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FPL Rate My Team surgery with five-time top 1k finisher Tom Freeman

21 August 2026 333 comments
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Five-time top 1k finisher Tom Freeman is here to help with your pre-deadline dilemmas for the next hour.

Whether it’s questions on your team, specific players, chip strategy or anything in between, Scout’s Deputy Editor will tackle whatever’s thrown at him.

He’ll be on hand to first reply to requests from Chief Scout Members in the Hot Topic below the line of this piece.

If there’s time, Tom will also turn his attention to other requests in the comments section.

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You can, as ever, chip in with your own opinions on the RMT requests filtering through – and naturally, you’re free to ignore the article’s subject matter and talk about any other wider Fantasy Premier League (FPL) topics.

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  1. statenisland
    • 11 Years
    14 mins ago

    gtg? 3x Sunderland on the bench for BB in GW1. WC in GW3.

    Lammens // Kinsky
    Caliafiori, Murharemovic, Maguire // Ballard, Hume
    Wirtz, Tzolis, Semenyo, Mbuemo // Le Fee
    Joao Pedro, Haaland, DLC

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    1. The Tonberry
      • 2 Years
      5 mins ago

      If you're gonna WC in GW3 then you're better off getting Bruno in over Haaland. And you could probably fit Gabriel in there as well

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    2. The Tonberry
      • 2 Years
      just now

      It's also probably best set up for BB2. I have 13 of those 15 with White and a Cov defender instead of your 2 Sunderland defs.

      Maybe change one of them to someone in their price bracket who can give you better options for GW3-5 and you don't need to wildcard

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  2. wotwot
    • 11 Years
    14 mins ago

    Pick one in each price bracket but shouldn't be from the same team:
    5.0 def:
    A. Muharemovic
    B. Maguire
    C. Ballard

    4.5 def:
    1. Rodon
    2. Shaw
    3. Hume

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    1. Steve Stiffler
      • 10 Years
      7 mins ago

      B1

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    2. GreennRed
      • 14 Years
      6 mins ago

      B3

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    3. JELLYFISH
      • 14 Years
      3 mins ago

      I'm on B3 fwiw

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    4. Dutchy FPL
      • 3 Years
      2 mins ago

      B1. For a BB1 punt B3

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    5. The Tonberry
      • 2 Years
      1 min ago

      B1

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  3. Steve Stiffler
    • 10 Years
    13 mins ago

    Welcome back all, best of luck in all cash leagues! One question:

    Bench one out of:

    DCL
    Joao Pedro
    Tzolis

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    1. Under my Cucurella
      • 11 Years
      4 mins ago

      Not willing to BB? If not, DCL

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      1. Steve Stiffler
        • 10 Years
        3 mins ago

        Na I’ll keep my BB for later on, bench is Diop and Thomas

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    2. wotwot
      • 11 Years
      just now

      Dcl

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  4. GreennRed
    • 14 Years
    13 mins ago

    Cesar Palacios 5.5m. Good preseason form. Opening fixtures don't look good for Fulham wins but this boy could pick up returns.

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  5. Kodap
    • 9 Years
    12 mins ago

    Out of De Cuyper and Kadioglu, which one would you pick as final decision?

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  6. Malcolm Tucker
    • 5 Years
    11 mins ago

    Overarching strategy heading into the first stretch

    Based on last season I'm expecting big at the back to be a generally successful long term approach, if you can identify the regular defcons of this season, rather than paying the premium for those who piled them up last time, you can build a solid foundation of points, no real thrills but a steady flow requiring minimal changes, allowing the banking of transfers, to facilitate maximum flex further up the pitch. With that in mind the approach I'm going for is a small field of high value attacking players, allowing maximum flexibility to hop across the vagaries of form and fixtures as and when desired, with the aim to get to five free transfers as quickly as possible.

    To that end I'm on

    Kinsky
    Canvot/Muharemovic/Jacquet/Vuskovic/O'Reilly
    Bruno/Palmer/Wirtz
    Haaland/DCL

    4.0/Sangare/4.5/4.5

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  7. FlyingCanary
    • 7 Years
    11 mins ago

    Guys, who gets more points before the international break

    A) Shaw / Bruno / Tzolis

    OR

    B) Gabriel / Semenyo / Szoboszlai

    ???
    Thanks

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  8. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    10 mins ago

    Was looking at a thread on here from this time last year and it was like every post and expert reveal had Palmer.

    Scored 3 in his opening game then 0 and sold by 3m+ in GW3. Wonder who the candidate is this season!

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    1. Malcolm Tucker
      • 5 Years
      3 mins ago

      Szobo!

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    2. Pompel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      1 min ago

      Tzolis

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    3. Bobby Digital
      • 9 Years
      just now

      Tzolis

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  9. GoonerSteve
    • 16 Years
    10 mins ago

    RMT BB1

    Kinsky, Verbruggen
    Jacquet, Calafiori, N.Williams, Shaw, O'Nien
    Odegaard, Bruno F, Szoboszlai, Tzolis, Ndiaye
    J Pedro, DCL, Haaland

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  10. pjomara
    • 16 Years
    8 mins ago

    Rate my BB team...

    Verbruggen Kinsky
    O'Shea, Gabriel, Shaw, Gvardiol, Calafiori
    Szob, Fernandes, Tzol, Groß, Semenyo
    DCL, Pedro, Isak

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  11. Bluebulls
    7 mins ago

    Think I’m now locked in for a BB1 into early wildcard:

    Kinsky
    Calafiori Vuskovic Muharemovic
    Szobo Bruno F Tzolis Le Fee
    DCL Haaland JP

    Lammens Sangare (Brentford) mykolenko Hume

    Thoughts ?

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  12. Under my Cucurella
    • 11 Years
    6 mins ago

    Who is the best Ipswich defender for BB1? will be 3rd spot on the bench thereafter

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    1. Bobby Digital
      • 9 Years
      1 min ago

      I like Davis, but some will say Greaves for DC

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  13. popey
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    6 mins ago

    A) Isak, Le fee
    B) Palmer, Brobbey

    BB in GW2 and the sunderland attacker rotates with DCL

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    1. JELLYFISH
      • 14 Years
      2 mins ago

      A

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  14. Pinatta
    • 14 Years
    6 mins ago

    I'm ready.

    Raya | 4.0
    Calafiori | Maguire | N. Williams | De Cuyper | Jaqcuet
    Rio Ngumoha | Bruno Fernans | Mbeumo | Tzolis | Gibbs-White
    Isak (c) | Igor Thiago | Joao Pedro

    Bench Boost GW1 >>> WC GW 5
    3x ManU
    3x Arsenal
    3x Liverpool

    Isak covers Haaland
    City is going to struggle without Rodri en Bernardo and a new coach
    Ngumoha before everyone else so I can later say I got him before everyone else

    Not too much template, because you can always go boring template after a few weeks. This is the time of the year to enjoy FPL and live a little.

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    1. OptimusBlack
      • 13 Years
      just now

      GTG

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  15. JELLYFISH
    • 14 Years
    6 mins ago

    Could use some help with my final team tinkering, which option guys:

    1) Jacquet & Slater
    2) 4m (probably Van Ewik) & Sangare

    (other defenders Maguire Hume Calafiori Thomas and plan to BB2)

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  16. OptimusBlack
    • 13 Years
    1 min ago

    For Just GW1 BB

    A- Vuskovic
    B- Maguire

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