'Mukiele's 17-pointer ruined my week': An FPL allegory

	Player	Club	Factors
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Up	Thiago	BRE	A
Down	Mateta	CRY	C
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	C, Rest
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Chalobah	CHE	5.2m	125.1%	Very Likely
Cash	AVL	4.7m	115.4%	Very Likely
Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	5.0m	113.6%	Very Likely
Saka	ARS	10.1m	107.5%	Very Likely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.8m	101.1%	Very Likely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	97.4%	Maybe
Rogers	AVL	6.9m	90.9%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.7m	88.6%	Unlikely
Burn	NEW	5.1m	87.3%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	79.8%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	79.2%	Unlikely
Szoboszlai	LIV	6.6m	77.4%	Unlikely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	77.6%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.8m	75.9%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	75.1%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	72.7%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	6.0m	71.7%	Unlikely
Lacroix	CRY	5.1m	69.2%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	68.2%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	66.7%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	66.5%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.5m	60.5%	Unlikely
Muñoz	CRY	6.1m	65.7%	Unlikely
J.Palhinha	TOT	5.5m	64.1%	Unlikely
Wilson	FUL	5.2m	53.9%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	62.7%	Unlikely
Amad	MUN	6.3m	57.2%	Unlikely
Merino	ARS	6.0m	53.6%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	53.4%	Unlikely
Gordon	NEW	7.2m	51.0%	Unlikely
Tarkowski	EVE	5.4m	50.1%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.5m	47.9%	Unlikely
King	FUL	4.5m	50.1%	Unlikely
Sessegnon	FUL	5.4m	46.1%	Unlikely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	44.7%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.4m	45.9%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	45.0%	Unlikely
Anderson	NFO	5.4m	44.8%	Unlikely
Thiago	BRE	6.9m	37.3%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	43.3%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Gabriel	ARS	6.3m	110.9%	Very Likely
Enzo	CHE	6.7m	104.4%	Very Likely
Botman	NEW	4.9m	105.0%	Very Likely
Baleba	BHA	4.7m	103.4%	Very Likely
Maguire	MUN	4.4m	103.2%	Very Likely
Young	AVL	4.4m	102.3%	Very Likely
Mac Allister	LIV	6.3m	101.9%	Very Likely
Ngumoha	LIV	4.4m	99.8%	Likely
Pedro Porro	TOT	5.4m	100.8%	Very Likely
Alderete	SUN	4.1m	99.0%	Likely
Obi	MUN	4.3m	99.4%	Likely
Byram	LEE	3.9m	99.2%	Maybe
Boateng	BUR	4.8m	99.5%	Maybe
Matete	SUN	4.4m	98.0%	Maybe
Ortega Moreno	MCI	4.8m	98.3%	Maybe
George	CHE	4.9m	97.3%	Maybe
Arrizabalaga	ARS	4.2m	96.7%	Maybe
Akinmboni	BOU	3.9m	95.1%	Maybe
Knight	BHA	4.5m	93.5%	Maybe
Pinnock	BRE	4.3m	95.3%	Maybe
Travers	EVE	4.4m	94.8%	Unlikely
Anthony	BUR	5.4m	90.1%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.3%	Unlikely
Gannon-Doak	BOU	4.9m	92.3%	Unlikely
McGill	BHA	4.0m	92.0%	Unlikely
Sonne	BUR	3.9m	92.4%	Unlikely
Spence	TOT	4.4m	90.3%	Unlikely
Cox	BRE	4.0m	90.9%	Unlikely
Gruev	LEE	4.8m	90.6%	Unlikely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	90.2%	Unlikely
Ndoye	NFO	5.6m	88.1%	Unlikely
Hato	CHE	4.7m	88.6%	Unlikely
Agbinone	CRY	4.4m	88.7%	Unlikely
M.Bizot	AVL	4.3m	87.6%	Unlikely
Elliott	AVL	5.3m	86.3%	Unlikely
Jordan	BUR	4.0m	86.9%	Unlikely
Abbott	NFO	3.9m	86.1%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	86.5%	Unlikely
Carvalho	BRE	4.8m	85.7%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.5m	85.6%	Unlikely

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	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, £

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	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, £

Last updated: 6 Dec, 2025 12:41am

	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

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	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

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‘Mukiele’s 17-pointer ruined my week’: An FPL allegory

22 October 2025 35 comments

FPL_Runpharm

In our latest community article, FPL_Runpharm shines a light on the ‘grass is always greener’ mindset that can permeate Fantasy Football.

This is a true story. It happened to someone I know, and it may have happened to you, too. In the FPL community, there won’t be a shortage of similar examples every single week.

This FPL manager owned Omar Alderete (£4.1m), planned to Bench Boost, then saw the yellow flag. He thought about swapping to Nordi Mukiele (£4.0m). The same price point, the same team – why not? However, he decided to wait for more news instead. When photos surfaced of Alderete back in training, he felt brilliant. “See? Patience pays off,” he told himself, proud of not wasting a transfer like those “impatient” managers. Now he can Bench Boost without wasting a transfer.

Matchday arrived. Alderete started. Sunderland kept a clean sheet. This manager celebrated his genius move until he checked the details. Alderete missed defensive contribution (DefCon) points by one. Such a waste, but fine. No bonus points. Fine.

But then he saw Mukiele got DefCon. His face turned pale. Mukiele got all three bonus points. His jaw dropped: how did that happen? And finally, the killer blow: a goal. A 17-point haul for Mukiele, only six for Alderete.

His smile vanished. The same patience he was once proud of now felt like a mistake. He spiralled. Cursed his luck, cursed others’ luck. “They don’t deserve those points,” he muttered. “I should have just done the transfer, I should have known!” The gratitude he had moments ago, for Alderete’s start, the clean sheet, the successful Bench Boost… it all evaporated. He wasn’t happy with what he had anymore; he was angry about what someone else got.

And that, really, is life. We often start contented, with our jobs, families, or simple wins, until we start comparing. Someone else earns more, looks happier, gets luckier, and suddenly what we have feels smaller. Happiness doesn’t vanish because our reality changes; it vanishes because our focus does.

So, maybe the next time you get your own clean sheet (literally or figuratively), stop comparing. Celebrate your win – because happiness isn’t about letting someone else’s score steal the joy from yours.

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Gianluca Busio's Hair …
1 month, 16 days ago
I guess my rank makes sense now. I don't know who any of these people are. Maybe I should log on more often.
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Fat Frank
1 month, 16 days ago
Salah & Stach/KDH
to
Saka & Bruno for free?
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rainy
1 month, 16 days ago
Price changes 22nd October

Rises:
J.Timber 6.0
Caicedo 5.9
Mukiele 4.1

Falls:
Ekitiké 8.6
Wood 7.2
Xavi 6.9
Füllkrug 5.6
Steele 4.3
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1. chocolove
  1 month, 16 days ago
  Oh here he is, the joy killer. Lol
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2. Timanfaya
  1 month, 16 days ago
  Cheers Rainy.
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chocolove
1 month, 16 days ago
"got mukieled"
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Punter
1 month, 16 days ago
Dubravka
Van de Ven - Gabriel - Senesi
Semenyo (vc) - Saka - Bruno - Kudus
Haaland (c) - Pedro - Mateta

Roefs - Reijnders - Esteve - Diouf

0.5 ITB 1FT

A) roll transfer
B) Van de Ven > Burn
C) Van de Ven > Chalobah
D) other suggestion

Hi guys, any thoughts on this? Feel like Van de Ven is my weakest link. Everton away isn't easy, then CHE and MUN after that, he's not getting CS or Defcons. Maybe if I roll though I could make two moves and get Van de Ven up to Timber/Munoz or somebody else along those lines.
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1. Hubert
  1 month, 16 days ago
  A
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Casual Player
1 month, 16 days ago
I like this

FPL community vibes are definitely "it's not enough that I succeed, others must fail". Which is how you end up mad that your 4.0m bench defender got 6 points and you saved a transfer.
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1. JohnnyCroat
  1 month, 16 days ago
  Accurate. Lot of hate in the FPL community, I can tell you that.
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  1. The Night Trunker.
    1 month, 16 days ago
    Anger is an energy.
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    1. Benedict_Alexander_Arnold
      1 month, 16 days ago
      Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
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    2. Esraj
      1 month, 16 days ago
      Yes, a negative one.
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2. fusen
  1 month, 16 days ago
  Isn't that sort of expected though when the game consists of competing against other players and there is a final ranking overall as well as all of the mini competitions which are ranked?
  
  It's not like you play this game to get a personal best score at the end of the season, you are playing to literally score more than everyone else, so you should want them to fail each week as that means you're more likely to beat them.
  
  I can understand if you expanded your sentence to add "and be salty about it all" on the end, but "I succeed and others fail" is pretty much the game. You can still be friendly about it though, which I'm hoping is actually what you were getting at?
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  1. FPL_Runpharm
    1 month, 15 days ago
    I do agree with the competitive nature of the game, but at the same time, torturing ourselves emotionally over something we cannot control, when we can be grateful of the hard earned 6 points is the message I actually want to convey.
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3. RedLightning
  1 month, 16 days ago
  As Athletic Nasherbo remarked in reply to a recent hot topic
  (https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2025/10/19/fpl-notes-andersen-injury-update-defcon-for-saka?hc_page=1&hc_sort_by=comment_date#hc_comment_27373741),
  it comes from of a mix of perfectionism, obsession, and a desire to maximise points.
  We are naturally disappointed when, despite our best efforts, our move turns out to not be the one that produces the best result.
  I think it's more about aiming for perfection than about wanting others to fail.
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  1. FPL_Runpharm
    1 month, 15 days ago
    And I also agree with his statement that we can never achieve perfection in this game, the earlier we realize it and accept it, the better it is for our mental health, and for the long term joy we have for the game.. having said that, "wanting others to fail" is definitely part of human nature too
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marpy016
1 month, 16 days ago
Which transfer option, noting I already have Raya, Saka , Gyokeres & Gordon

A) Gyokeres & Andersen to Woltemade & Gabriel

B) Raya & VdV to Pope & Gabriel
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1. Punter
  1 month, 16 days ago
  Can you afford to hold Andersen if he skips games due to his hamstring?
  
  If you have a defender that can step into Andersens slot, I like B more, VdV has been an issue and Gabriel is a massive upgrade, Raya to Pope is pretty even.
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  1. marpy016
    1 month, 16 days ago
    Yeah my other defenders are Senesi, Lacroix & Gudmundsson and I'll generally only be starting 3.
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    1. Punter
      1 month, 16 days ago
      Easy, B
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klopp it guys
1 month, 16 days ago
How this looking? Would you change anything? I have 1ft and 1.8itb

Dubravka
Gabriel, cucurella, burn, senesi
Kudus, saka, semenyo, ndiaye
Pedro, haaland,

Sels, Thiago, xhaka, esteve
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1. RICICLE
  1 month, 16 days ago
  Pedro > Woltemade
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  1. klopp it guys
    1 month, 16 days ago
    Gota gave Pedro Sunderland at least
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2. The Knights Template
  1 month, 16 days ago
  Looks fine
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Weak Become Heros
1 month, 16 days ago
Anything on Fulham CB Anderson yet in terms of timeline for injury?
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1. Dokdok666
  1 month, 16 days ago
  AndersEn = Fulham CB.
  AndersOn = Forest midfielder
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  1. Weak Become Heros
    1 month, 16 days ago
    Cheers Dok. Hows the CB’s hammy?
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The Night Trunker.
1 month, 16 days ago
I think the biggest take I can take from eight g/w's is to target Spam moving forward.
They're looking stinkier the more games they play.
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SpaceCadet
1 month, 16 days ago
UCL fantasy - best cap option today?

a. mbappe
b. vini jr
c. olise
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Waxjaman
1 month, 16 days ago
Brilliant article.
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1. Skonto Rigga
  1 month, 16 days ago
  Agreed - thanks again for submitting, Runpharm!
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KanuLenoMeeMoCash
1 month, 16 days ago
That was a very nice article to start the day 🙂
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NABIL - FPL otai
1 month, 16 days ago
Excellent, exceptional stuff.

What makes it more exceptional is that it's written by a fellow Malaysian. 😀

Like Roosevelt said, 'Comparison is the thief of joy'. Chin up, Mr. Someone!
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