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Saka priority over defence especially if you could get Raya as excellent cover

I'd ditch Havertz to spread the risk a bit?

At least let Isak play today first.

I'd be happy that Havertz can cover Saka especially if Arsenal don't sign a striker before the gameweek 3 deadline.

I think getting Arsenal defence in at GW6 will be important, so I would prioritise that. Havertz still a good attacking option

Wouldn’t be rushing to Arsenal defence until GW6.

Congrats

I think I have spoken to you previously about price changes (Solanke and Mykolenko) and both didn't drop that day. Are you following the price changes correctly? Are you over estimating the % changes?

What moves mate?

Konsa. Villa are a quality defence and CL has not kicked in for them yet, so no tirednesss issues.

Wait for the clean sheet odds or to see what Andy tells us to do.

Robinson for me. More attacking

Robinson for the attacking threat.

I agree. He'll make changes after yesterday defeat.

He's apparently being reintegrated after his international tournament

I agree that he shouldn't be benched again, but Ten Haag can be... Surprising

Maybe he's still hoping for someone to bid for Rashford?

Is argue that he possibly is.

A)Harrison

B) McNeil

Keane

Vieira

Not too bad. 3 penalty box touches, only 1 goal attempt (which was a big chance), 2 chances created and 0.53 xGI. I'd personally hold as that's something to build on in the gameweeks to come.

I’d say Mateta didn’t pass the eye test yesterday, his stats were ok, .39xg .27xa but not great either considering playing at home. Muniz looked better as in he got into good positions and had 7 shots worth .58xg, but he missed them all including a golden headed chance from a peach of a cross from Robinson (both of whom I have in my 11 ofc).
Based on current evidence so far I’d say its the Brighton fwds we ought to be looking at.

But its still early so I’d hold as he played 90 and Palace will prob improve. Hope so anyway cos I have Eze

- No
- No, plays for Leicester. Keep an eye on Nedeljković, need ro know about Cash injury and Villa don't sign new RB

Faes is nailed on for Leicester and can be the best 4m player so far. The Villa Rb also is a good option with their fixtures. He did well when he came on for Cash.

So far, Haaland hasn't been 'essential'. There are combinations that are keeping pace with Haaland plus £4.5m e.g., Son and Saka, Smith-Rowe, Gibbs-White, TAA, Arsenal defence double up or triple-up. It needs some more players to join the pack to keep that up (e.g., Solanke, Fernandes, Eze, Gordon, Isak, Palmer)

Expected a hat trick. My fear was 4+ returns, which were very possible

There will be GWs such as these. Haaland is at that price for a good reason

The task without him is to spend the funds on higher performing assets than the players Haaland owners have

I think this season will come down how the cheap guys play. If we get a truly emerging 4.0/4.5 defender and some excellent 5.0/5.5 attackers, Haaland teams win

I didn't go down that path because I couldn't predict this season's Palmer or Doherty based on what I knew before GW1

As a Haaland owner, I also still have quite a few to play, like Isak, Trent and Jota.
My main fear is that Jota will be injured soon and I might switch to team Salah now the IPS game is behind us. Alternative is Szoboszlai in for Jota and using funds to get Watkins. Apparently I’m one of the few naive enough to believe in Jolly Ollie.

Hard to improve decision making. Decision making in football is instinct-based. How can you improve your instinct if you are playing matches every week where you rely on instinct and can't focus on making the slow deliberate changes required to improve your instinct.

Better than watching Everton.

good player, still maturing

His decision making or his team mates lack of awareness? I think it's an integration thing, United need a settled team to play for a few weeks and get to gel. But half the time the players don't make the runs expected and everyone looks daft.

1. no , good upside tho mitchell givin in better numbers on some stat websites?
2. im afraid u are stuck with your Diku for life, unless u wanna opt out with surgery. heard its a trend in some parts.
3. havertz since u have saka
4. i wud ship doku since u have haaland cover

Yeah seem fine with only this info given.

Let's see how midweek UCL impacts this prediction

Players who don't score pts end up not scoring pts in the foreseeable future. Players who score pts, end up scoring even more pts in the foreseeable (Welbeck). Law of moving averages. I'd wait for Watkins to score before moving him in. He looks off of it.

Not much against it, tbf

Eye test, Rogers looks a class above for Villa atm and only 5m. I know you can't cover attacking players, but I wouldn't want to pass that up (unless you fancy the double up with Watkins - who admittedly does look well off the pace atm).

Very good fixtures. I am watching Isak today before making a decision between him and or Havertz to go.

Couldn't bring him in the way he's playing currently

Geez, just looked, first one isn’t until GW14, ferk…

That's the last cleansheet he'll ever get.

He was already close enough to a drop because of his GW1 minutes, so a few sellers pushed him beyond the threshold

Congrats on the Quansah solution 🙂

I'd wait for some info on Cash's injury though. Villa's 4.0 RB might be an even better solution if Cash is out for months rather than weeks

He was over -150% before he played

no way of gettin em both?

Waste of a transfer. Just keep son

Yeah think this is the move I'll be making this week, taking the Son points and running.

dont have salah too myself, hoping for jota to keep his numbers close to salahs. but i might be salah (translates to wrong in my country)

Yeah i would do it.

Not worth a -4.

Solanke might play in GW3. Maybe sell if he's confirmed out

I'd also note that the striker and GK you're buying for a hit face each other. Good chance that one of them affects the other's ability to pay back the hit. I get the idea of transfers being long-term and hedging your bets, but one/both of these moves can be delayed by one GW. Henderson can get one more week against the out-of-sorts Chelsea, imo. Take the save points and then switch for free after?

I expect Salah to be a popular move in GW4

Wish people would stop making early kneejerk transfers!

Non owners will think 15.1m is far too expensive now

Is he fit? I dont see him replacing Konate this season though, maybe if he put in amazing performances which Konate is capable of as well.

He has to start first.

I don't think he'll be in the squad ; picked up an injury.

I'd roll both FTs here. Nothing screams out yet. Not even a clear Doku replacement, for example

No obvious issues here to fix

Looks like it's his spot to lose. Miguel on the bench for both games

I thought Sels was one of the works GKs last season, due to goal prevention stats

It seemed he was the reason Forest's stats didn't translate to clean sheets

Not sure, but that's why I stay away from Forest defence

I mean both are set and forget for the season ; Raya will score more.

Raya, set-and-forget. I trust Arsenal's defence a lot more than Villa's

I think short term Martinez with the upcoming Villa fixtures but Raya long term