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b if you think giroud will start GW1 otherwise A

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Give it a few more days.

Personally would prefer Debuchy over Lovren. Barkly different but thats not a bad thing. a solid 8

Its a really hard call but personally I've decided to back Jovetic. Of course that could prove to be a mistake but so could getting Sterling over Eriksen with his tough opening fixtures. You have to back your gut on this one I think, any of those variables could work out fine.

Very strong team.
Some ? over Shaw. Go foe Evans and monitor Shaw. Save the ,5 or Bojan to Austin

Not a fan of El Amadi and Bojan. Far too risky I think. Perhaps consider downgrading Caulker, Ward and Sanchez

S Taylor is a major rotation threat too.

Personally I think you'd be better off going with Mariappa straight away and scrapping the Chambers idea. Chambers is a certain transfer waiting to happen whereas Mariappa isn't, he could very well end up being nailed on for a while.

I'd also look at better alternatives to Baird, surely there are some and perhaps the .5 can be used there.

A definitely, great team. Well thought out

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Interesting Costa Davis Bojan versus Dzeko Zamora Hazard below.

No I don't think your defence is too weak. In fact I'd say its quite solid and all you need. You could risk downgrading Chester to Bruce which will free up funds to upgrade Ward to Evans/Jones. Then you could swap Taylor for Mariappa to get a Palace defender in.

I'm also not sure on Davis, good option but I fear rotation, unfortunately all the budget mid options have issues with them. I'm considering spending more funds there to have no players less than 6m and waiting for the good budget options to reveal themselves a few weeks in.

The side looks spot on! Perhaps a decent 2nd GK for a rotation with Begovic?

I would go for Hoilett at 5.0. Has been playing in the hole, scoring and nice fixtures. I have Austin so have avoided

I think defence isn't too weak, if anything, maybe abit too heavy. I would shave 1.0-1.5m off it, but that's just me.

I can't tell if you're planning a 3-4-3 or 3-5-2, seems like it's bordering between both which isn't entirely a great thing if you need to shift funds around quickly. I would pick a formation and go strong with it.

Very similar to mine above. If you happy with 2 up front then team looks set.

You have a really strong midfield 5 and I see no reason why you shouldn't back yourself with that. However the usual story with budget mids/fwds is that they should at least be nailed on. The trouble with a budget forward is that they aren't that cheap (apart from Zamora) so you really need to spend at least 5.5 on a budget forward if you want them to be nailed on.

Consider Costa instead of Zamora and downgrade Hazard to Marney perhaps. I think the 3-4-3 is a more flexible lineup anyway.

Attack and mid is very similar to mine above.
Not sure on the 4.0 defenders. I personally would prefer getting some decent 4.5s, maybe downgrade your midfield a little bit.

Looks good to me. In fact I can't even find any faults. Solid side.

If only there was someone good at 5.0...

That front 3 really drains the funds to ensure any kind of depth across other areas of the side. I don't mind it, but wouldn't be confident running with Green in goals exclusively and x2 4.0m DEFs

Faulin at QPR - 4.5

Tiote, Wanyama, Bentaleb - not sure of their playing time though...

Not sure Rodwel is a good bet, Everton have tough fixtures. Also Mannone isn't nailed on with Pantilimon challenging his spot and the manager admitting not knowing who will be first choice.

Vlaar only back training and Rosenior not nailed on. Maybe O Shea or Rio/Dunne or PvA.

The midfield is a bit light on point potential. Herrera and Rodwell for maybe Hendo, Siggy or Puncheon.

Good front line though.

Consider DDG in goal and scrapping Stoke defensive cover (they aren't so good at the back these days anyway). Then you should have 0.5m available to upgrade one of your 4m defenders.

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b wouldnt start with 2 liverpook with their fixtures

Good to see someone with Silva - surprisingly he is a unique this year
If you have Wisdom and Bojan you should start them in week 1 over Naylor and PvA

Like your team. Maybe downgrade Luis to 5.5 and upgrade Krul to Begovic

Very decent looking team but Zamora isn't good enough to even be on the bench

Good team. can't really fault it. The only thing is only one Chelsea player. Could you make Giroud into Costa. Maybe Sanchez to Ramsey to free up some money for that.

Maybe switch Sanchez to Ramsey and upgrade Giroud to Costa (+0.5 mil)
Overall, a flexible team that you can change from 3-5-2 to 4-5-1 easily.

My opinion-
DDG to Begovic
Pieters to Evans
Davis to 4.5
Bartley to 4.5

hendo to sterling for me

If your happy with your squad then keep Sturridge. Will bang in the goals. If you want to improve elsewhere you may need to sacrifice him

Really good team. Looks like you'll be playing Bojan pretty much every week though, but maybe your happy to do that. I'd be tempted to sell Cahill for a 5.0-5.5 and bring in either Mutch or Siggy for Marney to give you another option each week

Greetings Toonzie. I like that squad - this is a 343 i presume? If you're comfortable with starting Bojan week in week out, it's a good squad.

I'm kinda of the opinion 6.5 is really a luxury for a defender with 100m starting budget, and clean sheets are abit of a lottery at the start of the season, with not everyone at max focus yet. I wish there was some research on number of clean sheets on a periodical basis...ie first 10 GWs, vs 2nd 10 GWs etc

I like this a lot except for bojan - you could downgrade eriksen and upgrade him

I would be very happy with it too.

Maybe Sanchez > Ramsey, Colo > 4.0, Eriksen > Hazard, Costa > Sturridge? Or too template for your liking.

i like this lot, wrong three is strong

mariappa gametime in an issue for me at the moment

not a big fan of 5 way rotation even tho they rotate well with yr 5 defenders

will be tempted to go drop PVA and spend the extra 0.5m on ward