Salah v Mane: how the Liverpool assets compare after FPL price changes

Please please please

They won't launch on a weekend. No one to watch in case things go wrong.

With no confirmed schedule ? Bit pointless.

Probably won’t be until Thursday/Friday at the earliest.

Messi should go back to boyhood club or join some other big league. Can you imagine Juve with Messi and Ronaldo?

They're screwed. That will take many years to correct.

SAF may have won the title in his last season, but he left behind a very old squad. Nearly all of the first team were in their 30s. We all know how that went...

Having most of your squad drop off at the same time is devastating. Building a new squad from scratch will take many windows...

Ironic also given La Masia

They're obviously aiming to get Garcia back from City and I imagine there are a couple of other graduates placed somewhere else but has the tap run dry? No idea.

As Giggs says it'll take a good time to fix this - simply using the United comparison. There are also parallels with United and the tradition of bringing in local produce. I imagine there'll be calls - and Barca is a very political club - to get back to their roots and go local as much s possible

We'll take the morning glory! Good price for the Woodmeister. Could be him and Werner upfront in a 4:4:2.

Dele @ 7.5m.

I’d like to see multiple Liverpool defenders.

TAA’s price will be way less relevant without that context.

TAA, Auba, Kane, Aguero, Son, Robbo, VVD

Wood was tweeted on Burnley's twitter page @ 6.5

I can’t agree, I feel like it makes it a really easy decision to pick Salah given the choice between the two.

Points per minute last season was the same, yes, but I feel as though Mane is on fire to be doing what he’s doing whilst Salah has way more left in the tank. His ceiling feels way higher than Mane’s.

I'm still going for the two, I think. Same price for the pair as last year, service aplently and Liverpool are set up to score. If I can get Bruno in there, providing Auba's still a mid, that'll suit me over second guessing Pep every week.

Pretty much agreed but actually it took most of the way to gameweek 9 for Mane to get close to similar ownership and even then I suspect the sales were from Sterling as much as Mo. Preconceived notions die hard.

As a footballer or as an FPL asset?

I think incredibly he’s somehow underrated as an FPL asset at the moment because people base their opinions on recent absolute FPL points and are holding him to the benchmark of that 300 point season.

His history as a PL and FPL player suggests otherwise 🙂

It won’t

I’m expecting Monday.

Would be even more ridiculous than Pulisic at 8m

In the same way as 14 games weren’t enough to properly penalise Bruno, hopefully Greenwood’s 8 consecutive starts at the tail end of the season won’t be enough to penalise him with anything too far over 7.0

Mata & Martial have both started as 7.5 midfielders in recent seasons, after playing more minutes (and more returns) than Greenwood - Dan James started at 6.5 after being signed for €15m...

If Greenwood is a mid (and I think all 12 of his starts this season were out wide right) - then I can’t see him getting more than a 3.0 hike from his 4.5 last year hopefully... especially after only making 12 starts & his other 18 appearances being from the bench

7.0 would sound predictable, 7.5 maybe a bit harsh, 6.5 would be doing a KDB/Bruno/Pulisic and underpricing him, but could still happen due to the way they seem to be approaching pricing in some cases

Those same prices, but as a forward, may also be a possibility...

Agree. He's a striker all day long. Always has been.

Why?

lol agree.

Presumably Kane will be midfielder also.

He has changed the position over the years.
Evolution

Yes I agree

I would really like to hear the reasoning of a person who would pick him over Salah for that price

Yep. Even Saka as LW and Willian RW.

Shshsh 😉

Pretty likely to happen. Laca could also be sold which would make it a pretty bad classification

I thought Auba was leaving like you said during the cup final? Hm

But yeah that could happen

to be fair though, this is the more fun way, more points 😉

Agree.

This is the thing with FPL vs real life. In real life you can be a wide winger, an inside winger, a playmaking forward, a striker, a wide midfielder, a central midfielder, a central attacking midfielder etc. There are literally hundreds of roles. But FPL does not distinguish between roles - it has three positions - DF, MF, FW and the bps work to favour certain actions within those roles.

By classic FPL role and bps actions, Sterling, Salah, Auba, Martial are clearly forwards. Mane, KDB, Fernandes, Mahrez are mids.

The hard one is Rashford. Because he is a midfielder sometimes, but a forward other times.

Ha ha, guess they can give us at least one of each 😀

David Luiz - 2.5m
Phil Jones - 2.5m
Otamendi - 2.0m
Kepa - for free at owners risk

Oops. Reply fail to "The Fish".

Well, we've got Richarlison... ok, I see your point 🙂

Early on, probably yes.

This helmet.....

He's priced accordingly.

Really not an issue in the slightest...

Good luck!

yep and yep, 3 yrs today since his first goal for Liverpool away to Hoffenheim

Price is spot on cause he could play up front sometimes

Bargain. Will get 20+ goals and the odd CS point = 220+ pts

He would have had 237 points last year as a mid.
4 more than Salah.
Why not at 12 in a team that will be better this year

Anyone remember how long the pre-launch update tends to take?

oh yes

OH HERE WE GO

https://youtu.be/imbGdfzckrI

Classify by shots in the box. Run the data and it is pretty obvious that under FPL definition of forwards (i.e. someone who shoots a lot) that Salah, Sterling, Martial, Auba are forwards.

I agree. Same with Rashford. They are not midfielders, never have been or will be.

Agree with the view of moving Salah et al to forwards rather than the other way around.

I think Salah, Sterling, Mane are midfielders, Auba, Martial, Rashford strikers. Agree it's very open to interpretation though.

Someone worked it out couple weeks back, think it was about 225

does that mean much ?

Yep, all tabs are out of order....