Ah haaaa

The stat is misleading, they are comparing 3 game weeks to an entire season.

Everton started very baldy last season. Everton only became a defensive powerhouse in the second half of the season after their points deduction and they had to stave off relegation, ie, they had something to play for. They also had Branthwaite, so the quality of shots Pickford maybe was facing was lower quality.

I expect largely the same from Everton again this season. Just as everyone starts to shift Myko and Pickford out, they will become strong defensively. Given their extremely nice fixture run that is on the horizon, I guess it will be a lot sooner than the second half of the season this time, you'd assume so anyway..

I will be seriously considering Pickford or at least Myko from GW5 onwards, just when everyone is selling them. Myko will maybe be 4.3/4.2 by then.

All those goals from within the six yard box suggests to me that it's the defence that's shot. Branthwaite shaped hole atm

Muniz is the dictionary definition of what Zoph calls "all fart and no poo" and what Neale calls "all sizzle and no steak":

"1 goal scored by Rodrigo Muniz (£6.1m) from his last 34 shots in the Premier League, a conversion rate of just 2.94%."

Benteke-esque!!

I'd settle for a few 3 point GWs given his price. Anything else would be a bonus. I may keep him as a 8th attacker when I come to WC, but depends on whether he maintains starts and actually gets some FPL points.

Yes for Salah also Newcastle look terrible and have history of not being great away and Wolves defence not bad xG wise and Ait-Nouri moved out of defence after Chelsea debacle

Yea to enable.

All the better for us holders.

Let’s be honest, he is so highly owned because of the GW1 captaincy, he’s an obvious sell to fund other upgrades.

salah and 2 easy fixtures for brighton, if brighton had a touch match this GW the sales would be much less

Combination of shiny new toys to go to, potentially cheaper options, people unhappy that he hasn't got mega hauls, and those who just copy content creators then don't really know why a player is in their team.

Another thing about selling Isak to get Salah. Was short term play as I'll want Havertz GW6 so Isak going 2 weeks earlier based on Toon form. If I held Isak next 2 weeks he's probably going for Havertz unless he kills it(hope not now)

Newcastle have been underwhelming, I get GW1 was unlucky with the red card but otherwise, not impressed. I did have Gordon & Isak as my first picks in my team at the start of the season (prior to Haaland/Salah too)

It says in the article Forest have had 3 easy fixtures

Yeah, I’ve Milenkovic and his stats are decent but not expecting anything for awhile

They were good at the end of last year too so sample is bigger than 3 IMO.

Nuno showed what he could do at Wolves. Forest's attack and defence may be decent for most of the season.

Forest actually finished last season with the 4th lowest Xga in the whole league - they just didn’t have a GK that could make a save

Someone got their cranky pants on! 🙂

lol. Must be Mosquera in a penalty shootout

Palmer and Diaz for Salah + someone. Diaz and Pedro travelling back from Sth America

would try to find the .5 to upgrade Greaves so you can have 4 rotating options for 2 4.5 defence spots, especially with Lewis if you want to punt on him.

play rogers over mbeumo

looks good otherwise

Cheers guys

B

B

B

B

A

Nice team. I think you can role if you want but I'm not as confident with Watkins but I'm a Villa fan. I think he blanked first 6 games weeks last season and looks more off it last few games but I hope he does well for you

looks good to roll if you want to keep Watkins, not much money to get from elsewhere

Roll

A beats B 2-1

If Pep gives an indication of Lewis continuing to start then almost certainly A

A just about

A

A but Robinson only has two games left

This is an easy A for me

Very nice team, similar to mine apart from Guehi

yeah A with Eze

Oh I’m not too sure on those moves. I quite like Bruno and Robertson for gw4

Not this week

cheers both. yeah tough one, just really dont want to eat another drop on Bruno (got exact money for these moves), dont think i want him long term at this point so just maybe abit of short-term pain for long term gain.

Who is your captain next week if you make these moves?

Different from previous seasons in the sense that you can carry up to 5ft’s instead of 2. In your example, if you currently have 3FT and use just 1ft, you will have 3FT again the following gw.

Keep for another week

keep

His only haul this season so far was away. I am giving it one more game, then I’ll reassess.

I took out Gordon GW just gone but if I still had him I'd definitely hold for this fixture (also took out Isak this week) so I'll be finding a nice sofa to hide behind

High. I regret getting Pedro but late Brazil call up was wild surprise. Worst case I get lucky with Robinson off the bench

Difficult question to answer with new manager in place, but I'll say 7/10

Sheep

Its potentially very bad if he is benched. They have 2 great immediate fixtures, then average ones. If he is benched for that first one, the best fixture, then his appeal is massively diminished. Chelsea and Spurs aren't bad fixtures, but not ideal.

I understand why people got him, and the late call up was a surprise, but there's still many still getting him in on WC with this information. That said, there aren't other great options, Wood has Pool next for example. If it was me, I guess I would either risk Wood, go with a punt on DCL, or go Welbeck.

Why some wait for fixtures to finish, may get int injuries etc

Zero

All those comments are total BS speculation like all the content creators saying Rogers minutes are probably limited when they have no clue and just hedging their bets. I got Lewis at 4.5 on aggressive FT last week so free-rolling so it's harder for someone to get him now at higher price

Fair enough, thanks both.

The first question would be is he defender #3 or #4? Is it a 4.0 coming in if he doesn't play, or someone better?

I'm a City fan with a better than average record when predicting Pep roulette. But its still roulette, and it burns us all if we play it enough. I've stated the case against Lewis before - Walker being eased in, Pep's "pre-season is over" comment the other day etc. But here's some data if it helps.

Lewis started 8 PL games last season. 4 consecutively when Walker was injured, the season opener at LB when Gvardiol wasn't up to speed yet, two in midfield when Rodri was unavailable, and one midweek vs Burnley when Walker was rested. Walker was clearly the PL pick at RB.

In Champions League it was a bit different. Lewis started most group games, but often as an 8 and sometimes with Walker in the lineup too. Some of these domestically would be great - OOP minutes! But this happened while KDB was injured, and Gundogan wasn't around. It has yet to be tried in the Premier League.

City's CL opener is Inter, one of their tougher ones. This makes the Pep roulette harder to pre-empt than normal.

Now, Walker is 34, and Lewis is 19. At some point he takes over. Some people think that time is now. I personally don't, but that's not necessarily important. For us its the rotation risk that matters, and a fit and firing Walker clearly provides that risk.

Robinson is the main other option at the price point. There's a lot of meat and potatoes players at 4.5. Dunk, Colwill and so on. Do you prefer the attacking upside of Lewis with the minutes risk, the nailed minutes attacking upside of Robinson in a worse team, or a safer but low ceiling option?

Wouldn't want ESR or Adama. Rather Semenyo or even Tavernier. Unless something has changed Adama has never been fantasy relevant for half a decade or more

Vomit material

I might be misunderstanding something, but doesn’t Saka play city GW5?

When are you planning on WC? Given the planned FTs, I'd maybe hold on the Kamada to Minteh move to give some flexibility. The later FTs look good, but maybe some wiggle room of another FT might help.

I dont mind content creators

I object to people churning out the same crap as a few years ago whilst floundering as the game is not the same. Thats not creating content. Its stirring turds

I think if its constructive criticism of the content then that's fair game. I'd imagine a lot of it is personal though, not on X/Twitter so I don't know but I know having been on it once upon a time its not a nice place most of the time.

Some folk place far too much faith in what the creators say and perhaps that is what drives the hate? Its the same sort of thing that tipsters get with betting. If you give an opinion (or a tip) you are going to be wrong a lot but this is quite an alien concept in most fields where you wouldn't give advice publicly if you weren't something of an expert and even then you'd heavily caveat that advice. Look at the way Martin Lewis talks about things, very cautious with a lot of his advice.

On another note a gripe I have is some of the managers are dining off very historic achievements when the game was very different.

Its a very crowded marketplace and I'd be surprised if half the creators currently around will be here in a few years.

Have a look at how well some players have done in the initial few weeks. Have a look at their upcoming fixtures. If they seem better than the players you’ve got, then get those players in.

Personally i think too much money is spent on defense. I'd drop Robertson and/or Raya to upgrade one of your mids to someone like Eze/Jota/Diaz.

Not bad- light in MF ( Winks may have to play some weeks ) and overall bench weak, but thats the price to pay with all the big hitters.

Looks fine, main problems is the weak bench and flexibility , will need to use FT's to replace enablers if they no longer perform or get injured and then also need atleast 2FT to bring in a Foden/Palmer/Saka unless planning to drop Salah/Haaland at some point

I like it, apart from the midfield not being flexible enough to change to another premium easily

Thanks all for the feedback - taken on board, I’ll think about it.
I should add that I’m stockpiling FTs; I have 3 so far and, all being well with injuries etc, would hold to get to 5 so if I want to downgrade defence then upgrade mid, I have the transfers to do it.

I like it, I’m not sure id keep Smith Rowe on a WC though, us owners got away with it in the first 3 weeks but his early subs & lack of real shots on goal has to be a concern.

Banking transfers is a good tactic too, people say you lack flexibility but you have the ultimate flexibility with FTs in the bank, I’m planning to keep 2 in the bank as a minimum once I get to 5 (also on 3)

Double double defence could be genius but not sure these are the two weeks to do this.

Tough one prob just A for me but not 100% sure about KdB with Euro's starting and Foden to come back in , basically locking in a transfer to Saka in GW6

I’m not sure if Haaland’s hat-tricks care about all that other stuff you wrote.

This was my plan at the start of the season (Without using my WC), but Haaland's form has put me off it now.

I need the transfers for other things, for example, I need to get Raya and Saka for GW6, then Mbeumo for GW7.

On a WC this might be ok, if you don't need to make those transfers I mentioned around GW6. But Watkins is a punt right now given his lack of form.

Is this all really worth it? I know it’s the trendy thing to do but the man’s just scored back to back hatricks, who would bet against him getting the record of 3 in a row?

I do agree that Gabriel & Saliba have his number, in 3 games last year he didn’t have a kick BUT you have to balance that out with the season before where he got double digits in both, could go either way.

It just feels like such a big bravado move & im not sure it’s worth it.

No