It’s the benching headache you’ve created. You need to pick a formation and downgrade either Toney or Barnes to upgrade the other in my opinion.

I like it, I am also keeping handy players that get picked and can get good points on the bench

He’s already blue.

Well if you already have him like I do then great.

Blue in mine now.

Wtf? Obviously Son hahaha

Everton have got the fixtures, if DCL gets firing I think he's a good pick. Tottenham just generally worry me atm, Kane situation, new 54th choice defensively minded manager etc

Depends how you spend the extra 2.0m in option b.
Son and Obafemi v DCL and a 6.5m mid (e.g. Raphinha) would be a fairer comparison.

To play with Messi.

None for me.

I'm sure they didn't pay 100m for him to get less minutes than the rest

They'll probably be more predictable playing the top sides unfortunately. You know he'll switch it all up for Norwich

My bet is Grealish plays most minutes on the left and Mahrez on the right. Number 9 is a minefield and will be really shared minutes between Torres, Sterling, Jesus and even KdB getting some games there but he is the most nailed!

None here. Only players I would get would be Dias or KDB. Not yet, tho

Pep can effectively start 5 “attackers” (for FPL purposes) in any given game (put forwards, wingers, 10’s & 8’s all together for estimation)

That gives a total pool of available starts of 190 for a full season (38 games x 5 slots)

Last season - City’s starts (vs apps in brackets) across their “attackers” comes out to 182, which is pretty close - when Pep plays 3 centrebacks it removes one of the 5 so it’s a bit less than 190, but close

Sterling - 28 (31)
Mahrez - 23 (27)
Foden - 17 (28)
Torres - 15 (24)
Jesus - 22 (29)
Bilva - 24 (26)
KDB - 23 (25)
Gundo - 23 (28)
Kun - 7 (12)
Total starts = 182

If you add Grealish and remove Kun, it just doesn’t look good for anyone on that list to start more than 25 games imo

Certainly not to start more than 30 (I think at KDB’s age now even he will struggle to go above 30 starts)

Especially when you factor in that Foden & Torres surely aren’t going to get *less* starts than last year - that leaves even less of the pool available for others to share.

Linearly, those 9 players sharing 190 starts comes out at 21 each, so I think pretty much all of them will be operating in the 20-25 starts ballpark

It’s just hard to see how it’s wise going near any of these guys without an injury bottleneck or something of that ilk that clearly signposts who is going to be starting for an extended period of time

B

Short term maybe, yes.

selling Emi (especially after he cried after the FA Cup) will never not annoy me, should have been a cult hero

Love it.

In for me.

Waitings.

Straight in

Shaw or Digne to start with?

Almost came when I saw that front 3

1. Don’t know
2. Antonio 100%
3. It’s a bit less clear - still a reasonable option at the price. Just depends how much cash you have. Loads of options from 6.5-8.0

I’m not going Raphina until gw5 I think.

Willock is playing for arsenal though

If he is at Newcastle I think he is a very good option at the start. I hope that transfer happens

Wilock to Newcastle transfer done?

Sigurdsson?

Just go buendia and if you crap yourself after he blanks you can switch to Raph for Everton at home

Good option

Every season I seem to own Barnes for a period and every season it is pure misery.

He isn’t a long term FPL pick but he does go on short runs of high scoring. It’s all about getting

This

Pure speculation about Watkins moving to the left. Yes he has played there numerous times with Brentford but his record as a #9 is way way better. Could go two up top just wait and see on Saturday I guess.

PSG

A mixture of both

Will score well when he starts (but only starts 20 ish matches) and gets a host of 1 point cameos

Yes, I believe he will be regarded as "essential" at some point this season.

Id still back a City player to get higher returns in 20mins than most do in 90 to be fair

i don't know why i think this - but i feel like Grealish will play 90% of the league games.

and if Kane comes he would too.

just a feeling.

He's at a club now where the goals and assists will be shared far more than they were at Villa. KDB will still dominate setpieces you'd imagine, Mahrez or someone else will take pens, and they have so many avenues to go down when attacking compared to Villa who consistently needed to go through Grealish, that while I expect him of course to create plenty, he isn't going to be the main man now so he may need to alter his game a bit.

Veltman instead of Webster

I don't know, you can't say that without knowing what agreement he has with Daniel Levy. Haaland doesn't change anything, neither does Messi. I can't see City breaking their wage structure for one year . . .

Levy probably is too. Was prepared to milk City for all he could and if Messi actually is available and this isn't a stunt to push back on the new La Liga rules, he now has to accept that if Kane is to leave it likely won't be for another season and will be for less money.

Lol, I didn’t think I’d find someone on here who despises Kane as a player, as much as I do 😀

He'll have a huge media team to manage his comeback, lot of cards to play in this day and age, eh.

Some bench - I'd wait for GW39 to bench boost

I am not sure you're being sarcastic or not lol

I prefer B for the first few fixtures

a

b) seems more nailed on and less injury prone (and frankly streaky)

Mmh no more b for me

like them both.

Now the Pereira looks to be off to the Gulf, Benny looks another nice 6m. Pepe? Nah.

Think Benrahma would turn out good

Like it

Just a case of Fernandes & Buendia / Fernandes & DCL

Vs Son & Havertz

When fit, yes

Should be

Certainly on pens imo

There's no we in I lol, yeps.

Nope. Because Ings will be injured for most of the season as normal

Watkins is a very capable forward. He must be a little frustrated with this transfer window but I am sure he will get plenty of the season up front one way or another

By season end I wouldn't be surprised if Emi was 150 and Bach/Sanch around there too. Pop the mill into Ings, turn Madders into Barnes and get Ayling.