Premier League pre-season friendlies: a day-by-day fixture guide

Yes actually. I'm potentially looking at Gunn or a Burnley keeper.

Yeah, I was wavering on him anyway.

Sigurdsson over Richarlison

I have Bilva as well, not sure if to keep or ditch him

Sterling over Lun

Not sold by King. Don't like frontline. I have just changed Ryan as Dunk will be leaving and I am concerned about the backline being destabilised.

Can you give me your reasoning for picking Sharp?

over the course of the season.

Hi dead zone! 🙂

Nah, most on this site will realize they didn't get it right and parachute out with an early transfer. A wise/lucky few will get it more-or-less right and be able to delay the transfer to a date of their choice. Just a precious few will linger in the phantom zone, where it's a close call whether to pull the ripcord. And they will mostly be talented FPL managers, to get that close--they don't deserve to linger near death, but there it is.

(Hmm, these terms--there's no chance we're taking this too seriously, is there?)

Dunk may be elsewhere but as of now B.
Mcarthur has about 150 potential at best but not bad for 5.5.

GW1 defence*

I started with Patricio McCarthy TAA AWB Doherty and couple other 4.5m from memory

All I remember is that I had mendy, Robbo, and awb

I had Davies VVD and Dunk starting 😛

Had VVD, Sakho, and Daniels starting. AWB's 12 pointer on the bench

Looks good to me. Could go 4.5 keeper and VvD over Alisson and Ake.

You'll know when he's in top form and deserving the armband.

Wouldn’t say nailed but I think he’ll at least start the first few

We don't know yet.

What is your bench fodder?

Long term based on current squad C

Maybe stones can be better value than laporte if they don't sign a CB

Looks good. Would play smith over kelly

Vardy over kdb

Mostly fine but Kelly's not nailed and he'll be hard to get rid of without taking a hit of weakening your team in a 2FT. Are you happy with Smith or Donkers starting every game and bagging you 1 or 2 points?

Dont like jorginho.

Good team. Looking something similar can't just fit Aguero in. City prob getting penalties bcs of VAR

Sterling for me

Both.

For a while now.

Sterling for me - Kane could be in carthorse and/or injury and/or DM mode

I've both atm.

Salah, Sterling, TAA, A N OTHER LIV defender, Donkey (for the bench)

TAA, Robbo, Salah, Sterling, Vardy

Honourable mentions to Laporte, Digne, Coleman (if Gueye stays at Everton)

You're relentless in asking to be spoonfed, aren't you?

A but monitor Yarmolemko in pre season.

I managed to use my bench boost very well towards the latter part of last season in a dgw. Got atleast one clean sheet from all my gks and defs along with the extra starting points as well. All 15 players played as well which is easier to determine later on.

You don't stay ahead of the curve just by scoring points. The reason it's important to get a good start is that it shows you have a good team and don't need to spend transfers or risk wildcarding early. It also helps with YV.

25 points early on is worth exactly the same as at the end. There are plenty of reasons for a GW1 BB but this isn't it.

I’m going for it. Quite a few are on here.

I’ve never had much luck nailing my bench boost in a DGW and I’m sure I was losing a lot of points in the weeks leading up to the DGW as the players I was buying were being outperformed by the non DGW players.

Going to try something different for a change.

DCL nailed on?

-9m wasted on keepers
-not sure how you can pick those 2 city def's with pep's roulette
-DCL...no comment

You can do better.

Zinchenko not nailed either, and DCL isn’t putting away all those lack of Toffee crosses.

Not far off my team. I found downgrading Sterling to KDB was worth it to upgrade elsewhere (Stones, DCL maybe Zinchenko)

Any*

Antonio and Yarmolenko could be gold

Yes

Leno scored 3.3 ppm last season. Ryan 3.1. So I guess still not worth the .5 extra if its a repeat of last season.

Nope. Arsenal look like they're going to even worse this season tbh

Prefer the first option.

You can make some nice 451 teams but the problem is, if your striker becomes a doubt then you have to either risk going with 10 players or transfer them. Last minute benchings would leave you down to 10 too

Wouldn’t be shocked if Lampy signed John Terry and made him captain.

Yes, by the looks of it.

Vertonghen

I like A actually.

Bit of doubt over Wolves with Europe so going with the cheaper of those could be better.

Jota was matching Jiminez towards the end of last season too (albeit as a midfielder).

I'm on King at the moment, bit I think Wilson will outscore him. Only reason I'm not on Wilson is I don't like the downgrades I have to make elsewhere to get him

I doubt he will be first choice from the start due to coming to terms with Peps tactical requirement. But he could be gold a few (or a lot) games into the season. One to watch for sure.

I think TAA is pretty essential this season. So I find it hard to give this team a good rating.