Son + 4.5 > Maddison + Toney, and upgrading Johnny would look a lot more balanced

Think about how you're going to use your bench to navigate BGW12. Guess you could do KDB - Salah to get down to 3 blankers, but then you have to play Emerson at Liverpool

Stop reading at Jonny

Same. 21 points ahead of top 10k average only to watch it dissipate over the next few hours.

Should've gone triple Brentford and Everton then mate 😉

Got none also but 74 points in the bank. Let others sweat on catching up.

What's the odds on him hitting the woodwork?

Evens to hit the post!

I did DaSilva to Bailey this week as I had 2ft's and nothing better to do. Regret it

It will always be the the way. BUT WHEN IT WORKS!!!!

Not a Brentford expert by any means but this looks like a 352 to me

Interesting because I hope DaSilva doesn’t score any points at all.

It's 5-3-2 actually.

There is very little retrospective look at decision making processes, kind of amusing

Yes I do the same.

There should be a weekly article immediately after the gw on this precise topic. This would allow us to judge who really is a pro-pundit and who is faking it.

In the longer videos like Mark and Az on Blackbox, they'll look back on their gameweek with a critical eye. But too many just blithely passover their terrible advice and plough on regardless.

The same could be said about TV sports pundits and pretty much anything else in life.

Can’t see there’s much to gain from looking back and trying to bring people down.

Used to watch some of them in retrospect so as to evaluate their thought process. Almost all of them looked like clowns when looked back in hindsight tbh

I checked the FFhub's 100% team rating the first couple of gameweeks... and it averaged around 55p.

4 too. All the best!

Top 10k is not really the top 10k yet.

GW9 is going to be the GW to start stressing about ranks.

If your team is not setup yet then you will most likely be left behind.

GW9 WC-ers probably wanted the feeling of safety (international break injuries) and more data about the players we haven't seen playing for 2 weeks, among other reasons of course. You can find pros and cons for different gameweeks anyway, but I don't understand the need to follow the crowd and the "ultimate" plan, just to end up with the team made up by groupthink.

I am hoping the -12 I took over the last two gameweeks will pay me back in gw9. I am happier with how my squad is set up for the next four gameweeks or so.
Diaz - James and Sterling to come in off bench for me gw9, Barring injuries on the international break it looks good, because few will have those three players now.

B

B easy

I like A - mainly because of the Kane and Haaland combo. Few will have it.

You're lucky to have 10 players! The result of Odegaard's injury for me is Collins comes off the bench 😯

I’m down to 10 with Gundog 1 pointer too.

Catching no breaks this season. While my rivals get all the luck

What is the basis of your doubt?

Not as good as we'd hoped, but still better than the teams currently at the top of the ticker.

I have Trippier and on WC now, so thinking of Guaita plus another £4.5m keeper as don’t want to double up on any defence.

It’s reasonably good.

The issue is that in games where we need to take on the game we lack creativity and so open ourselves up.

Arguably a better away defence when we can play more on the break.

I'm getting Guiata but happy to play him every week, don't see any need to rotate with his fixtures

Neto at Bournemouth a good option too

It was. But he conceded, went off before 60 mins and even managed to pick up a yellow card after he'd gone off!

That’s actually what I’ve done and the two players I’ve got in on my WC.

Got rid of TAA to fund it.

Would lose Trent, Liverpool still not anywhere near their best and got tricky fixtures.

don't think so .... first goal in 4 years for Fulham.

He might be a better pick now that Willian has stolen set piece duties from Pereira.

I would not do it with that squad

Tbf that's not far of WC teams atm.. maybe a different GK and Jesus out. Other than that, can't see the reason to WC.

Probaly not for me, defence and attack looks fine, Neto out with your free transfer so you don't have to play Andreas and the midfield will look much better

He's definitely not playing because he wasn't in the training pictures.