Allen could be a great shout

Is Sanchez really necessary at this point is the question? There's insecurity revolving his situation on whether he's departing or staying, he would be shifted to more of a wing-position as now Laca's there and plus, he's too damn expensive considering his cons and I don't think his mind is in the right place.

B if you plan to start both.

A if you are only rotating Austin as 3rd striker with a DEF or MID in a different formation

7

1) ARS V LEI 1-1
2) BRI V MNC 1-2
3) CHE V BUR 2-0
4) CRY V HUD 1-1
5) EVE V STO 2-1
6) MNU V WHU 3-0
7) NEW V TOT 1-1
8) SOU V SWA 2-1
9) WAT V LIV 0-1
10) WBA V BOU 0-0

1) ARS V LEI 2-2
2) BRI V MNC 0-3
3) CHE V BUR 4-0
4) CRY V HUD 2-1
5) EVE V STO 2-1
6) MNU V WHU 2-1
7) NEW V TOT 1-4
8) SOU V SWA 1-1
9) WAT V LIV 0-2
10) WBA V BOU 1-1

1) ARS V LEI 7-0
2) BRI V MNC 7-0
3) CHE V BUR 7-0
4) CRY V HUD 7-0
5) EVE V STO 7-0
6) MNU V WHU 7-0
7) NEW V TOT 7-0
8) SOU V SWA 7-0
9) WAT V LIV 7-0
10) WBA V BOU 7-0

1) ARS V LEI 2-3
2) BRI V MNC 0-3
3) CHE V BUR 3-0
4) CRY V HUD 2-1
5) EVE V STO 1-1
6) MNU V WHU 3-1
7) NEW V TOT 1-3
8) SOU V SWA 2-2
9) WAT V LIV 1-3
10) WBA V BOU 1-1

1) ARS V LEI 2-1
2) BRI V MNC 0-3
3) CHE V BUR 3-0
4) CRY V HUD 2-1
5) EVE V STO 3-1
6) MNU V WHU 2-0
7) NEW V TOT 1-2
8) SOU V SWA 1-0
9) WAT V LIV 1-2
10) WBA V BOU 1-1

1) ARS V LEI 0-0
2) BRI V MNC 0-4
3) CHE V BUR 2-0
4) CRY V HUD 2-1
5) EVE V STO 1-0
6) MNU V WHU 4-1
7) NEW V TOT 0-2
8) SOU V SWA 2-0
9) WAT V LIV 1-1
10) WBA V BOU 2-1

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1) ARS V LEI 0-0
2) BRI V MNC 1-2
3) CHE V BUR 2-0
4) CRY V HUD 1-1
5) EVE V STO 1-0
6) MNU V WHU 3-0
7) NEW V TOT 0-3
8) SOU V SWA 1-0
9) WAT V LIV 0-1
10) WBA V BOU 1-1

1) ARS V LEI 1-0
2) BRI V MNC 1-3
3) CHE V BUR 2-0
4) CRY V HUD 2-1
5) EVE V STO 2-0
6) MNU V WHU 1-1
7) NEW V TOT 1-2
8) SOU V SWA 0-0
9) WAT V LIV 0-1
10) WBA V BOU 2-2

1) ARS V LEI 2-1
2) BRI V MNC 1-3
3) CHE V BUR 3-0
4) CRY V HUD 2-0
5) EVE V STO 2-0
6) MNU V WHU 2-1
7) NEW V TOT 1-3
8) SOU V SWA 1-1
9) WAT V LIV 1-3
10) WBA V BOU 1-2

He gets the same amount of points as Alli.

Well Eriksen is on set pieces

Only TC is likely to play on your bench, so as long as you're fine with that and the fact that Austin may share pitch time with Long then it's good to go.

How nailed on is Austin?

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I wouldn't want to start Milivojevic, even though he is on pen. Try and upgrade him to a 6.0, maybe by downgrading that defence. Also, I recommend not having two 4.0 def, one at most. Rest of the picks are nice.

I like Milojevic if he looks like starting.

Hart rotates better with Elliot than Foster.

Chelsea don't have the best fixtures and you already have coverage so many avoid a double up by getting Ramsey over Willian. Tadic and Zaha aren't the best either maybe look at getting Sane instead of KDB and upgrading those two.

The forwards look good to go

Do you have Lukaku?

Depends who you'd pair them with as FWD / MID ?

i have the same but ake to daniels and defoe to austin

Carroll over RLC

Unsure of the Lindelof and Cout picks purely based on minutes. The rest looks strong, think I would prefer Daniels over Ake though 🙂

Hart rotates better with Elliot

If you're gonna double up on saints, I'd rather downgrade lascelles to a 4.0 and upgrade yoshida to Bertrand

Quite good for a draft 7.5/10

Neither ATM.

Safe option is De Gea

What did I miss?

What???

It's been a while haha

Thierry Henry?

His Brazilian teammate didn't do too bad.

Bit light of late. Depends what you mean massive. Henry, Vieira, Van Der Sar, Zola, Bergkamp, Desailly, Di Matteo, Vialli, Ravanelli, all came from Serie A and were alright.

Very balanced 8/10

Lacks Spurs MF imo. Redmond somehow doesn't convince me and Rooney's fixtures aren't terrific.

Don't overthink it just pick the players you think will do well, have favourable fixtures,should be starters, and the formation will come naturally.

There's a sort of rhythm I nselecting your team it's like poetry so that it rhymes

I sort by price, then let the value names jump out at me. From there i check the fixtures and compare positional prices comparatively. For instance what does the bottom price get me across the 3 zones, mid tier, top tier. Then based on that info i select my formation. Can get lost as ypu said though but usually return to this method.

Thank you for that kind of question firstly, those are the questions I need in my life. Secondly, thank you for holding the door.
About 4 seasons ago, (been playing 8) I worked out what works best for me, and that is:

Pre-season: research as much as I can, watch friendlies, see who's in form, see the tactics teams are likely to go with.

First Wildcard: Always played between weeks 2-5. I have never come out of the gate with a team/ squad I'm happy enough with not to wildcard, so I will wildcard and make sure I've got the early big points returners and any cheap players on form that I overlooked.

Tactics: Never stays the same though, I change my tactic in line with who I think will be most likely to give good returns over the first 5 weeks, so if I've spent heavy on two attackers and can only afford a cheapish forward who I don't really believe in, I'm happy to slap in a 4.5 striker and get a better defender in, and if my midfield is expensive too, I could end up with 5 at the back. I really only try to focus on who is getting me the best returns in those opening 5, defensively it can be clearer sometimes who will get clean sheets as opposed to a mid/ fwd getting a goal.

Throughout the Season: Moneyball approach. I am constantly looking for price risers and trying to build up my team value, ready for the latter half of the season's wildcard and double gameweeks, trying to ensure I can afford as many "big hitters" as possible. I'd say I favour the price risers over actual players more likely to do well in that week. E.g, if I have a free transfer and Aguero is playing Burnley, but Joe Allen's price is rocketing for Stoke and I like his fixtures, I will go for Joe Allen to capitalise or try to, on his price rise.
Don't always do it, I do go for some players based on their one off weekly fixtures, but 90 percent of the time, I'm Stephen Hendry'ing it and looking 4,5 games ahead.

Second Wildcard: Always played two weeks before the double game week (stronger double game week, big teams playing) this allows me then to play my bench boost for the double game week (can't use two chips in same week) and hopefully I then get a full squad of 15, playing twice. Has worked very very well for me in the past.

Triple Captain: Usually played in the weaker double game week and put on a forward in one of the stronger teams playing twice or someone on form.

New Chip: I will just play when I've too many injuries and likely to have a poor weak, or maybe if certain teams have very easy fixtures one week I'll play it.

Peace.

Thanks guys. I think I massively overthink my opening team, I think. I've got a team Im pretty happy with it, so I think I should just stick with it.

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I'm not sure anyone is nailed with Pep? For 7m though, if he starts every other game he could outscore other options at that price? I wouldn't go for him with other rotation risks but worth a punt I think and can always transfer out once a value mid shows themselves?

i'm avoiding all Man city players until a few get injuried and makes them less of a rotation