The FPL Dream Team: The all-time highest-scoring XI

I must admit I’ve been thinking about it more of late as well and getting excited to make my first team

This is probably what gambling addicts feel before they place a bet, thankfully we won’t be losing any money just a lot of time

FPL has been designed to be an addiction. Green arrows are like little dopamine hits.

Watkins really worth it over Robertson? His finishing is too poor for me. Your bench will be worse with Robertson but how many times are Fofana/Ait-Nouri going to get subbed on with the goods realistically anyway.

Bowen a forward too for 2022/23

No idea but Son, Bowen, Diaz etc. are listed as forwards too

Perisic midfielder

Fpl tweeted and Salah etc classed as midfielder. Wouldn’t worry.

LOL all those RMTs in tatters if this translates to FPL

They’re listed as forwards because they are, and have always been, forwards. FPL is a bit strange how they classify wingers if you ask me. But it is what it is.

Salah’s a forward for people who don’t watch football and rely only on goals/assists. His statistics shouldn’t be possible for his actual position. He’s a winger.

No chance like 2-2.5m over

I'd warm right out of it

Keep’em coming!

If you’re enjoying drafting teams mate, keep going for it. None of us can tell you if it’s affordable though of course - best to just wait on that 🙂

A lot of money in forwards, who all get fewer points for goals and clean sheets than mids and wing backs who all actually play forward in today’s game.
I’m going 4-5-1 for sure this year. And my 1 might be someone like Toney due to the above.

All the Fulham players are $4.5m apparently.

Maybe 2FA is taking longer to develop than they thought

Is that the Pilliga yowie?

not a fan of big 5 at the back as its very inflexible, it probably works better as a ghost team imo as there is a whole bunch of mid priced mids and forwards who can go on a decent run who you might want to jump on to, also a week where you manage no clean sheets and you are in big trouble probably

We love drafts, keep’em coming!

I'm more of a fan of RMT's personally.

You would have to play 4.5mid or 4.5fwd every week?

No way that's affordable.

It's back to the drawing board I'm afraid.

Don't rate CF at all, and MID is unproven at this level.

Cheers guys.
Decisions, decisions...

Kane puts you over budget.

Always been when the FPL has been down for close season maintenance in the past, and that hasn't happened yet so I'm thinking that FPL is going to open later than normal this season.

That’s too expensive. More fun to flap about on the lounge room floor like a salmon.

Saw this and am considering it as it's for 3 months so it's decent. Although I saw a local Tesco had the Sports + Extra 1 month bundle for 25 so might get that instead, will just activate it on the first day it's back. Can't remember with those when you try to cancel if you get the reduced price offers again though or if you only get those if you sub online

Just get IPTV and get everything for about £60 a year

Get a cracked firestick, all the 3pm KO’s and PPV boxing included, they’re brilliant!

What if you have already picked them? Harsh on the owner to rejig a team assuming their tokens budget is still the same

They should, but no idea how to make sure people aren't overbudget. Maybe only if the price is lowered? Many players end up being useless (not even mentioning how we can't use a Kante or a Rodri who are world class players..)

Not sure - you could argue he’ll be less nailed at City with less mins/points so should be same price or even cheaper

No, I think they should leave it as it is. Why make it more complicated and less fun? Lower starting prices represent great opportunities and cheap/-er options, which would be taken away from us in this case.

Let's say Cucurella replaces Zinchenko, who goes to Everton (for example). This would lead to a price rise for the first one (better club) and price drop for the second one (worse club). But at the same time Brighton LB/LWB's price (already listed in FPL) has to go up for at least 0.5, which means 3 price corrections.

Too many changes for my liking and as I said, we would be left without important part of the game.

As I recall, they just leave the price as it is.

FPL used to wait till mid-July, by which time a number of early transfers would already have been made, before launching, but most FPL players probably appreciate the earlier launches of recent years, especially when there is no World Cup or Euros to divert our attention during the Summer.

One of the best parts of pre-season planning is trying to spot players who are under or over priced, perhaps as a result of either themselves or other players in their teams being bought or sold, or because of injuries or unexpected good form and team selections in pre-season matches, and most of us are happy for the initial prices to remain unchanged till after the GW1 deadline.

Ben Crellin on twitter

I can design one for you?

But I like the excuses. The endless excuses.

Arteta failed last season. No European football and out of the cups, Arsenal were in the Top 4 and failed to qualify for CL.

This season should be is his last chance. Let's see if he takes it:

Ramsdale
Tomiyasu White Gabriel Tierney
Partey Tielemans
Jesus Odegaard Saka
Martinez

Leno
Soares Holding Xhaka Tavares
Lokonga Elneny
Pepe Smith-Rowe Martinelli
Nketiah

Don't think that's happening. Sounds like Tielemans interest has cooled and he's now expected to sign a 1 year extension, and I can't see Arsenal signing both Jesus and Raphinha (much like I doubt Spurs could sign Richarlison and Raphinha), I think it'll be one or the other. They'll both be £50m+ and Martinez is the priority now according to Ornstein.

Arteta dragged us down to 8th and then can’t get top 4 playing once a week and out of the cups.

Imagine if Wenger had been backed like this. Arsenal would have a couple more PL titles and possibly a CL.

A half Haaland?

Probably bamford or DCL with the amount of games they played last season

I think you're looking at forwards from the promoted sides at that price point.

If he can produce even 50% of his goals from the Championship last season, then Solanke could be worth a punt.

Undav Brighton maybe.

Or how about adding a limitless chip so that I can own all the shiny new toys?

Leaking is what got me in this mess in the 1st place.

When does FPL tower wake up?

Thank you! I've just had my first card ... from my 48 year old daughter.

Spreadsheets are essential.

use livefpl

Yeah, fries my brain too. It turns to mash.

Impossible to do any tinkering without prices. Far too many unknowns.

Agree it is good new look but links need to be updated to link to actual comment not general article page and only seems to have 1 page of latest comments rather than all in last 30 days

I like the ‘favourite football team’ feature. It would’ve been amazing if they could’ve displayed the relevant club badge next to your username when you comment too, it’s always helpful to hear the opinions of people who actually watch the players they’re talking about every week

Search for any Scoutcast or any Meet the Manager and you got 75% chance of Jonty talking about his price points.

Price points aren't too relevant imo for us who don't have problems with taking hits. Having said that, I have once been in trouble with value picks everywhere and every possible bandwagon costing 0.5 more. I think I ended up selling a player I would have wanted to keep for -4 to make two upgrades elsewhere. So having some flexibility with team structure is important. But we need to see player prices first and then check our possible future targets to consider team structure issues. Usually -4 and/or having some players that are 0.5 more expensive than their possible replacements does the trick.

Price points depends on prices which are not out yet duh

FDJ to United so that we can get the ball rolling y'know

Not sure about the 'locked in' or 'striker' parts

yes that would be good, my only concern is his price, presumably around the 8mil mark give or take 0.5m??

So potentially an 8.5m option, with the likes of Haaland, Salah, Son, KDB, Trent all desirable too...

For me this year I think 2 premium defenders then good value defenders around the 5/5.5 mark plus one bench warmer.

Then for midfield either Son/Salah with either Kulu/Diaz plus one other expensive mid plus cheap mids like Bruno G and less

Then either 1 or 2 decent forwards from Haaland/Kane/Nunez

Think we will see some 4.0/4.5/5.0 mil options as regular starters and very very cheap benches...

What makes you so sure that Jesus will be nailed on?

Nketiah is the Arsenal's main striker and Arteta has developed faith in him.

Sterling to Chelsea is another interesting one surely.

They can also simply make forwards cheaper. Haaland and Kane shouldn't probably cost more than KdB and Son for example. But the way things stand atm, mids look like better C picks because of the system and that is an issue.

They should make non premium forwards and mids cheaper

Essential

hahahaha

As a City fan this is nonsense.

I know Sterling and City are open to him leaving, he has 1 year left on his contract so it would make sense to cash in on him now. At the age of 27 and a highly skilled, English footballer I can't see him leaving for £35m.

Especially since City are trying to get Cucurella and could end up paying around the £40/45mil mark for him plus Kalvin Phillips could cost £50mil.

Can't see City letting him leave for anything less than £50m to cover the cost of Phillips/Cucurella...

And no way would we sell him to Chelsea for £35mil, maybe if it was a LaLiga side but we can't aford to let him leave that cheaply to a prem rival. Jesus to Arsenal will likely cost £50m so Sterling should be a similar price if he does decide to leave.

I do have a sense this commonest won't age well though...

Source? I've read they may be interested but that a lot of other things need to happen for this to become possible (including Lukaku to Inter, Kounde in, etc.)

Season Launch Date Launch Date – Days Before Start of Season
2021/22 23 June 51
2020/21 15 August 28
2019/20 27 June 43
2018/19 5 July 36
2017/18 12 July 30
2016/17 19 July 25

A number of clubs revealed prices of 4 players only on 20th June 2021 so that’s tomorrow!

However season started a week later last year so that could push it back to Monday 27th

Last season new prices from nine clubs were revealed by the clubs themselves on 20th June (4 players from each of ARS, BHA, BUR, CRY and TOT & all players from LEE, LIV, NOR and WHU). These were staggered at regular intervals through the day, starting in the morning (probably around 9am). It should have been ten clubs, but one of them was a day late in revealing their players' prices.

New prices from the other eleven clubs were revealed on 21st June (4 players from each of AVL, CHE, EVE, LEI and MCI & all players from BRE, MUN, NEW, SOU, WAT and WOL), again being announced at regular intervals throughout the day.

On 22nd June they revealed new prices for the rest of the BHA players and then launched shortly after midday.

But FPL had already done a big update lasting from 15th to 17th June, and we were able to pre-register our details from 17th June in order to speed up the process of completing our teams' registrations on launch day.
FPL may not start revealing new prices till after a similar update, so we'll probably have to wait a few more days yet.

Are FPL perhaps preparing some major changes or new features? And perhaps also giving themselves a little more time before they have to commit to the prices for players who have changed clubs or are new to the Premier League?