1st sub yeah

Brewster wasnt a good option. No reason to think Origi is a step higher.

Kane filler.

Definitely, if he moves to Saints I'm bringing him in

Not sure. He could be like Pukki or be a Poney.

Yes he is.

Pukki wasn't actually picked by many people that year from the start because he had Liverpool in GW1. We only started picking him up after he hit a hat-trick against Newcastle in GW2.

lots of tap in and pens from what i could tell in the highlights reel. wont be getting chances like that in the premier league.
in his defence he has Vardy like stats going up through the leagues so no reason to think he has hit his ceiling.

cheers all

I'm gonna guess Lukaku comes in at 11.5m if Chelsea do sign him

Yeah I don't think I'm doing this. One premium forward only unless Salah gets injured or somehow becomes useless.

there will be a slew of early wildcards this year............nothing wrong with taking a chance

Solid midfield, but risky not starting with Bruno.

Too risky unless you've got a superb bench. I'd punt on one of Mahrez, Jota and Greenwood. You could end up woth 3 cameo one-pointers if you're very unlucky.

good transfer. otherwise Watkins was auto pick.

the game needs a diversity of options otherwise its just boring

Watkins is naturally a LW/LF so he'll still be a serious FPL option. Good creativity behind them with another CM/AM still to come in.

It's probably a good thing that Watkins will be further down the pen order and, as you say when Ings gets crocked, Watkins will be back leading the line.

Just thinking about Ings, it's tempting.

Clocking some minutes in pre season, that's good. He's should start straight away, imo. The unsettled attack doesn't trouble me that much - he's got Buendia behind him, and he scores even from hard positions, so some kind of an attacking flow and tactics doesn't affect him much. Injury prone - well the idea of most people was to get rid of Watkins anyway after the first three.

I don't think Watkins will suffer that much. He's not an out and out striker anyway, he drifts out wide many times during the game. He's probably nailed on the left wing and when Ings gets crocked he'll play as a striker, that's how I see the situation.

A few in the first few weeks will be fine since that's when they have their best fixtures. Smith will know he'll have to rotate him though anyway with his injury history so I can still see Watkins a good few games over the season up top, plus there's still the likes of El Ghazi and Traore there vying for spots on the wing

Liverpools time has come and gone Im afraid.
Call back in another 30 years for the next title.

Liverpool have their winning team back. First-choice defence - knock-on effect being first -choice midfield. Due to injuries, Fabinho, Thiago and Henderson never got to play a full team together. Unless/until they are hit by key injuries to first team regulars, they should be a force.

i dont like everton. Nor Ings. Lovely otherwise.

Everton - new manager (who is already under pressure as the fans cant stand him)

Siggy - under police investigation
Richarlison is still playing at the olympics
J rod wants to leave.

Ings - new signings rarely hit the ground running

Me, I'll swap out Bruno instead. Salah is still a good cap option for his best fixtures.

Would cut Bruno before Salah for Kane.

Will Kane be even ready for GW1? Gentlemans agreement for him to miss that game might also be in place. After that, he hasn't even trained, Pep signings can take time to integrate too.

Kane is not even in training. He won't factor into my GW1 team whether he's a City player or not.

Can't see Kane playing before september, City or Spurs, imo. He's not training and the saga will go down to the wire.

I should have mentioned that im talking about when Kane signs which is most likely deadline day so I'm talking about a GW4 transfer from Salah to Kane.

I like the formation.

I'm not sure that expensive defense is wise especially since Chilwell and Cancelo are a bit risky to start the season with and you have weak cover.

Barnes is a bit of a punt but he could be good.

Bardsley = Livramento > Duffy = Omo > Williams

Does Amartey see some emergency minutes with Fofana out? 4.0 seems an option?

same argument applies to Foden, who has the best PP90 in the game

Mahrez has the upper hand at the moment. Why wait for Grealish when you have Mahrez ready and firing. Besides, Mahrez faces less competition on the right, with Sterling (?) probably the one that threatens him. Grealish has competition from Foden and Gundogan for the left wing and inside left.

See what Harrison did last season among City mids? They've added one more to the roulette without selling any (as things stand). None of his new competition has suddenly become bad. It's a clear avoid for me until an injury crisis or clear favourites emerge

And this is if they don't get Kane, which just kills the false 9 slot that helped with more starts across the board

If I'm going there, it's Gundo or Mahrez short term because they've had preseason behind them, which is an advantage for 1 to 3 GWs

City can effectively start 5 “attackers” (for FPL purposes) in any given game (put forwards, wingers, 10’s & 8’s all together for estimation)

That gives a total pool of available starts of 190 for a full season (38 games x 5 slots)

Last season - City’s starts (vs apps in brackets) across their “attackers” comes out to 182, which is pretty close - when Pep plays 3 centrebacks it removes one of the 5 so it’s a bit less than 190, but close

Sterling - 28 (31)
Mahrez - 23 (27)
Foden - 17 (28)
Torres - 15 (24)
Jesus - 22 (29)
Bilva - 24 (26)
KDB - 23 (25)
Gundo - 23 (28)
Kun - 7 (12)
Total starts = 182

If you add Grealish and remove Kun, it just doesn’t look good for anyone on that list to start more than 25 games imo

Certainly not to start more than 30 (I think at KDB’s age now even he will struggle to go above 30 starts)

Especially when you factor in that Foden & Torres surely aren’t going to get *less* starts than last year - that leaves even less of the pool available for others to share.

Linearly, those 9 players sharing 190 starts comes out at 21 each, so I think pretty much all of them will be operating in the 20-25 starts ballpark

It’s just hard to see how it’s wise going near any of these guys without an injury bottleneck or something of that ilk that clearly signposts who is going to be starting for an extended period of time

There is an argument for getting both Grealish and Foden if you have a decent bench

I think both will be fine

I'm captaining Mahrez in GW2.

I'm capping Mahrez in 2. He usually starts or doesn't play so... just gonna roll with it. You're trying to second guess Pep.

Very good. Not much to dislike. There's some uncertainty over Shaw starting.

Sanchez also with a weird 'injury' but otherwise we have very similar teams so naturally I'll rate it highly 🙂

Covered all bases. See the point above i have on Mahrez.

Im on somewhat similar. Mahrez Sarr to 2 of Barnes/Jota/Greenwood/Wilson.

Looks good -similar to my existing draft which has Bachmann Coufal Buendia over your Sanchez Digne Sarr.

I suppose you may miss out on Villa’s good first 3 fixtures

Do you prefer Sarr to say a 6m defender, like Cancelo/Dias or Chilwell?

Same team but with Bachmann, Stones, ESR, Ayling over Sanchez, Digne, Sarr, 4m fodder

Also have a Son variant that uses the 2mln saving to invest in 7.5 forward and Buendia for the first 3, but Im leaning away from it as its a little harder to get to Kane when the value is more dispersed

I thought he played quite well today

Grealish will still win plenty of fouls, but would imagine it may be less.

Teams aren't so gung-ho against City compared to being against Villa.

Same, kdb will plunder

he will not have 3 players man marking him anymore.

By GW3 i expect Leeds defenders to return. Or even GW2

Ayling still edges it, as bad as things may seem for now. Everton might score, but don't really have the engine room to overwhelm Leeds

Veltman - White/Chambers - Ayling works best for a three-way two-slot rotation

Or just permastart Veltman for 8 GWs and take the 6-pointers and blanks on the chin 🙂

Brighton + Leeds

I was in the same situation. Decided to find another 0.5 for Targett or Coufal.

Fit him and Mo in.

I await your comments after GW1

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Has to be Robbo. Three Villa attackers is way overboard.

B

Close call by I prefer B