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

It looks dazzling darling, simply dazzling

About as template as it comes. Mine is very similar.

I think Mitchell is the go to 4m def in terms of minutes in pre season anyway. Looks good.

Being brutal, it looks uninspired, boring and nothing new

Salah is out of form, drop him for Havertz or Willian and upgrade DF with Robbo. Mitro will not give you goal but yellow/red card and missed penalty.

Ings is the right striker to start and move to Martial. Keep Son if he's firing

If you can only choose 1

Mitro or Adam's?

Doherty -> Dier and
Adams -> Jimenez

Will have to wait and see how the new Everton boys fit into the system.

Do you see hime scoring more goals than the more popular cheaper forwards? I don't, and he's at the higher end of the cheapies.

Disliked price point isn’t it?

Too high to be cheap.
Easy to “save 1m” and upgrade elsewhere.
Easy to find 1m and pick “better options”

Wait and see first but we all know as of last time, Everton can't score

Liverpool 5-3 Chelsea last season was actually quite profitable for owners of their assets. It could be high-scoring again.

Unless you're only playing until GW3, as far as we know each still have 36 fixtures left after that

Taylor

Vinagre, at this second

double pool attack is daring but could be gold

I had double pool attack.
Currently fannying out and dropping Mane to get TAA

Not so good, nornally Salah or Mane very rarely profit together, prefer to start with at least TAA/Robbo and to risky to start w/o Werner and Ings

Never bench UTD, he could be out with sickness by the time GW2 arrived

Almost similar but I prefer Ings over Jimi and draft Jimi in GW4 onward
Rashford out for Havertz / Ziyech / Willian

i'd rather have Son than Kane, and spend the rest of money to get a 4.5m defender so you don't have to spend FT on defender once Mitchell is not playing anymore (and upgrade Soucek/Asm or your bench so you don't have to rely on them)

Son IN, Kane OUT
Consider drop Salah for CHE and reinforce DF with Robbo

Bueller?

It is

4-4-2 with 2 4.5m def rotate
Or
3-5-2 with soucek 5th mid and 4.5m def and Mitchell

Soucek and Vinagre might be the same, other than that, Soucek wins

Prefer Soucek myself, due to higher ceiling. Often find it tricky rotating two defs, especially when home advantage is not quite the same with no crowds, and some teams being better away than home last season (Southampton!).

Wow your team suggest my question above

Soucek or 4.5 mid , 0.5m to upgrade Mitchell to Taylor
That is the question

Depends on whether United sign someone attacking. As of now Alli with their fixtures

Alli

Alli, can always swap more easily that way too.

B

A

A

Drop Greenwood, pick Son over Alli
Consider Doc instead of Mitro
Ings is great to start and switch to Martial

Decent team, defence is fine. I'd stick with Alli over Son and maybe downgrade Greenwood to get Ings instead of your non-playing 4.5m forward.

McCarthy
TAA, Doc, Vin, Mitchell
Son, Salah, ASM
Kane, Adams, Ings

Button, Grealish, Taylor, Stephens

2m itb

Son is my Bruno go to with a spare 0.5 in case of rises

I welcome but won't take your advice

Haha reply fail

Davies and Alli is not the best Spurs to start IMHO, find the find for Doc + Son

price, player, fixtures.

Probably just a place holder, cheap, first couple fixtures are nice.

Doing well last 10 games but will be much better if they got Fraser and Wilson.

For now, pick one either ASM or Soucek but not both

ARS / TOT
AVL/ CRY
BHA / LEE
CHE / FUL
LEI / BUR
LIV / EVE
MCI / MUN
SHU / SOU
WHU / NEW
WOL / WBA

TANKS

Sorry, play to play 4-4-2 and rotate ASM and Soucek for the 4th MID spot.

any guarentee Greenwood is a first team starter?

Good team. I'd drop one of McCarthy or ryan to 4.0 and get Bowen for mount, but that's just me.

Alli

Alli 100%

Button to West Bromwich might throw a spanner to my Ryan Button combo.. nonetheless I'm hoping he can somehow challenge Johnstone for a place

I was just going to stick with steel

I’ve been looking at either Armstrong or ASM

Soucek and bank the 0.5

I'm going Armstrong, from GW20 (2nd half of season) scored 77 points from 17 games, that works out at 4.5 ppg.

Just looking through some players and noticed trezeguet is 5.5, ended last season well could be an option to move to

No 5.5s here, but if I did I'd go Armstrong.

Really hope that podence can nail down a starting spot, or Keïta in a slightly more advanced role, finding a lot of alternative options but their more if and but options

Armstrong.

if I have to choose, I'll pick Saka but if you have to play him and nobody else, then probably need to tinker with the team again, or start with Armstrong

Would be better for young players, but also gives an unfair advantage to the bigger teams

Yeah, would be interesting for FPL but really not fair on smaller clubs.

sorry - rotate Armstrong* and Soucek for 4th MID spot.

Like the team mate, I just can’t pull myself away from playing 3-5-2 or 3-4-3

Ah, good morning.

It's super-template, no weaknesses as such.

Utterly trivial point - you'll need a new 4m keeper.
Squad and plans - excellent.
BUT where in your roadmap do you bring in KDB and/or Bruno?
Is it GW2 Martial
GW3 Auba > KDB?
GW4 Salah > Bruno? something like that?

Personally, if you can only achieve 1 united player I would tinker to get to Bruno.
Otherwise... Greenwood and 1.5m as long as he is nailed.

Martial & 0 itb

I'm planning on having Greenwood and Martial by GW2

Can't fault that team really.

But I really fancy Spurs to do well despite their hectic schedule.. so I'd shave 0.5 out of jwp to turn Vardy into Kane or greenwoood into alli. Don't follow me, I might be wrong.

Might get caught out with no bench.

Could downgrade JWP to a 5.5 to upgrade to a spurs player

I guess I'll think about Greenwood again, no guarantee to start and best to start with additional ARS or CHE.

Vardy is too expensive to start especially with no Maddison supplying ball, perhaps Ings and pick Barnes as LEI to go ?
KWP+JWP is too much mediocre SOU for my taste too

Yeh. Damn good keeper, but 5m at Villa is a no-go FPL-wise. Puts Heaton out of the frame too, never mind the double-4m combo.

Yesss... good signing by us IMO

Targett/Mitchell rotation becomes more attractive.. might give it a look at later stages

Liking the Antonio pick but not liking ayew on bench. Nyland may be irrelevant now.

Rest is good

are you WC-ing soon ?
double WHU is too risky to go

My pick is to drop Martinez for Steer, McCarthy for me isn't really good, Ryan is better but Lloris is the best way to go
drop Ayew for Brews/Davis
Also consider strengthening defense by switching Salah out for CHE

A, because sometimes I'm a sheep

none, i'll pick the best value in DF for that 5.5 - 6