FPL Gameweek 3 round-up: Sunday’s goals, assists, bonus and injuries

Routes to Lukaku in GW7

- Salah
- Ronaldo
- Triple transfer involving TAA Jota and Bam/Jim

I've made my transfers early with a view to a GW5 wildcard if I have a bad week - with Ron, Raph, Bam, Jimenez, Traore, Podence, Arsenal/Watford on the 'watchlist' - could be a good week to do it - with routes to Chelsea built in

It's a quality squad but West Ham lads won't suddenly stop being good.

Surely. I assume you used your WC?

Yes please. Looking forward to the endless RMT with Ronaldo

yeah

Nay, Lukaku a wait until GW7 for me until after the tough 2 fixtures prior to that (albeit GW4 captain could work out very well, but plenty of other captain options)

Minus 4 for Gray? No never, he would need to score just to justify the move. He is a budget enabler you wouldn't expect returns from him. Just live in hope.

Great moves. Do it.

Antonio is Finnish

sounds like it yeah

It will not be taken from either month.

I run a league and I always check the monthly prize winner didnt go on a hit spree before awarding the prize

I've used that little anomaly to nice effect in my works monthly league. Basically, you can transfer till your heart's content before the first GW of a phase and you won't get any hits for that phase.

In my ML there is always a manager or two who don't care about their OR. They just concentrate on trying to win monthly prizes and that means taking massive hits before each month's first round.

Cheers!

So basically, player can set himself (herself) for the month taking as many hits they want in the GW prior the beginning of the new phase (new month).
No points will be deducted from either of the phases.

Nice loophole.

B might give you some attacking returns. Would say A, but don't think he is nailed on.

A

B for the next couple of months at least

Imo yes.

Watch out for Rashford.

Jota

Jota. Good fixtures plus doubt on firmino (injury plus isolation)

cheers all

Anyone who leaves 13mil is on a sound footing. I personally thin k he'll be 12.5 though.

Then it's just a case of upgrading a 4.5 to a 5.0 or something like that if he comes in at 12.5 (not 13.0).

I wouldn't say it's pointless at all. He'll be added in a few days for sure

everything is pointless brother

12m seems to cheap, my gut tells me either 12.5 or 13.

12 mill and his ownership should be 70%

As I mentioned earlier, I think he'll be 13m.

This will prevent people from doing a straight swap with Bruno/Salah as it will require a further downgrade elsewhere and force people to think twice.

Regardless of this, many will WC purely to get Ronaldo and build their team around him with minimal consideration as to the effect this has on the rest of the squad.

Let us hope

Keep unless he’s out of GW4, then there’s a case.

Which is why I'm not rushing to get him

Surely he is a forward and 11.5m+.

He is the greatest goalscorer of all time. He will score goals. There are no question marks over whether he will justify any price tag.

Ronaldo at top with Greenwood in either left or right.
Dan James, Pogba, Martial, Rashford(when back) on the other wing and Jaydon Sancho on the bench (in current form).

I don’t think Greenwood will lose his place at the moment. He will continue on the right with Sancho on the left. I don’t think it’s guaranteed Ronaldo starts against Newcastle either - if we’re keeping Cavani behind and stopping him going to South America he’s not going to be happy if he’s sat in the bench for Newcastle

Pure madness to use fts now.

I've done it - does feel like a bad idea but WC is there if/when it goes horribly wrong

I made one. I was always downgrading Mahrez and wanted to do so before being priced out of a Ronaldo/Lukaku move.

With one eye on a WC anyway, I’m not so worried.

Yes - to do Tsimikas to Livramento. The latter is going nowhere, the former is going to drop, and I have 3 x 4m DEFs. So makes perfect sense to do it now.

Yeah I’m thinking about it

Bruno and ings out to Ronaldo seems to be the popular choice those who without wc. But again dcl a question mark. Should we ignore him?

Considering this, yes.

Thinking of just having Ronaldo as a season keeper and a sole premium forward, and having a Salah & Son premium midfield. I just see too much value in Jimi/Wilson/Antonio to restrict myself to only owning one. Maybe by week 7 if Spurs still look complacent with 1-0 wins then I'll reconsider Son, but to have a midfield of say Salah Son Leeds mid Jota and attack of CR7 and 2 of the forwards I mentioned sounds optimal, whilst still having attacking defenders.

Stubbornly refusing Ronaldo for now, even on WC

He’s got fixtures so why not. I think once he gets one goal I think the floodgates will open

I’m fine with it

I’ve a little bit of doubt with Jimenez. He used to be so physical and i just didn’t see any of that vs Man U. Just seemed to drift through the game on the periphery.

I think Jimi worth having over DCL due to the extra funds you'd have. H2H I can't really split them but the extra funds Jimi affords you is very handy to have imo

DCL safer in the short term, with a view to switching to Bamford or Jimmy in GW7 I think.

Bruno would be a counter argument for your thesis.

What a load of nonsense!

VDB just hasn’t proven himself. He has been so so passive during any game he has played. Ole is right to not have played him.

Sancho many are expecting to take time. Same thing happened with Havertz coming from Bundesliga.

CR7 is different gravy. No question he will hit the ground running wherever he goes.

There is clear progression under Ole. He has moved the team from QFs in 2019, to SFs in 2020, to finals in 2021. Next step is winning the finals. He has also just signed one of the best CBs in the world, the greatest goalscorer ever and one of the most promising talents on football. There is literally nothing to indicate he should be sacked.

Aren’t United undefeated in 27 away games under Ole? And you want him sacked.

These are the same armchair managers who drove Wenger out.

😆
Some of the stuff I see on here. My days.

Agree - one or the other. For me Ronaldo - he can score against anyone - Lukaku still has a question mark against top premier league teams for me

Same for me. I'm not going anywhere near 3 premiums until I've built a nice squad value first.

I've seen some drafts with 3 premiums and there's just too much lost elsewhere in the team for me to think it's worth it

I think I’m with you on that one.

A team where you can switch between Salah/KDB/Fernandes for your premium mid spot and Ronaldo/Kane/Lukaku for your premium striker spot should always allow for an excellent captain option.

The two premium option allows for a Trent/Robertson double up.

yeo all over that.

Fitting in Son seems to be the issue for me though!

Will play zincenko left with Cancelo on the right sometimes, if you won't mind that occasionally then sure

No. Because Zinchenko is pretty good and they can play Cancelo at RB instead.

Cancelo can play both LB and RB.

Yes buy him, and some tissues for the tears

Who said that?

I'd love it if it were true. 100% ownership incoming

I think most people called it here with Lukaku. It seems pretty obvious he will be a 12.5 forward. 12m would be nice but it makes more sense to make him the same as Kane and Salah than it does Bruno and KDB

yes, after two games he is clearly a disaster of a signing. give him a few games ffs

It’s bizarre. He looked shell shocked.

Maybe the England penalty miss really rocked his mojo.

Yeah I did. After watching him at the Euros, albeit briefly, I imagined this would happen.
Ronaldo doesn’t count though.

1) bundesliga quality is very low and mainly attack focussed leaving plenty of gaps every game, fun product but not like the premier league at all
2) when have man utd ever played well against a team that sits back and counters? Ole doesn't have that plan, it's either individual brilliance or try to counter
3) people forget how young he is, greenwood is actually ahead of him in development even if Sancho has played in the champions League and done well

I think this is a case of people seeing his stats for a top 4 German side and thinking that the same thing would translate in the Prem immediately.

Just like it did with Werner, Havertz, Joelinton, Haller.... in recent times.

Tony Yeboah was a Don though so who knows right.

Sancho looked awful, but I think he is on/off kind of player, and yesterday was one of his off days. Greenwood has to be above him in utd pecking order.

Depends on what you do in gw5 and gw6. If you plan on holding Lukaku then definitely go for it. Lukaku looks like a brilliant captaincy option next game week.

I brought in Son on my WC and got those jammy double-points from him, but I won't keep him. I see too many 1-0s on the horizon to feel either Son or Kane are worth having.

He had a poor game so you have to sell.

Benrahma and Gray are in form but Traore has looked good in bad fixtures and is set to now move into good ones.

Traore could be worth the gamble. Maybe Trincao is also an option though. Close to scoring twice against United and somebody said he is also on corners (can't say I noticed that).

Vardy is 35 this winter and is still a good option

I seem to recall Ibrahimovic coming in and not being completely useless.

Not interested over 12.5 would go Lukaku at 11.5

I don't even have Salah, but I think he'll do well to match him, anything over 12.0 is a firm wait and see imo

This is just silly.

Ronaldo scored 29 goals in 33 games in Juve assisted by players far worse than Bruno, Sancho, Pogba and Shaw.

He will score a ton of goals. And he will be worth the 12.5m or 13m.

Hardly needs teams to be 'butchered' to get him in. Even at £13m it just takes two transfers.

Ronaldo?

DCL and Antonio top 2

But Bamford also a good option with their fixtures

Jim has great fixtures but it hasn't worked yet

Wilson just gets points so he's also a good option

Wow, any risk of thiago silva coming in, that's the only issue

After selling Zouma to the Hammers too. Yes, that does bring Christensen into the equation.

Chelsea is gonna pay it in the end because they really want him. Kounde will definitely cost even more after this season if he consistenly improves.

The Danish Maldini I say.

All your fault

Arsenal are in all sorts of bother yeh, but I don't see Spuds coming away with jammy 1-0s every week. Just like Wolves won't lose 0-1 every week - both those sides are going to revert to the norm.

That team looks way strong enough to not WC. Vardy + Dallas > Fodder + Ronaldo/Lukaku -4 seems fine.

nice team, don't see any reason to WC that at all

He's still young so the odd rotation here and there but as it stands he will be on the right for sure, when rashford returns too. Sancho will not be 100% nailed and will be slowly introduced to the team

Not playing in IB so I would say he starts the next one, but beyond that.......

I'd keep him. He is scoring in every match and gave MUN their last win. I think he has earned his spot in the team.

Yep, too good to drop imo. Sancho was awful, Mason is good option at least until Rash is back