"Short period of time."

Probably not enough time for NOR.

Try the Dennis system

Dennis looks the only viable option although he is flagged at present.

Dennis is the man

Dennis the Meniss for Watord has a slight knock but goal and assist his first game

Keep TAA

Don't plan to lose 4 points. I used to do that all the time and never got anywhere - on average over the year, it was not paying off. I now only use it in an emergency and finished top 5k last year (best before that was well outside the top 100k)

Was on that before city played spurs but not anymore! On bruno atm.

A bit risky at this time of year with Pep's management of players returning from preseason.

I think it is a week to go Bruno or Salah. Its only GW2 and no need to punt yet.

Thanks all. I think I'm gunna risk it tbh

Salah looked too good to ignore. I am 100% Salah (C).

to me is unnecessary gamble at this stage especially when bruno and salah are on decent form and against easy oppositions. wait for gws where the obvious options are having difficult matches

I was the same, with Mahrez captain but he's enough of a differential on his own, so changed it to Salah (#TeamBruNO)...

1) Benrahma over Digne
2) Play Sanchez

Play Benrahma over one of those defenders

I wouldn't be benching Benrahma even though his underlying stats are not that flattering. Possibly Toney might be worth a bench.

i wouldnt want to take out mahrez and taa for a -4, not until the kane situation is being settled.

Jesus… how about if we let GW2 end first

Don't plan for a -4. I used to do that all the time. Once I stopped doing it, I moved from well outside the top 100k to within the top 5k last season. So rarely really pays off

Bruno - Saints tendency to implode defensively and Salah has struggled vs Burnley in the past

Salah. Always homie.

In my opinion it's a 50-50 just like you said,toss a coin,choose 1,hope and pray.
But since Southampton is at home and Burnley will play away,Burnley will have probably 10 men behind the ball which might not be the case with Southampton since they play at home.Southampton's new look defence was nothing short of terrible vs Everton and that's why I'm probably leaning towards bruno.

i always choose the home team when there is a 50-50

Utd looks so fluid before addition of Sancho.

Frustrated Salah vs Burney

Doesn’t look bad at all the 4.0 could be the Man U lad off to Norwich, good team

Im WCing around the gw4 mark.

This might be the key - with a few personal fixes.

Would obviously like to have them all but there are always cheaper alternatives that score as well, especially if you catch them on form and good fixtures. As tempting it is to get Lukaku in, I would wait and see on him. 2-3 premium is enough.

You're not talked about unless you get a return that's just how things are sadly!
Mbuemo was fantastic vs arsenal and if it wasn't for his rash decision making in the final third, probably would've had a return.
Toney and mbuemo both looked great
And this team looks kind of lacks balance
Not sure about Dennis as my 7th attacker with the defence being so light

lukaku is going to have to score every week for him to be worth it. not enough evidence for me yet

I think ollie could free him up is there any news on his injury?

Bailey et al should start, give Danny more service.

Villa looked off the pace from a v disrupted pre season and various injuries. They should improve each week in that respect. I would give Ings another week at least.

Thats not how it works 😉

I don’t want 2FTs for next week.

I’ll probably only end up being forced to use one as my team is pretty solid.

I know the transfer police won’t like this, but I’m going to shift
Barnes > Mbuemo. 🙂

agreed.
ive got two yellows and one non-starter though.

Because you know everybody's teams, right?

Its up on them. Their team, not yours. If they want and they convinced let them do.

Do not pretend like a police or expert.

City's interest seems to have quelled itself recently

Guaranteed to start...?

Guaranteed to start?

I probably won’t start.

KDB back for sure? will he start?

Guaranteed to start? Based on what

Guaranteed is a very strong word.

Guaranteed to flop about like a warm lettuce!

Go for it if you want, could end up great but guaranteed to start just isn't a thing especially for someone like him. He could start with any of KDB, Jesus or Sterling up top as well as Torres. Commentary acted like Torres was great against Spurs but I thought he was pretty anonymous so I certainly wouldn't be overly confident. Do you at least have bench cover?

Due to how poor City were in the last game, isn't it more likely Sterling or Jesus will play the striker role this week?

U gonna claim your dad work with Pep?

Bruno

Bruno - originally planned Mahrez

Salah ... but its very close to go bruno

Still undecided between Salah or Bruno

Southampton turned over second half and conceded 3 goals with 3 big chances. I expect Man Utd to have minimum 3/4 big chances and Bruno will be at the heart. Bruno (C)

Bruno. Nvr back the early kickoff

Cheers guys,good luck to all!
I'm on bruno as well but it's really really close this week.

I fancy Sancho if Ole makes noises he will start.

I know just owning him is enough, but I just have a gut feeling he’s going to tear Southampton a new one.

Salah( early kick off 🙁 ) would be my obvious other pick.

Wouldn't do that.
Lingard is a risk if he returns.

I own and he is only second sub. Talk of Lingard lingering in the wings and from what I read into Moyes comments his time will be short lived.

I wouldn't buy before Leicester or I wouldn't sell yet if owned.

A lot of hype about the guy so I understand the interest

What about Willock. Sound option too, Soucek more settled

Barnes would free up money for your next move if you are set on Benrahma.

If you have Barnes give him time will norwich atleast

Barnes have norwich next wk

Greenwood

Bad probably, just need Son, Lukaku and Kane to change it up.

Not sure, no stats for me to compare with.

From the fpl live page my team is

63% template

it is only GW1, it may completely change after GW2

I find it pretty disappointing. Looking around my mini leagues, every single team looks almost identical. And they all scored about the same number of points in GW1. You have to really search to find a team that's running its own race.

Harrison

Harrison

Mbeumo

Just keep Sarr. Benrahma is not going to haul every week and Sarr is a talisman with good fixtures.

You're doing it wrong.

Sarr was my favourite pick.

So much more to come from him and he’s got the fixtures to boot.

Benrahma ain’t all that mate, IMO, before I get lambasted. 🙂

Ayling

I have coufal and seriously considering downgrading him to ayling. West ham current formation suits cresswell more for attacking output

Just wouldn't trust Leeds at the back personally

Ok but we'll have lukaku and kane to think about by then.

Like it, but where is this Lingard talk coming from?

West Ham will have Europe after game week 4 though, may or may not have an effect.

Looks ok but if benrahma is in form he will at the least take minutes off lingard, I wouldn’t be keen to jump straight back on him

Planning for Lingard for next week is too much for me personally, heading towards this weekend we're only hearing murmurs about a deal happening and even if he joins next week, he might not play at the weekend. Then West Ham have to look at European games coming up soon after and the impact of that on performance and rotation

Should be able to survive I guess

Not yet. If he were in the 90's then that's different...

Probably dependent on Pep ruling him in/out on Friday if he says anything useful at all… which he won’t

He’ll survive the battle, but not the war

Both look good. Southampton conceded 3 big chances and 3 big goals. Bruno has previously hauled against southampton. In his last 3 games vs saints, 2 goals 3 assists. If united carry on their form from Leeds i fully expect Bruno to be in the points.

Salah has a poor(ish) record v Burnley. 1 goal 2 assists in 7! By his standards thats poor. Hope this helps!!

If I had Bruno, I’d stick it on him.

It was the manner in which he got his hat trick.
It was as if someone had told that him he won’t be getting many pens this season.

He looked hungry for goals…

Why would you do that to yourself, if you own booth you will be ok

Both are good choices really, this kind of thing comes down to luck not matter how much your brain tells you it was a great decision when it goes right and a bad one when it doesn’t

For me personally I would look at the fixtures. What's your prediction for both games?

I will say Liverpool 1:0 Burnley, Southampton 1:3 Man United.

So yes Salah may get the goal and full bonus. Bruno may blank and have nothing to do with the 3 United goals. However in my basic mind there is a higher chance of a Bruno return based solely on the fact that I believe United will score more goals than Liverpool.

Of course none of that is based in fact as I don't know what the real scores will be, but it's as good a guesstimate as any.

Just don't overthink it. Salah and Bruno both great options, you can't predict who will haul so just pick whoever you like more. I'm personally going with Salah as he plays at home so imho he's slightly better option.

Thanks everyone for the replies. Appreciate it.

Weirdly actually thought Bergwijn looked decent outside of the normal Raphinha/Benrahma/Sarr triangle of mass ownership terror.

Soucek or Zaha

Torres

Villa vs Newcastle all the way, got to watch it with triple Villains!

Was a pain last week though 😀

Luckily other games at 3pm this week are of not much use for me, no plans to get any players from them.

They are trying to make small games very important. Don’t like the way they did the fixtures schedule

I like it honestly. Last season felt like overkill having one game on at Friday night, Saturday noon, 3, 5.30 and sometimes 8, Sunday sometimes 12, 2 and 4.30, and Monday 6 and 8. Sure you're scrambling for news and info but it's more fun having goals flying in all over the place all at once on a Saturday afternoon. I missed the madness

As simple as this

Agreed, the booglers let me down for my treble last week.
Look very stale and their team looks just the same as it did in 1864.

Aren’t they a lot of Utd fans around?

I mean just look at Shaw’s ownership. Very overrated defender

Wise words from the Potato Knight!

I'd hold for now, you had a plan, it could still come good

I personally don't agree with your plan. As Joshua Bell said, premiums will get 200 plus points a season just stick them in and forget about them. Make your gains with the players around them.

However!!!! If you have your own plan don't go tearing your team up mate. You clearly backed your plan, you would have known that Bruno can go off at any time. You would have known that United had a great run of fixtures. Nothing has changed from the start so why are you changing now?