Yes.

Was starting at CB because Holgate was injured. With Holgate and Mina back he's nowhere near the first team. Closest 4.0 starter is Johnson.

I do agree. BUT I'm more interested in Che Adams right now

Still outscored by any good 5.5m attacking defender with good fixtures. Transfer the defender when he has bad fixtures, injury or terrible form... To another 4.5 to 5.5m attacking defender with good fixtures

Tentatively agree. I think the 5.5m slot in midfield is surprisingly good.

I really wouldn't be too unhappy to rotate between:

Saka, ASM, Armstrong, Harrison, Podence. It's got good variety. I like the price point. I think I'll take one of these guys to start and pivot if need be.

Agree. If we're basing value on post-restart performance then Trezeguet at Villa is also decent at 5.5. Pending fixtures I'm interested in transfer roulette with those Armstrong, Trez and ASM.

But is he a sure starter?

Agree with the spine. Team looks good so far. No Aubameyang though and with him a mid and he will start every game virtually upfront or just left of striker, would you not be tempted? Sorry response bottomed out

Against the rules to play for money, reported to FPL.

Nicely written

I think that Kitman could be getting a knock on his door from The Old Bill for violating the FA’s betting guidelines:

https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/policies/betting-rules

I disagree. I feel randomness in the actual matches is all well and food. Randomness outside the match meaning not all have the opportunity to prepare in the same way makes the game unfair.
I still feel fpl need to be transparent on price rises as this is another element that heavily favours those with time and resources.
Should the game be about making the best decisions given a set of information available to all or should it be about getting information the majority dont have and making decisions based off that?
The team leaks are akin to insider trading in some respects

There is no heaven; only entropy

Well I'm glad to see the back of them. Shifty little online journos (at best) breaking a confidentiality agreement to seek popularity on social media. Bunch of zeroes, imo.

I’d say wait for fixtures for confirmation but maybe not

They can play midweek in GW1

If the PL decides to extend GW1 to the Monday night then City can still be included.

Willian isn’t a centre mid though but i can see Luiz playing CDM alongside xhaka and Pepe plays the 10 with Willian on the right of a front 3

I'm really tempted by Tierney, if he can build up on his displays post lockdown we might be looking at really exciting and relatively cheap offensive fullback.

Nketiah?

Willian at cm?

Good post

Raz is a tap in merchant who can't even tap in 😆

Too much united - poor fixtures

Depending on united starting gw1 then not bad but no Liverpool mids will hurt you

Too many ManU for GW1 (and possibly GW2) - no Pool attacker?

On face value it’s not great at Everton, other than richarlison the players they bought have not done it. I would imagine there would be some promise of some very good signings to come in. I don’t think it will be too many as you cant keep buying players to then hope it works, i would say 3 very good signings

Their income is not as much as the teams ahead of them and the current situation would have hit them hard financially so doubt they will be spending big.

Everyone in UCL had him so I doubt he’d have cared anyway (unless he captained him).

Ahahaha

Rather have Salah myself but i do like the team

Only I have dilemma is VVD or wood/Antonio will score more @6.5m£ ?

Bruno, KDB and TAA for me. High floors, high ceilings and BPS magnets

Add TAA at points if the fixtures align and no LIV mid

KDB and Bruno for me.
Sterling as a 3rd, might not go for Pool attackers as often got it wrong between Salah and Mane.

Trent would be in the maybe pile for me, and Bruno in the elite.

Kane and Vardy also in elite

Rotation between Salah and Auba

KDB or Aubemeyang for me

Salah and KdB are a cut above the rest. Would need a good reason not to cap one of those.

The chasing bunch are: Sterling, Auba, Fernandes, Rashford, Werner, Kane, Aguero.

I captained very regularly in the Maybe category last time. Just chose the best player in the side that week. The only time I really regretted not importing a specific captain was the 50:50 decision not to import Sterling late on - that cost me

I would add TAA into this. Don't see why the 4th highest scorer in the game is excluded. He's got a slightly better blanking frequency than the mids and hauls almost as regularly. If Liverpool are on a cs run he's a logical option anyway.

Callum Wilson, DCL, Ayoze Perez, Lund.

Ings, again

Considering his minutes played, could be looking at 220+ this season

Could be but I’m currently on ASM but waiting for preseason so it could be anyone, could even be saka for the price

Totally agree. ASM plays with Joelinton or Gayle/Almiron. Armstrong plays with Ings and Adams and Redmond

Fancy Southampton attack more. PLus take away ASM 3 assists in one match and his rest of returns doesnt looks too promising

Armstrong is more consistent as well

Ramsdale when he comes in shortly

No ziyech can go across the 3 behind the striker i would imagine if havertz comes in it will be ziyech, havertz, pulisic behind Werner.

bald fraud getting burned too often trying to experiment too much and change winning formulae.(refer madrid lyon matches)

im pretty sure a settled man city team will perform much better

Meh

Ummmmm.
Competitively priced.

too much

Greenwood for 7.5m is a no brainer over 9m Rashford if united miss out on Sancho

I think you're very right... not often I say that.

But yes, I agree completely. Salah is 0.5m cheaper than he should be. KdB a full 1m. TAA 0.5m, Bruno 0.5m, Rashford 1m, Greenwood 1m if ManUtd don't sign Sancho.

I will definitely have Salah and KdB. Then it becomes which United and I'm going Rashford right now...

I'm currently leaning towards letting Bruno go for Martial

The best I've managed. 😀

McCarty/4.0
Trent/Saliba/Taylor/Vinaigre/4.0
Bruno/Salah/Greenwood/Rashford/KDB
Antonio/4.5/4.5

It could work if Brewster goes on loan I think. But feels like a case of too many eggs in one basket with the United both regardless of how underpriced I think they are.

Ryan
TAA - Bardsley - Vinagre - 4.5*
Salah - KDB - Greenwood - Fernandes - Rashford
Antonio

Button - Ferguson - Davis - Wickham

* Take your pick from Saliba, Newcastle, Palace, Leeds

If you're willing to accept Willian instead of Rashford, you can get
Ryan/Button
TAA, KWP, Vinagre, Taylor, Ferguson
Salah, KDB, Bruno, Willian, Greenwood
Antonio, Mitro, Davis

Ryan (Button)
TAA, Vinagre, Ayling/Dallas (Mitchell, Johnson)
Salah, KDB, Bruno, Rashford, Greenwood
Mitrovic, Bamford (Davis)

Bench is woeful, but I like the starting XI - I fancy both Mitro and Bamford to outperform their value

Not yet, from what i have heard it’s between palace and Fulham (palace being the favourites). The problem is he wants £100k and no one wants to give it, looking at about £60-£70k. He’s silly really as he should’ve stayed with Bournemouth to help

Nope.

I think the 4.5m defender slot this year is very strong. Much stronger than last year.

Saliba, Taylor, Vinagre, Ayling, Dallas, Williams (when Shaw inevitably gets injured), Thomas

Wait for fixtures

Mahrez Mitro Antonio aren't underpriced.

I'd add Traore into that

This is calculating that like Mitrovic he's a player to have for a run of fixtures and not necessarily as a long hold

Tried to build a team around it, 3-5-2:

4.5 keeper
TAA | Doherty | VVD
Salah (C) | KdB | Mahrez | Greenwood | Foden
Antonio | Mitrovic

4.0 keeper | Dallas/Burnley 4.5 def | 4.0 def | 4.5 str

KdB, Foden, Greenwood, Antonio are the only ones I think are clearly underpriced.

The other ones are fair and have the potential to outperform their price tag. The 4 above are clearly going to do better imo.

Yup. Got 6 of them, plus Soucek, Vinagre (short term) and Saliba who ought to be on the list.

I like it, prefer 442 or 352 myself but its choices

Like it a lot

Nice idea. Roughly 2500 points needed to do well. My approach is to get 200 points ish from each player so loading as many premiums as possible. Need the captain to get 300x2 points to offset the few 4.5m players 150 points.

I like it. 4.5's getting 150pts might be a push unless gems turn up

The only problem with this is you need realistic xPR - if you get that wrong the analysis can be skewed. For example, it's highly unlikely that many 4.5m defenders get 125 points - last season Aurier, Maguire, Digne, Chilwell, Walker etc. all got less than 125 pts.

Came 10th in your league last year. Chuffed.