Fantasy Football Scout’s Mark and Az to co-host FPL BlackBox podcast in 2020/21

Tough, i like b but a is more nailed

Can't comment till we see transfers if they take place at United. I'd get A though as of now

Jimenez is too good. Gotta get him imo.

GW2 salah to Bruno
GW3 auba to salah

Selling Salad.
Don't like subsequent gw's for him.

A slightly more nailed than B

Doubling up feels unnecessary, I’m going with B

The latter

Prefer Armstrong + Jiménez

Finding it hard at the moment due to everyone else going for the same player and they aren’t willing to go over a certain amount to get the player over the line

They're going to loan Brewster (apparently).

Nope

I think he’s a very exciting player and he creates things, I’d watch some old Ajax games to give yourself an idea of how he plays

Nailed out of the all the newbs and Pulisic is injured - perfect placeholder for him

- Pin-point accuracy passes
- Oftenly taken long shots which may ocassionaly result in a goal, and probably more than occasional deflect/assist for Werner goal
- absolute monopoly over all the set pieces bar pens
- will probably do very well in bonuses also

what's not to like here

Extremely attacking, shoots like crazy, assist master.

Have you read this?
https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2020/08/16/creative-ziyech-can-improve-chelsea-attack-and-offer-fpl-value-in-2020-21/

You'll probably find your answer in here 🙂

An exciting prospect straight out of Eredivisie, what could possibly go wrong?

i think the 4.0 is a coin toss, they are mostly picking McCarthy over Ryan.

Fair, but I want McCarthy over Ryan.

4m GK is fodder

McCarthy > Button

I see your reasoning, but I think there is a risk of overthinking sub GKs.

I think I will just play McCarthy because I think Southampton will get more CS's than Brighton in the medium term. In the unlikely event that McCarthy gets injured/dropped/suspended, I'll just use a transfer to change it up. I can see why people would pick Ryan/Button if they thought it was literally a toss of a coin, 50:50 type decision about if Ryan or McCarthy would get more points.

People choose Nyland because he and Steer are the only 4.0 keepers who might play but not necessarily because he’ll play. Just think of it as a fodder.

I don’t care much for getting the backup keeper for my first GK as GK injuries/suspensions are very rare.

Thanks for the explanation, lads.

To be fair, being forced to play Ryan against free-scoring teams does give me the heeby jeebies.

1. Nobody knows, but a long time. The plus side of this is that it gives the Palace 4.0 fullbacks game time. I have both of them in my current iteration.

Don't rate Lampard at all yet

1. I think roman may be thinking he owes Lampard for last season (not being able to sign players and get the champs league) so owes him a decent window.
2. Don’t think this at all, more like the money is good and it’s another step in the career direction.
3. Could be but so would I if I was spending about £250mill on players this window

I think there is some truth in this. I also think that in a strange way, the transfer ban may have come at the right time for Chelsea. No pressure on Frank going into the job, he gets praised for bringing through academy players such as Mount. Now that the transfer ban is over, they have huge money to spend when lots of other clubs are tightening belts due to Covid-related loss of revenue. So little or no competition for great prospects such as Werner and Havertz.

I think what will really be the making or breaking of Lampard and Chelsea though will be their defense. It needs a big overhaul and Pep and Man City have shown that throwing money at defenders does not necessarily solve defensive problems.

lol what did you expect them to say in their first interviews?

"Fat Face Frank ate all the pies and is an unproven manager at the top tier. But I'm very happy to have signed a 200k a week contract."

Frank has a genius IQ, yet I'm not impressed with him thus far. Losing too many games against mediocrity. With all their signings, they need to contend.

Don't think that your #1 is necessarily true...
Roman, well, likes Russian Roulette!

If Chelsea fail to add any silverware this season, I don't think Frank will get to keep his job. Roman kicked out Mou too who Roman valued highly.

For your #2, I'd take those interviews with a pinch of salt. You can't expect an incoming player to not praise his new club, manager of team members?! I think its more that they are coming for the lure of PL than only FL.

Havertz, Ziyech and Werner are coming because they are getting paid a ton of money. Has nothing to do with Lampard

With your current defence you won’t go anywhere, one of the worst back 4’s in the league

First thing your agent writes in your press release when signing is something nice about the manager. They’ve never heard of Lampard.

Any evidence of his being a good coach?

Don't like overall balance that way yeah ...
Hence I'm passing on Vardy Party

Kane, Werner
Salah, Auba, Zyech, Soucek
TAA + 4.5
Ramsdale

is this bad?

I’m going for it. TAA Robbo Auba Salah Son and Kane. But still feels balanced?

McCarthy
TAA Robbo Vinagre KWP
Auba Salah Son ASM
Kane Mitro

Nyland Ferguson Stephens Davis

Good question, I think so

Must be dependent upon where they went.
Can't see them going to risky places currently so don't think that'd be an issue

Really depends on if utd sign anyone.

I'd say it hugely depends on who united sign and if wolves buy.

In short both could be good, but hard to tell until we’ve seen some games. I would try to find a team structure of price points that allow either of these as a possibility - who knows Ziyech might have a flying start or Greenwood starts scoring for fun or Bruno gets injured...

Or could be Kane and Gordon to mitro and son

I mean they are in a points sense.
But they also simply are not

It’s one of those teams that makes me question where the money has gone...! Looks too weak in the mid.

Midfield a bit weak for me, but presuming you play a 4-4-2 it could work. I think the issue for me is if Armstrong and Soucek aren’t playing well of Gordon doesn’t start you’re going to find it hard to get away from them and are committing to playing probably both Armstrong and Soucek every week. This means if you’re big hitters don’t fire you could see some very low scores. Spread the funds around a bit imo.

B

b

B

Cheers!

Nah they will all share the points. I am more keen on their WBs if they sign a proper CB

Lol what xD

Yeah ...
Relegation for WBA for breaking Ryan Button.

It's Johnstone Button now.

There's someone at Brighton who'll hopefully be 4.0 actually

That's great. It means there's a viable 8.5 rotation pair of keepers.

Thank you, Ser Davos, by the old gods and the new.

Nahh

Nah....Laporte, Emerson and KDB are only safe

Nope

Not really. What's the thinking behind it?

This. I always plan thoroughly & bottle it instantly.....hopefully this year will be different

You'll be grand. Just let the juices flow.

I think wolves have signed mainland-niles, so Vinagre might not be nailed anymore.

It's wonderful. Can suck 0.5 out of 5th Defense & get Soucek..
His first two fixtures are pretty decent imo

You have any plans to bring and united/city assets in?

Looks a bit like my draft, if I had confidence in Chelsea, which I don’t just yet. Bravo to you though, could/should work out well

Are you worried about Justin. Leicester defence in ruins ....

Yep

Point really is what you do as an alternative - what is that?

Not crazy at all

I think we're blessed the way fixtures are panned out for City & Arsenal.
Swapping Auba for KDB in GW 3 makes so much sense. Can go wrong obviously but can't avoid Fulham & WHU fixtures imo

You're too caught up with forward planning. Just pick him if you think he will do well. How do you know it will be a forced transfer, what if he double digits both GWs?
Even mentioning shields in GW1 smacks of conservative play.

Is he super expensive though? If he had been classed as mid the last 2 years, he would have scored approx 235-240pts each of the last 2 seasons. Obviously he isn't cheap, but I think he's quite fairly priced.

Anyway. In answer to your question, I don't think it's crazy to go Auba-less, however I think it's a sizeable risk considering some of his obvious replacements (Sterling, KdB, Bruno) won't play GW1. Having either of those 3 benched in GW1 seems a real waste and it would be painful if Auba hauled. Also, presuming you want to get the likes of KdB and Bruno in GW2/3, you will need to use transfers anyway and it won't be easy to get any of them without using 2 transfers, unless you want to sell Salah/Mane.

Not that brutal. He scored 2 goals against City in the FA Cup, and though he didn't score the goals against Liverpool, his team scored 2 goals in their victory over Liverpool in the league.

I’m planning on using salah and ziyech to switch to Utd assets -4 and prey they haul

Auba to Kdb GW3

Worry about getting salah back later

Could work out even if Auba scores 2 in 2

In your situation I would only have him in place of Fernandes, otherwise it damages your team structure too much. From what I’ve read that’s not an option for you, so I wouldn’t bother with him.

Even with clueless Que Pa(so) in goal 😛

Like Salah but think B is more balanced.

B

A gives you a bonafide flat track bully.

Palace & villa works fine too.

IF shaw doesn't get fit in time & Vinagre is out of favour I'm thinking about Targett Ferguson as pair.

Home and away I take it.

I'm think I'm going to look for non top 6 pairings if I go that way. Most interesting one I see there is SU and SOU

Jimenez

I really like Jimenez starting 4 games offensively

Possibly Jimenez, just. As in 51-49% in my mind!

- Wolves probably a better team and will likely win more matches.
- Jimi on pens. Not sure Ings will be, and he isn't a very good pen taker anyway.
- Jimi has form over last 2 seasons. In back of my mind, I'm wondering if Ings overachieved last season? Jimi has no Europe to worry about this year either.

Both look decent options and both tempting at the price.

Jimenez. Better fixtures for a while.

Jimenez

Ings from the off imo

I'm now on Jiminez.

One consideration is that Ings has got plenty of potential alternatives in Armstrong, Adams, even JWP

Jiminez or nothing atm in midifield terms, though one of Jota/Podence could emerge

Jimmy imo 100%

No thumbs up for a draft with no Wolves defense. Pretty much mandatory imo considering their opening fixtures.

Just listened to a random old Scoutcast for posterity

thanks bud!