Do these players know you’re watching them?

No interest in Enciso? Think he’ll be deployed in the 10 role following Mac Allister’s departure.

What about goalkeepers?

Henry, Tarkowski, Udogie, Fofana, Enciso, McNeil other players I’ve pondered

I think Luis Diaz is first choice

I generally agree, and have a similar watchlist, but I think Eze and the Everton midfielders (Iwobi, McNeil, Doucouré, Gray) are decent value

If you do watch sterling play you'll never consider him again

Watkins? Fairly hot towards the end of last season....

I am biased, but hardly ever pick Palace players.

I wish i picked Eze instead of Macallister , but bottles it.

I won't be doing that again

May also go for Johnstone as the GK, as he got 140 points for WBA, and 4.0 points per game last season

I worry even for Estu if Brighton doesn't get a couple of defensive midfielders, pronto.

DCL an interesting pick but I guess it’s now or never fixtures-wise.

I think the Mount pick is interesting and could work well but you'd probably stretch to Rashford given the choice.

Strong bench. But why Ederson in goal over say Alisson?

I don't mind the Kane and Mount picks, but you've left too much money on the bench.

As an example, you could downgrade Ederson, Leno, Henry and Mac Allister to Steele, Aréola, a 4m defender and a 4.5m midfielder. That's enough to upgrade Enciso to Mbeumo and DCL to Jesus, or Enciso to Rashford/Son.

Ederson was probably my worst transfer in last season, awful FPL asset especially now Ortega has surpassed him as a keeper

It's an advert for the FPL Wire so it needs to be pitched to raise questions and intrigue for the reader. I would love to know the relevance of the Trent Twitter link. Perhaps a prank by whoever published the article.

Cheers 🙂

Could be a winning team. Don’t tell the Blue Team and all will be revealed in a moment!

Do you think that Mings keeps his starting spot?

It's as good as any tbf.

Your draft is triggering my OCD

—————-Pickford—————
-- TAA - Stones - Mings - Est —
Salah - Saka - Enciso - Mitoma
———- Jesus - Haaland ———

That's better.

Rashford with those early fixtures does look difficult to leave out.

Would love balogan to move to another pl club & be 1st choice. Would make it so much easier for me to get salah who i want

If Balogun breaks into Arsenal's first team it would actually cause a massive headache for us. Already hard enough selecting just three Arsenal players!

A for me. Will you be taking the rostrum today?

Think i prefer B. Seems more secure for minutes & think fernandes will be closer to rashford for points this season

A IMO. More exciting.

A

I don’t fancy Bruno at all personally so A

A because it has the best option from both teams.

Lateriser, one of the co-hosts of The FPL Wire is a writer here, in his 4th year. Cross pollination, init.

Lateriser & Zophar write regular (and excellent) articles for FFS. I don't think they're in competition, exactly.

Guessing the Wire link is a negotiated condition of LR writing here.

FFS only tell Twitter about their own videos, or anything of interest (e.g important personnel leaving or joining). Bizarre.

I guess they price the cost of being in the premier league.

They seem to be prepared to forgoe say £25m and value his services for the year around £40m. It could just be brinkmanship.

But he says he'll stay and play if he doesn't get a move. So Brentford or Chelsea appear to be the options.

Others may well know more.

I read £11m for Flekken.

Brentford are like Spurs in the transfer market.

Bid £20 million for Joachim Anderson, expect the selling club who he has been very successful at to sell under the price they paid for him.
Put a large fee on the players they want to sell. no one will pay £40m for Raya unless Chelsea can sell Kepa (with his wages)

Hardly anything in common beyond those 2 points. And although a wariness about new signings at Chelsea might be prudent, I think some people are taking it too far by lumping him in as some sort of Bundesliga trap

yes- it didnt look great. I think TAA instead of Salah helps

I have had Foden in most of my drafts, debating if I should start with Maddison or Martinelli for a triple Arsenal attack.

Far too early to say. Make your mind up after the Commie Shield.

I think until we know the Man City departures this is impossible to answer. If Mahrez and a couple of others leave as rumoured Foden could be a great regularly playing asset.

I think A is more balanced - but both work well

Prefer B because I like the idea of Salah(C) in GW2 but A is more balanced

In A, I'd downgrade James to a 4m and upgrade Díaz to Son/Rashford. Díaz won't be nailed with Jota, Gakpo and Núñez all fit and available.

In B, I'd downgrade Shaw to a 4.5m (Botman/Colwill/Guéhi) and upgrade Vlasić to an Everton midfielder (Iwobi/McNeil/Doucouré/Gray). If you have Enciso you'll want to have 12 playing players just in case

B - but personally I'd downgrade TAA and upgrade Encisco

B

A, but prefer Rashford

Not sure Moyes even knows this yet

A, although I prefer the nailed-on Everton midfielders (with good fixtures) to rotation risk Enciso

As an alternative, I like the idea of Shaw + Colwill + Fernandes or Gabriel + Colwill + Rashford

If TAA plays the inverted role Robbo might be shackled on the left.

With taa's new role robertson is not the same attacking threat. May as well save .5 & have vvd for his threat from set pieces

I think James/Chilwell are better options than Robertson

I think the Spurs squad fly to Australia (might be wrong on the destination) on Friday - it'll be interesting to see if Kane's on the flight

I think he should go to bayern for 2 years win a couple trophies and well get the Mane Kane Sane front line. Then he shd come back to the prem join Newcastle and break shearers record. Sounds like a plan.

It won't matter. GW1 will still start on the same day

I'm worried his sale might make me go for Richarlison.

Do nothing, other than monitor pre season games, for the next three weeks. Then make a decision.

No need to roast yet , Bignose with the right advice

A.

A plus TAA

A by a mile.

This is why I don't like TAA. The 2.5m this season you save goes a really long way.

A - and I agree with Camzy re TAA

TAA is a good pick, especially if you don't have Salah.

The minimum cost for a bench is 16.5m, and I don't think you need to carry more than that. Yours costs 19.5m right now.

As a first step you could downgrade Leno and Botman to Aréola and Beyer (or other 4m), which is enough to upgrade Enciso to Mitoma. You could go further by downgrading another defender (say Stones, for example) to 4m and boost Mac Allister to Foden (or keep Mac Allister and start him)

Surprised he hasn't murdered his idiot brother yet.

What are Tim tams??

Don't get the Knight started on vegemite.... 😀

A

A

A

B

I currently have both in the B option and neither in the A option.

So B

Ive got both in option A - i cant get Salah so im having TAA

A

B if it allows Salah. Otherwise A

A

A but I'd be tempted to B with Rashford.

I agree with the poster above. B if that means having Salah. A otherwise.

Thanks all.
Neither of these have Salah, but both have Rashford

He's going under the radar. Foden is the City mid of the moment.

Really good player, but not convinced he's a good FPL choice.

Grealish’s ownership will balloon as the more casual players sign up.

B if Porro becomes Ake.

Powerful team
Haaland can be rested/hurt etc
Not much to lean on if that happened up top?

Nice team
You are a fan of the Arsenal attack
lot riding each week on a good showing from them
but I do like it