| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Raya Martin | ARS | C |
| No Change |  Alisson | LIV | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Donnarumma | MCI | C, Vs, Sus |
| No Change |  Ramsdale | NEW | C |
| No Change |  Sels | NFO | B |
| No Change |  Dubravka | BUR | C, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  van Dijk | LIV | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Muñoz | CRY | A, Sus |
| No Change |  Jurriën Timber | ARS | C |
| No Change |  O’Reilly | MCI | B, Vs |
| No Change |  de Ligt | MUN | B, Inj |
| No Change |  Thiaw | NEW | A |
| No Change |  Andersen | FUL | B |
| No Change |  Milenkovic | NFO | B |
| No Change |  van Hecke | BHA | A, £ |
| No Change |  Mukiele | SUN | C, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Saka | ARS | A |
| No Change |  Bruno Fernandes | MUN | B |
| No Change |  Foden | MCI | A, Vs |
| No Change |  Semenyo | BOU | C |
| No Change |  Gakpo | LIV | B, Vs, Rest |
| No Change |  Minteh | BHA | B |
| No Change |  Bruno Guimarães | NEW | A |
| Up |  Schade | BRE | C |
| No Change |  Anderson | NFO | A, £ |
| Down |  Fernández | CHE | B |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Haaland | MCI | A, Vs |
| Up |  Thiago | BRE | A |
| Down |  Mateta | CRY | C |
| No Change |  Welbeck | BHA | C, Rest |
| No Change |  Woltemade | NEW | B |
Skonto Rigga Gianni and Mark return on the eve of another Fantasy Premier League (FPL) deadline to not only look ahead to Gameweek 26 but react to Friday’s Double Gameweek announcement.
The pair will be live at 8pm GMT with this latest video for Premium Members of Fantasy Football Scout, which you can watch via the embedded video below.
Destiny:
A: is real
B: doesn't exist
Or 'fate', as some call it
It's all a load of hogwash to try make us feel better or something to look forward too.
Life is life, things happen, things don't.
A but we decide which path to take on our destiny
Unless you're religious then your God/etc may have control over ones destiny - apparently...
Laws of physics innit. Everything that has happened and will ever happen is an inevitable result of the big bang.
Also right place right time and/or wrong place wrong time can skew ones uncontrollable path.
"is all."
- Uhtred, son of Uhtred
Now all of sudden I'm loving the look of WC this week to prevent my previously planned -16!! Here's my WC & plan anyway, what do we think? Anything you'd change? Thanks :
Sa / Forster
TAA / Digne / Saiss / Tierney / Livramento
Salah / Mane / Son / Saka / Ramsey
Jimenez / Saint-Maximin / Broja
GW26 - 9 of poss 11 doubles
GW27 - FH targeting City, Utd, Spurs, Southampton.
GW28 - BB with 14 doubles (Son only SGW player)
GW29 - Likely TC Salah vs Bri & Ars, poss save for other double though?
GW30 > 32 - Will be set.
GW33 or GW36 (more likely) - final FH.
Looks like a good plan but we know how future proofing these things normally don't work out
Yes, I realise the poss pitfalls as standard but just working through things this afternoon after the announcement and with my personal team, this appears to be the way forward to maximise my chip use? Obviously this won't look fantastic on paper for everyone but for my side and with all remaining chips, it appears a decent plan? Think I'm gonna roll with it now anyway?!! Good luck with whatever route you decide to take mate 🙂
I have all chips as well and want to wildcard.
Can you talk me through how 30-32 will be good? Not worried you’re missing city players?
I just know that for the GW30 blank hat I should be largely set with Arsenal, Wolves, Villa etc and in no need of a FH then? I should be able to respond to changes (currently unknown, but likely wanting to be looking at bringing in odd Chelsea from here forward?). What I'm saying is that FT's only should be fine during this period (30-32)? Poss FH GW33 but more likely to save for the bigger double of GW36.
Double Southampton defence plus Liv not starting at the moment
Foster over Forster?
Looking at Dubravka now over Forster maybe as also has decent double for BB on GW28, could also be Foster foe even less though but think Newcastle have the better double.
That takes serious commitment and time to do that! Were you off over the storm?
Mane is surely not guaranteed starts from now so you'd have to worry about him.
Check your sums for your 28 BB
Oops, somehow messed that up, drawing board, thanks!!
Lol, that's 9 doubles again for GW28 but the bench boost still looks good what with the remaining 6 SGW players being Salah, Mane, Son, Saka, Trent & Tierney.
Funny, haven’t played a single chip yet and now planning to play them all in 5 weeks one straight after the other…
Think alot will be. I'll be using 3 out of 5 in 5 gws
Just make sure FH's are NOT played in succession
I might do the same and we can obviously take as many hits as we want/need during last 8 gameweeks anyway.
Which do you prefer:
A) Ramsdale + Livra
B) DDG + Ben White
B
Cheers
Ramsdale and white?
I know sounds better but that involves extra hit
A if Livra gets his spot back. I would get Ramsdale for now then see what happens
Cool cheers
Bruno to son worth the -4?
I'm tempted to keep and captain next week.
Don't think so.
Yeah Im thinking I might keep too
Yeah I'm holding and will get rid off in 28 to make some funds available
If FHing in 27 yes. If not probably not
Oh I don't know. Losing the plot.
Rudiger, Maddison, Jota, Watkins -> Kilman, Saka, Salah (TC), Broja -12
Would mean I get 7 or 8 DGWs this week including Salah TC, don't need FH27 and can hopefully not need WC 28.
Too much?
I think it will pay you back
Males sense. Seems like a big hit but sorts you out going forward
*makes
It's not too much and you're getting rid of 4 players you can't really count on for this specific gameweek. I can see this -12 paying off very nicely.
Norco
7 Years
3 mins ago
Should I pull the trigger aI have the exact money to do this -8
Ronaldo > Jimenez
Jota > Salah
Dawson > Coady (-4)
Gray > Saka (-8)
Go balls out but could keep dawson and go -4
Unfortunately I need to downgrade Dawson as I'm 0.2 short to do Gray>Saka
I would.
Wildcard, any improvements?
Ramsdale
TAA Cancelo VVD kilman tierney
Salah son Bowen Mahrez
King
(Dubravka, Ramsey, Broja, St Max)
Above team without free transfers gives me;
GW 27 - 10 players
28 - 5DGW.
29 - 6DGW
30 - FH
Still have 2nd free hit, BB, TC.
Weghorst over king
Don’t have the funds for that, would have to be for St Max
no blue shirts in my squad
Not even cancelo?
a) 12 or 16 point and TC Salah
b) WC and C Salah
The million dollar question (for me anyway)
Am tempted to hit the WC, bank the points and pray Salah doesn't go mental.
If I’m reading it properly Raphinha is the only decent option that has DG28, G27 and DG28?
-8 done including Bruno out.
I hope I dont regret it but I would be taking a hit to get him out in GW28 after todays fixture announcement so I'll roll the dice with Son
GW26 TC
GW27 FH
GW31 WC
GW33 FH
GW36 BB
Kilman or Coady?
Captain Coady for me
Bruno and Jota out for Son and Raph (-4)
Do Robbo in for Dalot to make it -8 and bench:
A) King
B) Bowen
C) Cancelo
D) Reggie
E) Edouard
Or No?
D
Boosting?
Case for the post GW WC.
The teams that play the most between now and blank GW 30 are as follows.
Team Games inc 29
BUR 6
LEE 6
NEW 6
TOT 6
WAT 6
WOL 6
Of these teams Wolves and Leeds only have 8 games left and Newcastle and Watford only have 9. So while we may want players from these teams upto 30 we will likely want to dump them afterwards.
There are a new selection of teams that we will likely want to target after this. Games left from GW 31 onwards.
Team Games from 31 on
EVE 11
LEI 11
CHE 11
BUR 10
TOT 10
ARS 10
Of these teams we may hold some Tottenham, Burnley and Arsenal given the games before 29, but Chelsea, Leicester and Everton will have many games and all hold interesting assets.
There is also likely to be upto 8 teams blanking in GW33 for the FA cup Semi's depending on results. After GW31 all teams apart from Wolves and Leeds double at least one more time so GW36 still looks massive and prime BB opportunity.
Post GW31 Wildcard
But you don't want three players from those teams. James, Maddison, DCL maybe enough
A Leicester forward, Lukaku, Ziyech, double Chelsea defence, who knows how good Everton will be after 30. I think there could be some big gains to be made.
What’s marks -16? Just tuned in
Mark?
Mark Suthern
The better half of Black Box
Ah thanks guys
Mount > Salah (already done)
Ronaldo > Broja (already done)
Antonio > Weghorst
Jota > Son
Regulion > Tierney/Gabriel(?)
Moves I made last night were the last three funnily enough (White for me, budgetary reasons). Almost has me tempted to bin King for Broja... but I think I'll hold off till next week as a -12 is chunky.
Weghorst??? Urgh
Yeah I don't mind a -8 but a -12 is pushing the boundaries. That's a lot of points to make up
Thing is...
-Regulion (ill/inj?) vs ARS DGW
-Antonio (2 fix) vs Weghorst (4 fix)
-Mount (inj) for Salah (2 fix, TC)
-Jota (inj) for Son (2 fix)
Ronaldo to Broja is an enabler hit, but it probably pays off longer term as Broja has a DGW next week and good long term fixtures.
I get it, basically because it was the same logic I used - but can see why the double figure hit puts some off.
Whats you main reason for selling Antonio?
Few reasons really:
- Last Six Fixtures: 2,2,2,4,2,7
- Weghorst has 4 fixtures in next two, vs Antonio's 2 (and Wolves is tough)
- Enabled me getting Son as he's cheaper
- Looks better than Antonio atm.
- Can sell for Jimmy in 28 if I want.
Proper happy hearing Mark's plan in the Preview. Very similar to what I did last night.
Wildcard ing in 35, BB in 26.
Was interesting hearing his FH28 plan. I hadn't considered that one.
I thought that was what the vast majority were already doing
You wouldn't think so reading comments today. An awful lot WC-ing in 28.
WC35, BB26! He’s definitely fixing things if he’s doing that
Haha whoops. You know what I mean!
He did actually tempt Gianni to BB on 26, probably where I've got mixed up!
Ramsdale*
TAA, Reguillon*, Cancelo
Bruno, ESR*, Bowen, Trossard
Kane*, King*, Joao Pedro*
Sanchez, Dalot, Keane, Jota
Out: Bruno, Reguillon, Jota, Keane
In: Salah (TC), VvD, Cornet, Tarkowski
Bench would be Joao Pedro, Trossard, Dalot
Lots of talk about Robo being rotated while he managed to play all 5 games for Pool between 09/01-23/01, thoughts??
League Cup Final, FA Cup Final, UCL 2nd leg all in the mix this time around.
Liverpool fan forums have loooooooots of predicted lineups with Robbo benched.
It's true, I'd say it's like 50/50 chance he plays both games, but I don't really like those odds with the headache it gives me next gameweek. On a FH I'd do it.
Trent just as likely to be benched I reckon
Team news on here has TAA benched for Milner
A) just Tierney
B) get van Dijk -4
Thoughts please.
Taking a - 8 here.
Ramsdale
Digne
TAA
Cancelo
Weghorst
Salah(TC)
Moura
Bowen
Kdb
Lacazette
Broja
(Sanchez/Martinelli/Dalot/Williams
Have 9 for nxt wk as it stands
(WC and 1 x FH left)
Go for it?
Good to go? 1 ft left and 0,9 in the bank. Struggling with who to bench, and why isnt ESR mentioned, should i swap him to saka? Or get rid off jota?
Sanchez
TAA Coady Cancelo Tierney (manquillo)
Salah Bowen ESR jota ramsey
Laca king kane
Get rid of Jota. No need to swap ESR for Saka
But replace him with?
In a boring non chip related question, start who?
A) Dias
or
B) Watkins
B
A. Watkins big rotation risk.
Which one for -4
A. Foster > Ramsdale (own White)
B. Antonio > Lacazette (own Saka)
C. Foster > Sa
D. Antonio > Jiminez
D
Except I’m not convinced with Wolves attack…
If you bring in Arsenal, are you equipped for their upcoming blank?
Thoughts on this FH squad?
Ramsdale
TAA, Robbo, Tierney, Cancelo
Salah (c), Bowen, Saka, Raphinha
Kane, Jimi
Foster, Gordon, Amartey, Richardson (burnley fwd 4.4)
Looks great, but I'm surprised you'd want to go FH this week with how juicy Salah TC is. Have you used TC already?
Don’t think I would make much headway using TC, as just about every manager will be doing so. I’ll still captain Salah, so if he hauls I won’t lose too much rank. Of course this will probably backfire, but all of these juicy doubles were too good to pass up.
Good to go?
Ramsdale
TAA Cancelo Dias
Salah(TC) Saka Foden Bowen Cornet
Antonio Dennis
Foster Digne Watkins Livramento
Yep looks good
Am I right in saying we can't play 2 FH chips in a row ? Cheers
Yep
A shame. Cheers
Correct.
Would you sell Gunn for Pope as part of a -8 or -12 Bench Boost
Gunn could rack up the saves v Liverpool but Pope has 4 games.
G2G? I'm having a dilemma with the subs;
Foster*
AA*, Cancelo, Regulion*
Salah(TC)*, Bruno, Saka*, Bowen
Broja, Watkins, Dennis*
DDG, Gallagher, Rudiger, Maquilo
Wow, stopped watching Ozark after hearing our leader was streaming. Then the plot thickened as he said he was taking -16. Went back to Ozark for less drama. If the great Mark Sutherns is taking -16 which is Netflix stuff then we can minus away.
