Identifying the non-‘big six’ clubs with the best early fixtures in 2020/21

One word; Kepa

Way too old imo, Frank's gone mad.

Soucek yay or nay?

Greenwood + Martial covers for a Bruno-less team?

Son or Alli?

Auba or Salah cap?

What premium Mids you going for?

Hyland or Steer?

Going without TAA?

TAA and three 4.5s
Or
TAA, 6.0, 5.5, 4.5 ??

3-5-2 with Armstrong 5th playing mid or 4-4-2 with Soucek first sub?

You familiar with Samir Nasri? 😉

Is Firmino overrated?

Ziyech or Alli?
Mitro or Doherty?

JWP or Keita ?

Ings and Antonio up top enough?

Is going without any Manchester too risky? Mini WC in gw 3 but no real plan seem ok?

1. Any interest in Everton picks given the smart signings?
2. Doherty worth the cash over Dier?

Dont think so

I like it, what’s your Utd plan?

B1.

I like the Keita pick. I’d do it myself if I wasn’t going with Salah, Mane & Trent.

B3 then

B3 is the safest combo for sure.
But! Keita and Saka are way more exciting (:

Easy B

Between Jota and ASM and ??? + Ryan?

PSG Dortmund and Arsenal rumoured

Wait until he's turned 35 then Chelsea might be interested.

Definitely signed as Centre Back to replace White and play next to Cooper.

Phillips is defensive mid and probably Leeds best and most important player no chance he doesn’t start there.

He'll play CB. But could cover at CDM if Phillips injured/suspended

Zaha having a good pre-season, playing up top, and not many talking about him atm.

No such thing as 4.0 fwd, unforunately.

There will be after the 3 new midfielders

Quarantine period will make all new signings a no for GW1. James Rodriguez will be coming in for me soon after, Carlo will make him the centre of everything.

Hi mate, yeah, I do quite like Everton from 2-4, but this one was more about trying to find the teams with solid runs of consecutive, winnable home matches.

Be interesting to see how the line up tho, loads of mids being linked right now.

They need a better defender than Keane to protect Pickford. Have drifted in and out of Rich for years, but hos reclassification is a pain.

I'm interested. Kinda feels like if any of Digne, DCL or Rich were 0.5 less we'd be all over them.

Try Dier?

who would play ahead of him? Rose?

Imo he’s nailed

It will be either 4-5-1 with James and Richarlison wide or if Ancelotti needs pace on the wing, then a 4-2-3-1 with James as CAM. Either way, DCL will be a lone striker imo.

Would think it'd be:

Pickford
Coleman / Holgate / Keane / Digne
Allan / Gomez / Doucoure
Richarlison / James
DCL

4-4-2
————————Pickford
————Coleman,Holgate,Mina,Digne
J.Rodriguiz,Allan,Gomes/Doucoure,Iwobi/Bernard/Gordon
——————DCL,Richarlison
Or 4-3-3
——- Allan,Doucoure,Gomes
——. J.Rodriguiz,DCL,Richarlison

Eze if you feel punty

Stretch to Bowen/Foden?

JWP

Pereira AT WBA

JWP, Pereira, eventuallu Trossard

McNeil also a nice pick IMO, though with a GW1 blank

I want to feel punty an think Eze could be a great differential this season. But I keep chickening out and getting Soucek back and redeploying the 1.0m

Ferguson

the actually best player? Or who is most likely to actually play?

Mitchell in short term as Ferguson has no timetable for a return (as far as I know).

Yes with the legs of Doucoure, Solid Allan, and Creative James. Their midfield looks strong.

honestly, I don't see where he fits in. Will he just replace Davies?

Ate they going sign someone who is threat to Gordon (4.5)?

The first 3

Wouldn’t start 1 light mate, pretty pointless

Mitchell will start probably do you are fine

A

Dier Son DCL is what I have gone for

Feel like JWP is safer since he shares pens with Ings and is on corners. Che seems to have nailed a spot but not sold 100% yet

I think Che, not because he's a better player or likely to score more points than JWP. More that the pricier heavy hitters this season look to be in midfield after the re-classifications. Hence the need for at least one cheap striker and I prefer Adams to Mitro or any of the rest (at the moment).

*to see

As above mate, this one was more about trying to find the teams with really appealing runs of consecutive, winnable home matches. Everton have West Brom, Brighton, Liverpool then Man Utd, which ruled them out.

Spurs I'd class as one of the traditional 'big six', so wanted to focus on other sides this time, else they would have been included.

They're hitting that whether Koulibaly signs or not

I'd wait till GW10 anyways because of the fixtures and to see who is nailed in that defence and has better attacking threat.

If Laporte stays injury free, can't see City not hitting 15+ CSs even without Koulibaly.

Trent and Justin anyday

my bet on a "lundstram" would be Dallas since he is capable of playing in mid and did get decent attacking returns last season in the championship

not sure about the "AWB" bit of a wait and see to have a better idea for me

Feels like a transfer waiting to happen, unfortunately, but I do like him.

I think people want sure starters for the first few GWs. Transfers needed for bandwagons and avoiding price changes (0.1m is effectively 0.5m in the first few weeks). Mount is a risk despite what you say

Nope, Barnes comfortably, IMO.

Good player, but agree - Barnes for me if you must have one of them.

A, presuming the 4.5's in both options will be perma benched.

Well if you're benching Mitro, for me Werner+Armstrong look to have more points potential then Ings+Stephens (particularly the latter, unless it's a different Stephens). Armstrong crops up with goals and Werner in this Chelsea team should outscore Ings.

A for me due to Werner 43% owned at present