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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Mavropanos	WHU	4.4m	0.0%	Likely
Watkins	AVL	8.7m	63.4%	Likely
Bowen	WHU	7.7m	73.5%	Likely
Gibbs-White	NFO	7.5m	73.6%	Likely
Rogers	AVL	7.4m	99.0%	Likely
Xavi	TOT	6.5m	99.0%	Likely
Pedro Porro	TOT	5.1m	94.1%	Likely
Cunha	MUN	8.0m	99.0%	Likely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	99.2%	Likely
B.Fernandes	MUN	10.3m	70.0%	Maybe
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	96.3%	Maybe
Solanke	TOT	7.2m	72.3%	Maybe
Darlow	LEE	3.9m	96.2%	Maybe
Tarkowski	EVE	5.7m	77.6%	Unlikely
Struijk	LEE	4.3m	89.8%	Unlikely
Beto	EVE	5.0m	83.1%	Unlikely
Aaronson	LEE	5.4m	89.4%	Unlikely
Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	5.1m	62.6%	Unlikely
Casemiro	MUN	5.7m	72.5%	Unlikely
Justin	LEE	3.9m	82.8%	Unlikely
Ndiaye	EVE	6.2m	72.0%	Unlikely
Leno	FUL	4.9m	78.8%	Unlikely
Gakpo	LIV	7.3m	71.8%	Unlikely
Gabriel	ARS	7.1m	52.1%	Unlikely
Aït-Nouri	MCI	5.7m	72.1%	Unlikely
Wan-Bissaka	WHU	4.1m	71.7%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	71.7%	Unlikely
Frimpong	LIV	5.7m	68.9%	Unlikely
Lacroix	CRY	5.1m	58.7%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.1m	65.0%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.5m	68.6%	Unlikely
Gomez	BHA	4.9m	67.4%	Unlikely
Shaw	MUN	4.5m	63.1%	Unlikely
Virgil	LIV	6.2m	33.6%	Unlikely
Ngumoha	LIV	4.3m	62.3%	Unlikely
N.Williams	NFO	4.8m	53.8%	Unlikely
Richards	CRY	4.4m	62.0%	Unlikely
Isak	LIV	10.3m	54.7%	Unlikely
Groß	BHA	5.5m	63.2%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.4m	65.8%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Gordon	NEW	7.4m	100.0%	Very Likely
O.Dango	BRE	5.9m	91.4%	Likely
Mbeumo	MUN	8.5m	100.0%	Very Likely
Angel	WOL	4.7m	100.0%	Very Likely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.6m	100.0%	Very Likely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	90.7%	Likely
McAidoo	MCI	4.5m	100.0%	Very Likely
Merino	ARS	5.4m	100.0%	Very Likely
Piroe	LEE	4.9m	97.4%	Maybe
Emenalo	CHE	4.5m	97.1%	Maybe
Longstaff	LEE	4.8m	96.5%	Maybe
Tchaouna	BUR	4.8m	96.4%	Maybe
Iwobi	FUL	6.3m	80.7%	Maybe
Mayenda	SUN	5.2m	94.2%	Unlikely
Slonina	CHE	3.9m	92.1%	Unlikely
Thiaw	NEW	5.1m	73.9%	Unlikely
Grealish	EVE	6.3m	91.7%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	4.9m	91.5%	Unlikely
Reijnders	MCI	5.0m	90.9%	Unlikely
Rayan	BOU	5.5m	75.1%	Unlikely
Johnson	CRY	6.5m	89.0%	Unlikely
Trafford	MCI	4.5m	86.9%	Unlikely
Andrey Santos	CHE	4.5m	84.6%	Unlikely
Ebere	EVE	4.4m	74.1%	Unlikely
John	NFO	4.0m	83.1%	Unlikely
Mee	MUN	3.9m	79.8%	Unlikely
Salmon	ARS	4.0m	90.8%	Unlikely
Dorgu	MUN	4.1m	79.8%	Unlikely
Gravenberch	LIV	5.5m	75.9%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.6m	83.4%	Unlikely
Estève	BUR	3.9m	75.4%	Unlikely
Mainoo	MUN	4.7m	74.6%	Unlikely
Cairns	LEE	3.9m	76.4%	Unlikely
Steele	BHA	4.2m	75.6%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	68.9%	Unlikely
Amissah	FUL	3.8m	68.8%	Unlikely
Hall	NEW	5.4m	57.1%	Unlikely
Kilman	WHU	4.1m	69.4%	Unlikely
Byfield	TOT	4.0m	71.7%	Unlikely
Obi	MUN	4.2m	61.1%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C
No Change	Verbruggen	BHA	B, Vs
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	B
No Change	Darlow	LEE	B, Vs, £
No Change	Petrovic	BOU	B
No Change	Henderson	CRY	C

Last updated: 16 Apr, 2026 10:18pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	A
No Change	Gabriel Magalhães	ARS	A
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	B, Vs
No Change	Hill	BOU	B, £
No Change	Struijk	LEE	B, Vs, £
No Change	Lacroix	CRY	A, Inj
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	C
No Change	Cash	AVL	C

Last updated: 17 Apr, 2026 12:20pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Semenyo	MCI	B
No Change	Palmer	CHE	B
No Change	Tavernier	BOU	C, £
No Change	Ismaila Sarr	CRY	A
No Change	Gordon	NEW	A
No Change	Rice	ARS	C
No Change	Rogers	AVL	C
No Change	Anderson	NFO	B, £
No Change	Szoboszlai	LIV	A
No Change	Wilson	FUL	B
No Change	Hinshelwood	BHA	C, Vs, £

Last updated: 17 Apr, 2026 8:11pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	C
No Change	João Pedro	CHE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B, Vs
No Change	Calvert-Lewin	LEE	C, Vs
No Change	Bowen	WHU	A
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A

Last updated: 17 Apr, 2026 8:13pm

GW34 Transfers Poll

Dugout Discussion

8 October 2023 992 comments

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Last season’s top two headline Sunday’s Premier League action, as Arsenal host Manchester City in the final match before the October international break.

Kick-off is at 16:30 BST.

Bukayo Saka, who limped off during Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League defeat by Lens, misses out for the hosts.

It’s one of two changes for Arsenal, as Jorginho and Leandro Trossard start, with Kai Havertz dropping to the bench.

Gabriel Martinelli makes his return from injury as a substitute, meanwhile.

As for Man City, they make three alterations from the 2-1 loss at Molineux in Gameweek 7.

Josko Gvardiol, Rico Lewis and Bernardo Silva replace Manuel Akanji, Matheus Nunes and Jeremy Doku.

GAMEWEEK 8 LINE-UPS

Arsenal XI: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Jorginho, Odegaard, Rice, Jesus, Trossard, Nketiah

Subs: Ramsdale, Tomiyasu, Kiwior, Partey, Smith Rowe, Vieira, Havertz, Martinelli, Nelson

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Ake, Gvardiol, Lewis, Kovacic, Bernardo, Alvarez, Foden, Haaland

Subs: Ortega, Akanji, Stones, Bobb, Phillips, Grealish, Gomez, Nunes, Doku

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Alan The Llama
2 years, 6 months ago
Cmon Trossard
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1. AC/DC AFC
  2 years, 6 months ago
  good pick.
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Mirror Man
2 years, 6 months ago
Arsenal are in trouble today that team is an absolute kip.
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FOO FIGHTER
2 years, 6 months ago
Let's go Alvarez!
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F4L
2 years, 6 months ago
Alvarez masterclass please
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henrysquire
2 years, 6 months ago
Haaland injury please 🙂
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1. chocolove
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Wtf
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Scalper
2 years, 6 months ago
How has trippier kept the same baps after conceding (33). Machine!
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1. Sandy Ravage
  2 years, 6 months ago
  His assist was worth it alone
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Royal5
2 years, 6 months ago
How big is Haalands cap%? Guess most on here wants him to stay quiet
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1. FPL Blow-In
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Yeah, most want a blank
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  1. FPL Blow-In
    2 years, 6 months ago
    *That didn’t captain
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2. FOO FIGHTER
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Even those who owned and did not cap will want him to stay quite because I reckon many are having a quite week for not capping Salah 😆
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  1. FOO FIGHTER
    2 years, 6 months ago
    *Those who own
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3. Sun Jihai
  2 years, 6 months ago
  His EO around my rank is nearly 150%
  The worse your rank the scarier Haaland is!
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  1. Royal5
    2 years, 6 months ago
    Right. Need Alvarez to return.
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gooberman
2 years, 6 months ago
Those that got Schar/Burn/Botman to try and 'cover' Trippier. Lol!!
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1. F4L
  2 years, 6 months ago
  am Tripps owner but Burn very unlucky today, Isak hit post off assist and nearly scored himself.
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Make FPL Casual Again
2 years, 6 months ago
Time for Alvarez to punish the fIxTurEs / WaTkInS fanboys ...
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Connor's Calling
2 years, 6 months ago
This game. Was 80% sure Saka would miss out (mind games from Arteta, who trained under Pep after all). So took a -4 to do Saka - > Son (C).

Son blanks. If i'd left Saka in (only had one bench option in Archer, who also blanked), i'd have had to (C) Salah.

11 point loss.
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F4L
2 years, 6 months ago
Arteta says Saka isn't in training yet, could still be a doubt for GW9
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1. putana
  2 years, 6 months ago
  anyone who has ever had a hamstring injury knows you dont recover in a few days. Minimum is always 2 weeks
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  1. F4L
    2 years, 6 months ago
    makes sense
    
    funny how most (including me!) who sold just for a knock that wasn't much and somewhat "lucked" out FPL wise that he picked up a real injury a few days later.
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    1. AC/DC AFC
      2 years, 6 months ago
      he's had a succession of knocks tbf recently
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2. Cok3y5murf
  2 years, 6 months ago
  "In contention"....
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  1. F4L
    2 years, 6 months ago
    yep...
    
    Southgate naming him in his squad as well lol, no doubt there's something going on there to keep City guessing for this fixture.
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    1. Nickofoz
      2 years, 6 months ago
      It's a real surprise tbh. It's not like City would be super caught off guard if Saka unexpectedly played...
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3. jammie26
  2 years, 6 months ago
  2 weeks away, he'll be back
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putana
2 years, 6 months ago
wonder when Kudus starts making the first 11. Think he becomes the best west ham mid to get
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1. sulldaddy
  2 years, 6 months ago
  His goal today was a rocket.
  I still think JWP is the guy to have
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gooberman
2 years, 6 months ago
Clean sheets rare again this week. Only 4 with one game left.
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1. FPL Blow-In
  2 years, 6 months ago
  I correctly predicted the Forest cs and brought in … Aurier injured at HT
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FPL Blow-In
2 years, 6 months ago
What is that city formation? Who is in midfield with Kovacic is it Lewis?
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1. F4L
  2 years, 6 months ago
  yeah played there midweek vs Leipzig and was very good
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2. Andy_Social
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Yeah, until stones is good to start
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Bubz
2 years, 6 months ago
This is not going to be enjoyable viewing as a Haaland only owner
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1. FPL Blow-In
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Walker, White, Alvarez and Haaland. No points so far though!
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2. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Same here. Thankfully Salah did his job
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3. PascalCygan
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Owner of Son, Salah and Haaland but captainer of Son here, ready for a second dose of punishment
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camarozz
2 years, 6 months ago
Had Sterling since gw4 and Pau Torres since gw 1. Sold on wc
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1. Herger
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Ouch, should’ve kept them. Look at their scores
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  1. AC/DC AFC
    2 years, 6 months ago
    tell him about it.
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Supersonic_
2 years, 6 months ago
Alvarez hatrick please. Haaland owner.
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PartyTime
2 years, 6 months ago
Haaland & Alvarez have a lovely afternoon 😆
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1. Andy_Social
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Indeed - just nor quite as good as Salah!
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  1. PartyTime
    2 years, 6 months ago
    I’m just a mellow Maddison(C)’er 🙁
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2. Merlin the Wraith
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Indeed, but a brace of Odegaard penalties wouldn't go amiss too
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3. F4L
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Jorginho trying to keep tabs on Alvarez...goal and assist guaranteed
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FFS ManU
2 years, 6 months ago
Looks like time to play my wildcard before Salah and Trippier go up in price again.
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DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
2 years, 6 months ago
67 with just Haaland left to play.
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1. Royal5
  2 years, 6 months ago
  69 is decent this week
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  1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    2 years, 6 months ago
    Hahaha! I hope that's how it stays
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    1. Royal5
      2 years, 6 months ago
      😀
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2. AC/DC AFC
  2 years, 6 months ago
  that's good
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3. AC/DC AFC
  2 years, 6 months ago
  I'm on 57 with Haaland and Alvarez to go.
  
  Captained Son and played Martinez ahead of Turner on clean sheet odds, even tho I thought that Wolves would score.
  
  Plenty of routes to points in this game.
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PartyTime
2 years, 6 months ago
Areola 1. Turner 6. Guess who I played… yes, you guessed right! F Areola.
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1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
  2 years, 6 months ago
  I had Turner and Mitchell in my 11 all week. Changed that to Strakosha and Castagne. Played Areola of course. 9 points right there.
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  1. PartyTime
    2 years, 6 months ago
    That’s the dark side of the loon
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2. jacob1989
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Same
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3. x.jim.x
  2 years, 6 months ago
  You don’t need hindsight to see that the keeper playing a team who just put 4 past PSG is a worse option than the keeper playing a toothless Palace.
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Randaxus
2 years, 6 months ago
Areola Turner difference was 5 points sad
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The Ilfordian
2 years, 6 months ago
Just got back from lunch at Wimpy to find that Wilson blocked my Sterling points.

But Saka hasn’t! Happy days!!
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1. Make FPL Casual Again
  2 years, 6 months ago
  You dont deserve them
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  1. The Ilfordian
    2 years, 6 months ago
    I agree.
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x.jim.x
2 years, 6 months ago
Can’t fault Arteta’s dedication to the “mindgames”, but I’m not sure how keeping Saka out of the squad helps them against City?
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1. Bubz
  2 years, 6 months ago
  What else is he supposed to do? He's injured
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  1. x.jim.x
    2 years, 6 months ago
    Mate
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    1. Bubz
      2 years, 6 months ago
      ?
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    2. Bubz
      2 years, 6 months ago
      Oh, sarcasm, I see
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2. AC/DC AFC
  2 years, 6 months ago
  he's gone all in...
  
  no longer hooking him later on.
  
  now not starting him ..
  4D chess is that.
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3. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Great point. Arteta should play an injured player.
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4. FPL Blow-In
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Gone right over a few heads
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  1. x.jim.x
    2 years, 6 months ago
    Like a Joao Pedro sitter
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5. ZimZalabim
  2 years, 6 months ago
  60th min 2-1 down and saka walks through the crowd and starts stripping off
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  1. Mirror Man
    2 years, 6 months ago
    https://youtu.be/ufWMFLjvDTQ?si=WI5I8gs0UOmUvwen
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    1. x.jim.x
      2 years, 6 months ago
      First I was disappointed this wasn’t Stone Cold’s glass shattering, but then I lol’d
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6. The Mentaculus
  2 years, 6 months ago
  😆
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7. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Aah. Got it now. Hahaha
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  1. x.jim.x
    2 years, 6 months ago
    Read some Foolish stuff on here don’t you
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FOO FIGHTER
2 years, 6 months ago
Here we go.

Halland cappers either to hurt me or Alvarez to boost me.

Not to worried about those who didn't cap Braut.
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1. AC/DC AFC
  2 years, 6 months ago
  which ever way
  
  its all about you Foo
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2. FOO FIGHTER
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Off to watch the match, will be back later to share my tears or joy 😆
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3. Scalper
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Keep an eye out on Foden 😉
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4. FOO FIGHTER
  2 years, 6 months ago
  Only those in love with me show emotion.
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nerd_is_the_werd
2 years, 6 months ago
Arsenal 1 - 2 Manchester City
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Neevesy
2 years, 6 months ago
This game is great .

Went for Sterling and Chilwell to Son (C) and Beyer over Saka - Son for free.

Now Saka doesn't start and Sterling goes mad. Drives you nuts sometimes.
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1. Andy_Social
  2 years, 6 months ago
  I found it very hard to ignore all the noise this week. I have a bench full of broken things and had so many options to use a transfer or even take a hit. In the end I stuck my fingers in my ears and rolled. Glad I did. Now i have 2 weeks to assess injuries old and new.
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2. Sandy Ravage
  2 years, 6 months ago
  And now you've got 2 weeks to stew over it and resist rage transfers. Classic FPL
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lilmessipran
2 years, 6 months ago
Robot blank please..tia
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JOELIO8701
2 years, 6 months ago
Let’s go Haaland captain and foden owners
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Total Foot 5
2 years, 6 months ago
That migs trasfer in, not so good
Most keepong or dropping for who?
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