Play Up Pompey!

Even though a template hasn’t emerged yet, this feels a bit templatey. Thoughts?

Sanchez, (4.0)
Gvardiol, Burn, Mykolenko (Guehi) (4.0)
Salah, Gordon, Kudus, CHO (4.5)
Haaland, Isak, Havertz

Surely it’s White over Saliba, massively outscored him in nearly 500 minutes less

Thoughts on this draft?

Sanchez
Walker burn mykolenko
Salah eze nkunku Hudson odoi
Haaland Watkins isak

Turner rogers faes harwood

Not seeing Watkins in many drafts. Surely he’s value at 9mill considering his output last season and Villa’s decent opening fixtures. Are people thinking he’ll be rested after the euros?

How about this? No Liverpool or Arsenal but has both Haaland and Watkins

Turner
Gvardiol, Anderson, Burn
Palmer, Gordon, Eze, MGW
Haaland, Watkins, Isak

Iverson, Barco, Soucek, Harwood-Bellis

Pick one:

A. Salah Muniz
B. Palmer Havertz

Chelsea looking to sign a new GK.

MGW or Kudus? Slightly leaning towards MGW considering NFO has good opening 3 fixtures and he is on pens

Pickford

Martinez, TAA, Hall

Foden, Salah, Kudus, Palmer, B.Johnson

Isak, Havertz

(Fabianski, Andersen, 4.5, 4.0)

I was looking at a potential BB gw1 team, I did it last year and it went well.

Tempted this year as well particularly because the transfer carries over when you use a chip.

It does mean no Salah and Haaland, obviously a risk. And is heavily reliant on Spurs doing well v Leicester. Newcastle the same v Southampton and a Liverpool clean sheet v Ipswich. Arsenal likely to get a clean sheet surely?

Then move off Spurs to Chelsea gw3. Apparently Richarlison is not likely to be ready for the start of the season, so it makes Johnston a sneaky decent pick.

From looking at the options believe it or not Pope/Raya rotate fairly well until I need to sell one of them for funds.

This is what I came up with .5m in the bank.

Raya (Pope)
--
Saiba - TAA - VVD - (Romero - Konsa)
--
Garnacho - Johnson - Son - Gordon (Eze)
--
J.Pedro - Watkins - Isak

The main thing putting me off to 100% go for the BB is there are a lot of away games there even if they are against weak opposition on paper.

Thoughts on this draft:

Flekken
Gvardiol Guehi Myko 4.5 4
Foden Salah Palmer Mainoo Rogers
Isak Toney Watkins

Savio 6.5m

What are the main dilemmas am I missing any?
1) Haaland in or out
2) Liverpool under the new manager - specifically TAA's position, and rotation between Gapko, Diaz, Darwin and Jota
3) Nkunku, Chelsea GK and Joao in preseason or in the watchlist
4) Should we go for a City/Arsenal defender?
5) With the new 5FT rule its even more important to have a good bench. Worth considering having an 8th attacker and rotating
i.e. Joao Pedro with Hudson Odoi/GibbsWhite

Joao Pedro out up to 5 weeks with broken rib apparently

I’m surprised no one’s going for a 3-5-2

Sanchez / 4.0
Konsa Anderson Burn Myko 4.0
Salah Palmer Saka Eze Gordon
Watkins Isak 4.5

Rotate the 4th defender, have a good first bench every week anyway so other options isn’t so important. The 4.0 defender will probs get minutes too anyway. Missing city yes but that attack is beast

Watkins or Palmer?

Thoughts on this Haaland & Salah draft please?

Sanchez
Martinez VdV Burn
Salah Odegaard Gordon Eze Nkunku
Haaland Isak

Turner Faes Harwood-Bellis Ladapo

Which are the 'best' of the 4.5 mids for the bench please?

Are you going for any low ownership (less than 10%) differentials in your GW1 squad or playing it safe to start?

1. Taa Havertz
2. Gvardiol Watkins

Johnstone ( Areola )
Saliba Gvardi Burn (Tuanz. / Harwood)
Palmer Foden Odegard Salah ( Winks )
Muniz Watkins Wood

Rate my first draft please.

So i am looking at different strategies, one i favor is fully attack the first 5 weeks for teams with good fixtures and then WC when we have more information by week 6 to hit the fixture swing

Something like this to start with :
Henderson
Aina TAA Gvardiol Burn 4mil
Salah Gordon CHO Gibbs-White Andreas
Haaland Isak 4,5

Plan would be to get some 2 Brighton mids week 3 to hit their nice fixtures.

What does everybody think about the increased impact of European fixtures this season with the revamped UEFA formats being rolled out across all 3 competitions? (36 team league, 8 regular fixtures, positions 1-8 advance to KO stage, positions 9-24 play 2-legged play off to advance, positions 25-36 eliminated from all UEFA competitions - no parachuting into tournament lower down the ladder)

Arsenal and Man City - Likely to finish in positions 1-8 (8 games).
Liverpool and Villa - Likely to finish in positions 9-24 (10 games).
Spurs and Man United - Both liable to balls it up (8/10 games)
Chelsea - Very likely to finish in positions 1-8 (8 games)

Impossible that this amount of football/travel doesn't have an impact, heightened risk of injury and potentially rotation towards the end in order to avoid a play off/elimination. See Newcastle last season for worst case scenarios when it comes to this, potentially Villa and Liverpool most at risk.

1) not worth the price imo
2) Salah or no-one before we see how they play, but TAA or Bradley on preseason watchlist
4) Gvardiol and Saliba should be solid picks
5) I don't know about that being the reason, but dead positions don't earn TV early in the season. So pricing could be better reasoning for that choice, since only two players between 7.5 and 9.5. Also Saka and especially Foden question marks after Euros.

Week 1 BB into GW 2 WC

4.5, 4.5
White, Porro, 4.5, Burn, mykolenko
Salah, Bruno, odegaard, Johnson, Gordon
Havertz, J. Pedro, Isak

J. Pedro and White to Saliba and Woods also in my thinking

Avoids all players who went deep into Euros/Copa. Brings them back in Week 2 and Haaland (C). Thoughts?

Haven’t played FPL since the season when AWB was 4.0 at Crystal Palace, but want to give it a go again this year!

What do you think of this draft?

Raya Turner
Gvardiol VDVen Mykolenko Andersen Harwood-Bellis
Salah Palmer Foden Eze Rogers
Havertz Isak Wood

What about this one… thoughts?

Sanchez Turner
TAA Gvardiol Andersen Burn Faes
Salah Palmer Eze Kudus Gibbs-W
Havertz Isak Muniz

I think I'm going to set up my team for 3 weeks only and then wildcard in week 3 over the 1st International break - set up a team with no needed transfers for the 1st 3 weeks before wildcarding.
Any thoughts on this strategy?

Picking the right 6.5m midfielder will be key. I'm on Nkunku now, but considering Kudus, Bailey and MGW too.