Given injuries / suspensions to Botman and Gusto, I can field Tripper and Cash but also, unfortunatley, Beyer. I know the advise is to never take a hit for a defender, but in this case would you do a -4 to someone like Anderson or Udogie given that Beyer is highly unlikely to score anything?

already made an early transfer with -4 hit to bring son in the team, hoping that estupinan will play against liverpool.
But now when estupinan injured, only 2 defender can play for gw8

should take another -4 (total now -8) hit to change someone from my defender or just let it blank with this injured player?

this is my current defender

estupinan, trippier, botman, colwill, baldock

On a wildcard. Any help?

A: Lamptey, Longstaff, Salah
Or
B: Akanji, Bowen, Saka/Odegaard

B has better options for future changes - A has Salah. Also have Maddison and Son, with Alvarez, Watkins, Haaland up front.

Bottomed

Play Burn or Archer?

Who would thank playing a wildcard be so stressful, I'm done I'm settling in this, thank it's a pretty solid team, yea I'm missing Salah and Watkins but feel I'm well covered,

Turner
Udogie, cash, taa
Diaby, son, maddison, Bowen
Alverez, Nunez, haaland,

Bench, areola, trippier, Anderson, taylor

Botman + Saka to Porro + Son for -4? Got Udogie so would lock me out of Maddison?

Looking like a tricky week for my team even tempted to free hit.

Kabore -> Lascelles worth -4 if I have to play Kabore?

WC draft:

Areola Turner
Cash Udogie Burn Kabore Gusto
Salah Son Bowen Maddison Chuk
Watkins Haaland Alvarez

Kickass mid and forward line but concerned that defence may be too lightweight?. Also no clear route in to bring back Saka concerns me?

Better balance options might be to downgrade Salah (but seems crazy with their fixtures), downgrade Alvarez (again not happy as will lose decent value in him and a v cheap way in to City attack), or lose Watkins? Leaning towards the latter as Villa's next 2 games are anything but easy (and I disagree with the fixture score ratings too).

https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2023/10/05/does-fixture-difficulty-matter-to-haaland-man-city/

Is Odegaard a good pick or do you think Arsenal will suffer with Saka out?

Does Anderson start for Newcastle on Sunday?

The Squad

Goalkeepers: Sam Johnstone (Crystal Palace), Jordan Pickford (Everton), Aaron Ramsdale (Arsenal)

Defenders: Levi Colwill (Chelsea), Lewis Dunk (Brighton & Hove Albion), Marc Guehi (Crystal Palace), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Fikayo Tomori (AC Milan), Kieran Trippier (Newcastle United), Kyle Walker (Manchester City)

Midfielders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Conor Gallagher (Chelsea), Jordan Henderson (Al-Ettifaq), Kalvin Phillips (Manchester City), Declan Rice (Arsenal)

Forwards: Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) Phil Foden (Manchester City), Jack Grealish (Manchester City), Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), James Maddison (Tottenham Hotspur), Eddie Nketiah (Arsenal), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa)

Worried that Foden won’t start Vs arsenal. Thinking potentially Grealish + Bilva with Alvarez behind Haaland.

Worth it to do Foden > Diaz/Diaby (-4)?

Y or N

Was determined not to use my WC in GW 8, but with 5 injured players, and a team I hated, I went for it anyways.

GK: Turner, (Areola)
DF: Trippier, Robertson, Porro, Cash, (C.Taylor)
MF: Maddison, Son, Luis Diaz (Gordon, Eze)
FW: Watkins, Haaland, Archer

To vanilla?

Thanks!

Finally going to take Estupinan out and need need to get either Son or Maddison in. A or B?

A. Estup and Mbuemo out - Burn and Madders in
B. Estup and Saka out - Burn and Son in

Thanks

So many mids you could chose that I’m really not sure you need to double up on Son & Maddison, you could take one of them on with a number of alternatives.

Defensive fixs looking weak at the moment, outside of Trippier, no one is jumping out, I’m not sure why doubling up Udogie & Porro is not more sensible, they should pick up some CS in this next run of games & both get forward a lot, just not sure if people are being blinded by the sea of wildcards opting for the double mids, the popular template by those with power to shape it has struggled so far, there’s never been a better chance to get against that crowd with some creativity.

Maddison v Foden, Bowen, JWP, Arsenal mids, Diaby, soon to be Brighton mids, Diaz etc feels like a fair shoot out.

On wild card

Pretty settled, but the last 3 ideas I have:
Sell: Ederson, saliba, diaby
Buy: raya, gabriel, Bowen

(Would also give me 0.4itb vs 0.0)