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Wow

A

6/10

Zinchenko
Moura, Perez

Strikers

need to go imo

whole midfield is an expensive gamble. i think you should downgrade a few (which may ironically result in an upgrade of sorts) and change zinchenko to a liverpool defender. also abraham is a lot for an unset player. i’d go for a semi reliable 6.5 early and if you want save the .5 to upgrade to someone else at some point.

lack of salah or sterling is disconcerting as well. even if they are template, theres a reason for it.

wow... not a fan at all of eriksen or zaha... im gone off ryan too perez fraser pope maybe

Barkley could be an exciting pick

dont like the keeper combo would rather take the 0.5 off ryan and improve someone on ur bench

the two budget strikers are a bit punty but could work out

no bournemouth attacker could be a mistake also

a return every 3 weeks for 5-6m players.

When necessary

Fixture to start

C

If I have a budget striker I'm happy with a goal or an assist every 3 games.
Well that depends on how much of a shambles my team is!
Flexibility usually prevails over anything, but you'd get away with it early on if you plan to wildcard

Deulofeu > King

Sure... I'm in.

I'm in too. 🙂

In

Looks like he is, yes

Siggy gives me anxiety. He literally loves to screw me over. So I'm not a fan.. 😉

Siggy always does good. He's a giver...

Salah... But that's a hard guess.

Wijnaldum

Mo

Salah, I would think

Mo should be on pens w/o Milner

Salah 1000000%

salah

Thanks. Expecting Pool to win some 7-8 pens this season at least.

Salah.

A if one is a sub.

B looks better, because you can rotate them.
Also, are you from Serbia or do you just happen to be Partizan Belgrade supporter from England?

B

Not salah, sterling

B. KDB too far back on the field. He passes the ball to the guy that gets the assist.

A

any chance you can do small downgrades and upgrade Dendo? Let go of rotating gk’s or bring in VvD for one of the deadly duo?
Otherwise, I like it quite a lot.

I'd like to know about that as well.

Thinking about (a) keeping him for now or (b) Vertonghen.

I can't see Sidibe going straight in having just signed so I guess it whether or not you think Coleman is good enough to keep his place. Sidibe played Left back a few times last season too, so maybe Digne pushes up, who knows

2 just

Montoya, A. Smith or Kiko for me

Dendoncker, more involved in attacking play than Hayden who is a pure Defensive Mid

I like the looks of Diop, given that you have a squad which enables you to bench him gw1.
Worried that new signing might affect Hayden’s game time, so i’ve gone for Dendo as fodder.

100% dendonker

I like a west ham defender ... Diop or balbuena...

ideally play rico gw1 v sheffield and then hes just fodder and you play diop from gw 2 onwards

Wilson / Fraser had the deadliest link-up last season, but seem to be frowned upon here to go with double BOU attack (despite their fixtures)
Moura would be short term punt imo, Son back GW3 might affect his game time

I got both, but Moura is a better pick for GW1 I'd say.

Bmouth haven't really played a preparation game with the best 11. Fraser didn't play in 3-0 vs Lyon, for example.

Fraser is in the last year of his contract and Bmouth offered a new one but no signature yet.

Doesn't have to mean anything, but I don't see these as positive signs.

There's also something called sophomore slump that happens to the best of teams too.

Def cld be but his pen record is terrible...cld well lose the taker role if he missed another 1...

Think so, Zaha did not take pens at palace
Just need Zaha to join now...

Nice team! Good to go

I like it! You decided on Lundstram as 4.0 def?

Elmohamady could (probably) lose his place to Guilbert
Greenwood will probably not start & Pukki has tough fixtures to start, worth reworking your front line

I talked myself out of that. Went king Rash

Dendoncker, then Stephens or Hayden

Nice team, good to go I think! Think of a plan to get Wood out after the first GW or so if he does not fire, he has tough fixtures

I'm without Salah at the moment