A piece of magic. Love to see it.

Im selling Trippier when he has blanked 5 in a row or is flagged red.

I'm keeping him for now.

He's only blanked in 2 of the 9 games I've had him so not so bad.

I just got him this week, a great start to our relationship.

Not going anywhere for me, the guy is amazing, nothing to fear about their next two fixtures at all for me

Hopefully the IB can rejuvenate Newcastle defence, because they looked pretty woeful last night.

Trippier has looked pretty out of sorts lately - and bar one good set piece delivery looked terrible vs Bou.

I would keep, but hard truth is that Newcastle isnt the same without Burn, Botman and Bruno G.

Bit unfair to have two Salah’s.
I like spreading the money somewhat evenly, so no for me. Don’t think Watkins is that much more of an upside to Alvarez.

Salah, Salah, Son, Mbueno & Gordon

I can downgrade Cash to 3.8 to get 1.2m but I could smear the downgrade by doing something like

Turner to 3.9
Gusto to 3.8
Tsimiskas to 3.9

Saka, Salah, Gordon, mubueno & Son (dman autocorrect)

http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/26237823

Speaking of ill-timed BB, how much do you think this bench would get GW13 if the squad comes out unscathed over the IB?

Areola (bur)
Lascelles (CHE)
Cash (tot)
Archer (BOU)

I'm guessing 14-16pts from this lot:

Looking at his OR, it does not matter at all

Complete accident. Pretty gutted tbh. Looking back at BlackBox the chip was active (can tell from the blue line). Honestly, I thought the bench was more visible when the chip was active and just have no idea how it activated.

As an Evertonian, no. I'm pleased with Myko's progress from last year, and really like him as a team player, but this is his ceiling. Branthwaite made a dumb mistake this week, but Myko is prone to those too...the offensive contributions are a fluke. Tark might be worth .4 over Branthwaite.

It's right before AfCon and the Asian Cup. I'm still not entirely sure what I'm supposed to do regarding those fixtures, but unless I'm offbase, it feels like a waste to WC into both in GW19 and then lose them for an unknown number of weeks.

Yup. I was happy with it. Only return apart from Saliba.

Johnstone, Trippier, Son and Nketiah all blanked.

Enjoy your 5 pts lol. £8.5m defender couldn’t even haul against the so called small clubs. I am just wondering why you shared this, almost as if you’re trying to console yourself.

Saka is a turd pick at that price. Better value elsewhere!

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with your approach to the squad (maybe a slightly weak defense, but the position is almost a liability this year). This year, luck is more a factor than it has been. I'm just doing what I want, within reason, so I don't get bored; generally this means being bolder with my choices, but then I wind up in a situation like this week, where not captaining Haaland means that his contributions hurt my rank (ranging between ~400-800k each week) fairly significantly. Although our squads look different, I'm at 6 with a -4, and most of my hopes are pinned on tomorrow. Last week was funny, but this week is ticking me off.

There’s only about 50 points between 4m and 1m and another 50 points or so to 50k. These are the sorts of gaps that are hauled in on a strong run in. As has already been said, 50 point gaps can be the result of a couple of 50/50 decisions; there’s a lot of luck. I’d just keep playing your way and hopefully you’ll get a few breaks.

Was it a 1 week only decision?

Ah, my last two transfers 🙁

With 4 points from three players I’m relying on a lot of things at this stage 😀 24 points last week, might be my worst ever season this year!

No. I benched him and now having spazzed my armband on Saka and not having Haaland, I fear hell will be unleashed upon me today.

It's good to have a plan. My plan was to make no more transfers until Afcon. This lasted a few hours until Maddison's flag turned red and it all kicked off again.

My son's girlfriend plays FPL because we do. She tends to copy us. But she got stubborn about Haaland and ditched him. She sits at the top of our ML and has 2 mil more TV than mosy.

Nice team. Planning something pretty similar. I had Colwill early days and he looked attacking but unfortunately got no attacking returns. Looking to get him back if Reece James is broken again. Might want even both. Nkunku is certainly probably worth having. I just sold Alvarez, it may haunt me, but only time will tell. I had my reasons and KdB for example will be back.

How many transfers are you looking at to get him back? Will it require a hit or even multiple hits?

Based on one game, he almost scored at the end of Chelsea when they had 9 men. Expert analysis from you as usual

Nice position to be in over an IB. Can just deal with whatever injuries force your hand.

Darwin usually gets around 30 minutes after itb, but he can still brace just like Jota in that time.

Haaland and Trippier for me

I reckon you should try get Haaland back by GW14.

Well, there's no guarantee that Haaland or Salah will return. You might not be the only one with a blanking captain.

No shame in going for it. Game of if's and but's...

The chances of this GW ending like GW11 considering how 12 started, would not surprise me.

It made sense at the time

After having brought Tsimikas earlier and Nketiah (I could and should have benched him, but couldn't check leaks if there were any), I decided to get wrong Ars def first instead of him. Hall was subbed off at 45, so perhaps you just have to wait for one more week and see what happens. I expect him to start.

Yes you were

I think it was a sound move, albeit with a little risk. I think he should start most games, but Mr. Howe may have other ideas.

Lamptey is still flagged. You now have a playing asset until Botman is back plus BHA defence is toast.

No it didn’t!

It is. But we’re all in the same boat. No need to panic.

Probably means they'll all haul. Everyone was thinking last week looked amazing on paper for FPL and look how that turned out

I don't see any tough fixtures except City-Pool and maybe Brentford-Arsenal? Even City-Pool could have some goals. Newcastle will thump Chelsea, and Spurs-Villa will be full of goals.

I don't think they're that bad.

- Spurs v Villa should have loads of goals
- City v Liverpool has the potential to be high scoring (especially if players like Nunez and Doku start given how direct they are and how much they can help to stretch games)
- Arsenal v Brentford could suit both teams (Brentford tend to sit deep and allow teams to shoot from distance/around the box a lot, then like to try to counter)
- Chelsea are no great shakes so I'd expect a reaction from Newcastle after their two losses this week (especially at home)
- Everton will probably beat ManUtd

My current plan is to build strong enough XV or XIV and just bench Haaland and Mbeumo if I buy him before that. A lot depends on rumoured gw 20 dgw. Those influencers ITK are talking a lot about FH, but I believe it's going to much more valuable later. One match cancellation is not a reason to waste a chip.

I still have my WC in hand and potentially may keep it until last minute. I thought the cutoff for WC1 was GW17/18 but I see it's actually GW20 which is perfect so, if I can, I may hold to use then

Not Obama dmanit, Onana

comes with the territory. Goalkeeper is a tough position, Pope had a world class game yesterday but he'll get no plaudits because it didn't influence the game other than to stop them getting spanked. Man Utd's goalkeeper always attracts scrutiny as do £40M+ goalkeepers.

Playing a few games without making a large error doesn't undo some of his earlier large errors. Confidence in his ability has been eroded. They paid 40m for him, he shouldn't be making more than one or two large errors a season. Expectation has been lowered in what's expected from him, if anything, making a CS home to Luton as being something to be congratulatory of.

I’d go Bowen and then Gordon but thinking of Palmer as a very good quality enabler

Bowen, Gordon, but based on yesterday's thread-bare team performance, I would now go Palmer over Gordon.

Bowen and Palmer. I was just looking at Gordon and his stats. 0.11 xGi vs Burnley proved my eye test. I could get him for Nakamba since I saved money by getting Gabriel instead of Saliba, but 0.11 vs Burnley... If I was a native speaker, I could find a word for it, but horrendous is the best I am capable of, sorry.

I don’t think I want to I know how many points I’ve missed out on I ignore my bad game weeks and try to look forward

Just tried it, really interesting. I’m 79 points better off now. Would’ve expected better from Chilwell and Rashford and Pedro was always a punt based on preseason. Ødegaard and Estupinan bad luck with injuries

+94 pts and TV over 7 million higher now. My gw1 team wasn't good or lucky, Martinelli over Mbeumo for example.

Cast Ange to Mykolenko, Everton have turned the corner I think.

Both GKs. Not sure about the defence either (if you like Fulham's fixtures Leno is better than Castagne). Quite like the Nkunku pick but maybe a bit early? No Trippier/Son perhaps a bit kneejerk? Personally I think Bruno & Bowen are a bit overrated

I bought in Bruno last week for home Luton as the luxury punt and Captained him. I've already transferred him straight back out!

Don't bring in players that are still injured or just returning from a long-layoff. I've made that mistake on many occasions, it just isn't worth the hassle. Could be many weeks before he's ready to start, could break down again, etc. All it takes is one FT to get him later whenever you're absolutely sure he's fully ready

That’ll be points failure between Bruce Grove and Silver Street stations

Alternative onward transport has been arranged with the row of parked busses

Yes