The ScoutCast – Episode 231 – Eavesdrop

Is his eyesight getting worse, but too afraid to tell anyone?

The qs is his left or strikers left :p

KDB and Willian > Mane and Pogba/Mkhy

Keep WC

Would play Caroll over Naughton to be honest...can advice me below? Thanks

Would leave something in the bank for Luka -> Kane next week. Mbemba is injured?

You'll have problems when Saints play a top side. I'd switch Bertie/Bemba to two 4.5s.

nice team but is Firmio enough Liverpool cover?

Fantastic team. Gtg

3,4 and 5.

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3, 4 and 5

1, 3, 4

If 4 I would leave Hegazi out.

Bench Suttner

neither - why would you sell Mane he is on fire!? especially for a hit no way

why would u get Mane out ?

Are you serious? Mane is in great form. You could change Rooney to Firmino if you have the funds, otherwise hold.

Like BD from that
Can advice me
Above on similar? Thanks

BC

Rather have Firmino + caroll over salah +quaner..leaves 0.5 which can be used for rosenoir to naughton
Can advice me above mate?

Downgrade Bertrand to a £5.0 defender like Jones for e.g and upgrade Quaner to Crouch

Defence and bench are on the weak side. I would downgrade Silva to one of the budget mids you like (Brady, Richarlison, Ritchie etc) and invest that money in defence. Or go Bertrand to Cedric and Rosenior to Naughton. I like Bertrand more than Cedric, but in this case that 0.5 is better on one of your weaker players

Lukaku

kaku

I removed kane for same lack of trust.if you cant captain a 12.5mn striker with confidence there is no reason you should have him just out of feat

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Kane

Shawcross injury edges Lukaku for me

So that's 4 for Kaku, 1 for Kane.
Surprising

not that good

weak midfield

Rather template, but solid

I prefer Alli and Eriksen to Salah.

Vokes to Abraham? Considering Wood may take his place

Naughton

Looks nice but you will be forced to play 4 man defence most weeks as I don't see many points from your 4th and 5th mids. Could downgrade Dunk to 4m but still only gives you 5m for a 4th mid. As a 4-3-3 it could work. Maybe get a Huddersfield defender in for Dunk so you can rotate with Naughton and Mee

I think Dawson will go to RB

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4 - Firmino & salah.
Else it depends if you want to stack mids vs forwards.

1 then 2 then 3 in that order IMO

Firmino and Mo Salah

I like KdB, Willian and Okazaki for Pogba/Mkhi, Brady , Firmino for a -4

agree for the formation. but, i went for 4 4 2 myself and didnt went good for now. so u were just lucky tbh. but getting 4 defs definitely frees up some mils for mid and attack.,

I agree atm. Have more up front and less at the back.

Although, I quite fancy Brady to do just as well as most 5.5 defenders tbh. And then you also have the caveat of there being plenty of good 5.0 defenders, so no need to go too heavy at the back

Stopped reading when i saw Gabbi 🙂

If I was going to have 4 at the back, I'd at least want Alonso as one of them. For me though, I'd rather have Firmino and a rotating big hitter to allow for a 4th strong midfielder (all the cheapish 3rd forwards are much of a muchness for me, Gabi is no better than Abraham).

Agree four at the back allows for decent options throughout ... though I went 442

I started off with this but having such poor midfield options from the bench didn't help and isn't something I would want long term.

I'm going to rotate between 4-3-3 and 3-4-3 as like you say there is amazing value in defence but I would rather an option like Brady (Zaha/King last year) who could explode and has far more potential than two 4.5s there who you'd be happy with a maximum 3 points from.

Also if your bench was ever called upon the likelihood is one of those cheap defenders could come in with a clean sheet while Chalobah might get 1 points.

Completely agree, I have played the same formation so far 🙂 With there being no playing 4.5 forward it took 4-4-2 out the equation for me. And no playing 4.0 defender limited the attraction of 3-4-3. With there being decent 4.5m midfield options in RLC and Carroll around too you could play them aswell if you wanted to switch to 3-4-3 for certain weeks.

Its good at the moment as you say, but if a cheap consistent points scorer emerges a formation switch should always be considered.

I'm not arguing against 4 at the back, it might work well this season. Your team seem to be doing OK.

You write: "I just can't get my head around why someone would want to start Brady or Ritchie when they could get Davies or Bailly who will yield more points. FPL is about points right?"

I am not sure if this is a genuine question - but let me treat it as one and try to answer it.

I can explain this to you. Going from Carroll to Brady costs you 1 mill. If you downgrade Davies or Bailly by 1 million, the options are plenty: 7 out of the top 10 scoring defenders so far are at least 1 million cheaper than Bailly, a lot of them also 1 million below Ben Davies. The options are good, and when you add in the ability to rotate them based on fixtures, a team with 1 premium and 4 defenders between 4,5 and 5 can get a lot of points.

So the extra million you spend on upgrading your defenders might not net you that much extra in points, compared to having a cheap'ish defender rotation.

In midfield or attack, what can you do with 1 million? Often a lot more. The difference between Gabbiadini and Firmino (granted, 1,5 million difference) in points potential is huge.

However, your point was about whether to have a 4th mid or not. While I agree that Brady or Richie isn't the most tempting of propositions, there tends to be someone in the 4th mid position that gets lots of points (see King, Zaha last year, Mahrez, Alli the season before). Perhaps that will be the time to change to a mid 4?

Personally I go with a cheaper defense and 7 attackers I am happy with. By just having 3 defenders playing most weeks, I can maximize the benefits of a good rotation and make sure they tend to have good fixtures. As an illustration, last week I got 9 points from Mbemba, 7 from Suttner, 6 from Bertrand, 7 from Fabianski - all with good fixtures ending in clean sheets. This saves me money to allow me to have Siggy as a 4th mid when Evertons good fixtures come.

Tough to call which is best so far. I'm on a front 7 of
Silva Pogba Mane Antonio Brady
Morata Kane
for now so sticking with 352 but 433 could be the way to go alright especially as midfield will be a big rotation risk soon

You could well be right but I'm going with my gut for now. My 3 at the back are
Alonso Naughton Jones
September will reveal a lot for the season and I do feel I will need Spurs defence but I want to see how their team settles first with so many options in defence now

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Mee

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Yeah, could be

I am flip flopping between the two

Lol, copied DEXTER4KING's team on previous page, no?

Nayyyyyyyy

B or C if you need that 0.6 somewhere.

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