Ex-Premier League star Matt Holland on FPL, early team news – and Mark Sutherns!

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Who you selling?

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That's tough. Lingard still being linked to West Ham perhaps sways me in the direction of Sarr.

Not enough data on either those two or anyone else.

May as well stick with who you have

Sarr out of those 2

But I would stick wit Barnes until GW3

He said this on Sunday so should be news by now

*potentially*

I wouldn't say so, I'd say Rodri will sit in and Grealish and KDB will be ahead of him

Guessing what Pep will do is a fool's errand.

Sweeper

Didn't spend £100m for Grealish and play him deep

I don't get why Grealish isn't playing higher! I see him best used as WF, certainly don't see him going any deeper

Antonio I’d say yes.

Mid probably with looking elsewhere.

Hold onto Gundo for now? I also have him, is he guaranteed to miss GW2?

Who do you have on the bench?

Assuming you are happy with a -4 (otherwise Bruno / Mo would need to go which I'm guessing you aren't keen on!), what about Gundogan & Vardy to Son & DCL?

Downgrade Ings and Barnes and upgrade Gundo. No easy way without a WC.

I would sub AWB over Tsim (check out clean sheet odds below)

yes

Prefer Son and Sarr over Grealish and Pogba

Keep mahrez and squeeze money from def If needed?

Don't think there is any inevitability about a Lukaku price rise in the next couple of GWs. A lot of people's squads aren't structured to accommodate a premium forward just yet and the fixtures will put many off.

I'm thinking of moving for him this week too but I don't see him rising in price too soon unless he bags something like a brace against Arsenal. He's too expensive for most and for most people to get him in they'll need to drop one of Bruno or Salah which not many will do until he's firing and has better fixtures.

If Barnes is your first sub, surely easy to hold a transfer this week. Tough call on who to bench.

I have Digne and im currently using him as a 1st sub
I have barnes playing instead as everton defence is worrying me

Would wait at least 1 more week

Definitely, quite jealous you've got such an easy move whilst having Salah and Bruno and three other good midfielders as well!

I'd give Vardy this week unless you're insistent, he looked really sharp against Wolves and there's a history of goals in games between Leicester and West Ham

I just did that move, I had Vardy and 2m ITB for this precise reason.
Chelsea's fixtures aren't great, but I think Lukaku's gonna get a lot of goals.

I know some will suggest historically he does better against the weaker sides, but he's a far stronger player than he was and the entire Chelsea system will be centred around him.

thanks all! I think I'll go for it.

Yeah it depends on him. I was looking at the possibility of this for around GW4 (ignoring Raphinha / Salah being unavailable):

Sanchez (Steele)
TAA Maguire Lowton (White Tsimikas)
Salah Son Raphinha Sancho Benrahma
Dennis Lukaku (4.5)

That would be what I could get to using fts. Problem is relying on Dennis as a starter most weeks, will have to see how viable that is. It also would leave me a bit stuck as I have a 4.5 fwd, Tsimikas that might be out of the picture by then and then having to play one of White or Lowton and having no flexibility.

Keep your eyes on your own work, Squibby.

I think I would prefer Lukaku or Kane (at citeh) over KdB. Looks viable though assuming Dennis is fit.

Dennis might be a goner.

Personally I'd captained Salah, VC Bruno and roll with Mahrez as a regular starter.

A Salah/Bruno haul will hurt a lot more at this stage given their high ownerships.

I think it is right to play it safe with Bruno or Salah for the captaincy this GW and just enjoy an differential Mahrez points offered.

I have Mahrez as well..but I don't intend to captain him at all with Bruno and Salah having lovely fixtures as well

Sounds like sunk cost fallacy to me

I see the logic. I just don't trust Mahrez period.

I have Torresand Cancelo neither getting the armband.

Salahmy choice folowed by Ings

Yeah very easy hold mate.

Yes indeed

Easy roll

Nope. Veltman should be nailed when he completes his Covid protocols, and Brighton's fixtures are good. Tananga did a number on City, but there is a lot of competition for the shirt.

I was wondering similar thing. I planned to look at Spurs full back.
Doherty was tempting based on history at Wolves with Nuno. Will be interesting who plays on Thursday in Europe for them.

Time will tell. He appears better defensively than Doherty and has age on his side.

If thats what Nuno wants and that was the case last weekend it worked.

Be curious to see does he start against the weaker teams. That will be the acid test for me.

On my watchlist also

A hold if you have him.

Surely you can't sell before Norwich at home.

The patient answer is give it another week. Personally I don’t like the pick so I’d sell now

Keep for Norwich, but personally I don't think he'll be a great pick for a while. He's moved to a very different team and has far more players around him that can do damage going forward than before so that should help, but I think he needs to learn to be a bit more direct and greedy at times. I always thought he didn't shoot enough when in good positions at Villa and instead of trying to get into more good positions when he'd have the chance, he'd often play a pass instead. I just think he needs to alter his game a bit at City, for his own sake and to integrate with the rest of the team better. You could see it on Sunday, he got on the ball a lot but City needed to speed up the play but instead he slowed it down a lot, KDB was the only one that really injected some urgency into the play when he came on. I could be miles away on this and he'll hit the ground running but it's just what I think from him at Villa and seeing how he played against Spurs.

Very nailed

Not nailed

Not nailed at all.

He will lose his place to Chillwell.

I don't think anyone can answer this with any conviction

Too big a punt for me. City players are don't buy, don't sell (unless you have Gundo and he's ruled out) in my opinion.

I dont think pep can disregard Torres based on the first game of the season against Tot when his whole midfield as a whole malfunctioned.

At least thats what i am trying to convince myself. Owner here and guessing he starts

Went Mahrez and Greenwood. Could've easily had Son and Benrahma/Sarr instead. Hopefully Riyad does the business this week.

Tsi

Digne for attacking returns

Tsimikas

Tsimikas

Did not see Everton game, but Leeds still had moments on set pieces against Man Utd, and Bamford and Raph did not really seem at their best. Plus there is big unknown of Bamford. He scored goals last year with no fans, but will he return to championship performance in fans back, where he missed chances.

Digne could haul and just edges it, if Benitez lets him get forward

Hope he looks good but stays quiet vs West Ham and then I hope to bring him in vs Norwich at 6.9

I have him but I can already see he's a non option this season, early subs for someone that isn't elite are a no no. Gonna shift him on pretty soon, Leicester simply have too many options now

gonna learn to shoot overnight!

Too soon to sell... made that mistake last season. Will keep for next 2 and then take stock.

C - think you have to go for the one with the most attacking potential in case the clean sheet goes

No point making a decision until Friday, you'll know definitively if Veltman will play by then

Pretty decent team.

If you gave a Son dilemma after one week with that team i worry what dilemmas you will have every week going forward considering kane lukaku and others are yet tk get up to speed.

Team is nice. I say hold for at least another week

Tierney has a ~6 point ceiling, so no different to doing the Son transfer in GW3 for free.

Strongly against any plan that involves you taking a 4 point hit and still having no playing bench from GW4 onwards (Tsimi Amartey Scarlett). I'd rather stick with the squad structure you have now which is fine and use your transfers to play around fixtures until wildcard (Ings to Jimenez, and Greenwood to Sarr/Benrahma if he loses his place look like good moves for starters).

Not a fan of this plan - at the start you have to make sacrifices with low TV - yes I wanted Son in gw1 but I wanted Bruno and Salah more, and I felt that if you were going to do Bruno Salah AND Son then you had to commit to that straight out of the gate, i.e. a skeleton defence and Mbuemo in the XI.

Also I actually plan on getting Greenwood so any plan that sees him get shipped out already is not great imo

Just ditch TAA after Norwich. It's apparently blasphemy but as pretty much nobody will EVER captain TAA he's unnecessary. It simply didn't matter that he's the best defender in the game, 5.0s and 5.5 defenders offer comparable value, which is all that matters is you're not putting the armband on him.

Worst case scenario for TAA is that he outscores a 5.5 by 10-20, best case is 40-50.

There is every chance that Son outscores Raphina/Greenwood or take your pick of a 7.5 by 100 points. And Son offers a captain choice, and covers you when he's a big captain choice. The only reason Son isn't the obvious essential right now is that he started v City.

Just forget about Son, don't think Watford will get battered at all.

He said he'll try both, I'm guessing it'll be Havertz or Werner with him when play with two up top, but he seems open to who it could be (he said something like "we'll see who fights for places around him"). I'd say he'll shift between the two systems depending on opposition. I think Havertz still has a good chance to flourish like this though but hard to know yet

4-3-3 or 4-2-2-2 if he changes formation

There will be lots of rotation and hard to guess, Werner will play less for sure, thankfully we have until GW7 to figure out his plans.

He's cute

Yeah, I kind of like him.

Wait for press?

Solid 8/10, I would

More than one game with Everton.

A game that doesn't involve Southampton

Against Southampton.... Really??

A bigger sample size

Saying it's "only 1 game" and "just Southampton" doesn't really negate the point Zeslinguer is making does it which mentions rafas whole career. I say that as someone that does disagree, as you can be defense first and still attacking

He'll play the cards he's dealt, which in this case means lots of crosses.

Nope their main formation is 4-3-3

Seems unlikely especially as they signed Wissa too, he's still a good option though

Not for me

Le Couff

I think it does the opposite, allows players to make big changes to their team in one week!

I think it would be a great idea to allow unlimited rolling transfers. Play it patient enough and you'd get a full extra wildcard. Make just one transfer though, and you reset to one Ft the following GW.

I would like that yeah.