If the offer’s any more than 15m then I’d say 2.

3. People believing an article from the Sun

Been linked to a few left-footed CBs - Bastoni, Hincapie, Gvardiol

He did good by me in the latter stages of last season and has been in my draft from the off, esp with his price of 4.5 in LiveFPL. No way will he actually come in at 4.5 though. Conte organises his defences very well but he rotates his wingbacks too much, hence a reliable 90min CB is a very attractive prospect.

A

Carvalho will be loaned out surely

A, but not enough to be a viable FPL option.

Newcastle making some solid signings - I wonder if there defence will become a viable option at some points in the season, especially with Trippier's assist potential

Think the BB could be scrapped, with the 5 sub rule coming into play, the benches could be irrelevant this season because if one of your first 11 don’t start, there’s a good chance they’ll come on from the bench & kill your bench player coming in, would they really have a chip for it? It’s not a popular chip anyway.

I think with the "delay" to FPL's start I do expect some changes. Agree with Freddo that BB is likely to be scrapped, guess we'll see something new in it's place if so. 2FA will be implemented. Unsure of what else really.

One chip per week probably to drive 'engagement'.

It won't be good news, we can be sure of that.

Won’t leave anything in the bank myself but otherwise I agree with your strategy. Think I’ll be going 3-5-2 or 4-4-2 myself.

I like it as a strategy. I do think that a couple of players that I really wanted in would test my resolve if I were going with this structure.

I spent this evening doing far more geeky analysis than I should ever admit to to essentially come up with a price point template with exactly your logic.

Where I ended up was very close but for:

1. No money ITB
2. Sacrifice Trent for Robbo
3. Have a 5m GK
4. Have a 5.5m MID instead of 6m
5. Have a 9m MID instead of 8m - which opens up Chelsea, Liverpool and City assets that could catch fire.

In practice I expect the 5m GKs I like to be 5.5 in which case I’ll either have 0.5m ITB or get Trent in.

Sorry and 5m DEF instead of 5m to allow me another 4.5m rotating DEF

See most of the games...whatch me....i am going up!!

Good luck with your 5 at the back

5 at the back is just a phase we all go through during pre-season.

Then we tend towards it in game near the end when it turns out there are no strikers playing to their prices and the midfielders have all become rotation risks.

Good question, need to see the prices I think.

I'm expecting Saka to be 8m and Jesus 9 or 9.5. It's a tougher one because with Nketiah signing a new contract I'm sure he's been promised more minutes so I expect there could be a fair bit of rotation, especially if they sign Raphinha too. Jesus won't get penalties either surely with his awful record so needs to be seen if Martinelli is first choice over Saka (I think someone here posted that he was supposed to be and that Saka took one or two with Martinelli on the pitch when Arteta wanted Martinelli to take it).

For me it will be which 6m player completes my structure here whether it be a fwrd or min with +0.5m itb or a def and 4.5 mid, 100% not 5 at the back

4.5
8 7 4.5
13 8 6.5 6
12 7.5

4 4 4.5 4/4.5

I see at least a couple of fixes on the profile page have been implemented - links to your comments now work as expected and it now states your email address will NOT be displayed. Thanks Geoff et al.

Don't know why the difficulty ranking has been removed from the ticker - hopefully that's reinstated but as a freeloader it's not for me to complain.

"July" is the best info we have right now.

I'll be watching pre-season and possibility that Jota gets classed as an FPL forward.

Good morning?

Jansson is temporary, Bidsturp is permanent

First time I heard of such glitch but I think if you click "reset", you will be back to the autopick squad and Bidstrup will be gone

Of course, one is mid, one is defender

I struggled with that too. Click on your profile then click ‘edit profile’. Only then can you see your account details.
HTH.

I am likely going 532 - though not with Jesus. City played that way as they didn’t have a Haaland like striker, think when aguero was there as an example he was constantly scoring high numbers for an example comparison. Additionally Haaland likely to be on pens as city been missing a pen taker and Haaland has a good record. Contrary Jesus you would think would not take them due to his and record. I will be opting for Haaland and then a 7.5 if I go two up top, or just Haaland if one up top

4-4-2 would probably be better, covers all bases and easy to switch things around.

For every goal Arsenal scores, Man City scores around 1.6 goals over season. So if Arsenal is expected to score 10 goals in first 10 games, Man City will probably score around 16 goals.

Now if we expect Haaland to have ONLY 30% involvement, he would be involved in 5 goals. For Jesus, if we consider on extreme end, say 50% involvement, then he would be involved in 5 goals as well.

I dont expect Jesus to have 50% involvement and I dont expect Halland to have ONLY 30% involvement. In straight competition, Halland should beat him easily but their is a price difference.

I'm not a Haaland fan and would prefer to start with Son/Kane/Salah over him but between Haaland and Jesus, its easy Halland for me.

Given City's penalty issues in recent years (think they've scored 18/24 or something like that in the last 3 seasons) and Haaland's recent record (for club and country think he's scored 12 or 13 in a row) I'd say Haaland is likely to take over penalties at City. The issue I'd have with Jesus is that he won't take penalties at Arsenal given his awful record, and I think Nketiah will get a lot of gametime too given he's signed a new deal recently so I'm a little unsure of him for the moment. I thought it was possible when the signing was first rumoured but since Phillips has signed I've seen a few City fans saying they think a double-pivot or one of Phillips and Rodri playing CM and the other DM is possible. If so that might mean that goals will be a little more focused towards the forwards.

"All the talk was 4-5-1 but is 5-3-2 now on the table?"

It's a yes for me. Initially, I was committed to one up top because I didn't see any sub-10m strikers as value for money when put alongside equivalently-priced midfielders or defenders.
If Jesus comes in at 9m, I've made a second draft with 2 up top. Haaland will always be the #1 choice, so it's a decision about whether to go with him alone or have Jesus alongside. It's really a question, for me, of if Jesus outscores Diaz, Kulusevski, Havertz et al in his price-bracket. My provisional guess is, 'Yes, he probably does'.

Always been a 3-4-3 or a 4-4-2 man myself but deffo seeing a lot of positives with 5-3-2 just now, I’d want my 4th mid to be someone who can come into the team tho and switch it up to a 4-4-2.

^ HULK THIS ^
This is a great convo thread and I agree with much of what has been written.
I’m currently looking at a 5-3-2 with H/J up top.
Just need one of Raga’s prices to be £0.5m over and it’ll actually be affordable!

Haven't they traditionally come from Aguero?

Haaland will be looking to give this tradition a bit of a ... what's the Norwegian for renaissance?

I do enjoy BBing but only in GW1 and 2

No u not..Don't see what's the fuss about BB or any chip for that matter...we all play to the same rules.
I get the issue with value on the bench, planning for it ect...but is it not the majority who had less luck with it that's having an issue?

Knights of the round table - monty python

Probably because City haven’t started pre-season training yet!

Jack’s busy having the time of his life in Vegas, whilst Foden is getting his ear chewed off by his missus in the South of France!

Sport Bible claims they don’t start pre-season training for another two weeks yet:
“As per the latest information provided by Paul Hirst of the Times, Manchester City's players plan to report for pre-season in the second week of July, before jetting off to the US the week after.”

I saw him down the chippy on Friday. He’s an Irn Bru and battered sausage kind of guy apparently.

Didn't you know? Håland makes his own soundtrack:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oYJWkDFzEXA

Warning: contains extremely white rapping

Gotta be Vince DiCola's "Training Montage" from Rocky IV. There's more than a little bit of Ivan Drago in Haaland. If he scores, he scores...

Only at Aldi.

The rumour has it at 4 am

Don't fret about price reveals. The game is going live in 12 parsecs.

Diaz more Jota less

why 10260?

FBref is what I use most, lot of good and easily accessible data there. Transfermarkt can be decent too depending on what you're looking for (stuff like minutes played, record v specific teams, positions in which a player has played, etc.)

Eyes, brain, experience, team news, fixture ticker

2021/22 Kings of the Gameweek list.

10.5

I'll be interested if 7.5

9.5m

He's got to be less than Dias to be even remotely interesting

Don't trust FPL twitter

Pretty sure last time they teased a players price then released, then did the same over and over every few hours over the course of a few days So a tiny tweak in how they're doing things maybe this time they'll drop more than one price per hour when the floodgates open

Strong lineup. All seem sure starters, so a hopeless bench is not such a problem early on.

Strong!
The three of us seem to be circling similarly.
Mine is currently:
Sanchez
TAA/Robbo/VVD/Cancelo/Gabriel
Odegaard/Raph/Kulu
Jesus/Haaland

If any of the above come in £0.5m cheaper, I may take Gabriel down to Tomiyasu and upgrade Sanchez to Ederson.
Pack up and let the boys run with it for the first few GWs!
4x ARS, 3x MCI, 3x LIV 1x TOT

Ultimate casual.

If Bilva goes too you would expect them to use that money somewhere!
Don't forget Jack - I expect he'll have a bigger part to play this season.

Nope, new system

Don't forget Jack

Pep, Nailed?

Nope.

Mahrez should get more minutes in theory yes I agree, if both Sterling and Jesus leave

Probably. Depends if they also get a striker to replace Kaku, go with Sterling up top or use Havertz as a false 9.

Ooh ah Chalobah.

4 at the back will ruin my fun

I'd be surprised if he goes especially to a rival, he looked a lot better for City last season when he had to come in and he's very capable of playing at LB too. I can understand City letting Sterling go with the possibility of him going for free next year and given his minutes haven't improved but doubt they'd want Ake going there

People are very excited about James and chilwell again but with the schedule this congested they are either going to get rested a lot or injured very quickly.