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The Complete Guide to Our FPL Gameweek 1 Tips and Advice

The final window on the FPL advent calendar has been opened, the big day is finally here! Whether you are a fantasy veteran or a first-season newbie, welcome to one of the most exciting days of the year – the first day of the new Fantasy Premier League season!

At the moment over five million FPL managers are busy tinkering with their teams, making final tweaks based on the new arrivals in yesterday’s transfer window and the latest team news emerging today. It can, at times feel overwhelming.

To help ease the pressure a little, David, Neale (aka Skonto Rigga), and the Fantasy Football Scout team, together with our wonderful community of passionate FPL managers, have been busy collating all the useful nuggets of FPL gold.  

Firstly, don’t get caught out – the FPL deadline for Gameweek 1 is 7pm UK time. With more teams starting the season than ever before, be aware that the computer servers at FPL towers will undoubtedly be under increased pressure. It is advisable to select your final squad in plenty of time, just in case the servers slow down. 

One of the big decisions FPL managers have to make every week is who to trust with the captain’s armband. A decision which editor-in-chief David Munday, described as quite easy on the first captaincy video of the season. The stand-out pick in the opinion of both David and Joe is Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah.

In the video, David went on to highlight the relatively low number of clean sheets Liverpool’s opponents, Norwich, kept in the Championship last season compared to the teams around them, and the number of defensive injuries they are currently suffering. 

Using the new ‘Flat-track Bully’ feature in our Members’ area, David then backed up his selection of Salah by revealing that, last season, the Egyptian scored an impressive 20 goals and managed 7 assists against teams outside the Premier League top six. In the 2017/18 season the totals were 22 goals and 6 assists. In other words, Mohamed Salah is a safe bet which, more often than not, is exactly what we want with our captain.

However, if you would like to consider another option – perhaps you are like former FPL winner Ben Crabtree, an Everton fan who won FPL without selecting a Liverpool player for the entire season – the Captain Sensible article highlights some enticing alternatives.

One of the challenges of playing FPL is deciding which premium-priced players to own given our limited budget of £100m. The dilemma was articulated by James (aka HamezMace) in the must-read FPL Question Time:

“Can you fit Kane, Sterling, and Salah into the same team?”

Sam from FPL Family admitted:

“It’s impossible to fit all the premium assets into your fantasy team – I’ve tried!”

The answer according to Ted (aka Rotation’s Alter Ego) and Tom from Who Got The Assist? is to go with captain favourite Salah and Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling. Tom explained:

“My judgement is that the City and Liverpool midfielders are two who will end up being the highest-scoring players that I ideally will own all season, with the all-important captaincy armband passing between them.”

In the article featuring a panel of FPL experts, the FPL General revealed that he will be going with as many as three or four £6.0m+ defensive picks. While Tom (aka avfc82) pointed out the potential value in a certain Leicester City asset:

“It’s hard to look past Ayoze Pérez for me. Reclassified as a midfielder, Pérez scored 12 Premier League goals whilst at Newcastle last season. Now playing in a better team, you’d expect him to profit from Rodgers attacking approach and up that output.”

Of particular interest to FPL managers on the opening day of the season is the latest team news. Neale has collected all the most pertinent quotes from both today’s press conferences and yesterday’s press conferences. Using that knowledge, Neale has updated the incredibly useful Team News section of the website, featuring best-guess lineups and the latest news on a team-by-team basis.

Our Community have also been adding productively to the site with a number of thoughtful contributions. TheFantasyFreÆK, an experienced FPL manager who once finished fourth overall, started a Hot Topic on 10 things you might have missed and need to know before FPL starts.

For managers looking to find the missing piece to their FPL jigsaw puzzle, The Complete Guide to FPL Pre-season groups players according to position and budget making it easier to identify the final player to complete their squads. A wealth of information is contained within.

To highlight only three of a number of excellent community articles: shaun_drift looked at £4.5m Goalkeeper rotations; Limit80 revealed how he used underlying stats to help him to a top 10k finish last season; and Rossi3254 explained why Spurs have the potential to cause a few headaches this season.

Away from the drama of the start of the Premier League, Meltens previewed Gameweek 19 in Fantasy Allsvenskan, while TallestJohn has been helping fantasy managers with their selection in Eliteserien Fantasy, his most recent article previewed Gameweek 16

To view all our discussions please visit our Hot Topics page, and if you’ve got some analysis, scout reports or features brewing, be sure to visit our community section to submit your article.

If you’re a member and are yet to get to grips with the custom statistics tables, you can view this movie for an explanation of how they work. Also, remember to tag them so that people can find the tables with ease.

COMMUNITY TOURNAMENTS

The regular community tournaments return for the 2019/20 season. To join Fantasy Football Scout FPL League enter ooyz44 in your Leagues’ section on the FPL site. The code to join the FFS Members League can be found on the Members page

Last season’s winner of both competitions was the FPL champion himself Adam Levy (aka Elvy). Adam’s winning margin in the open-to-all FFS League was 70 points – world number three Andrew Green was second – and in the Members’ League Adam won by 99 points from world number 18 Tore Bjorheim. 

Adam also won RedLightning’s Opening Day League last season, he finished 158 points ahead of world number 247 Timothy Shelbourne. The league is running again this season, as usual entries to this mini-league were only open for the first 24 hours following the launch of FPL for 2019/20 season in June.

This season also sees the return of the FFS Head-to-Head Leagues. These will be run by Mark Reynolds (aka MIR) with support from Geoff and Chris Atkinson (aka RMT’s Professor). To participate please join the “FFS H2H League” code: gh0126. Entries will then be put into divisions and leagues according to their HOF rankings. Right now, entry will close with the start of Gameweek 1.

TorresMagic’s Last Man Standing competition returns for a seventh season, and this year the winner will receive free Fantasy Football Scout Membership for the 2020/21 season. Simply enter bcvy39 in your Leagues’ section on the FPL site. The Gameweek 22 deadline will be the closing time for entries, over 3,000 managers have entered so far. Note that for those entering after Gameweek 1, you must pass all the previous safety scores to qualify.

Despite finishing 14,224 overall last season, Alan Robertson (aka Villaweeal) triumphed over 4,614 entrants to lift the title. He followed in the footsteps of previous winners: Nice To Finally Michu, Isco Disco, Miro, Hakchak, and Jam0sh.

In the FFS Mods & Cons mini-league, Mark was unable to maintain his lead as Ted Maw (aka Rotation’s Alter Ego) overtook him on the final day. Ted scored 87 points in Gameweek 38 and finished 633 overall. This is Ted’s first top 1k finish in his 11th season, eclipsing his previous best rank of 33,968. Meanwhile, Mark only managed a disappointing final day score of 47 (-8) and dropped out of the top one thousand.

In more drama on the final day, Andy Sullivan regained the lead to win RedLightning’s Top 10k Any Season mini-league by 13 points from Callum Croal and Craig Till Reumert, finishing as world number 44. The league is running again this year, details of how to enter will be available next week.

There was an extremely close finish in RedLightning’s January to May League with Andrew Hughes holding on to win it by a single point from Vimal Krishnan. Andrew had 8 green arrows in the last 10 Gameweeks, rising from 19k in Gameweek 28 to a stupendous 205 overall.

Ted (aka Rotation’s Alter Ego) claimed the title in The Last Ten Gameweeks mini-league to add to his success in the FFS Mods and Cons. He finished 22 points ahead of Gavin Tarrant. Ted’s top 1k finish is all the more impressive given that he was ranked at 46k in Gameweek 27. 

Over the summer, FFS users have been participating in the Swedish Fantasy Allsvenskan. The current leader in the FFS mini-league is Daniel Sebestyen who is currently third in the world.

Daniel has played his ‘Two Captains’ chip and his first Wildcard, but still has the incredibly powerful ‘Park The Bus’ chip left, along with ‘Attack Attack’ and the second Wildcard. He’s 18 points off first place and 14 points behind second place. The overall leader has played all his chips, while the world number two only has his ‘Two Captains’ chip remaining.

Second in the FFS mini-league is Simon Eriksson, 36 points behind Daniel and ninth overall. A further 16 points back in third is Niklas Tysander, who is an impressive 15th overall. It promises to be an exciting finish to season, with nine Gameweeks to go there’s all to play for!

If you are running a community tournament and would like the latest scores included in future Community Round-Ups, please email us a summary of the current leaders and a link to your league, spreadsheet or head-to-head competition at geoff@fantasyfootballscout.co.uk

https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/the-complete-guide-to-fpl-pre-season-2019-20/

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  1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Quadruple Liverpool defence unite!

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      quadruple?

      1. Majestic Chanka
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Captained

        1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Indeed, taa for the win

          1. Majestic Chanka
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Good luck!

            1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
              • 6 Years
              4 years, 7 months ago

              Thanks, and to you

          2. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Oops

      2. SADIO SANÉ
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Salah (C)

        1. SADIO SANÉ
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          ignore me, I am indeed a moron

    2. Yip Jaap Stam
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Quadruple?

    3. Majestic Chanka
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Chicken, should be quintuple! 😉

      1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Haha! It should really, you're right 🙂

        1. Majestic Chanka
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Haha, much better than TC Duffy which did happen!

    4. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I know VvD is really tall, but he's still one guy...

    5. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      GL
      Only double up for me

      1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Hey amey, good to see you again. Good luck this week!

  2. Mr.K
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    For how long does this thing usually load? I'm afraid I forgot to set a captain and can't wait to check............

    1. Dont_Win_Friends_With_Salah…
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Martial and Kdb went in last minute

    2. Taking the Mkhitaryan
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Days

    3. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      25-35 minutes

    4. Yip Jaap Stam
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      This is where you find out Dunk is your captain

      1. Mr.K
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        It's Salah or nothing.... VC I most likely didn't set.

    5. Majestic Chanka
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      It’s like that bit after Gandalf fought the Balrog

    6. DAZZ
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      You’ve had 2 months to set a captain, your own fault lad 0 sympathy

      1. Tommyg
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Maybe he has a life....

      2. Mr.K
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Absolutely! Was not looking for sympathy in any way, genuinely just curious when I'm able to check!

        As for whether I have a life or not... I kinda do but it's certainly no excuse, I was sitting in front of the lineup for an hour and a half today as well.

    7. Mr.K
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      UPDATE! Salah it is!

  3. The Darkest Knight
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Any player you never had in your team draft tinkering but picked 5 min before deadline???

    I did Moura.

    1. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Holebas and Fabianski

      1. The Darkest Knight
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        lol

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

      Diop

      1. The Darkest Knight
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        lol again

    3. Mings the Merciless
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Aubamayang...

      1. The Darkest Knight
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Nice. Auba will be golden boot again this season for sure.

        1. Mings the Merciless
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          I hope so. It was Vardy until 5 mins before. Had to do sterling to kdb too. Hope it doesn’t come back to haunt me!

          1. Twisted Saltergater
            • 14 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Great moves! It’ll pay off.

    4. Canary_Kid
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Perez

    5. Jordan.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      mariial

      1. The Darkest Knight
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Ya.. I got Martial 10 min before deadline and changed him to Maura.

        Martial will be back next GW.

    6. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Gary Cahill...rock 'n' roll 😎

    7. EmreCan Hustle
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Martial and Perez

    8. LeicesterA
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Yeah, Moura too. Wanted some Saturday night enjoyment!

      Money from KDB to Moura also allowed defensive upgrades too.

    9. Martial Matas
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Had Moura until 5 minutes before... Brought in Martial though so fairly happy with that

    10. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Got Rose in over Walker P
      Did Perez > Lingard
      Did Foster > Henderson
      Moved (c) from Sterling > Firm. 😆

    11. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Trossard my punt.

    12. Mr_Barbs
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Moura as well

    13. semiconductor
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      3 of my defence. All punts

    14. UnitedFan
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Sean O'Connell for the bench.

      1. UnitedFan
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        *Jack

    15. JPSpurs
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Salah

  4. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    So this place is down when you need it the most... Server errors made me unable to post my 12th RMT a few minutes before deadline so now I'm completely without advice going into GW1. As a paying member I expect better... Steaming

    1. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      B

    2. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I'd be ticked off if I was a member. Site has been up long enough for them to know the expected numbers and hence upgrade their servers in time.

      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        This. Amateurish

        1. GREEN IS GOOD
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Yeah we've only had a month to tinker with our teams.

      2. Yip Jaap Stam
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        To be honest, I was trying to get stats and the site was down. But never mind

    3. noahzark22
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Refund!

      1. Hits from the Bong
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Free memberships for everyone!

    4. ChelseaGuy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

    5. ItOnlyTook9Years
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Nobody was replying then anyway.

      Although now you can't blame everyone else when your team bombs

    6. Mings the Merciless
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      B with Perez

    7. jtreble
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      "... So this place is down ..." Careful, 503s do not an outage make. It got smokin' busy though :).

  5. COLLIN QUANER
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hoping that Salah scores a few goals and Liverpool keep a clean sheet as I have Salah and Robertson in my team

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      well, yeah....

    2. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Change your name to Michael Owen immediately

      1. Warby84
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Brilliant

    3. GREEN IS GOOD
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      You're unique. Bless you.

    4. Hits from the Bong
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Actually clean sheet might be bad news with only one Liv defender

  6. KLOPPTOMANIA
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    I love my team. Just couldnt decide Perez v Trossard.

    Went Perez

    1. Evil Genius
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      So you did decide.

      1. KLOPPTOMANIA
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I found it difficult to decide. I flicked a coin. So I didn’t really decide.

    2. Belli2007
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Good shout

    3. Brazooka
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Right choice.

    4. Kobayashy
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      You made the right call.

    5. Das Boot
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      not a bad call tbh. I opted for Tielemans in the end, it was a toss up between him and Perez too

  7. Brazooka
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    The train is gone. Good luck everyone at the new season.

    1. noahzark22
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I brought VVD in at the last moment. Cue Liverpool shipping goals

    2. Das Boot
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      you too

  8. Obi-1 Kenobi-0
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    My last minute change was Lundstrum + Wesley to Gomez + Parrott. Happy with it.

    1. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Who the hell is Parrott?

      1. Holmes
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Kane 2.0 😉

        1. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Kane 2-0 🙂

      2. Carlton_Goal
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Spurs striker

  9. Bouncebackability
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Anyone else able to get into their Sky team? I'm not.

    1. Gregor
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Me neither.

      1. Bouncebackability
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        £50,000 top prize and their website lets you down before its started. Top effort that.

    2. drilsby
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      RIIOOTT!

  10. Gooner97
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Origi.

    What could have been?

  11. _nod
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Salah owners all very smug at the moment, as if picking the most expensive player in the game and captaining him against at team hotly tipped to go back down somehow makes them FPL geniuses.

    1. Taking the Mkhitaryan
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Posts like this are not fun

      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        He’s crapping himself because he just sold Salah

        1. _nod
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Well yeah, obviously 🙂

      2. _nod
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Maybe not, but nor are the posts saying your season is over if you didn't TC Salah tonight, before the start of the very first game.

        I miss all the RMTs

    2. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Well we're increasing the liklihood of doing well, so we are geniuses 🙂

    3. Annie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Link your team?

      1. _nod
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Pope
        TAA \ VVD \ Laporte
        Sterling \ Bliva \ Pérez \ Martial
        Auba \ Jiménez

        4.0 \ Geeenwood \ Dend \ Lund

  12. Lokako
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Salah or sterling captain gameweek 2?

    1. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Sterling prob

    2. GREEN IS GOOD
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Jeez SLOW DOWN

    3. LSK
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      See how they look gwk1.

  13. Party time
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Exactly 4 weeks ago I had Mané in my team...

    • Earwicker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Here we go...Gomez bandwagon...up 0.3M by end of week.

      1. The Suspended One
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Had this same thought

    • ★Kuntheman★
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Don't forget to share the worst team in your MLs!

      One of my mates texted me yesterday saying a lot of the new signings are coming in at 5.5 so he's planning on picking up a few of em like Rodri and Cancelo.

      I said "ballsy strategy, I like it"

      1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        rodri brace incoming

        1. ★Kuntheman★
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          You just know that kinda BS is gonna happen GW1 😆

      2. Ógie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Some mate you are. 😆

        1. ★Kuntheman★
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          😆 I didn't lie, I do like the strategy 😉

      3. KLOPPTOMANIA
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        One of guys from work did auto pick and saved. No messing about.

        1. ★Kuntheman★
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Those teams scare me, always have some random picks that do way better than they should

      4. UnitedFan
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I'll share your team when I see it 🙂

    • OldBenKenobi
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Quite happy in the end....

      Pope
      TAA Robbo Zinchenko Coleman
      Salah Sterling KDB Pérez
      King Jota

      Button Rico Dendoncker Greenwood

      1. KLOPPTOMANIA
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Very similar but not quite as good as mine, obviously

        1. OldBenKenobi
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          😉

    • The Wanton Trader
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Norwich manager just said they are not going to park the bus and are going to attack...

      This could be embarrassing..!!

      1. SADIO SANÉ
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Todd Cantwell masterclass incoming

        1. The Wanton Trader
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          😆

      2. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Probably going to park the bus then.

        1. The Wanton Trader
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          He sounded convincing...

      3. Taking the Mkhitaryan
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Norwich can't park the bus. They are best when they attack

      4. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        It is one thing saying you are going to attack. But when you don't have the ball and are getting penned into your own half it is pretty hard to attack. I suspect Norwich will be doing a lot of bus parking even if they don't want to.

      5. Carlton_Goal
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Cardiff 2.0?

    • Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Tonight's prediction: Norwich will score. If they don't I'm heading for a GW position of > 3 million

    • noahzark22
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      So can I post my RMT for week 2 now?

      1. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Do it.

      2. LangerznMash
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        8/10 too template.

      3. Now I'm Panicking
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        No, you need to excite us by telling us who you swapped in at the last minutem

      4. Carlton_Goal
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I know I haven't seen your team yet but I think you should bring Gomez in

    • Bubz
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Ended up getting Martial instead of Perez last minute. Have a feeling he’s going to be massive this season and will be up front

      1. SADIO SANÉ
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        one of the reasons I went the Moura route in the end, could be a very easy swap

        1. Bubz
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          I have Moura too 😉

          1. SADIO SANÉ
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            you sack of wine!

      2. FredrikH
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Good to hear Bubz. I got both in the end.

      3. Demí
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Nice, could be very shrewd. The guy's talent is ridiculous, but ofcourse, that alone isn't enough. Hope for a big season for him

    • jacklockett
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Never even considered Montoya all pre season... chucked him in my squad last minute, let’s hope it’s a moment of genius, not madness.

      1. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Same even ended with Trossard as my punt.

      2. The Suspended One
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Did the exact same..

      3. piquiblanco
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        One of the lads I'm most sure of in my team, after Salah and Perez. Should make you happy over the season

      4. F_Ivanovic
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I don't get why I saw a few people with Montoya.... nobody got him in the DGW at the end of last year - he offered little going forward - where-as both Dunk and Duffy were bigger threats - so what changed? Apart from Duffy now being 5m.

    • LangerznMash
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      The real question here is did anyone NOT triple up on Liverpool!?

      1. Business Cat
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I've only got 2

        1. LangerznMash
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Are you regretting it? The Norwich lineup is one of the weakest looking I've ever seen in the Premiership.

          1. Solano's Trumpet
            • 13 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            it only takes a deflection off someones arse, or a VAR from a Wijnaldum lunge and your double liverpool cleansheet that cost 14million is gone

          2. g40steve
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            No cause my team structure would not allow three, Gomez would of worked but who knew?

          3. Business Cat
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Nah

            Got Salah and VVD, happy with that.

            I think people are over-estimating clean sheet potential here...Norwich are very attacking, the manager said he wouldn't hold back (with no defence, he can't) and Liverpool have been a bit leaky in pre-season.

            I wouldn't be surprised if Norwich score a consolation goal...4-1 🙂

            1. Business Cat
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 9 Years
              4 years, 7 months ago

              Illuminati confirmed 😎

      2. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        See below. 😀

      3. Solano's Trumpet
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I only doubled with TAA and Salah

      4. Irish Madridista ⭐
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        o/

        Taa + Salah

      5. Party time
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Bobby, Salah & Trent

          1. LangerznMash
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            So you did triple up then.

        • g40steve
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Only 2

        • SADIO SANÉ
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          2 here, wanted to add Gomez but like Moura & Wilson too much

        • Ask Yourself
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Only VVD and Salah. Adds excitement to hope norwich score xx

      6. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Went in with this lot.

        Pope
        TAA - Digne - Rico
        Salah - Sterling - Sigurdsson - Fraser - Moura
        Wilson - Wood

        Norris - Lundstram - Greenwood - Hanley

        Good luck for the season. 🙂

        1. GREEN IS GOOD
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Thanks, I really needed to see another team after the last week of RMTs.

      7. Solano's Trumpet
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        My last minute change was VVD, Montoya and Longstaff to Lascelles, KWP and Perez...

        Starting to regret the Montoya to Lasceles part (I already have TAA)

      8. Messiah Hazard
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Took Out TAA for VVD after seeing VVD Touch 50% ownership. Hope TAA doesn’t punish me.

        1. Solano's Trumpet
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          I did this an hour ago and reverted back to TAA ;?

        2. g40steve
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Me too 50% will hurt more than 24!

      9. GoodFella93
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        So a late scramble for me. Sat outside with 30 mins to go my laptop gets wet in the rain and the keyboard fails. After an ordeal of getting it in rice and finding my old laptop and charger, I had 15 minutes to finalise my team. Flipped from Salah and Kane as my two £10m+ players to Salah and Sterling multiple times. Having Kane and Salah at 18:57 and back to Salah and Sterling again at 18:59. Frantically confirming changes and setting captains between goes.

        Anyway what do we think, lads?

        Ryan [Button]
        Digne Robbo VVD Walker [Rico]
        Salah Sterling Fraser Barkley [Dendoncker]
        Wilson Jota [Greenwood]

        £0.5m in the bank to do the following after GW2:

        Fraser > Son/KDB
        Wilson > £6-6.5m forward

        Walker > Mendy once fit.

        1. GREEN IS GOOD
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          I think I want to watch some football.

          1. g40steve
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            🙂 🙂

      10. KUN_DE_BRU_YNE
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        GOOD LUCK TO ALL FFS MEMBERS
        CHEERS !!!

        1. goriuanx
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          And bad luck to all FFS non members?

        2. The Train Driver
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          And curse all the non grav filthy casuals...

          1. Gentle_Turks
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            I don't have a grav and I'm neither filthy nor a casual - this my 5th season.

            1. ItOnlyTook9Years
              • 8 Years
              4 years, 7 months ago

              Casual

        3. KUN_DE_BRU_YNE
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          FFS non FFS ALL!!!

      11. Kellz86
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        ABSOLUTE SCENES when Norwich score in the 87th min and people have double Liverpool def lol

        1. Podge
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Reckon it’ll be long before then

        2. Mike2795647
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Yep, as much as I don’t want that as I’m an LFC fan and have double pool defence, it’s amusing to watch people lose their minds

          1. Kellz86
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Honestly not sure why people didn't want the attacking double up? I went Salah/Firmino/TAA

            Even Origi was a fairly good bet for a one week punt at 5.5m to start.

            Hoping for a CS regardless

            1. Party time
                4 years, 7 months ago

                Same trio for me. Good luck bud 🙂

          2. Hits from the Bong
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            TAA will be chilling on the bench by then, clean sheet locked

          3. HurriKane
            • 11 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Not if taa robbo and vvd get attacking returns which is very likely

          4. Amey
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Won't care after Robbo Taa getting 2 assist each

        3. moment
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          New season. Same old servers.

          1. The Wise Owl
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Free game.

        4. Tshelby
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Damn why did I choice leitner as bench flodder