Alexander-Arnold v Robertson: Who is the best Liverpool FPL defender?

Nice. I'd be taking James - Guimares any day.

In the Premier League

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B

B

A

If he starts 25-30 games up top, I think he’ll comfortably do C

C is highly optimistic. His minutes should easily be atleast 2x last seasons 823 mins but could have a lot of 30 minute cameos.

B

It’s not really the clean sheets we care about from LFC… it’s the assists.

Orherwise you could just get Eric Dier for pretty much same Number of clean sheets and save another £1m.

He wont even get the cleanies this season from the bench

Looks good. Differential

Yeah that's different, and tasty! Like a calamari sandwich

waste of a defender slot I think.

Perfect 4m defender

^this

Forest setup allowed Spence a free reign down the flank with Worrall shifting wide in possession, Johnson doing likewise from the front position creating a massive overload for Spence to be the free man to then allow for Davis, Yates - Header!!! - and Johnson as the inside option to give Forest teeth in the final third quickly. Spence isolated actually highlighted a substandard touch and naïve nature to his fledging game and why we had a chance to get him on loan in the first place.

Imo Grabban as a penalty area hunter thrived when he was fit - how many goals did he get from the six yard box - and if Taiwo can operate in the same area as opposed to Davis who played deeper in link up, then he could also be good value with the build up play we preferred.

It's in part why we have signed Niahkite - better on the ball than McKenna - as the left centre half to allow for Omar Richards or Toffolo - pending signings - to bomb forward on the same nature with Gibbs White offering the overload up top. Provide balance to our game. Now sign them up Cooper!!!

TLDR - Neco - better than Spence - at 4 in the garibaldi shirt will be profitable. Right signings and Taiwo is value too

Lacking a Chelsea wing back or two.

But you probably know that…

The double digit haulers with the best points per game surely have to find a spot.

little bit different from what I have seen here, so well done. Perisic to Doherty gives cash for Tomiyasu to Gabriel.

Kane to cheapie can give cash to upgrade Coutinho and Neto.

My current team is similar

Raya

TAA, Doherty, Gabriel, Trippier

Salah, Diaz, Martinelli, Neto

Kane, Haaland

My question to you is why you want to put 30 million into your forward line when historically they score the least points (other than keepers). I would worry about what your going to do if Neto flops. Pretty difficult for you to move to anyone else. Coutinho also likely to share minutes with buendia so another risk in midfield. Last issue you have is the 8.0 midfield spot. There is a lot of talent in that pool of players you will need two transfers to get there. Also what others say you have a difficult task getting to city or Chelsea defenders if needed

Do you think Coutinho outscore Cancelo, Robertson, James and Chilwell?

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C

C

C, something like 13 goals 11 assists

He got C most seasons at City with massively reduced minutes so definitely D up

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C

D plus 10+ assists

Correct. Go quarter up the season. Not sure I'd call it "messy", just allows us to take it (small) block by block

Yeah focus on game weeks 1-10 for sure.

GW9 over the IB seems ideal

There isn't any obvious point to be honest.

I would advocate on the earlier half as you will have so much more info than when you made your 1st draft.

Probably around GW6 or 7 for me

That's basically Son or Robbo, Cancelo and Coutinho.

B mate

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A

Nice, cheers for the replies! That was what my gut was saying, an easy-ish double transfer if I totally bottle it after the first gameweek Hattie from haaland though I suppose!

Can you not use the GW slider and slide back to GW1?

B

Templete way is B for sure...

Much of a muchness man. Need good fortune for your but hitters to score well while the others don't regardless

Partey
Ødegaard Vieira
Saka Martinelli
Jesus

Yep, looks like Vieira will be the assist guy. Odegaard will have to up his game as well.

There was one thread re Vieira's role, cant find it.

Odegaard's xA is higher than his xG though - are you not including him in "front 4"?

Is Vieira an option at 6m?

Odegaard has slightly higher xA than xG where I'm looking, but I don't think the 'preference' is relevant. I don't see an imbalance. If you have equal xA and xG, I don't think you are likely to score more goals. Instead, you are likely to score more goals if you have a high xG. That's the actual measure for it afterall! More xA = more xG (indirectly). I would imagine xA and xG both to improve for Arsenal this season.

I don't think you don't need a specialist. Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli and Jesus all compare pretty well to other front 4 players for xA, except if you compare them to KDB (then it's a surMOUNTable gap to Mason). And they will probably improve this aspect with time and new signings.

Veira is certainly being brought in to increase xA and xG (aka (probability of goals scored). I think he's likely to be competition/rotation with Odegaard, primarily. Odegaard is the tactician, but could be swapped for Vieira in-game, if something's not working out. Alternatively, I see him working with Odegaard from the wings, replacing Saka in-game, for example, to boost the creativity.

It remains to be seen if it will would with him alongside Odegaard, as Arsenal have had problems in the past when weakening the CM defensively. However, Tomiyasu (and perhaps Martinez) could help to alleviate this issue. If Tielemans comes in, though, Veira is going to be 2-4 choice for that spot, though, most likely.

In other, words, I see him spending plenty of time in the final third, but not necessarily a starter. A lot depends on signings though and if he can adapt to the prem quickly enough to become a viable option at #8.

Looking at what The Athletic said, it's possible he might play in Xhaka's role. He massively improved his defensive numbers as his manager wanted and it would probably explain his signing more than having him, Odegaard and Smith-Rowe all vying for a similar spot. He could possibly play alongside Odegaard in front of Partey too

Not sure it's smart to be booking in transfers in the first two weeks - especially a goalkeeper transfer. You're better of riding it out with Raya. Also there's no guarantee Pope comes straight in for Dubravka week 1, which I'm not seeing a lot of people talk about

Really good. Why Sanchez over Raya though?

Very close to my current draft

Yeah here's mine

Mendy

TAA, Doherty, Gabriel, Trippier

Salah, Diaz, Martinelli, Neto

Kane, Haaland

Looking at yours though... It is a lot stronger except for no salah

I am also on Haaland/Kane but struggling to fit everyone I want in.

Pickford
TAA Cash Trippier Tomiyasu (N Williams)
Sterling Salah Dewsbury-Hall Mwepu (Andreas)
Haaland Kane (Greenwood)

Did have Jesus, but after seeing Sterling on the move I changed it around a bit. I definitely want some spurs coverage in there but Ican't really afford Kane/Son and unsure of Kulu Minutes after the Richarlison signing

My current draft has no city defence and no chelsea fullbacks but i think doherty / trippier can come close enough and are bargains at 5.0 apiece

Dont like to use the "e" word generally as there's many ways to play the game, but I'd expect them to top the CS count & the pricing isn't steep enough to make me think twice, so yeah I'm definitely going with a City defender

Yeah I’m not the biggest fan of their first 2 games either. I think people are just looking long term with Arsenal though.

I agree Palace are going to be tough to score against at home, but Leicester should concede a couple away at Arsenal, imo.

B

B)

Laporte + Ederson last season 9pts per game
Cancelo + Raya 9.6

Cancelo also got most mins of any City def.

Ray has less fixtures against top 7 in first 10 than city so might be a good spread.

Depends on what team formation you have/want, I don't want 1 up top so am going with Haaland Jesus at the moment and two 8m mid spots occupied by Kulu and Mount to start with.

I prefer mids so going Saka/Mitro

Points per game similar so whatever suits your formation.

Jesus pro's is that he is one of the better value fwds and could do even better with consistent run of games. However supply at Arsenal likely worse than City so this could decrease his output.

Not sure whether Jesus increases or decreases Saka's output, Jesus is a very assist heavy fwd so could benefit the wide players

Nice draft, but I would drop Ederson to Raya and upgrade Justin. Maybe make some savings on Neto too.

Looks good, I like. Tempted by Wilson too

B

B

B IMO.
Especially if 4.5 mids seem to get playing time in preseason.
Depends on your bench as well, I would avoid A if you have no bench as the 4.0 defenders seem more unlikely to receive playing time compared to the 4.5 mids.
Kulu is rotation risk for example.

B is also 1.5m cheaper!

I think B is much better. I'm on that one currently

Tough one. I'm leaning towards B but either look good

Brave

Guimar/Jesus

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B