You at least want someone who is going to play just in case you need appearance points off the bench.

+0.5 itb

your midfield is terrible and you'll be playing your wc by gw3 as you watch several 7-8.5m priced midfields get double digit hauls, and by then you're already chasing players who have far better overall teams.

bruno+haaland+gabriel is just such a terrible idea. gabriel is massively overpriced, so is bruno imo.

burno at 12m is just paying for last years pts. *if* he somehow managed to get a similar overall haul to last year he *might* be worth 12m, but it is far more likely that he won't. there are plenty of midfielders who are 4-5m cheaper (!), who may not get more pts, but will almost certainly provide far better value for you to improve your overall team drastically.

that version of your team would get far more points, compared to concentrating 1/3 of your budget in 3 players and having rubbish players elsewhere. teams that do the best don't have the most expensive players, they are literally always the teams that found the most value.

I'd put the Gabriel money in midfield

Rodri will have back surgery... He's crocked.

Is Saka even going to play before the first international break? Touch year for fitness and going all the way in the World Cup, I can see a long rest for him.

Saka is not underpriced. He rarely hauls. Madueke is there

He’s been playing with an injury for a year, that’s why he didn’t play much at the World Cup. He shouldn’t be starting the season

Yeah they’re a bit of a wait and see

Mitchell seems a steel

Call the grammar Police!

Ok Yoda

Minutes minutes minutes. Of those, I wouldn’t be confident in Guehi, Mosquera, Hincapie, Rogers, Odegaard starting games, especially early on!

Guehi and Rogers both just back from full WC and have rotation risk anyway. Odegaard big rotation risk. Mosquera and Hincapie - only one likely to play early on and not sure which. I’d go and find people who will 100% be playing from the start

He's a lot cheaper than Haaland if you're gonna captain him regularly

At the minute I reckon so (I’m no Utd expert) but I’d be surprised if they don’t invest at the back

Ssshhh

Yup in my current draft

i like cherki, just want to get more info on his mins

Dont like his attitude hahaha

Rotation risk puts me off a little bit

4.5 and DCL

4.5m mid + Brobbey

Abit crazy. But well thought out
Cherki might be a gem. If he starts well, I'll be pissed I picked Semenyo. I like how he doesn't do alot of stepovers and just goes.

5/10

'challenge with AI' - honestly that is a pretty dumb idea.

AI will challenge it simply because you told it to, it doesnt mean its criticism will provide any actual value. AI is just a token prediction machine that will spout recognisable FPL type langauge contextually fits - it won't actually offer anything predictive about how players, teams perform because ultimately its never watched a game of football, doesn't even actually know what football is. so best to skip that bit.

decide alone is an excellent choice. stay away from the fpl hive mind. narratives are always lagging indicators.

Nope, beats me

4.5 probable starter with a side I think most are expecting to be much improved this year

spurs will be better, should be challenging for europe. 4.5 for a top 6 side is value

They have strengthened their defensive players considerably. Pretty easy to work out why he is popular.

Spurs did well at the end with De Zerbi and they've overhauled their entire defence and midfield. He's also 4.5 so value for money.

Save 0.5 and get Hato or find 0.5 and get Palestra imo.

Every Defensive Position has a top backup. No City D for me

i currently have o'reilly. he is effectively a midfielder when city are in possession and gets into the box. looks like an excellent differential too.

if he does get attacking returns in the first few everyone will be ripping up their teams to fit him in.

don't think anyone knows for certain, but he is a contender for pens.

i prefer isak + rogers. I think szobo bandwagon is a bit of a fpl youtuber led bandwagon that is gonna disappoint.

Szobo and Palmer surely.

Szobo and Palmer and it is not close.

he's on my watchlist. if theres any confidence he will actually get a run he's in my team

I'm thinking Foden Cherki Haaland triple up

Can’t see where he fits it since first team front 4 is Doku, Cherki, Semenyo and Haaland

Fodenfreude wooohoooo!

Just gonna suck it up on GW3 when arsenal vs chelsea?

Also GW4 city vs united.

So potentially two gameweeks in a row where a large amount of your players are playing each other. Have been thinking about limiting my numbers from said teams to avoid this problem, thoughts?

Could easily end up with like 7 benchings here hahaha

Decent

Gabriel-> 5.5 Arsenal

Thinking either Gabriel to Califiori or Joao Pedro over Palmer, think I prefer the former

I’m avoiding all of them to deter headaches an early WC out of frustration

Can’t see any semi-finalists starting GW1 tbh

Looks like you nailed it again!

Not sold on Solanke myself, but good price and De Zerbi. Cherki's rotation risk doesn't concern you?

One can't have it all, of course. It's a good draft.