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2pm team news: Starts for Gabriel, Saka + Gvardiol

26 October 2025 750 comments
FPL Marc FPL Marc
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Four more matches get underway at 14:00 BST, with Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers particularly interested in the team news of Arsenal, Manchester City and Bournemouth.

TEAM NEWS

Starting with Arsenal, where there were strong doubts about Gabriel Magalhaes‘ (£6.4m) ability to start. Yet he and Bukayo Saka (£10.0m) are in the lineup, as both the Gunners and opponents Crystal Palace are unchanged from Gameweek 8.

Over at the Vitality Stadium, the first league match of Sean Dyche’s tenure sees four Nottingham Forest alterations. Igor Jesus (£5.8m) gets the nod over Taiwo Awoniyi (£5.2m), with hurt Chris Wood (£7.2m) sidelined.

Ollie Watkins (£8.5m) and Emiliano Buendia (£5.3m) replace Donyell Malen (£5.1m) and Evann Guessand (£6.3m), as Aston Villa host Manchester City. The visitors have recalled Josko Gvardiol (£5.9m) to their XI after last week’s rest.

FPL favourites like Erling Haaland (£14.7m), Antoine Semenyo (£8.1m), Viktor Gyokeres (£9.0m), Jurrien Timber (£6.0m), David Raya (£5.7m), Jean-Philippe Mateta (£7.6m), Ismaila Sarr (£6.5m), Marcos Senesi (£5.0m) and Tijjani Reijnders (£5.7m) all start. However, the latter could be deployed in a deeper midfield role than usual.

Meanwhile, ultra-cheap forward Eli Junior Kroupi (£4.6m) plays again for Bournemouth, hoping to replicate last week’s brace. That’s because teammate Evanilson (£7.0m) has a calf problem.

GAMEWEEK 9 LINE-UPS

ARSENAL XI: Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori; Rice, Zubimendi, Eze; Saka, Gyokeres, Trossard

Subs: Kepa, Mosquera, White, Hincapie, Norgaard, Merino, Lewis-Skelly, Martinelli, Nwaneri

CRYSTAL PALACE XI: Henderson; Richards, Lacroix, Guehi; Munoz, Wharton, Kamada, Mitchell; Sarr, Yeremy; Mateta

Subs: Benitez, Clyne, Canvot Sosa, Lerma, Hughes, Uche, Nketiah, Devenny

ASTON VILLA XI: Martinez; Cash, Konsa, Pau, Digne; Onana, Kamara, McGinn; Buendia, Watkins, Rogers

Subs: Bizot, Lindelof, Mings, Maatsen, Bogarde, Barkley, Sancho, Guessand, Malen

MANCHESTER CITY XI: Donnarumma; Nunes, Stones, Ruben, Gvardiol; Reijnders, Bernardo; Bobb, Foden, Savinho; Haaland

Subs: Trafford, Ake, O’Reilly, Lewis, Kovacic, Marmoush, Nico, Cherki, Doku

BOURNEMOUTH XI: Petrovic; Jimenez, Milosavljevic, Senesi, Truffert; Scott, Adams; Tavernier, Kluivert, Semenyo; Kroupi Jr

Subs: Dennis, Diakite, Cook, Brooks, Christie, Gannon-Doak, Unal, Adli, Soler

NOTTINGHAM FOREST XI: Sels; Savona, Murillo, Milenkovic, Williams; Douglas Luiz, Anderson; Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi; Igor Jesus

Subs: John, Morato, Sangare, Yates, Dominguez, Hutchinson, Awoniyi, Jair Cunha, Kalimuendo

WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS XI: Johnstone; Hoever, S Bueno, Krejci, H Bueno; Andre, Munetsi, Bellegarde; Arias, Strand Larsen, R Gomes

Subs: Sa, Wolfe, Toti, Tchatchoua, J Gomes, Agbadou, Arokodare, Hwang, Fer Lopez

BURNLEY XI: Dubravka; Walker, Tuanzebe, Esteve, Hartman; Ugochukwu, Florentino, Cullen; Anthony, Flemming, Bruun Larsen

Subs: Weiss, Ekdal, Pires, Broja, Foster, Edwards, Hannibal, Laurent, Tchaouna

LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!

New to Fantasy Football Scout is the Live Gameweek page, which you can see on the side menu.

Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DC) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out, as seen below:

FPL Marc Broadcaster, writer and overthinker. Hoping that ‘differential potential’ will catch on.

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  1. Brosstan
    • 12 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    That's a crystal clear gab assist. Non owners just spouting bs in here...

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    1. Nightcrawler
      • 7 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Not really look at the closer angle from the front

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      1. PartyTime
        • 5 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        The front elevation 🙂

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  2. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    It looks like Gabriel headed it tbf

    He's higher than the Palace player

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      I've checked on freeze frame

      Gabriel assist incoming?

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  3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 16 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Clear Gabriel assist. Robbed

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      It will come back perhaps

      Won't make a big difference

      But in a low scoring weekend it would count

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      1. ChampChomp
        • 14 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        I'm in a league with a prize for monthly high score. It's a 3 way race and one of the others has Rice and me and the other guy have Gabriel. It makes a big difference to me.

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        1. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          10 months, 29 days ago

          Hope you get your chomp

          Champ

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    2. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Probably changes later, they’re always slow to fix

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  4. Prinzhorn
    • 5 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Clear Gab assist. You’re either blind or trolling.

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    1. Nightcrawler
      • 7 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Opta doesn't think it's his either

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    2. PartyTime
      • 5 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      No assist in my opinion even though I am not watching. OPTA, usually reliable

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  5. Garlana
    • 11 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Forget about Gabby assist or not, Senesi is only on 1 single DC! What is this madness!?

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    1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Stopped getting them since I bought them lol.

      Maybe got nothing to do because Forest so bad

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      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        How many Senesi's do you have?

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        1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
          • 9 Years
          10 months, 29 days ago

          One like everyone else

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        2. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
          • 9 Years
          10 months, 29 days ago

          Sorry typo him not them

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      2. Garlana
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        Yeh I'm not watching the game, I just assumed Forest can't create anything for him to clear away.

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    2. NABIL - FPL otai
      • 13 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Law of averages

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    3. chocolove
      • 15 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Defcon absorbed to that Serbian guy

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  6. NABIL - FPL otai
    • 13 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    A. JP to Mateta
    B. DeCuyper to Munoz
    C. Both for s a hit

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  7. thegaffer82
    • 15 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    That Rice cross definitely hit Gabby head. I’ve watched it about 6 times now.
    The problem is that the CPL defender also headed it at the same time. So FPL towers are going to screw us over by the looks of things…

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    1. Nightcrawler
      • 7 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      FPL follow opta. Opta have all the angles. If they don't think Gabriel touched it with all their angles he's not getting the assist

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      1. thegaffer82
        • 15 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        How many more angles are there? They’ve shown about 4 different angles on the feed I’m watching & they all look like both players touched the ball at the same time…

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        1. Nightcrawler
          • 7 Years
          10 months, 29 days ago

          The front angle made it clearly a Sarr header. Opta agrees

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      2. Brosstan
        • 12 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        Opta have the same angles everyone else does... they don't have magical secret cameras. The angles available showed Gab hit the ball

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        1. Nightcrawler
          • 7 Years
          10 months, 29 days ago

          The front angle looked like Sarr to me...and so it does to opta

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  8. chocolove
    • 15 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    If unsure who got the assist leave it blank first, why Rice

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    1. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Blind

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      1. Kaneyonero
        • 10 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        He doesn't play in PL anymore

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  9. Kaneyonero
    • 10 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    We're all having a bad gw anyways Haaland not firing either. Only Mbeumo and SL owners in Dreamland.

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    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Rodon and Kroupi say hi

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  10. F4L
    • 11 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    evidently wolves burnley was the match to be watching 😆

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  11. Prinzhorn
    • 5 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Benched Petrovic for Dubravka what on earth was I thinking

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    1. Not again Shirley
      • 9 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Yes that was a mistake. I am a forest fan and always thought with Dyche there now that they would look to improve defensively first so chances of us scoring today was low. In fairness, more likely to score now though as behind.

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  12. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Must be Gabriel assist, like why would Palace player head it to Eze to score

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    1. el polako
      • 9 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Habit?

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      1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
        • 9 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        Old habits die hard tbf

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    2. thegaffer82
      • 15 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      He was trying to clear the ball, it wasn’t like he headed it to Eze on purpose. But anyway, Gabby defo got his head to the ball too at the same time

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  13. chocolove
    • 15 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Everyone so busy with Arsenal assist gate and forget that Captain robot hasnt score yet

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    1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
      • 10 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Perma captain for most. Nobody cares.

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      1. NABIL - FPL otai
        • 13 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        I captained Ndiaye over Robot and Mbeumo 🙂

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      2. thegaffer82
        • 15 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        Defo. Haaland score is ignorable at this point unless it’s a big TC week

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  14. F4L
    • 11 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    kroupi what a strike

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    1. el polako
      • 9 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Better than Gyokeres.
      Then again maybe it’s not big Swedes fault that he plays for a 1-0 set piece FC.

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  15. Basileus
    10 months, 29 days ago

    I need a Kroupi Jr hattrick to save my week

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  16. Naatie
    • 1 Year
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Grown men (supposedly) crying over an assist... the world we live in

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    1. Kaneyonero
      • 10 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      I'm not, I have Rodon planted on my bench 😉

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    2. PartyTime
      • 5 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Meanwhile in 1918, men are crying after being thrown into trench warfare

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  17. pundit of punts
    • 13 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Saliba subbed

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Likewise

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  18. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Saliba off

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  19. Silecro
    • 8 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Mosquera in at halftime, Saliba replaced

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  20. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    I must be stupid paying for 9.0 for Gyokeres whilst 4.6 Kroupi scores for fun 😛

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    1. el polako
      • 9 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      If you feel stupid what should Arteta feel?
      How much did he spend on his wannabe forward?

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  21. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Saliba subbed

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Snap

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      1. tiger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        Just glad it wasn't Gabriel!

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  22. didas
    • 5 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Saliba off

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  23. Kaneyonero
    • 10 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Saliba owners mudded

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Early bath

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  24. Brosstan
    • 12 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Useless Konsa going to keep a CS against Man City. You gotta laugh

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  25. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Saliba subbed

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  26. Baps Hunter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    They gave it first to Rice, not it is TBC. They will use a lot of time on this imo. For me it looked like Gabi A, but the angle isn't good enough and I don't have slow motion. But if Gabi headed it and even any defender touched it, Eze was the intended target, with old rules anyway. However, Saka once got A after gk boxed his corner

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    1. Shark Team
      • 9 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      No chance Gabby headed and Rice gets the A
      They have it to Rice officially probably because Gabriel doesn’t touch the ball

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  27. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    It's a bit low key at the Emirates

    Are they missing their Sunday roast?

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  28. Tonyawesome69
    • 7 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    The Scout: After review, Rice is awarded the assist for Arsenal's goal. His cross is cleared by Sarr before dropping to Eze inside the penalty area.

    https://x.com/OfficialFPL/status/1982463055200964887?t=WugD6n1lB8ARql6FHZFGCw&s=19

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    1. Basileus
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Correct decision

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      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        This new assist rule doesn't help

        Either way

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    2. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      #getsomejusticeinthereforsarrweallwanttheassist!

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    3. Kaneyonero
      • 10 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Sarr Assist

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    4. Brosstan
      • 12 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      "Clearly" Lmao BS. Tell me youre a non Gabriel owner without telling me youre a non Gabriel owner

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  29. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Safety score currently 22

    I don't like this format of fixtures on Sunday at 2pm dominating

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    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      I am on 17 dear me

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      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        Snap

        But 22 on LiveFPL

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  30. Pedersen
    • 7 Years
    10 months, 29 days ago

    Anyone else dodging all points ? ....

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    1. didas
      • 5 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Yup

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    2. Fifa las vegas
      • 14 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Massively after a few decent GWs. Shitshow again now and not looking great going forward either

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      1. WVA
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        10 months, 29 days ago

        At least you’ve had a few decent weeks

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    3. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Yep

      On 22 but the second half normally delivers more

      Got nothing later on in the super Sunday fixture

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    4. Do I Not Like Orange
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      10 months, 29 days ago

      Yep. Even when one of my players returns FPL Towers gives it to the man assisting the assister instead

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