How has Firmino compared to Salah and Mané so far this season?

I think so mate.

Honestly would make a change until near the end of next week with injuries and updates

Marginal

That’s going to leave you really light in midfield. I like Vardy but if Martial is fit he’s a keeper in my book - 6 plus ppm

I’d look at losing a premium defender for the King upgrade.

when i don´t know for sure which way is the best it tells me no. Assume you want Vardy and 6.5 instead of KIng/Martial?
Martial is the conundrum, Vardy has nice fixtures from 9 and Leicester are a decent side so in that regards i would be willing to say yes, 6.5mid Lanzini perhaps, for WHs nice run. Looking at your team, Vardy could be nice cap option perhaps, so long term yes.

Not the app.

Super heavy on defense but good squad strength I suppose. Hayden > Cantwell. That extra bench strength is good in case of rotation. There are a number of players there that mightn't play in any given week because of fixture congestion.

Rather Lanzini than James

Pope
TAA VVD Digne Otamendi
Salah KDB Mount James
Aguero Pukki
Button Lundstram Hayden Greenwood

pretty much as good as it gets, the choice of the City defender is tough, double Pool defence could be trimmed to get maybe Söyüncü to free up some cash and enable Tammy maybe

Tammy, Mount, Pukki and James as starting picks really does give a good basis to develop the rest of the squad

I’m in the option 1 camp on my wild card with the 3 in midfield and Haller Pukki And Maupay

1

1 of those, if you're set on the defence and Salah. But if you're not there are other options.

I don't think Sterling is optional personally. I think he'll score more than Salah this season. Aguero meanwhile can easily get rotated with Jesus as early as next week, and even if he starts, he'll get hauled off on 65-70 mins every game once Jesus is back. Coupled with the fact he gets fewer points for goals and no CSs, he will not be worth 12.0m this season.

Prefer 2 - are you prepared to captain KdB? I don’t see an issue there.

Like 2 as it opens up Auba Vardy Kane.

Think we’ve been spoiled early season with both Pukki and Barnes. I imagine both are going to regress. Finding form replacements could be tough - very easily to hop on unreliable Mitro types and burn transfers. At the very least I’d want two 7.5 slots there.

My view on this is Kun is there for the taking next two GW, as Jesus is injured and Pep will play his in-form striker who´s rested during ib, and when City have Everton in GW7 and other teams like Spurs, Leicester and Arsenal goes on a nice run, i would then sacrifying one City spot to get for example Vardy and Son/Pepe. It might not be the safest way, but as much as Sterling can damage you, it could be also the other way round. Not everyone agrees, but if Arsenal click and you have chosen Pepe and Arsenal is on TV i for onelikes to have the option to have invested in one of them players. es, problem could be if everyone caps Sterling and he hattricks, but at the same time you have MO, who can get you half of Sterlings points and if one of your Vardy´s or Pepe gets you a haulthen you are even.

Option 2 front 3 is going to be points galore plus if Aguero's minutes somehow get reduced then you can replace him with Vardy and upgrade one of your midfielders.

Matip and Abraham

There was an article the other day that proved Sterling was rotated/rested more before/after CL games than Aguero last season.

I'me very much in the Aguero/KDB camp instead of Sterling/KDB.

Looks ok as a whole although Auba's fixtures suggest keeping him

hm, keep Auba and lei fixtures turn soon, hm, i would wait. United away and Spurs home is not the worst imo. Jota should be on his way out, and might be diff to get him out if not downgrading elsewhere? Jota plays Chelsea next and he will start, so guess it might not hurt to wait? You got 2 FT or 1?

Think he's playing because of injuries, but this could be wrong.

I’d take a hit rather than burn a transfer on what I take is a 3rd bench slot.

Norwich CB feels like a one pointer anyway at best 🙂 Hed need to feature 4 times for you to be value

Haha. Similar situation.. Il use 2 frees to get ota for Rico and downgrade one of mount/haller/pukki/Barnes.. Or may do Digne and Rico to ota and Lowton. I love Digne but I'd prefer ota + Lowton over Digne + dead option

Ugh messed that up.

It's not Haller. It's Son.

Agree

If does

Option B looks like a decent use of funds. I’d personally go Vardy over Bobby F though

B.

kind of agree, but doing the opposite leaving Sterling out. Remember Firminowill possibly be late back and have played both matches for Brazil. He will start as he often does after IB, but could be limited minutes as Salah´s won´t be. Next week after Cantweel is ok to play, so hm. Close call.

Trossard to KDB and downgrade Kane to a 7m striker..

Won't argue against that

Yep. Wish I had offloaded him earlier before eating 0.2m in value.

hell come good though . hell be a steal eventually , if he can score goals at newcastle he can definitely score goal at leicester eventually

.3 drop, ouch.

I tipped him pre season, and still think he'll come good, but it doesn't look like happening anytime soon.

Never understood all the fuss anyway

Salah hat-trick incoming..

But it’s good..

how does it compare to this ?

Pope
TAA VVD Digne Otamendi
Salah KDB Mount James
Aguero Pukki
Button Lundstram Hayden Greenwood

Any idea why?

VVD Pukki

vvd pukki all day everyday of every week of every month of every year of every decade of every century of every millenium

TAA Pukki.

Find the money.

Would use Montoya this GW. I have almost the same squad but started with Rico over Lundtram so Trossard is a bit more of a concern for me. Am considering Ceballos or Daniel James as a replacement.

montoya has a great fixture

If it ain't broke...
But B of those

C looks best to me

Essential.

Nobody is essential when you have a budget to distribute throughout the squad. KDB is a very good option who is probably underpriced

None of those are better options but then they are not really straight comparisons

Not essential, since it's all about value given you have three other captainable big hitters as captain. That being said, I'm trying to convince myself that I still should keep him. You might still gain by dropping one of them to fund KDB.

KDB is pretty much essential this season imo. Underpriced, will easily get you 200+ points if he stays fit.

At the moment no. Aguero, Sterling and Pukki have outpointed him so far, Salah is level, even David Silva has outscored him over the last two game weeks. No doubt an incredible option tho.

Agree. I had Salah and Sterling since day 1 and unless one of them gets seriously injured, they will probably stay in my team until the end.

^this

... if you pick the right ones, that is 😉

There was an article I read during preseason which basically concluded that the best way to score the most points in FPL is to transfer the big hitters around in time while keeping the mid to low priced assets intact without changing much.

https://mathematicallysafe.wordpress.com/2019/07/01/fpl-analysis-what-five-seasons-of-data-modelling-have-revealed-about-predictive-analysis-fixture-impact-and-optimal-team-structure-in-fantasy-premier-league/

Seems genuine. Doesnt look like a player to fake injuries.
Hasnt played much for the national team as well, so you think he would love to get some minutes there against the likes of San Marino.

On the verge of a first competitive start for Belgium so I think there might be something to it.

i have guilbert for villa can do mings too , also look into a burnley defender they have a nice run too (lowton or pieters ) and montoya i would say are the best options

Been advocating it ever since I activated my WC. Think your combo is the best one for CSs. I had an attacking one of Lundstram, Aarons and Montoya all playing high up the pitch and offering amazing attacking threat. Söyüncü looks a great option alongside willems and

Lundstram rotates with newcastle
mings and lowton
dunk and soyuncu

Tougher fixtures or not, at least one Liv defender seems rather essential to me.

You'd only start newcastle def twice in that run so would probably just go Lundstram/Soyuncu + filler
(playing Lundstram vs eve, Soyuncu vs ARS)

Still got another week yet...

My capt picks have been: 24,12,4,6

yet rank 1.6k

strange season

THe way I like to look at it is , if going one big hitters for season captain, simply multiply value by 2. If going two big hitters like e.g. Salah, and captaining more or less equally, multiply value by 1.5, as picking the wrong one any given GW should even out. Then compute value of

[2 x ExpectedPoints(1 x Big hitter) +expected points(2 x mid priced)]/(total price of the three)
versus
[1.5 x ExpectedPoints(2 Big hitters) +expected points(1 x mid priced)]/(total price of the three)

within given slice of budget over the period you want to look at (typically until planned WC). RMT actually does this for you - if you believe their points rating, that is...

obv, goal threat

If playing tarks every week yes. He will get a goal soon but you could miss out on a goal if you rotate. Lowton is better value if rotating. If that makes any sense

no