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The next round of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) is almost here – don’t forget that the Gameweek 8 deadline is at an earlier-than-usual 18:30 BST tonight.

If you’re after some last-minute assistance, five-time top 1k finisher and Scout’s Deputy Editor, Tom Freeman, will be answering some of your pre-match posers over the next 60 minutes.

Wildcard drafts, Free Hit teams, free transfers, points hits: whatever’s on your mind, ask away.

Tom will be on hand to first reply to requests from Premium Members in the Hot Topic below the line of this piece and will get through as many as he can until the next article goes up.

If there’s time, Tom will also turn his attention to other requests in the comments section.

You can, as ever, chip in with your own opinions on the RMT requests filtering through – and naturally, you’re free to ignore the article subject matter and talk about any other wider FPL topics that you’d normally be musing on.

Don’t forget that, if it’s an algorithmic answer you’re after rather than an opinion-based one, we also have a â€˜Rate My Team’ tool available in the Premium Members Area.


READ MORE: FPL Gameweek 8 team news: Live updates from Friday’s pressers




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  1. RMT Surgery with Tom
  2. The Knights Template
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Ward to Flappyhandski for a hit?

    1. Flaming Flamingo
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I wouldn't

      1. The Knights Template
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Ok, I won’t. Thanks.

    2. The Mentaculus
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Not a bad option - he's probably my 2nd favourite 4.5 (after Guiata) up to the World Cup. The hit is questionable but probably still nets you 1-2pts

    3. tibollom
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      not for a hit no Sir

  3. LarryJunior
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Is FH a suitable option for me?

    Got only 8 players this week before transfers (1FT).
    Neco W, Perreira har two of those, Gundogan as well.

    Should I take hits?

    Used my WC earlier.
    Here is the full team,
    thanks a lot in advance 🙂

    Iversen, Sanchez
    TAA, Reece, Cuccurella, Dunk, Neco
    Salah, Gundo, Rashford, Martinelli, Perreira
    Toney, Jesus, Haaland

    1. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Two transfers or even three for a -8. FH too valuable for double GW's or blanks later on IMO

  4. tbos83
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Got this for -4. Would you play and WC gw9, or WC now?

    Martinez
    Cancelo James Trippier Neco Perisic
    KDB Martinelli Andreas
    Haaland Jesus Isak

    Ward Diaz* Aaronson* James*

    1. RealSocialDads
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I wouldn't WC that, got a similar team below and pretty happy

    2. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Play and give some thought to WC in 12 instead of 9

  5. Manani
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Thoughts on this WC team?#

    Pope
    Perisic James Trippier Cancelo
    Zaha Foden Martinelli
    Haaland Kane Mitro
    (Ward Gordon Andreas Patterson)

    1. LC1
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Yup very template but also very nice! GTG

    2. RealSocialDads
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Very good

    3. PascalCygan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      On something very similar myself. Like it!

  6. -GK22-
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Gordon a good 2 week punt?

    1. Goodfeathers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Yes

  7. The Polymath
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    A) James, Zaha, Toney/Isak
    B) Fofana, Bailey, Kane

    Which would you go for on a WC?

    1. RealSocialDads
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

    2. Flaming Flamingo
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Fofana is far from a guaranteed starter, so A by default

    3. marcos11
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

  8. RealSocialDads
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Is WC13 too late?

    I feel quite happy with my team and feel like dead ending to the arsenal/City blank then immediately getting them back in for their 13-16 runs seems the best approach.

    Team is currently:

    Pope
    Cancelo Trippier Gabriel Neco
    KDB Martinelli Andreas
    Haaland Mitro Jesus

    Ward L.Diaz Gross James

    1. Fuddled FC
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Team looks pretty good, no point WC until you want to do several changes

  9. Fuddled FC
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Which would you prefer this gameweek only?

    a) Schar
    b) Bailey

    1. jonnybhoy
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

    2. Goodfeathers
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

    3. RealSocialDads
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

  10. FOO FIGHTER
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Is it not funny how pretty much all the content creators teams are looking similar and many watching the content are following their moves?

    1. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Water is wet

      1. ViperStripes
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        No it isn't. The surface water is on is wet, water is just water.

    2. No Professionals
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      yeah they are brainwashing me in to getting Bowen and Maddison!

    3. Flaming Flamingo
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I mean, considering the amount of advice people ask for here, it's no surprise most teams end up looking the same. The sad truth is, it's much less rewarding a game when you don't make decisions for yourself

    4. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I don’t watch it but I suspect I may have a similar team.

      Based on upcoming fixtures pretty much everyone is going to have a similar pool of main players.

      Pope will be in goal.

      Trippier, James and Cancelo will be staple defenders.

      KdB, Zaha, Saka/Martinelli, Maddison, Bowen in midfield.

      Håland, Kane, Isak, Toney in attack.

      You don’t really need to watch any content creator stuff to know those are the main attractions.

      1. FOO FIGHTER
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        LEI and WHU are the main attractions when they are amoungst the worst teams in the League, right?

        1. Peter O'Hanraha-hanrah…
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 6 months ago

          LEI have scored in every game this season bar one...

        2. Nomar
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          3 years, 6 months ago

          Yes, because their upcoming fixtures are good, they both are teams that can score goals and those players have been a valuable source of goals for those teams.

          The fact their respective teams have made bad starts does not mean that they are not going to get points in this next round of fixtures.

          People are gambling on the fact that the ease of fixtures is going to see a change in their FPL output.

          They might be wrong, but it’s encouraging to see people actually trying to jump on the next bandwagon before it starts rather than going for ones that are going to come to a shuddering halt.

      2. Crunchie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        I think people are missing the Sterling boat and maybe Paqueta

    5. Milk, 1 Šuker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I don't like Bowen

  11. No Professionals
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    on wildcard

    Pope
    Cancelo Trippier Williams
    XXX XXX XXX Martinelli
    Haaland Kane Mitrovic

    Iversen Andreas Patterson James

    which 3 for the XXX spots

    A) KDB, Zaha (bench, play Andreas) and Bailey (0.2m itb)
    B) Maddison, Bowen and Foden (0.3m itb)

    1. Crunchie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

    2. jonnybhoy
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

    3. popey
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A is my exact WC team

  12. Strchld
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Is this good to go. No FTs, not any bench player. WCing next week anyway. Or should I hit WC now and get players like Pope and Kane in?

    Ward
    Trippier - Cancelo - Neco
    KdB - Martinelli - Andreas - DaSilva
    Haaland - Jesus - Mitro

  13. desirelines
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Are wildcarders (like myself) nuts for spending a big chunk of change on players like Bowen and Maddison considering both teams are underperforming? Would it be more prudent to downgrade both to Paquetta and Barnes, or is that just same problems with slightly worse prospects?

    1. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      CHANGE 1

    2. Cruyff's Eleven
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I went Kulu and Gordon.

      I'm not convinced fixtures create form.

    3. Cruyff's Eleven
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Sorry I didn't answer the question - yes, that's even worse, unless you can do something clever with the extra cash.

    4. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Nobody knows.

      You could take those two out and they both haul this weekend. In which case you will kick yourself for listening to people on here instead of going with your own choices.

  14. jonnybhoy
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Morning guys really concerned as I am going to fall behind this week and I'm in a good position. I have used my free transfers up and can play 10. Anything worth a hit to play 11 or go ahead and wildcard?

    Ederson
    Saliba Cancelo Trippier Schar
    SALAH Martinelli Andreas
    Haaland (C) Jesus Mitrovic

    Ward Cucurella Diaz Groß

    A) Salah to Son -4pts
    B) Groß to Bailey -4pts
    C) Wildcard
    D) GTG

    1. ebb2sparky
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      If you plan to wildcard next week then A might be worth a punt

    2. RealSocialDads
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A but with KDB, Son not been in great form this year

      1. jonnybhoy
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 6 months ago

        Got 3 city already

  15. dannyreeves1977
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Tom.

    I can have any 2 from the following for this GW (except Son and KDB together). Which two would you go for?

    - KDB
    - Son
    - Bowen
    - Kulu
    - Foden

    1. Khark
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      KDB Bowen

    2. BC1
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      KDB & Kulu

    3. Crunchie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      KDB / Kulu

    4. Boywiththesoupdragontattoo
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Son and Kulu

  16. Ruinenlust
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Collins or Schar?

    Already have Trippier

    1. jonnybhoy
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Schar

    2. BC1
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Schar

  17. Conor F
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Wildcarding next week, for this week only Son or Mitrovic?

    1. jonnybhoy
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Mitrovic

    2. No Professionals
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Mitrogoal

    3. BC1
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Mitrovic

  18. KostaK
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Isak or Toney on WC?

    1. Jebiga
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Isak

    2. BC1
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Toney for me.

    3. marcos11
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Toney

  19. Jebiga
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Who will score more until gw 16:

    1. Kane and Bailey

    or

    2. Isak and Kulusevski

    ?

  20. rdamjan
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Is there a defender worth a hit this week? (I have Trippier and Cancelo). 10 players

    1. No Professionals
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      not for me

    2. waltzingmatildas
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      No I don't think so

  21. FOO FIGHTER
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Anyone think Ryan Sessegnon will start GW8?

    1. Crunchie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Yes, i think so Perisic could play rWB

  22. Crunchie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Blimey Tom, you have tour work cut out?

    How about this? 🙂

    WC 1.7m ITB

    Pope Iverson
    Cancelo Trippier, Zouma (Neco, James)
    Martinelli Kulu/Saka, ASM, Andreas (Zaha)
    Haaland Kane Mitro

    I have a few separate questions if i may.

    1. Kulu or Saka as a one-week punt, (want to see Madds/Bowen first to pick one of them (next week))
    2. As ASM is not fit (looks that way). ASM to Bailey as Watkins is out this week, (and swap Kulu/Saka to Sterling GW9 & Forget the Maddison punt altogether)
    3. ASM could become Sinisterra if i downgrade Zouma to a 4.1 but book in too many Transfers as I would have to bench him instead of Zaha
    4. Just go the KDB/Isak route.

    The ASM news has really screwed up my plans lol

    1. Crunchie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Just thought ASM to Paqueta 🙂

  23. waltzingmatildas
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hey guys,
    What move do you prefer?
    A) Groß and Jesus to Bailey and Kane (-4)
    B) Salah to KdB
    C) Groß to Maddison

    1. Crunchie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      B and C next week

    2. waltzingmatildas
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      B would mean going without Salah until Gw13 wc. A gives me the chance to go threemium to try and make some gains.
      Hmmm

    3. Crunchie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Could go A for a Punt, it is all quite close. I think Watkins is out today

  24. LC1
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Final piece of the puzzle;

    a) KDB, Bailey & Emerson
    b) BSilva, Maddison & Perisic

    Thank you!

    1. waltzingmatildas
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

    2. Boberella
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

    3. Crunchie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

  25. RedJive79
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    For 1 week punt:
    A) Son + Isak
    B) Kane + Almiron (assuming ASM is not fit)

    1. LC1
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      Probs a

    2. waltzingmatildas
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      B

  26. Falafel333
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    On wildcard, what do you guys think?
    A: KDB, Bailey and Zaha
    B: Gundogan, Bowen and Maddison

    1. LC1
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A for sure

    2. waltzingmatildas
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

    3. The Mentaculus
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      A

  27. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Currently only 9 playing.

    Salah + Rash > Kdb/Son + Gordon -4 for 11 playing?

  28. Kryptonite666
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Tom, what do you think of this team - any suggestions?

    Pope (Iversen)
    Cancelo Trippier Neco (James) (Fofana)
    KDB Martinelli Bailey Andreas (Zaha)
    Mitrovic Haaland Kane (c)

    1. LC1
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      V nice mate.
      Would most likely have an identical WC if I could afford it haha.

  29. FDMS All Starz
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    G2G? Little stuck for next week with triple Arsenal & Trent & Cucu in the team

    Ederson
    Cancelo Neco Botman
    Saka Bowen Martinelli Andreas
    Haaland Kane Jesus

    Ward Trent Cucu Dasilva
    (0FTs & 1.0 itb)

  30. Khark
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Lads, might sound trivial but on my WC i can't decide between 2 options.

    A) Morgan Gibbs-White
    B) Anthony Gordon

    Any ideas? Thanks

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      B

    2. The Mentaculus
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      B

    3. RealSocialDads
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 6 months ago

      I like A as a punt