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Meet the Managers – Top Tips From FPL’s Most Successful Managers

Over the last five months 11 of Fantasy Premier League’s best competitors have given up their time to reveal their key strategies for success in our Meet the Manager series.

The FA Cup break in the Premier League schedule this month provides us with a perfect time to take stock of their advice  as we navigate the rest of the season.

Each of our interviewees has their own unique way of dealing with issues such as captaincy, value, hits and formation.

However, the series reveals a number of similarities in style.

They all are keen followers of the season ticker, with a kind set of matches on the horizon often driving their decisions.

Another common theme is that they perform best when they stick to their own tried and tested plan. In most cases rare bad seasons are caused by an attempt to try a different management style.

How they react to these poor campaigns also proves to be particularly illuminating.

In addition, they have also given an insight into how the game has changed over the last decade, including its surge in popularity, the introduction of chips and incredible rise in the wealth of online information and advice.

My thanks go to all those who have taken part.  In particular I want to thank Kenneth Tang, who was recently diagnosed with sino-nasal cancer. Our thoughts are with him at this difficult time. His good nature and sense of optimism shine through in this series as well as in an interview he gave to his local paper in Hong Kong last month, shortly after his diagnosis.

Dealing with the noise

FPL becomes more popular each year, with six million managers signed up so far in 2018/19. A product of this has been the explosion of information and advice, from increasingly accurate price change prediction sites to statistical analysis across social media. At times this barrage of information can be overbearing and presents this elite group of veterans with fresh challenges to overcome each year.

Dealing with this social media “noise” is an issue that Richard Clarke in particular deals with in his October interview.

He uses the example of how social media helped fuel a Gameweek 8 bandwagon for Harry Kane, who had an enticing home tie with Cardiff but only scored one point. Instead of following the “momentum” generated by the crowd, savvy managers blanked this out and instead calmly analysed evidence to show how Spurs tend to struggle after tricky Champions League ties, on this occasion against Barcelona.

As one of those who followed the crowd on this occasion, Richard knows first hand how important it is to edit out the “noise”.

Build up a watchlist

Mark McGettigan, aka FPL General, is another that has sought to block out the information assault. He often completely ignores price prediction sites and ownership data and instead focuses his transfer moves on his own watchlist.

He is among a minority of FPL managers to use this function in the game, which offers a quick and easy way to pinpoint potential transfer targets based on form and fixtures.  It also helps him to swerve the crowd and focus his thoughts on the players he has pinpointed as key to a rankings surge.

His three top 500 finishes in three of his last four seasons show the benefits of utlilising this often overlooked tool.

Creating your own luck

Often it is said that FPL is a luck-based game. But with so many high overall ranks this group of managers have clearly found ways to create their own fortune.

Marc Rubinstein’s interview best exemplifies this as he details how he uses 20 years experience in the financial sector to ensure his arrows are green each week.

His strategy involves careful risk management by drafting in well-owned players with the potential to score well and damage his rank if he continues to shun them. This is becoming increasingly important in recent years as the number of savvy managers playing FPL continues to grow.

This luck creation strategy also involves diversifying his “portfolio of player assets” to ensure he is not too exposed to a team’s dip in form.

He also looks for budget gems that can perform above their price tag and generate income and points for his squad.

Importance of team value

Wealth creation is an important factor behind the success of our very own Mark Sutherns, especially in recent years with the introduction of chips.

He quickly ditches players whose price and form is tumbling and pounces on strong value options to ensure he can get the most out of his chips later in the season, around double and blank Gameweeks.

He has found that this strategy has helped him create a stronger squad than his rivals when using both the Free Hit and second Wildcard chips.

To move swiftly in the market Mark must occasionally make early transfers. This risky approach is aided this season by the larger than usual array of good budget options. They have helped him create a strong bench that can be deployed should an early transfer be scuppered through injury or surprise team news.

Stay balanced

Nick, aka Triggerlips, pays close attention to team structure to ensure he is another elite manager who can swiftly tap into the transfer market. He ensures he can do this adopting a “plug and play strategy” that looks at creating a balanced team with player price points, which can be used to quickly swap in form assets.

This tactic also ensures his team has a good balance in all outfield positions enabling Nick to field good quality premium and budget assets across his team.

At the start of each season he allocates a budget for defence, midfield and attack to achieve this, which can be tailored based on initial player valuation and real life football trends.

For example at the start of the current campaign he allocated more money than usual in defence due to the increasing array of attacking backline options. He also only opted for one premium midfielder, due to the high price tag of Mohamed Salah and value centre of the park options such as Everton’s Richarlison.

Fixture planning plus

All our interviewees look at fixtures to influence their transfer plans, with Adam Hopcroft no exception.

He takes such analysis to a higher level by breaking down fixtures into a variety of categories. This involves looking at home and away form, as well as team’s performances against top six sides and lesser teams.

He looks at underlying statistics and performances over the last six matches in each category to gather a wealth of information on team and player performances, which is also used to influence his captaincy decisions.

Other factors can then be filtered into such decisions, in particular the history of players and whether their underlying data may be misleading. For example some strikers are consistently able to score from limited shots, while others need a number of attempts to register returns.

Focus on the wheat not the chaff

Kenneth Tang is another to look closely at fixtures but his weekly analysis is firmly focused on players from top six sides.

For Kenneth it is his selection of premium assets from such sides that will dictate his performance. With nine top 10,000 finishes, this has proved to be consistently successful.

Before constructing his Gameweek 1 squad he looks at the next six to eight fixtures for sides such as Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool. Cheaper players from lesser sides are then deployed to fit around them.

His rationale is that top teams are far more likely score a high number of goals when against lesser teams.

For example at the start of this season he doubled up on assets from both Liverpool and Manchester City due to their strong fixtures. This ensured he reached the edge of the top 10,000 by Gameweek 4.

Learning from other Fantasy games

Playing other Fantasy formats can also help with FPL management, with many top managers excelling across a number of games.

Will Thomas is among this elite group of Fantasy polymaths, with ranks of 753 and 82 in FPL and four top 100 finishes in Sky Fantasy Football.

Sky’s limited transfers have helped Will to think twice before transferring out good players in FPL.

Also Sky’s matchday captaincy selections help FPL managers pay particular attention to fixture swings.

However, playing multiple games is not without problems.

Will warns against ‘hedging’ transfers and captains across formats as this distracts from the core reason for selecting players – accumulating points.

Patience is a virtue

Matthew Jones is among the most patient of our interviewees with the bulk of his Gameweek 1 team still in place when I interviewed him in October.

Good planning, avoiding too many punts and basing decisions on strong research of form and fixtures minimises the risk of Matthew making a bad transfer. It also lessens the need to take a hit, with none taken so far this campaign. With each hit costing four points this already puts him at an advantage over less patient managers.

Matthew even waited until Gameweek 19 to use his Wildcard. This proved savvy as by focusing this chip on the festive fixtures he was able to rocket from 40,275 to the top 10,000 within just two Gameweeks.

Don’t be Afraid

In contrast to Matthew, Jay Egersdorff has found a way to achieve success by making bold moves, often involving multiple hits. Across his career he has not been shy to spend points to get in the players he hopes will take him up the rankings.

This boldness can prove costly, with a disastrous three-hit move last Christmas seeing Harry Kane jettisoned ahead of back-to-back hat-tricks. But with three top 1,000 finishes and top 10,000 overall ranks in all but two of his previous 12 seasons his gung-ho style clearly works more often than not.

His confidence in making bold moves has also helped Jay cope with the pressure that comes with being a top manager in the public eye.

Despite struggling for periods of this season, he appears on YouTube each week to discuss his latest score. His optimism in these videos is proving inspirational to those who, like him, have found themselves tumbling down the rankings this season.

Learn from mistakes

One of the most interesting aspects of this group’s FPL management is how they cope with adversity and are able to learn from their mistakes.

When a rare poor season occurs this group spend the summer analysing where it went wrong and how they can improve next time around.

In Phil Ampleford’s interview he explains in detail the reasons why in 2017/18 he struggled to make the top 100,000 after six successive top 10,000 finishes.

A key factor in this mini-slump was an attempt to try a different management style.  He eschewed his tried and test strategies of limiting the number of risky punts and building team value early on. Instead he looked to be more maverick with player selection and ignore prices.

His subsequent learning exercise paid off, with Phil back to his best this season, with an overall rank in and around the top 10,000 since Gameweek 5.

Mark is another to back this learning tactic.

Each season he looks back at the previous campaign and searches for ways he can improve. Perhaps the best example of this was after the 2013/14 season when he struggled to make it into the top 200,000. A reluctance to draft in players such as Aaron Ramsey because he’d already missed a number of points hauls was identified as a key weakness that he has not repeated since. His next season finish of 42 clearly shows the importance of this post-season analysis.

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1,811 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Monkey Hanger
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Should be a scoutcast tomorrow?

    1. Rotation's Alter Ego
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      There is.

      Hot topics for the question submission one

      1. Monkey Hanger
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Cheers RAE.

  2. Warby84
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Currently on WC and keen on Lloris and Button, my other duo would be Etheridge/Guita (0.6) But think with spurs upcoming fixtures Lloris is the one to go to..

    1. TRIPOS TOPPER
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      can you afford Lloris and Guaita? Button may be displaced soon if Australia are knocked out

    2. Regin
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Lloris

  3. DameCorp
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Any ideas on what to do with this lot? Need to fund Sterling to Salah, but how?

    Ederson 4.0
    Alonso Robbo WBA Schindler Bennett
    Haz Sterling F. Anderson Rich 4.2
    Kane Rashford Jimenez

    0.0 in the bank. Two frees.

    1. Kuzser
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Alonso sterling -> Salah are after this week probably

      1. Kuzser
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Salah, taa

  4. Andy Mac
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Sorry to be a pain, but got two options now. Simple choice please, do you prefer A or B??

    A) Guaita - Button
    TAA - Digne - Doherty - WB - Bednerak
    Salah - Hazard - Pogba - Sané - Camarasa
    Kane - Arnie - Rashford

    B) Guaita - *Etheridge*
    TAA - Digne - *Luiz* - WB - Bednerak
    Salah - Hazard - *Richarlison* - Sané - *Hojbjerg*
    Kane - Arnie - Rashford

    1. The 5% Team
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      A

      1. Andy Mac
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks mate!

    2. Kuzser
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      A

      1. Andy Mac
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks Kuz!

    3. Shaw must go on
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      a

      1. Andy Mac
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks mate. Unanimous then!

  5. FPL Forward Thinker
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    With Liverpool having no Double GWs and no Blank GWs ... do they become more tempting to triple up on or less attractive to bulk up on. Other than salah... which Pool player is the MUST HAVE between now and end of season?
    Ok they might have one DGW but are Southampton gonna reach FA semis??

    1. Kuzser
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Taa I would say

    2. WE ARE RANGERS
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      how do you work that out?

      1. WE ARE RANGERS
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Are the teams they will be playing in FA Cup weekend already knocked out?

        1. Regin
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Yes. Fulham also out

    3. TRIPOS TOPPER
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I think for your three Pool players good combos

      Salah
      plus 2 of:
      Robbo, TAA, Allison

  6. abaalan
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    With 2 FT, 0.1 ITB:
    A) Would you do Pogba + Kamara -> Rashford + 5th mid (under 4.6) (this week)
    In order next week to do Son -> Sane?

    B) Or just do Son + Kamara -> Rashford + max 5.9 mid (next week)

    1. Cookie Kid
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      B

      Monitor Jota

  7. Kuzser
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Concerned about Lovren's injury as it was part of my plan of getting Salah for camarasa
    If I bring Salah for -4 What would you do?
    1) WC
    2) play Jimenez 
    3) play schindler
    4) do another hit to get taa for lovren and bring Salah for lingard

    Team is:
    Fab
    Lovren*** Digne awb Pereira 
    Sane hazard Anderson lingard camarasa 
    Kane

    Subs: Jimenez kamara Schindler

  8. efransol
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    What do you think about Alonso, Son and Kane --> TAA, Salah and Rashford/Jimenez? It would give me the option to do Pereyra/FAnderson-->Pogba the following GW. Got 2ft

    1. Kuzser
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Could backfire, but for some reason I like it, risky but fun

  9. Party time
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Camping with the team, I haven't had time but only just saw that Liverpool's only fit centre back is Virgil Van Dijk. The man can do it all by himself and Liverpool will still bag in clean sheet points right? or do I sell Alisson and Taa. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks.

      1. Garth Marenghi
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Not a long term concern

        1. Party time
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Thanks bud. So I'll keep

        2. ItOnlyTook9Years
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Which team are you camping with?

        3. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Don't sell them Buddy.
          They have great run of fixtures ahead.
          I want to get taa alongside robbo but couldn't right now, so frustrated.
          You have that so I'd suggest to keep !

          1. Party time
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Yes, you're right. I hope Gomez and Joel are back on time.

            • Party time
                5 years, 2 months ago

                Thanks buddy

          2. UnitednationsXI
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Couple of quick questions with regards to the best option for the next few weeks.

            1) Hazard or Sterling?

            2) Alonso or Fanderson

            3A) Alonso + Redmond
            3B) 4.6m def (Cedric) + Fanderson
            3C) 4.6m def (cedric) + Rashford

            I am leaning towards Haz, Alonso (just) and 3A

            1. Garth Marenghi
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Why do people like Redmond? 3c from that

              1. Bobby Digital
                • 6 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                Redmond good fixtures and plays in an offensive posotion.

                1. Bobby Digital
                  • 6 Years
                  5 years, 2 months ago

                  *position

                2. Garth Marenghi
                  • 7 Years
                  5 years, 2 months ago

                  He’s had a little run, but I’m not a fan of Nathan.

                  1. Bobby Digital
                    • 6 Years
                    5 years, 2 months ago

                    Only a 5.2m punt.. what could go wrong? 🙂

          3. Garth Marenghi
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Any possibility that Gomez comes in for Brighton?

            1. Gommy
              • 14 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Very possible from Klopps comments before tonight’s game

              1. Garth Marenghi
                • 7 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                Hope so! Lovren is 4.9 ...soon to go down in price possibly...Gomez/Matip are also 4.9...would like to swap to one of them...and am on exact money...

          4. NestorC
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Son to Salah(c)?
            Can't afford otherwise

            1. GS456
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              yes

            2. ItOnlyTook9Years
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Straight swap? Definitely

            3. Amey
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Yep

            4. NestorC
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Cheers

          5. ItOnlyTook9Years
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Looking like no price changes tonight we think?

            1. Kuzser
              • 6 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Will Salah rise tonight? Ideally want to.wait until tomorrow's game

              1. ItOnlyTook9Years
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                I would say not, unless there is a sudden flurry

            2. Garth Marenghi
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Rashford at 100.2 on fplstats, but I don’t trust it

              1. ItOnlyTook9Years
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                Yes, WCs having a detrimental effect on accuracy

            3. NestorC
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Will get Salah, just in case, can't afford him later

          6. GS456
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Whose captaining Hazard?

            I don’t trust him at all but no salah so struggling for an alternative

            1. Captain Beefheart
              • 10 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              I am got a feeling he's due, if not against Newcastle at home then when.

            2. Amey
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              I'd have.
              But have Salah.
              Hazard also a good option imo.

            3. NestorC
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              VC if I get Salah, which will happen tonight probably

              1. NestorC
                • 7 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                VC Hazard

          7. Captain Beefheart
            • 10 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Who will score more points
            Hazard & Pogba or
            Salah & Fraser

            1. ItOnlyTook9Years
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Hazard and pogba, I think (and hope without Salah) Brighton will make a decent fist of it

              1. Captain Beefheart
                • 10 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                Think i agree, would love Salah but would have to swap Hazard and Pogba to Salah and Fraser, Fraser's fixtures stink.

            2. Captain Beefheart
              • 10 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Long term

              1. Amey
                • 5 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                This get
                Salah+Fraser
                Long term Hazard+pogba

              2. ItOnlyTook9Years
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                Ah, well then Salah with captaincy

          8. Edwardio
            • 10 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Hazard or DeBruyne ??

            1. GS456
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Hazard

            2. Amey
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Hazard

            3. ItOnlyTook9Years
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Until KDB proved himself, Haz

            4. Captain Beefheart
              • 10 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Hazard

          9. jdp219
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Fab, Button
            Doh, Robbo, Luiz, AWB, Bednarek
            Pogba, Son, Anderson, Hazard, Pereyra
            Kane, Jiménez, Kamara
            FT, 4.0itb

            1) Son > Sane/Sterling
            2) Anderson > Sane/Sterling
            3) Kamara > Rashford
            4) Son, Anderson > Salah, Fraser (-4)
            5) Kamara, Anderson > Rashford, Dilva (-4)

            1. ItOnlyTook9Years
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              2. Sane

            2. Captain Beefheart
              • 10 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              1 Sane, Son going anyway

            3. Carlton_Goal
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              4

          10. JabbaWookiee
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            How to get Salah in? (Includes a hit)

            A) Lingard & Aubameyang to Salah & Wilson
            B) Anderson & Aubameyang to Salah & Arnautovic
            C) Lingard & Kane to Salah & Rashford
            D) Wait a week and do one of the above for free (which one?)

            1. GS456
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              B

              1. GS456
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                And wait a week*

            2. Amey
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              D(A)

              1. Amey
                • 5 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                Lingard love's Wembley goal 😉

            3. Carlton_Goal
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              B

            4. Regin
              • 6 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              C

          11. Bobby Digital
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            How long will Button play for? He #1 keeper or no?

            1. ItOnlyTook9Years
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Til Ryan comes back from the Asian games

            2. Amey
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Nope.
              Stand in keeper for mat Ryan.
              He'd be back by gw27 IMO

            3. waldo666
              • 13 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Straight back out when Ryan returns which could be earlier than expected if we (Australia) don't pull our finger out!

            4. Bobby Digital
              • 6 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Ok cheers

          12. FPL Pillars
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Anyone know know long Lovren is out for?

            1. Gommy
              • 14 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Irrelevant now. Gomez and Matip will both be fit before he is.

              1. FPL Pillars
                • 7 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                It is relevant because of rotation aspect?

                1. Gommy
                  • 14 Years
                  5 years, 2 months ago

                  Put it this way, it’s not advisable to consider Lovren now.

                  Even when fit, he will barely feature with Gomez and Matip fit from next week.

                  Does that help?

            2. ItOnlyTook9Years
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Not sure but Gomez is back soon

              1. FPL Pillars
                • 7 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                I know

          13. dunas_dog
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            How would you improve this possible WC squad? Only .1m in bank

            Alisson Guaita
            Doherty AWB Van Dijk DLuiz Digne Salah Hazard Bernardo Silva Richarlison Puncheon
            Kane Rashford Jimenez

            1. dunas_dog
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              * oops .... Salah also in midfield... how could I have left him out !!

              1. SADIO SANÉ
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                you didn't...pretty good, not sure about VVD and Luiz - would prefer Robbo and TAA personally

          14. Ronnies
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Guys,

            Do we think Salah will rise in price tonight ?

            Hes on 96.9 per cent now on fplstats

            Thanks.

            1. FPL Pillars
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              No but if you’re 0.1 out if he does I would do it, if not wait.

          15. johnthepg
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Fabs > Etheridge? I actually like the rest of my team

            Fabs (Button)
            WanB Robbo Alonso Digne (Doherty)
            Sane Salah Rich Hazard Pogba
            Rashford (Jimenez, Solanke)

            0.6 ITB

            1. Phil's Stamps
              • 13 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Yep

          16. Dammed Utd
            • 11 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Anybody watching the college football playoff national champions who’s your money on go Clemson on ESPN now folks

          17. Edwardio
            • 10 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Salah or Aguero ??

            1. Gringo Kid
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Mo

          18. Bobby Digital
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Wish I could save anothr one so you could have three transfers next week.

            1. @fpl_phenom
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              this should be a rule change to fpl... would reward better prepared managers

          19. @fpl_phenom
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            fooking hell... what happened to Lovren? did it look serious?

            1. Gringo Kid
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Hamstring injury, it doesnt look good

              1. @fpl_phenom
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                Gomez the way to go so ....

                he sound like hes a possibility for the brighon game....

                1. Saka Punch
                  • 5 Years
                  5 years, 2 months ago

                  Not sure if he'll be ready for Brighton? Klopp mentioned getting someone for 2 weeks in transfer market, so assumed that's when he's back. What makes you think he is out of interest?

                  1. @fpl_phenom
                    • 8 Years
                    5 years, 2 months ago

                    there was a comment on twitter which I dont have access to currently... ill try to get you the quote tomorrow...

                    1. Saka Punch
                      • 5 Years
                      5 years, 2 months ago

                      “Joe and Joel look good – obviously not good enough for Monday, not good enough I would say for the game after that, for Brighton, [but] hopefully then they are at least in full team training.

                      “I think for Joel it would be possible, for Joe at least there’s a little hope that it can be the same, so we will see".

          20. Carlton_Goal
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Any idea how bad Lovren's injury is? Do I just pull the trigger on Lovren > TAA, was already considerig it anyway

            1. Saka Punch
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              By sound of it, I don't think Klopp even knows yet. Probs a good transfer but no rush unless price rise/falls imminent. Might as well wait for press conferences nearer the time

          21. davies
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Worth -4?

            Digne Martial Son > Bednarek Brooks Salah (c)

            1. UpAndAway
              • 10 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              No.

          22. FreddyP3
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Rashford or Jimenez gw 24-29?

            1. @fpl_phenom
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              theres nothing in it but id expect utd to score more goals...

              the liverpool fixture is a bad one for utd where as Jimenez has 5 good fixtures....

              I have BOTH but if I had to choose id go Rashford........ just...