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Scoutcast tackles De Bruyne conundrum as Chelsea find form

The Scoutcast is back to discuss all of the key talking points ahead of Gameweek 30.

You can watch the show on our YouTube channel between 20:00 GMT and 21:00 GMT.

Firstly, we’ll discuss what to do with Kevin De Bruyne (£10.6m), who missed Sunday’s Manchester derby and is still a doubt for Arsenal’s trip to the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday.

Then, Chelsea are the team to go under the microscope as they build some good form ahead of some favourable fixtures.

Finally, we continue to work on our advanced planning for Blank Gameweek 31 now that we have a greater idea about the fixtures and which players we may want – or not!

We will also consider the potential effect of Coronavirus on the Premier League, and, therefore, our Fantasy teams.

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  1. matiakez
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 18 days ago

    2 frees so need to do something here

    Pope McCarthy
    TAA Gomez Egan Boly Lascelles
    Salah Cantwell Barnes Bruno KDB
    Vardy Jimi Ings

    Don't really like Ings out before Norwich but might be the best option? Dont quite have the funds to upgrade Barnes

    1. The FPL Units
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 18 days ago

      I would hold off on transfers until it becomes clear what's going on for the coming GW.

      1. matiakez
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 18 days ago

        Yes just seen the news.

  2. Party time
      4 years, 18 days ago

      Someone somewhere is getting Barnes off their bench. Enjoy your Jams

      1. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 18 days ago

        At least two on here have posted as such

        1. Party time
            4 years, 18 days ago

            Yeah. I also just noticed the 2nd bloke post in the previous page 😆 Oh man! they are so lucky

        2. HollywoodXI
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 18 days ago

          I have Mahrez 1 pointer blocking that jam. Even Coronavirus hasn’t changed my luck when it comes to NEVER getting bench jam.

          1. Party time
              4 years, 18 days ago

              LOL

            • Party time
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Traoré 1 pointer for me 🙂

            • Whats the Huth
              • 8 Years
              4 years, 18 days ago

              I’m happy enough with my saint maximin 10 points

              1. Party time
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Beautiful Jam

            • g40steve
              • 6 Years
              4 years, 18 days ago

              Could be end of this season shortly?

              1. The_Fish
                • 5 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Yep, may be the end already.

              2. Holmes
                • 10 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Hopefully by today

              3. Whats the Huth
                • 8 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Season will not end!
                Too much money involved

                1. Taffer
                  • 10 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Italy's season is likely over..so incorrect

                  1. Roysgotnoboys
                    • 9 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Serie A is suspended not over. Given the PM was at the rugby here last week, can’t imagine the next step is to cancel the prem. Play behind closed doors perhaps

              4. No Professionals
                • 6 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Yes

              5. HTL
                • 5 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                I'm top of my cash league by a reasonable margin, hmm

            • Hotdogs for Tea
              • 8 Years
              4 years, 18 days ago

              The Arsenal v City game result should be held back in GW29, when the game is actually played, the points added to GW29 and the GW scores finalised at that point in time ... discuss

              1. The_Fish
                • 5 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                No

              2. The FPL Units
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 14 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Nope. This logic would mean any DGW games would go back the respective GWs.....

                1. Hotdogs for Tea
                  • 8 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  exceptional case

                  1. Fernando Torres
                    • 12 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    I take it you triple captained someone?

              3. Fernando Torres
                • 12 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Nope as people will get bench points/captain changes from this game. If they then gave the points back to this week those with these players would have even more players/points than they initially should have.

                1. Hotdogs for Tea
                  • 8 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  hold back the auto subs obviously

                  1. Fernando Torres
                    • 12 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    No this won't happen. Why should it?

              4. bigbudgie
                • 9 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Computer says no

              5. Hazz
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 6 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Try coding that into the game with a the league re-calculations lol.

                1. Hotdogs for Tea
                  • 8 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  points stay as is now, simple

              6. Old Man
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 12 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Nah

              7. Hotdogs for Tea
                • 8 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                i want my double game week points ... #stamps feet

                it’s not just getting screwed over the loss of the wild card, getting screwed by not having 5 players and my captain, getting screwed for selling Vardy, Soy, Fernandes etc., but also getting screwed with the autosubs for the likes of KDB

                feeling a little bit delicate at the moment 🙂

            • Assisting the assister
              • 8 Years
              4 years, 18 days ago

              Hoping that Cantwell 1 pointer off the bench will make all the difference in the final reckoning

              1. The FPL Units
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 14 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Gotta be magical point.

            • Mr. O'Connell
              • 11 Years
              4 years, 18 days ago

              Holgate baby!!!!

            • french holiday
              • 6 Years
              4 years, 18 days ago

              Its gonna be alright. A few games maybe postponed and some played behind closed doors if needed but we will have the season end with Champions, teams in Europe, relegation and promotion and FpL winners and losers.

              1. RichardNixon
                • 7 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                I bet they were saying the same thing in Italy a couple of weeks ago

                1. Whats the Huth
                  • 8 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Season will still finish in Italy. Just be delayed.
                  You can cancel competitions. Especially with the money involved.

                  1. Whats the Huth
                    • 8 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Can’t cancel

                  2. RichardNixon
                    • 7 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    "Coronavirus: Serie A season may not be concluded says Italian football federation"

                    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51824172

                    1. Taffer
                      • 10 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      The 'it will be played coz money' doesn't hold up given the huge public health risks and the potential liability for the clubs/ FL/ PL if they let games go ahead and people get sick.

                      1. EL tridente
                        • 6 Years
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        They will not finish the serie a season because of the european games

            • DAZZ
              • 9 Years
              4 years, 18 days ago

              Im not being funny but the Corona Virus is a flu. Flu is a common illness. This is a massive smokescreen for something worse. They’re hiding something from us. It’s being blown out of proportion.

              1. Holmes
                • 10 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                All of a sudden a vaccine will pop up and every country will pay billion of dollars for it.

                1. The FPL Units
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 14 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  The new hacking ransom!

                2. DAZZ
                  • 9 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Wont be long before they announce a recession.

                  1. The FPL Units
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 14 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Already in newspapers predicting one.

                  2. Taffer
                    • 10 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    erm...when you have a global supply and demand shock that's what happens? this isn't hard

              2. Fernando Torres
                • 12 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Lol

              3. bigbudgie
                • 9 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                This place has gone into meltdown. Dazz, what are you on about?

              4. Whats the Huth
                • 8 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Hopefully they find a vaccine Toby next winter. So it can be put into the seasonal flu jab.

              5. Taffer
                • 10 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                the dumb is strong with this one.

              6. The Knights Template
                • 10 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                Rubbish. There have been predictions of a virulent pandemic virus/es ever since SARS and avien influenza outbreaks, and likely before these. There will be more too.

                1. Joss Ackland’s Spunky…
                  • 5 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Exactly. Pandemics come and go. Life regularly goes extinct. The Spanish Flu came and then just disappeared. There was no cure, no conspiracy. This doesn't seem to be a particular dangerous flu... At least yet. I'm not panicking. My FPL team is...

                  1. xHaTr
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 6 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    The spanish flu killed tens of millions of people!

              7. Poseidon.
                • 5 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                I’m glad you warned us you weren’t being funny. I wouldn’t have been sure otherwise.

              8. jomikijiq
                • 8 Years
                4 years, 18 days ago

                It's not a flu. They even come from different virus families.

            • Party time
                4 years, 18 days ago

                I kinda believe the conspiracy theory that the virus was made in a Chinese Lab before the sudden outbreak.

                Things like this actually do happen, Not saying it is true but I believe it

                1. Fernando Torres
                  • 12 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Lol

                2. Holmes
                  • 10 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Same

                3. bigbudgie
                  • 9 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  That's no conspiracy theory, it's pretty much an open secret

                  The bio-research lab that researches highly contagious pathogens is in Wuhan, adjacent to the market where supposedly 'bat soup' started this off.

                  I don't need Sherlock Holmes to work this one out for me

                  1. ppv
                    • 13 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Agreed mate. I don't believe in such coincidences. Mainstream media still follow the official line of course.

                    1. Taffer
                      • 10 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      wow the idiocy here is insane.

                    2. The FPL Units
                      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                      • 14 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Probably a test to see how a virus spreads with a low mortality rate with a long incubation period. Next step long incubation period with a high mortality rate.

                      MSU - making shite up

                  2. Party time
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Wow... I did not know all that stuff tbh... the picture is pretty clear now

                      1. Taffer
                        • 10 Years
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        it's not true. total bs.

                        1. DAZZ
                          • 9 Years
                          4 years, 18 days ago

                          You’ll believe anything you read in the papers Taffer

                          1. Taffer
                            • 10 Years
                            4 years, 18 days ago

                            ah yes, Italy and China shut down their entire economies because of the 'papers'. idiot.

                  3. The Knights Template
                    • 10 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Rubbish. You should read up on how zoonotic diseases occur. Millions and millions of people living in very close quarters with pigs, chickens and whatever else, it is a small miracle there aren't more.

                4. Atimis
                  • 7 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Have 2FTs and 1.0ITB, what would you say about KDB Robo to Mane Alonso/United def?

                  Henderson
                  Robo*/TAA/Boly
                  Salah/KDB/Bruno/Barnes
                  Auba/Jim/Ings

                  Button/Dendo/Targett/Rico

                  1. Taffer
                    • 10 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    don't make transfers until Saturday 11am

                5. The FPL Units
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 14 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  I would hold off on transfers until it becomes clear what's going on for the coming GW.

                  1. The FPL Units
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 14 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Reply fail to atimis

                  2. Atimis
                    • 7 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Sounds wise, thanks 😉

                6. No Professionals
                  • 6 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Games are going to start dropping like flies.

                  No more early transfers.

                  No c and vc in the same game.

                  Feck washing your hands, those are the golden rules.

                  1. HamezMace
                    • 9 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    I don’t know when washing your hands stopped being a thing anyway?

                    1. The FPL Units
                      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                      • 14 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Boom!

                7. Hybrid.power
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 14 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Throws caution to the wind and brings in Aguero and Saka, dropping Vardy who hasn't scored in weeks. This game is hilarious!

                  1. HamezMace
                    • 9 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    That’s one word for it

                8. RealVirg
                  • 4 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Urgent

                  Don't bin your man city and arsenal assets. This postponed game will probably be rescheduled to the BGW31!!!!!

                  1. HamezMace
                    • 9 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    When they both have FA cup games?

                    1. RealVirg
                      • 4 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Oh good point...you never know tho they may see the light and prioritise PL

                      1. RealVirg
                        • 4 Years
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        Why is this arse man city postponement not on hot topic not tweet section of site...I pay good money and expect the best service!

                        1. jtreble
                          • 7 Years
                          4 years, 18 days ago

                          Look again. 🙂

                          1. RealVirg
                            • 4 Years
                            4 years, 18 days ago

                            Ah yes I take that back, didn't see HT

                9. Mr. O'Connell
                  • 11 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Wheres the delete team button?

                10. CroatianHammer
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 8 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  So, let's treat GW30 as a mini-blank, because Arsenal will not be able to play, at least as it stands they will be unlikely to field anything other than some U18/U23 mash of players who somehow have had zero contact with the big boys in the last several days.

                  Such a conundrum for those who spent big to bring in 2-3 Gunners. Means a break too for BHA, who had proven that much more steady than normal in recent weeks. For me, that means Martinelli out (really do not understand his being dropped, something must have happened on the training ground), Jota in.

                  I'm finally back into the Top 250K, gained about 30 on the Top 10K. Going to be an interesting run-in...

                  1. Tambling5
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 5 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Unless Arsenal players test positive they can play at the weekend, as over the two week period they would have had to self-isolate by then.

                    1. CroatianHammer
                      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                      • 8 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      That's not how self-isolating works. The NHS guidelines state:

                      If you have been told to self-isolate, you need to stay indoors and avoid contact with other people for 14 days.

                      You don't get to bunk off a game for a few days and then rock up for some relegation fodder. That's not "sure I was grand 10 days, I'll stay home for 4"...

                11. Taffer
                  • 10 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Very much enjoying the coronavirus truthers on here, what the hell is wrong is you?

                  1. grumpyman
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 8 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Mini-Trumpers. Ignore them.

                    1. Taffer
                      • 10 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      yep, at least we know who it ignore now in normal times

                  2. HamezMace
                    • 9 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    People love conspiracy theories.

                    1. Hulk Smash
                      • 8 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      A healthy scepticism is needed towards both conspiracy theories and the official line.

                      People who believe all conspiracy theories or none are equally untrustworthy.

                  3. Tambling5
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 5 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Scary how people always looking for a scapegoat race.

                12. FOO FIGHTER
                  • 4 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  All I can say is thank heavens I do not own any Arsenal or City assets at this point 😀

                  1. The FPL Units
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 14 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    That's nice.

                  2. The Knights Template
                    • 10 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    I own many.

                13. Energetics
                  • 9 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  FPL ruined for me in one week.

                  Comfortably inside the top 100k and then wildcarded last week.

                  Brought in 3 Arsenal and 3 City.

                  GW Rank 6.9 million, no returns in my team, dropped 150k and now my team is an absolute mess

                  1. FOO FIGHTER
                    • 4 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Lucily for me 3 Ars and 2 City on FH.

                    Now I have Vardy back.

                    1. FOO FIGHTER
                      • 4 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      *Luckily* 😀

                  2. Mr. O'Connell
                    • 11 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Last week was a good week to have a bad week. This feels like the worst week to have a bad week. Season derailing for some.

                    1. Energetics
                      • 9 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Season is completely ruined it’s so downheartening.

                      Was at least hoping for goals tonight and claw something back then had a solid plan moving forward to 31.

                      Now I get nothing, loads get Lundy off the bench and the plan is screwed.

                      Really is no point

                  3. pricycle
                    • 10 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Lots of sympathy. I was considering doing the same but it was too complicated for me to figure out. Still did Vardy to Auba but it could have been worse...

                14. Joss Ackland’s Spunky…
                  • 5 Years
                  4 years, 18 days ago

                  Liverpool have waited 30 years for the title only to lift the trophy in an empty stadium.

                  1. HamezMace
                    • 9 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    If they get to lift it at all 😉

                  2. Party time
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Or maybe the football season is off a match before they can be confirmed champions

                  3. Do I Not Like Orange
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 11 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Auba (c) fail for a hit is annoying, could've been worse though & feel sorry for those who played FH or loaded up on City & Arsenal. This stupid virus needs to get in the bin.

                  4. DAZZ
                    • 9 Years
                    4 years, 18 days ago

                    Imagine wildcarding this gameweek loading up on Arsenal and City players. Bad luck! 🙂

                    1. My neck my back my Saed Kol…
                      • 9 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Cheers pal, see below

                    2. FOO FIGHTER
                      • 4 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Pep is going to play the U'19's soon with the EPL fixture pile up.

                    3. Party time
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        Auba(C) was the spice of the week.

                        Minute silence for those heavily involved

                      • Energetics
                        • 9 Years
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        See above.

                        From comfortably in the top 100k to deleting my team.

                    4. My neck my back my Saed Kol…
                      • 9 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      So your telling me if I didn’t use my wildcard and ditch Harvey Barnes I’d be 20 points better off and with a wildcard in tact? Lol this season has been so bad I couldn’t write it

                      1. The FPL Units
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 14 Years
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        You have been told.

                        1. My neck my back my Saed Kol…
                          • 9 Years
                          4 years, 18 days ago

                          Consider myself told. You gotta laugh, every thing I’ve touched this season has turned to runny poo

                      2. Energetics
                        • 9 Years
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        Haha this is nothing.

                        Mahrez, KDB, Aguero, Auba, Pepe, Saka

                        I didn’t wildcard I would be 60 points better of and now I have no plan moving forward.

                        1. My neck my back my Saed Kol…
                          • 9 Years
                          4 years, 18 days ago

                          Holy moly. To be fair I also had auba, saka, Leno mahrez and KDB. But 60 points gap is tough tough luck. Fee for you

                    5. farmerfat
                      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                      • 8 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Yes! KDB cant ruin my rank this week

                    6. CRO KLOPP
                      • 6 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Maybe it won't be the best idea to BB with 15 dgwk players this year 🙂

                      1. FOO FIGHTER
                        • 4 Years
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        BB should be fine if it does not include Arsenal or City assets 😀

                    7. Sterling Archer
                      • 7 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      so 14 days quarantine after the Europa game would be 2moro, in theory no weekend games should be affected

                      1. Tambling5
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 5 Years
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        Correct. Unless Arsenal players test positive.

                        1. No Professionals
                          • 6 Years
                          4 years, 18 days ago

                          Incorrect

                          1. Tambling5
                            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                            • 5 Years
                            4 years, 18 days ago

                            Arsenal's statements contradict you. Say fourteen days from last contact, and have received advice from DOH accordingly.

                      2. The FPL Units
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 14 Years
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        Did they self isolate from that game? Will need wait for tests as if any do test positive the domino effect begins.

                        1. No Professionals
                          • 6 Years
                          4 years, 18 days ago

                          No they didn't as they didn't know the guy had coronavirus until yesterday

                      3. No Professionals
                        • 6 Years
                        4 years, 18 days ago

                        I'm assuming the players played against west ham. They didn't know they needed to quarantine until yesterday.

                    8. Louis Van Gaalstones
                      • 9 Years
                      4 years, 18 days ago

                      Take out Vardy for a -4 and TC Auba, incredible

                      1. Party time
                          4 years, 18 days ago

                          Even a Casual would not have done that

                          1. Louis Van Gaalstones
                            • 9 Years
                            4 years, 18 days ago

                            Get binned

                            1. Party time
                                4 years, 18 days ago

                                😆

                            2. The FPL Units
                              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                              • 14 Years
                              4 years, 18 days ago

                              Burn

                              1. Party time
                                  4 years, 18 days ago

                                  Lmao

                          2. olidooley
                            • 11 Years
                            4 years, 18 days ago

                            This is what I see happening....

                            GW30 will run as planned
                            Depending on number of cases in UK, games could be behind closed doors in 31 and 32.
                            Liverpool will mathematically win the league by then
                            GW 33 or 34 will see the league postponed or cancelled
                            In a best case scenario, they are able to complete the league behind closed doors. In that case avoid all teams apart from Champions League chasers and Relegation battlers. Other teams just won’t be arsed

                            1. olidooley
                              • 11 Years
                              4 years, 18 days ago

                              And unless UK and US governments start taking this seriously this virus will go on for a long time. I live in China so I know what it takes to win the war against this thing

                          3. Denis Tueart on the wing
                            • 14 Years
                            4 years, 18 days ago

                            Any idea when the FPL will be fully updated. Will the updates be scheduled starting at 10pm tonight as it would be if the Man C v Arsenal was on?

                          4. Louis Van Gaalstones
                            • 9 Years
                            4 years, 18 days ago

                            I had a 100 point lead in my ML and the guy has used all his chips to claw it back to just under 20 points, I have all of my chips left, I might need to start using a chip a week to make sure I win it before the season is cancelled...

                            1. olidooley
                              • 11 Years
                              4 years, 18 days ago

                              Same....WC, FH and BB in the bag. Chasing pack now all over me. I’m at 25k

                            2. Sterling Archer
                              • 7 Years
                              4 years, 18 days ago

                              if cancelled I think some sort of compensation for those with chips left, maybe work out the average points of each chip played, which probably wouldn't be very high!

                            3. Robson-Canoe
                              • 8 Years
                              4 years, 18 days ago

                              4 comments above, you said you used TC?