We’re hosting another community questions video special this afternoon.
Joe and Neale will be on air on our YouTube channel from 12:30pm BST but you can also tune in via the embedded video below.
This will be converted into podcast format after the event.
As happened on Tuesday, we’ll be addressing some of the questions and issues raised in the Hot Topic and Tweet that we put out earlier in the week.
ritzyd asked about budget gems, so Joe and Neale will be delving into the best bench fodder options in each of the positions – if there are any, that is.
Kane Lane and I Member wondered if Chelsea assets – including Olivier Giroud – are being overlooked and that issue will also be tackled in today’s stream.
Joe and Neale also share their general thoughts on building a Gameweek 1 squad and any advice that may be useful.
We’ll be live again next Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime tackling more of the requests that were submitted on our site or on social media.
Keep your requests coming in for topics of debate in the meantime and we’ll get through as many as we can before the season begins.
Looks great....not sure about Bou double-up, might work though.
I know me too - would potentially swap King once another 6.5 is looking good..
Get Greenwood instead of Nketiah, OGS made some pretty promising comments about him yesterday, he might even start vs Chelsea.
Zinchenko a risk but will know more after pre season, looks really strong
Looks good though I’m not a fan of Pereyra. I can never predict his hauls and there are too many blanks in between. At the £6.0 price point, I’d rather take a punt on Trossard or James (depending on his preseason form/minutes).
Who’s your goalkeeper currently ? Do you prefer an expensive one, mid-priced 5.0-5.5 or have you chosen the cheapest route 4.5+4.0?
If Heaton goes to Villa then I’d like to get on the Heaton/Pope rotation.
Either Pope + 4.0 or Fabianski + 4.0
One of the most unsettled positions in my team
Most likely Ederson/Lloris/Popecheapest route as always
Ederson, don't rate any 4.5m options and the step up from 5m to 6m is worth it for a reliable route into City defence
Wilson first 2 GWs then change to Haller?
King*
you cant expect anyone to answer that.
Or find 1m and go to Vardy, he has a nice couple of fixtures then too iirc.
Are you sure if Wilson banging 2-3 goals first 2 GWs, you would transfer him out?
Wilson is a great place holder for Haller or Rashford depending on form of course. Definitely a flexible player to have in your squad. I’m thinking similar, don’t let these negative comments deter you.
Juan Foyth cutting his holiday short to try prove himself as Spurs’ first choice RB. Definitely one to monitor:
https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/players/juan-foyth-cut-holiday-short-16603698.amp?__twitter_impression=trueSuspended for the first two, could be a steal at 5.0. The next Doherty?
Forgot about that. He’s probably too at risk with KWP for me
The words barge and pole spring to mind
Spurs should really buy a RB but they probably won't.
I think they have good enough players there. Aurier, Foyth and KWP all have ability and potential to be great
Potential with KWP/Foyth maybe yeah but I don't think any are currently good enough to be starting for a team aiming for third. I liked Aurier before he signed for Spurs and I'm surprised at how poor he's been.
If Dunk moves to Leicester for a huge fee will his price rise from 4.5? Or are they not allowed to do that once they set a price?
The price is set.
No, prices can't change now
Bloody fantastic
Any love for Pulisic at 7.5? He is Haz replacement and looks really affordable.
Chelsea has plenty to come also with Michy, Tammy and Zouma not yet added. These players could be gold if they play regularly.One to watch I’d say, not really hit good numbers before but I think the potential is there.
Not enough creativity. They have Mount, unproven in the PL, and Barkley (lol) as their main sources of chance creation with RLC and CHO out injured. It will be an awkward team that won't score enough goals, and I am steering very clear.
Oh and Willian, a player more inconsistent than Pogba
I think they will score decent number of goals, I just have no idea who or how many will be doing the scoring. Very wait and see.
I have a good feeling about Lampard playing an attacking team. Pulisic would want to impress his manager and fans. Finally Chelsea fixtures are great
From Defensive point of view I'll consider azpi/luiz
I’m tempted as a punt, I have a 7.5 gap and even though Moura for one game seems nice. It is a transfer waiting to happen.
How am I looking?
Pope 4m
TAA VVD Digne Walker Zinky
Salah Sterling Rich Brooks Dendoncker
Wilson Wickham GreenwoodNot so exciting
Not keen on 1 up front when benchers not starters. Could end up with 10 men.
Not sure about 5 premiums at back
Can play 5 at the back but don't all need to be premiums, need 3 playing forwards
I really can't make up my mind up this season. My only certainties are
4.5 4.0
Trent Robbo/VVD Coleman 4.0
Salah Dendo
WilsonYou need to pick your second premium as the next call I feel
True, I think you need to decide Kane or Sterling and other parts of your team will depend on this choice.
Coleman?!?
@FFootballHub
Points per start over last 10 Gameweeks for 18/19 season for players under 10 million
Coleman - 7.4
Vardy - 7.4
TAA - 7.3
Digne - 6.6
Laporte - 6.5
Firmino - 6.2
Wilson - 6.0I would make sure I found the extra 0.5 and got Digne. He's streets ahead
Not as per my dive into the numbers. I think Coleman has enough in his tanker to score more points than Digne, never mind match him.
I might go with both.
not disagreeing, but which stats stand out? Only 4 less starts than Digne, but e.g. attempts are fewer than half.
Last 12 gws. Coleman has much higher xGI and BCC.
interesting, thanks
Am i the only one who feels like it has been decades for the season to start??
I took a time out for the last few weeks. Good to do that imo. Keeps it fresh.
No, not really helped by FPL opening so early I think!
The banter, quizzes, off topic discussions etc no longer happen on here so is a bit dull, which doesn't help.
Quiz from Talksport yesterday,
If Maguire moves to Utd/City for £80m he will be the most expensive ENGLISH player to move between PL clubs.
Can you name the current Top 10?Rooney
Ferdinand
Carroll
SWP
Walker
StonesSterling
Pickford
Keane?
No Pickford, No Keane.
4th
Rooney 10th
Ferdinand 8th
Carroll 7th
Wright-Philips? - Not on the list.
Walker 1st
Stones 3rd
AWB, Walker, Stones, Sterling, Milner, Andy Caroll? Then I'm struggling....
Just seen the further replies, forgot about Rio & Rooney!
AWB 2nd
No Milner (think he was free?)
All others already covered by Gregor.
3 players to go.Milner wasn't free when City signed him from us, it was around 25 million.
Sorry, of course, but not on the list regardless.
Danny Drink water
Yes! £35m 6th on the list
1 to go.
Good question. A few City transfers will be in there - Sterling, Mahrez, Walker... and of course van Dijk, Lukaku. Will keep thinking!
English players doh!
I mean you've basically nailed the top 5 there (except AWB), but as you've already realised it's English players only.
Luke Shaw?
Yes 9th
Walker
Stones
Sterling
AWB
Shaw
Rio
Rooney
Andy Carroll
Last 2 I’m lost on, possibly Lallana and Trippier?Lallana - good shout, that must have been around 25 million?
No Lallana or Trippier.
Rooney is in 10th place, and he's listed as £29m.Last one to get.
...and you're at the right club (currently playing for Liverpool)Ox
You got it!
Clyne?
Big Mike Smalling?
Oh, Oxlaide Chambo!
Ox?
1st Kyle Walker £50m
2nd Wan Bissaka £50m
3rd John Stones £47.5m
4th Sterling £44m
5th Danny Drinkwater £35m
6th Ox-Chamberlain £35m
7th Andy Carroll £35m
8th Rio Ferdinand £30m
9th Luke Shaw £30m
10th Wayne Rooney £29mI forgot Danny Drinkwater existed.
I think we all feel that way, let's face it he was never an FPL option.
Yeah but can you RMT?
After my first week of tinkering it felt like weeks had passed.
I'm only tinkering sporadically now and having pre-season matches keeps things interesting are getting me through the wait.
First question of the season!
A. Tiel and Zaha
B. Fraser and Townsend
C. Fraser and Doucoure (or pereyra)
D. Some other combo to 13.5m
Other mids are Salah, Sterling, dendonc.
Thanks!B
Thanks!
I have Perez and Zaha, so A
Cheers
Sigurdsson & Moutinho or
Fraser & Yarmolenko
Anyone know how you view previous scores from past seasons? I want to look at my score from last season
Go to my team ---->scroll down to history
gw history
A. Zaha and haller
Or
B. Siggy and jota
Really stuck on this one guysYou can't have been stuck for very long
I was assuming he would be 7.5 or even 8
B
Jiminez or Haller?
Both £7.5 but I'm very tempted to gamble on Haller due to fixtures (ignoring GW1 of course)
Jiminez: lei, MUN, BUR, eve, CHE, cry, WAT, mci
Haller: MCI, bha, wat, NOR, avl, MUN, bou, CRYI'd go Haller. Wolves fixtures are terrible Novocastrain.
from Newcastle? Newcastsleish?
About 3miles from the city centre. Still won't be picking any one wearing a black and white strip for my FPL team though. Relegation certainly beckons....
Bookies have Jiminez to score 12 goals and Haller 10.
Where do you get those odds?
cant wait for the
a)King + Perez or
b)Abraham or Brooks posts
Not.I don't think FPL towers are going to add Abraham to the game, so I wouldn't worry too much.
The missing Chelsea players will never be added. They are locked up in FPL towers and are charging a significant ransom for their release. Don’t think Chelsea can afford it
Proven Jimenez is 7.5 and Haller also 7.5. Wait and see for me...
Jiménez has had one good season in his career you know. Speak to a benfica fan they’ll tell you he was poor
Haller is a better player
Tough one: Deulofeu or Jota??
King
Already got
Lloris
Robertson, TAA, Boly
Salah, KDB, Siggy, Kante
Wilson, Jota, Vardy
Thoughts? no problem with Kante i had to let Vardy and Wilson in.Wolves 2 might not be great to start with.
Why not downgrade KDB. For example Fraser who can easily outscore him first couple of weeks. Then assess how KDB is doing new season. Upgrade Kante and/or Boly.
but then i don't have any man city reps
Upgrade Boly 😉
RMT
Ederson - Woodman
Robbo - Trent - Digne - Diop - Bednarak
Salah - Sterling - Maddison - Dendoncker - Hayden
Haller - King - Calvert Lewin
0.5 ITB, calvert-lewin will defo go if Everton sign a striker as expected and not going to stick with Hayden but not sure where to downgrade yet or that anybody at 6m or less is worth it in midfieldQuite like Andros for 6
7 goals in 3 seasons, wouldn't choose him at 5m, not sure i'd ever play him unless he looks like he's gonna step into Zaha's role
Iwobi would be
Good call tbf, if they don't sign a winger like Carrasco then he could be a real option, got to mature at some point and develop his end product
They are cack at transfer business so I doubt they will do. Only worry is if he will be back from AFCON in time as he has a 3rd place play off still to come but I think arsenal will need him from the off
Everton is highly linked at the moment. Could see that one working out as there have been developments for Saliba and Ceballos in the last few days.
I’d imagine Everton / Saliba / Ceballos / Tiereny / Martinelli would be the transfer window complete for Arsenal. I have also read about Iwobi being deployed in Ramsey’s position however Ceballos would probably take that.I don’t think Everton will come off but if it does i’ll Look elsewhere. If they sign ceballos Iwobi will keep that LW spot that is present in all emery’s favourite systems. Ceballos not the ideal Ramsey replacement but I guess will do the job, i’d Even say ozil is a better fit for arsenal than ceballos ffs
Yeah wouldn’t be confident about a new LW but we’ll have to see. Definitely in the market for one. But yeah I do agree it’s one to watch with Iwobi. If he can improvement is attacking output and be a bit more consistent there’s some real value there.
For anyone’s thoughts and anyone else on a WCGW3 plan what do we reckon of using our transfer to do King (avl) > Pukki (NEW)?
Generally always use it early but fixtures change around 9/10 so planning on dragging it out this year
I see what you mean but I will have an early lead. It won’t take much planning to turn sterling/Son into the new flavour of the month
Hows this looking for an 11:
Pope
Digne - TAA - Robertson - Zinchenko
Sterling - Salah - Perez - Brooks
Vardy - Deulofeu
Bench: Button, Kelly, Dendonker, GreenwoodWhy it looks excellent
Solid
You should have enough itb to do Brooks to Fraser.
Bournemouth have great early fixtures and I don't think just Brooks on his own is going to be enough Cherries cover.
A) Fraser + Origi
B) Townsend + Deulofeu + 0.5m
Have Salah and Wilson.A by miles
Even if it means doubling up on both BOU and LIV?
Of course
I’d stay off origi
Don’t be silly
Annoying Haller is 7.5
Disagree good price
It’s a fair price but leaves me .5 short for my plans
Would have been good if he’d come in cheap but at that purchase price it was expectedLemme see if I can shave 0.5 off for you
Heaton:Pope 4.0
Vvd taa Coleman zinc
Mo raz siggy Perez 4.5
Wilson deul 4.5
.5 itb
He didn't say it wasn't a good price.
He said it was annoying.
There's a difference.Cheer up
I'm off work today so plenty for me to be happy about.
Thanks for your concern though. It's appreciated.
My new salah plus sterling team. What do you think?
Fabs
TAA/VVD/digne/Walker
Salah/sterling/Perez/zaha
Haller/king
Subs: button/dendonker/andone/Kelly
Thanks everyonemaybe andone --> 4.5 and Haller to Wilson?
I’m not a massive fan of the Bournemouth double up
What’s a better front line?
Wilson/jota/wickham
Or
Haller/king/andone
Really like it but would prefer wilson to start over haller downgrade andone to 4.5 and do King to jota/deu/Barnes etc
Looking for a 7.5M punt?
There's a little blondey with great fixtures in the first two feeding the most lethal 2 strikers in the country.I wouldn’t say king is one of the most lethal :/ but Fraser for sure in my team atm blondes do it best
Oh no please say you don’t mean ozil
Ozil dyed his hair?
I prefer my blond labrador
Pulisic
D.Silva?
Best striker to partner Wilson?
A) Jota
B) Deulofeu
C) DCL + 0.5mA
I’ve gone for B due time better fixture over A
B to start unless Everton don’t sign a striker then DCL
C), imo.
Current draft - Would be grateful for any suggestions. Have 0.5 in the bank to play with.
Ryan / Button
Ake / Coleman / AWB / VVD / Kelly
Salah / KDB / B.Silva / Sigi / Rice?
Rashford / King / Deulofeu
Not liking Rice (had Kante originally)
Thanks in advanceRice to Jorginho or noble on pens
Would also do KDB an bernardo to sterling change to 433
Thanks
Draft 2
Ryan / Button
Ake / Coleman / AWB / VVD / Kelly
Salah / KDB / B.Silva / Sigi / Moutinho
Rashford / King / Deulofeu
Ederson
VVD TAA Coleman KWP/aurier
Salah sterling Perez siggy
Wilson Murray
Fodder bench. I’m thinking about doing siggy Perez and Murray to vardy and then 11.5m for 2 mids.Murray is a place holder should a 6m< becomes available
So we think origi could be a dark horse this season??
Racist
Not for me. His game time will be so limited and probably more of a cup player
Nailed to start the season tho
Hes literally not
Ox/keita/shaq could quite easily play left wing
Literally none of them ever play left wing
Tempted to rely on him playing the first 2 but surely not too much after that..
This then we WC 😉
Damn straight (might try to hold out for after GW4 though)
I don't. Which of the Liverpool front three will he dislodge?
Could be a decent punt for GW1 with Mane possibly struggling due to AFCON commitments, but even then Shaquri probably more suited to take his place?Firmino given 3 weeks from 7th July which is 28th of July leaving him only 11 days of pre season before Norwich, origi and Brewster provide enough cover between them for Norwich if need be
I've seen quotes from Klopp, can't be bothered to find them now, but he's said that of the usual front three Firmino and Salah will be back in time to play the community shield, but Mane probably won't...but let's see, kinda thing.
I think he's totally and utterly unselectable unless something (extremely) drastic happens
Might start with mane likely to be rested early on
Seems crazy to waste either a Liverpool slot and/or a FT on him
So many good Liverpool options before you come to Origi
But even when he comes in as a sub he scores
Where can I find the FFS & Members league codes?
A. wilson perez felipe.A ake
B. King deulofeu siggy awb
Please suggest
4 years, 9 months ago
Ederson
TAA Robbo Digne Zinchenko
Salah Sterling Perez Pereyra
Wilson King
Button Dendoncker Kelly Nketiah
I've been set on this team for a while now - will be likely to Wildcard early.
Any thoughts?