I bet you change it again before the deadline on Friday. Triple United defence? Very brave.And United
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I bet you change it again before the deadline on Friday. Triple United defence? Very brave.And United
It's certainly a bold move.
Predicting Arsenal to beat City 1 nil....Liverpool to get turned over by West ham and United to concede. Solid 24 point starting week
Are there any wild cards available for entering the league? Checked the newbies forum but couldn't find a thread.
? Checked the newbies forum but couldn't find a thread.Is Wan Bissaka a cert starter?
From what I can tell, he was going to be fighting for the spot, but likely to win it. I believe he's played well preseason so it's his to lose now.
What are your opinions on Aguero and Robertson as picks?
I do worry about Aguero's gametime with Pep's addiction to rotation, and I'm also not sure if Robertson is 100% nailed on for Liverpool.
I do worry about Aguero's gametime with Pep's addiction to rotation, and I'm also not sure if Robertson is 100% nailed on for Liverpool.
I have both and am not worried about either. Robertson is miles better than Moreno. Aguero is clear first choice over Jesus and if that changes it's an easy switch to Aubameyang.
Is Willian not a guaranteed starter for Chelsea? or it too soon for him to play?
How does this 442 look?
Patricio
Alonso Bellerin Sanchez Cedric
De Bruyne Hazard Mkhi Schurrle
Aguero Aubameyang
Subs: Ryan Bennett £4.5m Quaner
Could also do someone else for Schurrle. Or find 0.5m in defence to make him Richarlison. If I do that I’d probably swap Mendy for Bellerin or Bailly.
Patricio
Alonso Bellerin Sanchez Cedric
De Bruyne Hazard Mkhi Schurrle
Aguero Aubameyang
Subs: Ryan Bennett £4.5m Quaner
Could also do someone else for Schurrle. Or find 0.5m in defence to make him Richarlison. If I do that I’d probably swap Mendy for Bellerin or Bailly.
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Cheers for the info.
I guess the thing is with Aguero, even when he's out injured / rotated, he still somehow ends up with 20+ Premier League goals anyway.
With Robertston, I remember reading somewhere that Moreno is one of Klopp's favourites and whilst Robertson will play, he's not nailed on.
Whilst I've got you here, what do you think of David Luiz as an option? Interest you at 5.5?
And United
It's certainly a bold move.
Predicting Arsenal to beat City 1 nil....Liverpool to get turned over by West ham and United to concede. Solid 24 point starting week
Or Very stupid
But I like taking some calculated risks. You'll never get really far by just playing the same style of everybody else. This year everyone starts out with so much of the same. I don't care too much if I finish 10.000 or 20.000Some other reasoning:
- City kept a clean sheet against Chelsea. Only worry is will Bravo start? If he will, Im keen on changing.
- City: 2 x 3-0 recently against Arsenal.
- My city players are safe to start.
- I don't want to waste a sub on Arnold later on, and rumours are Gomez is out. New keeper, and they didn't concede much last spring. Also potential for assists, even just by playing a safe pass to Salah.
- United started out last season with 5 clean sheets. Mourinho always starts out strong (Also at Chelsea)
- Sørloth: Very small ownership. He'll start and probably rise a point or two if he scores.
- Tosun/Richarlison: Great schedule and Tosun looked like amazing in the run in last year.
But I just saw a post on keeper-rotation, so I might change it again - Won't we all?
... Also be aware that if Sterling scores some goals when he comes back, he could rise quite a lot in price as he only sits in 2.3% of teams.
OK here's what I've got up to now:
Lloris
Maguire - Daniels - TAA
Salah - Bernardo - Eriksen - Neves
Tosun - Firminho - Aguero
Hennessey - Stephens - Bennett - Malone
Maguire's in for 5.5 mainly in case he moves to us as I could see him going to 6/6.5.
I'm hoping this is the season when Bernardo becomes the dominant Silva at City, Neves was as decent a shout as I could find for 5.
My bench is dogshit but I'm struggling to spare any money with Salah and a few big attackers draining my funds. I'd maybe swap Lloris for a less-fashionable keeper but that'll get me 1m at most (is Lloris going to start the first game?).
Lloris
Maguire - Daniels - TAA
Salah - Bernardo - Eriksen - Neves
Tosun - Firminho - Aguero
Hennessey - Stephens - Bennett - Malone
Maguire's in for 5.5 mainly in case he moves to us as I could see him going to 6/6.5.
I'm hoping this is the season when Bernardo becomes the dominant Silva at City, Neves was as decent a shout as I could find for 5.
My bench is dogshit but I'm struggling to spare any money with Salah and a few big attackers draining my funds. I'd maybe swap Lloris for a less-fashionable keeper but that'll get me 1m at most (is Lloris going to start the first game?).
Not bad. What's the potential of Doherty?
I've also looked over a Peltier/Wan Bissaka rotation for the first 5 weeks, but there's a lot of unknowns and Palace concede much. As a backup option they are both good to have for the first 5-6 weeks.
Any inputs on Clyne vs TAA for liverpool RB starting berth.
I feel like I am the only manager not selecting Salah. Anyone else leaving him out?
I've toyed with the idea, and still may do it as the funds can be used to have a really strong overall starting 11.
However, it is risky business.
Thanks. Doherty is a defender that bombs up the wing and can potentially get a few assists. Jonny is also at Wolves and a good option but he's the one that's likely to stay back more and they're the same price. Wolves are also a super defensive team.
Peltier and Wan-Bissaka are my bench fodder. 4.0 players that will hopefully play.
My strategy is to hedge my bets and have players from loads of different teams then play WC early once I see how the teams are lining up.
I've got David Luiz in yeah. My starting defence was De Gea, Mendy, Robertson, Luiz but I think there's a fair case to be made for trading Robertson for TAA now and using the £1m to upgrade a £4m defender to a £4.5 defender (Peltier > Jonny for me) and a £4.5m mid for a £5m mid (loads of better options here) as this gives me decent bench coverage. Of course what will inevitably happen now is I'll have bench players who outscore players on the pitch and laptop screens will be smashed.
With United's early game on friday - does anyone know if we'll hear the latest press-conferences from other teams before the deadline?
Probably going to stick with
De Gea - £4m turd
Mendy - Luiz - Alexander Arnold (Jonny - Wan Bissaka)
Salah - Mane - Jota - Richarlison (Cairney)
Zaha - Aguero - King
Everyone seems to have very similar teams again. Not sure if that's good or bad.
De Gea - £4m turd
Mendy - Luiz - Alexander Arnold (Jonny - Wan Bissaka)
Salah - Mane - Jota - Richarlison (Cairney)
Zaha - Aguero - King
Everyone seems to have very similar teams again. Not sure if that's good or bad.
This is very similar to my team. Think it's the safest way to go
I've gone for him, against what I initially thought.
I think the WC will come out early this year, if Salah is having a stinker it will be a good time to get him out and have the funds available.
Yeah I wanna avoid Arsenal for at least the first 2 fixtures and I toyed with Eriksen/Sane/Mane as the £9.5m midfielder but just think Liverpool will come out flying and am happy to gamble on them.
That said I might downgrade one of my bench players to leave £0.5m in the bank so I can easily do a Mane>De Bruyne or King>Arnie/Tosun switch.
Been thinking about Mane vs. Eriksen. Tough call.
What do people think of this team? Feels like my backline are yellow cards waiting to happen.
Ederson
Lovren - David Luiz - Mendy
Salah - Milivojevic - Eriksen - Neves
Agüero - Firmino - Zaha
Lovren - David Luiz - Mendy
Salah - Milivojevic - Eriksen - Neves
Agüero - Firmino - Zaha
Question marks as to whether Lovren will start in the league.
Is Firmino guaranteed to start too?
Not a fan of Mili, think there is better value to be had than him.
Other than that, I think it's a very good team overall.
My team so far (which may well change before Friday).....any thoughts!?!
Ederson
Alex-Arnold - Bailly - Laporte - Robertson
Son - De Bruyne - Ricarlison - Jota
Vardy - Firmino
Subs: Fabianski, Bellerin, Knockaert, Arnautovic
Ederson
Alex-Arnold - Bailly - Laporte - Robertson
Son - De Bruyne - Ricarlison - Jota
Vardy - Firmino
Subs: Fabianski, Bellerin, Knockaert, Arnautovic
Good side as long as you're aware that Vardy probably won't play on Friday.
Yeah I was a bit unsure about him tbh (and may still change him) but he's sure to start when fit and is generally involved in most goals in one way or another (although may change without Mahrez). The other one i wasn't sure about was Laporte as not sure how much game time he'll get.
Oh and Son is going to the Asian games after GW1 so that's a transfer waiting to happen.
Yeah, now that you mention it I'd be worried about Bailly and Laporte too.
Yeah, now that you mention it I'd be worried about Bailly and Laporte too.
Any caf fantasy experts fancy reviewing this?
Ederson
Davies - TAA - Maguire
Mane - Eriksen - Mkhi - Richarlison
Aguero - Firmino - Zaha
Subs: Speroni, Neves, Cedric, Zanka
Ederson
Davies - TAA - Maguire
Mane - Eriksen - Mkhi - Richarlison
Aguero - Firmino - Zaha
Subs: Speroni, Neves, Cedric, Zanka
Final draft (unless transfers happen)
Foster (4m)
Luiz/Mendy/Davies (Bennett/Wan-Bissaka)
Salah/Mahrez/Richarlison/Jota/Hughes
Firmino/Aguero (Jiminez)
Foster (4m)
Luiz/Mendy/Davies (Bennett/Wan-Bissaka)
Salah/Mahrez/Richarlison/Jota/Hughes
Firmino/Aguero (Jiminez)
Maguire won't start the season and TAA is in competition with Clyne for the same position, which is up in the air at the moment.
Other than that, very good.
Probably right - thinking maybe Van Aanholt for Maguire first week or two, before getting Maguire in (hopefully his price will stay down if there's a late summer move
). Probably chance it on TAA for now, he'll almost certainly replace Clyne in a week if he doesn't start straight away.I was looking at this and thinking "Wow, it's great. How has he managed that?" Then I realised you don't have Salah. You are brave or stupid!
Or both lol.
I have a feeling that Salah will have good numbers, but come nowhere near his goal tally of last season.
I think you'll see Liverpool spreading their goals amongst their attackers much more as teams (hopefully) find a means of nullifying Salah.
Mane is a great threat, who had a relatively poor league season by his standards last year. He's usually on penalty duties and has been doing it longer in the league.
Obviously you'd sooner have Salah, but Mane is not a bad option - who also allows you to build a stronger team around him. Before the season starts, I reckon its worth putting together a side that carries threats throughout as you never know how things will go.
I've got De Gea, Alonso, Van Dijk, Christensen, Townsend, Mane, Sane, Richarlison, Firmino (c), Tosun, King for the first weekend.
Subs: Patricio, Lascelles, Vertonghen, Shelvey
I'm putting too much hope on Merseyside aren't I?
Subs: Patricio, Lascelles, Vertonghen, Shelvey
I'm putting too much hope on Merseyside aren't I?
I've done similar mate. The logic being that they're likely to score loads and hit the ground running. If they don't, I'll happily take the point hit to see your lot underperform
I feel like I'm jinxing them.I've done similar mate. The logic being that they're likely to score loads and hit the ground running. If they don't, I'll happily take the point hit to see your lot underperform
It's harder to pick a team with players late back after the World Cup. I had De Bruyne but then took him out because I don't know when he'll be back.