Phil Gill, aka @FPLSorcerer, is an incredibly successful Fantasy Premier League (FPL) veteran who can boast of two top 1k finishes, six top 5k finishes and eight top 10k finishes.
Phil sits 85th in the Career Hall of Fame and has had a great start to the season, sitting at 13,185 overall with £1.0m in the bank and two free transfers going into Gameweek 3.
Here he discusses his team plans for the weekend and beyond.
nah not worth the hit, Sarr could get something at Spurs anyway
Ok thanks.
I wouldn't
Unless you want to © Raph
Risers: Bissouma (4.6) Dier (4.6)
Fallers: Pulisic (7.9) Gündogan (7.3) Zaha (6.9) Toney (6.4) Chamberlain (5.9) Pérez (5.9) Ndombele (5.8) Sema (5.4) Fabinho (5.4) Westwood (5.4) Mendy (5.4) Fosu (5.3) Tierney (4.9) Dendoncker (4.9) Origi (4.9) Bellerín (4.8) Hause (4.4) Cédric (4.4) Rodon (4.4)
Toney fall is tragic.
But entirely predictable... someone had to go for Lukaku or eventual Ronaldo.
Who is using free transfers to bring in Bissouma?!
People who are satisfied with their team and want to use a FT on Gilmour > Bissouma I guess.
People getting funds out of midfield for Lukaku.
This 352 to 343
I considered it
Also casual players using 2 FTs to get the 4.5 mid who just got 8pts so they can upgrade elsewhere for a punt they fancy.
i did other day, sorting bench after bb
Getting Kaku requires a downgrade
Tierney 4.9?? Jeepers...
With Arsenal's upcoming fixtures too...
Gem, if he can stay fit for them...
I have Leno and White who have both rather annoyingly gone down in price. But I do think from GW4 we will improve, Partey will be back also.
Just surprises me the influx of sales when they’re in peoples teams for GW4 onwards.
at least the White to Tierney move is still only 0.5 upgrade
1-1. Betrayed by Toney. >:(
Cheers Ragabolly.
Yet again no Lukaku rise after being over 100. So dodgy from FPL towers.
Everyone will get him in today so no benefit to the shafted smarties who got him in last week
Shafted? 8 points (non owner)
Shafted on a price rise and now the hordes can get him for same price
You are the horde
Hordes are followers mate I got in their first 😉
Horde leader
Newly signed players are price locked in FPL for seven days. On day eight the price is unlocked and starts on 0. This is why his price has not risen yet.
Nope that's why Lukaku's price didn't rise last week he was locked all of last week - this week they've had their thumbs on the scale
Wildcards maybe? I doubt many could have got him in without -4 or -8!
I guess that's possible but would there have been many WCs this GW? And no other players were affected?
Damn, 0.3 down this week only. I give up.
Thoughs on this mess:
Sánchez, x
TAA, Shaw, Ayling, Velt, Amartey
Salah, Bruno, Mahrez, Jota, Benny
Wilson, Toney, x
2 FT, 0£ itb
Hardly a mess.
Could downgrade Mahrez and upgrade Toney
Was gonna suggest the same
Mahrez -> 7.5 or less mid
Toney -> Antonio/Bam/Jimenez etc.
not quite a mess mate, Mahrez + Wilson > Raphinha + Antonio? Veltman > Livramento if you wanna keep those two this week
Easiest 2 FT i've ever seen. Get Antonio before it's too late.
Play Gundogan or Amartey?
Gundo
How Lukaku has not increased in price....
scored one goal, not three and has a few tougher games coming up
I read somewhere new players are frozen for the first 7 days after entering the league and start from a base of zero on day 8. So not many days to accumulate qualifying transfers
Yeah but he's been on 100% rise every day after being unlocked
Price was locked till Sunday or Monday. FPL Stats' algorithm might see be a bit off too.
Or FPL are just holding it...
Planned to use my remaining free to move buendia onto raph today. Should I go ahead or save so I can bring ronaldo in for free next week.
I'm thinking it's still worth the transfer because otherwise I'll be stuck with buendia for a while and will probably be priced out of the straight move to raph. Any thoughts?
tough one, considering Buendia surely starts, I would give him this game
Cheers for the comment!
Will DCL start?
Do you guys think Brownhill will start?
I have to choose one of these:
Amartey -away vs Norwich
Livramento -away vs Newcastle
Brownhill -home vs Leeds
Gilmour -home against Leicester.
Which would you choose?
50/50 on Brownhill - think Westwood is back
I'd pick Livramento
hello guys. Have 1ft, would you do:
a. Greenwood > Benrahma
b. Save
Keep Greenwood, should be back up top this GW.
Having 2 FTs will be very handy after the IB.
cheers
b
b for sure
Play Livramento(new) or Ayling(bur)?
Liv
I'm on Ayling out of the two, myself.
Ayling
On Ayling too here. Livra is second on bench after Brownhill who might not play.
Ayling
I’ve gone Ayling start and Liv bench
It might have been good choice not to go for benrahma on GW 3. Now i have 2 FT's left and can get ronaldo in for ings and benrahma in for fernandez for GW4 at least. 🙂
and then Bruno hauls....
Still no price rise for Luka
Toney finally drops
Luka seems to be rising any minute now....
Assuming you meant Lukaku. 🙂
OK. he might not rise Looked at list earlier Toney was supposed to drop and lukaku to rise. Now Toney has droped , but Lukaku still has not risen. But as I read somewhere that list is kinda speculative. So real numbers might be a bit different and that's why he has yet to be rise. Or they don't do drops and rises at the same time. 🙂
Bench one or perhaps it's obvious to go with the attacker in this scenario...think my brain is fried this morning with this Ronaldo news...but here you go?
A. James at Liverpool
B. Harrison at Burnley
You bench James. If they keep a CS, fair play Chelsea. Look what Harrison did the last time he played against Burnley..
yeah I know, really starting to overthink things...cheers!
Will Antonio miss out GW4 due to quarantine?
Bruno to Son (c)?
GTG? Or play Bisso instead of Livra?
Sanchez
TAA Shaw Coufal Livramneto
Salah Bruno Mahrez Maddison
Antonio(C) Ings
Steele Bisso Scarlett White
Do you trust Mahrez to play. I have him too and 80% on replacing him with Raphael. Most sites including Draft Hound predict he won't start.
Will hold for one more...hopefully he will start but maybe even if he comes from the bench he can do something like in last gw...
Duffy or Livramento?
Liv
Livra
Why?
Duffy for me. Better defensive system, more goal threat.
Tino.
Wildcard or 16 point hit to get this team?
Schmeichel
Rudiger, Shaw, Amartey, Livramento, Tsimikas
Salah, Fernandes, Raphinha, Bissouma, Sissoko
Ronaldo, Lukaku, Obafemi
Don't take a 16 pointer
Ronaldo not available for the game vs Wolves anyway
Not now, next week plans
Too soon
Neither!
16 pointer obviously not. But honestly it’s not worth having Bruno and Ronaldo. Quite possibly not worth having Bruno at all without his pens for the price
What to do here guys?
Sanchez, Foster
TAA, Shaw, Ayling, Tsimikas, Veltman
Salah, Bruno, Mahrez, Gundo, Benrahma
Antonio, Toney, Obafemi
2FT
Mahrez + Toney —> Raph + DCL?
Any suggestions?
Why haven't price changes happened yet?
They have
They have.
Ronaldo will surely be on penalties which takes points away from Bruno.
I am on WC so thinking Bruno to Son and then GW4 bring in Ronaldo.
Thoughts???
I would have held WC until GW4 at least, that's just me. Would want to see everyone perform on GW3 first.
There is no such things as the right time for using your WC.
Plus let's consider how Ronaldo may help other United assets, for example, opening up space for Bruno, Sancho, etc.
Looking forward to potential moves,
Who do people think are some of the best mid/fwd options sub 6.5 that are not Raphinha/Benrahma?
Traore, Sarr, Harrison, mbuemo, Armstrong, Dennis
Yes, my thoughts on these.
- I am probably more interested in targeting Jimenez
- fixtures, tick
- double up Leeds?
- fixtures, poor
- gw8 onwards, tick
- undecided, Watford have options
On top of that Gray, Dallas, Decoure, ESR
Odegaard > ESR?
Maybe? Let’s see them play a bit I reckon.
yes, agree.
Thoughts on this WC effort?
-Switched formation from 442 to 343.
-Going without TAA for a couple of games;
-Kane (c) and Son double up;
-Kane can become Ron. GW4;
-Fernandes gets wlv and NEWC with funds itb to switch to Salah;
-Value defence with good medium term fixtures;
-Raph and DCL in for fixture swing
Reya (Gunnar)
Coufal/Reguilon/Duffy (Coady)(Liver)
Bruno/Son/Raphina/Ben (Gilmour)
Kane c/Antonio/DCL
I see your logic and I can't fault too much there...but that defence would worry me. But you could smash it. The team is good.
Cheers...yeah agree a bit re defence, going without TAA a worry, but think liv will concede in their next couple...
Any suggestions re defence ?
Hmm Antonio or Bruno cap
Hard call
Son...sorted 😀
which team??
A- Raya
Taa, Dier, Mings
Salah, Bruno, Raph, Benrahma
DCL, Ings, Antonio
Gunnar, James, Biss, Liv
or
B- Raya
James, Mings, Dier
Salah, Bruno, Son, Benrahma, Jota
DCL, Ings
Gunnar, Biss, Duffy, Liv
A
A
Has Liverpool confirmed that Tsimikas replaced with Robbo?
So Tsimikas -> Duffy nobrainer?
Or Livramento, which many on here like. I did Duffy myself. Better defence and much more of a goal threat. Duffy has had 7 shots from set pieces I think. Problem is Duffy isn't nailed long term like Livra probably is.
Robbo just retains his place if he's fit, which he is.
Veltman and Lamptey returning will displace Duffy,
Livramento is starting XI.
Hi guys, it’s time post.
How’s this for a WC team?
Sanchez
James Dias Shaw Dier
Raphina Salah Benrahma
Kane Antonio Lukaku
Bench: Ward, Gilmore, Bissouma, Ayling
Good to go. I’d like it better after GW 7 personally, but you should be fine now.
Thoughts On WC
Schmeichel (Ward)
Ayling TAA Livramento (Coady, Duffy)
Raphinha Salah Pogba Torres (Gilmour)
Antonio Kane (C) Calvert-Lewin
Plan is Kane to Ronaldo soon -
then figure out DCL into Lukaku GW7
I personally like the option on a WC of three big hitters.
Salah, Lukaku/Kane and who? I’ve found it really hard to get the former 2 and Bruno into a well-rounded side & that was before the thought of Ronaldo
Salah, Lukaku/Kane & Bruno/CR7, allows for really good flexibility. I think it's the way to go.
Lloris Foster
TAA Shaw Duffy Pinnock Livra
Salah Son Raph Benny Biss
Lukaku Antonio Dennis
Cash in the bank to do Lukaku to Ronaldo for GW4 🙂
Why would you want Ronaldo? He's well and truly passed it. 🙂
Is he?
At 36 he is one of the fittest footballers around.
He is a machine!
evidently trolling.
yeh that explains 29 goals in serie a last season.
That was last season. I am talking about this one.
There are few footballers on Earth more fit than Ronaldo. It's kind of his thing.
He's just trying to look cool by being different.
Oh yeah a few months ago... You're right. That's an eternity.
I am sure you are aware of the regression once you get to a certain age.
You're very ill-informed.
Fitness-wise and statistically, he is still at peak performance. Age when referring to a "super-human" is irrelevant.
Super-human lols.
29 goals in Seria A. A league equivalent to the SPL. Only one team dominates. Easy to score goals.
1 team dominates?
Yet the team he played for the team that finished 1 point above 5th, good logic.
Yet the team he played for finished*
Once again, I am not necessarily referring to last season. Keep up.
not referring to last season but adamantly hypothesising about this season... that's good logic.
I think you will find that you were. ^^^^^^^^
The only comments I made above are in reference to last season.
Statistically he is 7 years past peak performance
I am referring to fitness statistics.
I stated that clearly.
What are "fitness statistics"?
come on,
tests that measure an athlete's physical performance, VO2 max, is just one example.
Where can I find ronaldos fitness statistics?
Google search away,
When Ronaldo signed for Juventus, club doctors reported that the statistics judged he was a player aged 20.
There was a very fascinating thread I read probably only a year ago, going into more specifics.
He's lost a lot of pace that's for sure
Over his career, that's undoubted, but statistically, he is still a very fast player.
I will also make the point that between two separate individual tests at Juventus, his pace numbers had increased.
2019/20 season he clocked a speed of 34.62km/h, the second-fastest in the Serie A,
which this season in the PL would have him inside the top 6.
Not sure what his statistics were last season but it was noted that they had increased in the offseason from tests conducted by the club before the 2020/21 season.
Exactly. Someone is very "ill informed" on here. 😉
which team??
(A)
Raya
Ayling Shaw Dier
Salah Greenwood Raphinha Ben
Kane Lukaku Antonio
(B)
Raya
TAA Shaw Dier Ayling
Salah Raphinha Ben
Kane Lukaku Antonio
A. More attacking therefore more points.
Yeah but no Trent? He's basically a winger that creates more chances than most midfielders...and gets 4 points per CS.
so do you want an extra heavy hitter or TAA is the question you have to decide. Check on RMT.
I wouldn't have Greenwood on a WC with United's forward options.
I like B, is there any possibility of getting even a 5.5 mid, to go 3-4-3?
2 years, 7 months agoReposting for some replies hopefully.
Sanchez
TAA Ayling Shaw
Salah Fernandes Benrahma Sarr
Antonio Wilson DCL
Steele - Brownhill Tsimikas White*
Already made my 2 FTs.
Is it worth doing Sarr to Raphinha for a -4? I'm thinking of wildcarding in GW4 to get on CR7 early and will want Raphinha long term anyway.
Cheers.