expect though, from the start of the season at least, that Rodriguez will be in the bench with Wood and Barnes continuing their partnership up front.

There are probably better options up front in the 6.5 price bracket but if you are considering a Burnley attacker or want to stock up on penalty takers, you might want to consider Wood over Barnes.

Salah/Jota or Mane/Jiménez?

Thoughts on Diego Rico’s chances of playing this season? Bournemouth forked out £10m plus for him last summer. I know Lloyd Kelly has signed for a similar fee but he could be playing centre back potentially leaving Rico to become our AWB for 2019/20.

Kane and Maddison or Vardy and Alli (Son GW3)

Spurs have great fixtures especially home until Xmas.

How am I looking chaps?

Ederson.
Cathcart, Digne, VVD.
Pereyra, Zaha, Fraser, Richarlison, Salah.
King, Kane.

Woodman, Ings, Kelly, Mings.

Cheers!

Anyone interested in Grob? Got an assist today and should be over his injury problems.

Their opening run isn't that bad and could easily slide on to the Leicester mid of choice after a few games.

Sterling + Giroud
Or
Kdb + vardy + 0.5
It tempted with A to start the season with. Want to see where Kev plays. And vardys fixtures are better from week 9.

Trying something different here to see if could get in Salah Sterling and Kane into squad. Do you think it looks good enough?

Pope
TAA Van Dijk Ake Coleman Zinchenko
Salah Sterling Tielemans Brooks
Kane

Woodman Dendoncker Greenwood Wickham

Dogpiling, on FFS. Who'da thought? 😆 😆 😆

Mods on full alert as usual. 🙂

Might I just suggest that pretty much everyone here is getting ahead of themselves and that in a few weeks the majority of people here will have quite dissimilar looking teams to what they've got at the moment.

All these similar looking RMTs that are flooding these forums. Can we just, stop, for a bit?

Is there no discussion to be had about football, or who we are excited to watch this season or who might be a good player to keep tabs on from the promoted teams?
What about transfer prospects for our favourites teams?
Pre-season events?

You guys are posting teams like the season is going to start tomorrow. It's always the same. At the start of a DGW before the FIRST FIXTURE is even done of the week beforehand, people are posting teams, asking for advice, begging to be told what to do.

I get it. We want a good start to the season. But my word this is bordering on the ridiculous.
We all know what the template is, and what the alternatives are to having Sterling AND Salah in our team, so we can all step away from the game for a bit and stop getting so blinkered into thinking there is only one or two viable teams to have.

This website really does start to entrench the notion that only a few line ups are actually viable and the rest are utter rubbish. It's not healthy.

A) Fraser Siggy Deulofeu
B) Jorginho Tielemans Kane

Any potential in Grealish?

Would you pick A or B here?

A King Laporte TAA
B Wilson Zenchenko VVD

Anybody punting on Zappacosta? Played again today.

Well.......I'm changing things around and have reverted back to a 5-4-1....It just seems a bit template!

Ryan
van Dijk TAA Laporte Digne Trippier
Salah Sigurdsson Sterling Fraser
King

Button
Surridge
Dendoncker
Wickham

I'm really starting to like the idea of Ayoze Pérez in my line up. I've been looking into his stats and highlights from last season and this was a brilliant transfer for Leicester.

At the start of very season I put on a wee bet for the player of the year. This year I am going for Bernardo Silva. I think he will be the main man this season. Who's your POTY ?

Also a quick RMT pls guys.

Ryan
Taa Digne Pva
Siggy Salah Bilva Tielemans
Kane King Jiminez

Button Kelly Dendonkey Targett

My current draft:

Ryan
VVD,TAA, Digne, Ake
Salah, Sigurdsson, KDB, Fraser
Jimmy, Vardy

Any advise?

A. Laporte + Brooks
B. Zinchenko/Coleman + Fraser

Owners of King/Jota/Deulofeu: who you're going with and why?

It seems pretty quiet for big hitting transfers this year so far.....we need some marquee signings like Mbappe......

So when they start arriving soon I think our teams will change consideribly......looks like Diego Costa to Everton or West Ham coming soon.