Maybe it'll surprise you 🙂

Pretty sure Colm is working on that one, should land soon.

Are eagles and penguins mortal enemies?

They've been driven underground after FPL started saying they disapprove of them at the start of last season - your best bet may be to ask on Twitter and ask for people to DM you if they are running one.

But there is Greenwood and Martial.

Different positions. Rashford plays as a LW, while Cavani plays CF. I think Dan James plays on the LW. He may be a interesting enabler for 6m.

Very tempted by him or Greenwood with Rashford out.

It’s a long wait. Our current teams could change a lot in that space.

Good option.

I like the 7-8m mids bracket just like the strikers.
Barnes, Mount, Jota, Greenwood & Grealish all on my watchlist.

Mount, Havertz and Chilwell are all on my watchlist rather than GW1 draft. I may wait until GW7 or make moves earlier if clear patterns manifest. Right now there's too much uncertainty.

WC pick in GW7

I foresee quite some Chelsea roulette this season.

From GW7 I might be interested. More likely to get a defender though, not sure Mount will do enough to be a better option than the likes of Jota, Barnes or even Sarr at just 6.0.

For me - Mason Mount is a critically important player for all FPL teams

Not to select him - but to illustrate just how much of an absolute bollock FPL have dropped by pricing Raphinha at 6.5

Since Raphinha’s first Leeds start (GW9-38)
- Mount - 26 starts, 3 subs - 5G 4A
- Raphinha - 26 starts, 1 sub, 6G 9A

Goals scored last season:
- Chelsea: 58
- Leeds: 62

It freaks my nut in, honestly

Brave. Definitely going for a double defence + salah though. Opening fixtures look tasty

Triple Liverpool yeh, but I wouldn't want to block out Salah or Jota.

All your eggs brew. Hard to change once you do it.

Nah, TAA at the back only + Salah. Jota likely depending on what I see in preseason.

Taa shaw cancelo for me with ayling and lamp post first on the bench rotating

Regarding Brighton Leeds rotation think it's worth considering that Brighton were two different propositions home and away last time out - especially in defence. From that point of view I wouldn't be looking at "colour" of fixture but where it is. Brighton are not the sort of team to play out a nil away from home but equally have it in them to shut out most teams at the AMEX.

Not convinced by the rotation myself as typically you get Brighton away when you need them.

I thought the same but so often we miss out on the bigger scores when keepers are playing a "harder" fixture.

Cheers, appreciate that!

I really like Havertz, but seven starts from 19 under Tuchel is a bit off putting.

Wait and see Richa. Going to Olympics as far as I know and he will sulk for a move maybe.

Neither is safe. If you want to pick, Cavani can do well in those fixtures. (1pt appearance is obviously an issue)

none of them for me flynny

Neither. I like the idea of going pure proven, nailed on players in GW1 so that I am not sitting there at the end of the first weekend wondering why I have shot myself in the foot again.

Hope they sign benteke.

I hear Pep has been desperately trying to persuade Shaun Goater to come out of retirement. "Feed the Goat and he will score" said the former Barcelona manager, who was stopped by paparazzi coming out of Goater's Cheshire mansion late on Tuesday night.

Early days - A month to go before the season starts and even longer until transfer deadline - there is going to be a hell of a lot of transfer activity everywhere (which will likely put all current drafts in the bin)

Rotation is never mentioned after the first ball is kicked, is it? Its a pure pre-season thing.

Have to talk about something cool 😀

The road to FPL hell is paved with good rotations

Agreed.

Every year its always the same. (this profile is only a year old but i was here a decade ago also)

Disagree. I have found rotations work well. Not just at the beginning of the season, but midway through seasons too.

One of my best was in 2017/18 when a mid-season rotation pair of Dunk (BHA) and Dawson (WBA) paid off handsomely in my MLs.

They don't work every season. I actually think this season looks less viable for rotation because you can get Shaw, Digne, Pereira, Rudiger, Tierney and Stones all for £5.5m or less. They are fairly solid defences, with attacking threat.

Not 100% convinced Guaita starts - Butland is quite a back up option and almost certainly has better distribution, Think it quite possible Vieira will make that switch.

Wouldn't go near Palace defence before WC in any event. Historically there has been value there (AWB Kelly Mitchell) but no 4.5 starter this time until perhaps Hannan features (back up LB from U23 squad via WH and rated very highly)

That would be an ecumenical matter

I hate template teams, but I have to accept that players are in a template for a reason. If you avoid the majority of them you could be very lucky or just brilliant and fly high above templaters; far more likely you'll have a mare and never catch up.

I ignore template types when I m constructing my squad then find to my dismay that it's close to template anyway. But that's not a reason to change what I think is right for me.

Yes there are upsides with maverick teams… and there’s also downsides as we saw with lateriser last season

It is interesting in that you would think more people would just admit they are going to WC fairly early (GW5-7) and go all out for the best early fixtures.

x2 4.5s > Schmeichel

I like the Schmeichel pick many have been ignoring him and Pickford. Both of whom I think are good options. For that .5 extra on the 4.5's.
Also I like the welbeck pick as again many have been ignoring Brighton outfield players for some reason. I would include Trossard in that list.
Iheanacho I am not sure of he is in my team at the moment, I am waiting to see on pre season if there are better options.

Your bench.

Maybe forgo Bamford due to tough starting fixtures for a 7.5 striker and then upgrade Buendia to Grealish?

There was an article on that - was it yesterday?

I will WC when my team needs it. I used it pretty late last year.

Looks good. Someone said Fofana not nailed anymore.

I changed Fofana to Holding because the doubts about him starting. I would have question marks over KDB's fitness the guy needs a long rest.

It's a wait and see for me. Not sure whether he'll start regularly.

The manager who sold him?

I have him on my bench for week 1 currently. Spurs look like a team that will suit and have the players for Nuno and his 3 5 2

I also think Son will be a nice choice with or without (on pens then) Kane.

Nuno let him go from Wolves, thought Semedo would be a better replacement, and has Aurier at Spurs too

Not exactly solid ground to build on imo

Yep, but will wait and see. They play city first

Get him - 28 returns in 38 appearances, penalties, fixture proof, Leeds score 60+ goals…

He’s not cheap, but he can deliver like a premium, I’m convinced

Nah, still to much competition. Even Pogba has played there

Uhhh no.......
Sancho will probably play there until he comes back with Greenwood on the right. Then there's Pogba who was used there last year plus Martial is back from injury as well.

What's your team

This is sort of true. But some obvious stuff also sticks.

Going without Salah was one of the big debates start of last year and he promptly scored a hat-trick in GW1.

Also, McCarthy last year was a really good keeper pick for the first few weeks and kept pace with Martinez. ASM and Auba were the only really popular duds and most people had ditched Auba by week 3 anyway.

Werner was by far the worst pre-season bandwagon last year. I think he was the reason everyone went for a 5.5 mid - they couldn't afford Werner/Son + Salah/Auba.

Plus, Auba made room for Bruno for a lot of people fairly early. I'd focus more on getting the price structure right than the individuals early on.

You can't win FPL week one, but you can go some way to losing it 😉

You are correct but the problem is each fpl gamer has to gauge how far to move from the status quo. I got caught in previous years trying to push the boat out too much. A more prudent strategy is a mixture of different types of players. The majority of picks following the status quo. 3/4 players you think are being ignored and provide value and a couple on the level down from the 'main picks'.

You are dead right about last seasons team Aubameyang, Vinagre, Mitchell I seem to remember gw1. I ended up wildcarding gw2 and made 40 points.

Dias is safe enough. What I have a mind to do is start Mahrez for at least two games and then if he gets sucked into the rotation whirlpool, downscale him to Torres or Gundog. I feel it would be less painful to have them rested

Can you stretch to Foden? I think he's the likely attacker to come out of the blocks quickly.

I've been thinking about Torres too. Had an excellent end to the season.

Some sort of logic to it anyway. If it works you could hoever up the points.

Similar to most teams on here and the 'experts' on social media. If you go with it I doubt you will be left too far behind.

Hard to argue with that. I prefer Bamford to DCL at that price point, and still uncertain about Buendia but rest seems good.

That’s my team

Except I have Meslier, Raphinia, Bamford, Nacho instead of Bachmann, Harrison,DCL, Watkins (and a 4.0 instead of Coufal to balance the books)