Changed captaincy from Salah/Palmer to Mbeumo at 5pm Friday.

Am an Arsenal fan, but don't own Saka.

Rough Saturday
Attack faltered Cunha Pedro and Isak blanks
Smooth Sunday
Mids Performed well Salah(c)Palmer Bruno

Still dropped to 400k but could have been worse.

Smooth: Palmer(c), Wood returned, Onana CS and of course Mo

Rough: not owning Saka, 68 points and massive red arrow

Smooth; Salah C
Rough; Wolves and Isak

91 pointer….

Rough: Choosing Mbuemo over Mitoma on my WC
Smooth: 99 points on WC, removed Haaland for Saka and capt Cole !

Rough:
First 7 players = 11 points
(Flekken, Hall, RAN, Mbuemo, Isak, Cunha, Pedro)

Smooth:
Last 4 players = 68 points
(Saka, Gabriel, Palmer [C], Salah)

Took a -4 only had 10 playing with Greaves, Veltman & Konate all out, Ran contributed 0, still managed 89 -4 85 all out.

78 week 12, 85 week 13, week 14?

Going again with another hit & team now looks like a WC.

Rough: Still don't own Salah
Smooth: Scored 86 points anyway

Rough:
Konate out for weeks, and Harwood-Bellis got a fifth yellow.
Took a 12-point hit, and three of my new players (Joao Pedro, Cunha and Ait-Nouri) only managed 4 points between them.

Smooth:
But my fourth new player (Saka) scored 18.
And Palmer and captain Salah also got double-digit hauls.
So my 88 (-12) points resulted in an 800k rise, and I'm into the top five million for the first time since Gameweek 1.
It was also sufficient to put me through to the second round of both FFS Cups.

Some people captained a player who has scored 2, 2, 2, 6, 2, 5, 2 in his previous 7 fixtures

Smoothish.

79 points.
Bruno > Saka
Rank staying around 15k.

Relative worst week so far, dropped loads 43 pts currently, captained Pedro in a moment of madness….Flekken and VVD on the bench

A great midfield performance from the non harlaand dream team.
85, but a pointless -4 (pedro) gave me 81, compounded by leaving Bruno's 9 points on the bench.

But I have pedro going forward, so not all bad.
A green arrow for a whole 800 places up, but I'm at an unbelievable 12k so again, all smooth really

Saturday night - regreetting not doing Palmer > Saka
Sunday night - didn't matter, but shoudl have takent eh hit to do Mbeumo/Haaland>Saka/Jackson I was considering. Ah well, pulled the trigger already on that transfer before tonights price changes.

Bit of a defensive disasterclass from my team. I decided to Forego the double Arsenal attack (selling Mbeumo for Odegaard) and instead brought in double Arsenal defence. I went for Timber, but I was 0.1 off Gabriel to join him.

So I had the choice of Calafiori for free or Gabriel (-4) by downgrading Pope. I chose the free option which gave me 0 points for Calafiori, while Gabriel scored a goal for 9 points, and 2 points for Pope, which could have been a Sanchez cleanie (though in all honesty I didn't put any thought into who I would go for, but I had Sanchez' excellent fixtures in the back of my mind).

My final defensive spot was taken by the highly praised (by the manager) Mazrouai who was taken off 5 minutes before he was eligible for the clean sheet points.

So in the end, I got 2 points in total from my 3 defenders who had bookies odds of 43% of a CS each, the highest possible probability this week.

On the plus side, Pope did outscore Fabianski (-1pts), meaning I finally played the correct keeper after 4 weeks of getting it wrong. I'm only 12 points down on GK rotation now!

Smooth: power midfield and triple ARS means a happy GW
Rough: still have to straighten out the defense

Rough: Sold Strand-Larsen and Havertz for João Pedro and Cunha for a hit, costing me 17 points. My defence is a disaster, returning a total of 6 points.

Smooth: Saved by Palmer(c), Saka and Salah. 77 points (Net 73). Still a small red arrow but not badly poistioned at 130k

85 point week even with two players scoring 0 and -1!

Smooth; finally made the Haaland out move, brought Salah(c) back in (sold on wildcard GW7) and Pedro. Palmer, Saka, Gabriel, Strand-Larson all doing great. Moved up 1.0m places.

Rough; Gvardiol no show, Ait-Nouri whipping for 0 points, Fabianski -1.

rough: only allowed to make changes to my team (transfers, captain and bench) every int break (or pre-determined block of 5 weeks). Last week I opted for Rogers with BJ first sub and I'm about 14 points down on that decision so far. Villa look absolutely spent as well that I'm not confident even with the decent fixtures.

Isak over Jackson last week looks a worse decision by the second - again I have to hold until Boxing Day.

Elite defence of Fab (-1), Ait-N0ur1 (0), Davis (2) and Hall (2 with last min CS wipeout).

Salah, Saka, Palmer got all my points with no other returns. Been on the trio with no Haaland since GW3 and the power of that differential is now over.

rank doubled from 10k to ~20k. My no changes policy which has served me so well thus far will surely hit hard over Xmas.

Rough: No Salah or Saka.

Smooth: Returns from Palmer (C), Strand Larsen, Johnson, Fernandes, Gabriel and Havertz for a first green arrow since GW7.