Martinelli was a hugely frustrating player to own last season, had him for ages and can't remember him starting back to back games....not sure if anything has changed in the meantime (?).
Jesus will be reasonably nailed ;-)
I currently have Jesus in my drafts but I'm toying with the idea of Martinelli and banking the 2.0. (Also have Zinchenko in current draft, think Arsenal will start well)
Looking at Arsenal's 4 pre season games after Jesus joined, there isn't a huge amount between them.
Over the 4 games, it'd look like Jesus 19 v 14 Martinelli FPL points wise with goals and assists - not taking into consideration other points like playing up to 60 mins or clean sheets, etc. (bearing in mind Martinelli can get an extra CS point)
Arsenal play Sevilla Friday which might tell us more but there is something that's tempting me to go Martinelli over Jesus. Allows upgrading elsewhere.
Haven't spent too long looking at FPL yet so this is very much a work in progress.
Fairly settled on GK and defence.
I had Reece James in a few drafts but the flux at Chelsea has me spooked a bit tbh.
Midfield - HEWTy enough with Salah, Kulu and Diaz. Bailey seems like an early transfer waiting to happen, Soucek may become a 6.5 mid (ASM, Bruno G, Lingard, Rashford etc) if any of them show a bit of form in the next week.
Haven't seen ASM in any drafts actually? 🤔 Any reason why he's being overlooked??
Forwards - I'm expecting Jesus to hit the ground running, not 100% on Haaland tbh...Kane is tempting, but kinda hoping Kulu is enough Spurs cover
with the below changes I think it’s a pretty good draft:
Kdb to Diaz
dalot to TAA
Justin to zinchenco/white
That would give you more Liverpool players and an Arsenal defender (decent team with good fixtures)
I’m not a fan at all to be honest. Way too much tied up in 4 players and you have no flexibility to bring in any premium defender if (and when!) you want to. City and Liverpool could get 40 clean sheets this season between them, whereas Leicester, Wolves and Man U will be lucky to hit half that between them.
The 4 lads sounds great but you can only Captain one any week. If any of them miss a game you could be playing with 10 given that bench.
You have only one Liverpool player, no City defender, no Chelsea and you are starting two Forest players (who most have buried on their bench, for a reason). You only have 5 players from last years (and maybe this years) top 5, others will have between 8-10.
I’d see what others say, but for me, I’d rip it up and start again.
iv gone ,
Alisson
Trent, Dias,Chiwell
Foden,Eze,Salah,Rashford,Guimareas
Haaland , Awoniyi
Subs,
Bazunu,Mateta,Neco Williams,Guehi
I’ve done the following draft;
Sanchez
Dalot, Jonny, Justin, Neco
Andreas, Son, Salah, KDB
Jesus, Haaland
Gazzaniga, Colback, Vestergaard, Greenwood
Is it madness to have such a low budget defence? There is a big fear going without TAA or Cancelo. Would my midfield and attack compensate for the budget defence?
I would be interested to hear any opinions on this draft.
Very similar to mine, so obviously I think that's great! 😁
Changed it up again.
Henderson/Sanchez
TAA, Zinchenko, Cash, Perisic, N Williams
Salah, Son, Diaz, Guimaraes, Andreas
Jesus, Mitrovic, Awoniyi
Very content with my latest draft, think I will leave it at this. Subs should be solid enough too
Ederson (Darlow)
TAA, Cancelo, Zinchenko, Chilwell (N.Williams)
Neto, Bailey, Salah, Diaz (A. Pereira)
Haaland, Jesus (Broja)
Darlow won't play, but Neco Williams and Pereira should play week in week out, whilst I think Broja will eventually seal a loan move before the deadline and will be decent cheap striker option.
I'd say a lot of risks in that team, Nunez, who I like, may not hit the ground running, may not even start. Grealish has yet to really do it for City, likewise Sancho. Lingard could take a while to bed in and the first five are tough fixtures for Forest. Are you ever going to play Henderson? If not then a 4m goalie would be better
Is that not a condensed way of looking at it though? Rather than what could happen in one particular week, I would be looking at say first 6 weeks (or whenever you view yourself likely to play wildcard 1) and deciding who you think will score more points in that period.
Whether your premium plays for the same team shouldn’t really come into that unless you’re already likely to have 3 from that team.
I think the only time coverage really becomes relevant is when you’re maximising the amount of teams from which you can captain in prime fixtures. But you’re probably making a big leap captaining Diaz or Mahrez in those fixtures while Salah, Haaland, Son and Kane exist anyway.
Happy enough with it, good cover and and gives a good chance of all 15 playing. My own quirk but i dont like the sheer amount of away fixtures for GW1
Captain rotation in both cases will generally be between the 2 premiums. So Salah Kane rotation and Son Haaland rotation. The third spot of Diaz/Mahrez likely won't be captained but both Liverpool and City can be explosive for attacking returns at any time so I would like to have some attacking cover for those teams if I don't go for the premium attacker. The scenario I dont want is City or Liverpool to score 5 or 6 and I have no attackers playing.
Does 1 cover from each team actually help you if you're not going to be willing to captain the player? Substituting Mahrez for Haaland and Diaz for Salah won't really give you anything specific, if you're not willing to captain those guys ahead of Salah/Haaland when their teams have home games against Bournemouth or Leeds etc
Kane, Salah, Mahrez
or
Son, Diaz, Haaland +1m
I want to try get 1 cover from each team. Im leaning toward the first because I just cant imagine starting without Salah but his price is very high and he definitely had a bit of a dip end of last season with Son scoring great. Both city assets could fall to pep rotation too a concern.
What way would you go?
No point having JWP on the bench imo. He's on all set pieces so could get points against anyone. Either play him, or downgrade to a 4.5m mid, and spend the extra couple of million upgrading Coutinho and A.N. Other.
Decent team, No Salah is a massive risk, they have great fixtures
I think Zinchenko is much better than Gabriel, hes a BPS monster and he could be midfield, hes a james/Chilwell type points scorer for 5m, probably the best value in the whole game
A bit light in midfield but have three big hitters up top so hoping to offset. No Salah is a gamble but 13m is just too high, same with Son and KDB when there is a lot of cheaper threats available.
You need some red tinted glasses
Fred Astaire and nice bit of green need to leave aside their team loyalties IMO
But having said that people obviously enjoy FPL more when their team is doing well and they are doing well on the back of that
I actually didn't cop I had 0.5m in the bank, team now looks like
Sanchez- Guiata
TAA - Trippier - Jonny - Doherty - Zinchencko
Salah - Maddison - Andreas - Coutinho - Harrison
Kane - Jesus - Solanke
No City is the big thing.
I get what you're saying about the 2m being missing but the idea of the BB is that I'll be able to access that at the latest by my WC, so GW 4 or 5.
My planner shows that Solanke will be last sub until GW 6, so thats a bank of 1.5m.
I'm torn between Kane and Haaland, worried that Haaland won't get the same minutes but I don't have Kane as C until GW6. Haaland would be C in GW5
First draft, any thoughts appreciated:
Raya
TAA | cancelo | james
Guimarães | Diaz | rashford | coutinho
Kane | jesus | haaland
Bench: gazzaniga|andreas pereira|neco Williams|vestergaard
I'd be worried about three of your midfielders getting anywhere near enough minutes. I'd change Smith Rowe for Martinelli, and then get rid of Hojberg and Murphy as well.
Another day closer anxiety rising and my next draft after hours of chopping and changing mostly midfield.
TAA James Laporte
Smith Rowe De Bruyne Hojberg Murphy Salah
Antonio Jesus
Subs
Darlow Cucurella Mings Forss
Has a few in thought and went through about 10 differnt midfielder for 2 spots
Helpful criticism as always
I agree with you if you going to play fantasy football and want to play well while you will want some of your team you support sometimes you have to be realistic and pick players especially from rivals that are good. A risk in good but you have to have the rest of the team ready to take the slack for a game or 2 until you can transfer them if it does not go well
Two new defenders who are new to the PL. They may or may not hit the ground running but doubling up on the defence is a big risk. You're not convinced by Jesus (who has one of the best goals per minute ratios in PL history) but are putting Martial in your team, one of the most inconsistent fpl assets in recent years. I just don't see it tbh.
I feel like you can see that 2 or 3 million in the team, that hasn’t been cut out through going for a 4.0 keeper, a 4.0 defender and a 4.5 striker.
That 2 or 3 million is basically having Trent and Cancelo in your team. If those guys don’t do their usual, you are laughing, but they’re dangerous guys to go without, especially since they’re not coming at near the cost to your budget as the actual premiums.
I like that team. Well balanced & funds used well. Can easily jump between different options early doors.
I like the Maddy pick, I think he is gonna be banging Southgates door down come Xmas. His numbers where very good at the end of the season while being managed & has pre-season under his belt
Going with Kane & Haaland is seriously risky. You’ll be ultimately moving that cash out of your forwards if one or both doesn’t fire & that’ll require multiple moves.
Remember Ronnie & Lukaku last season, there’ll be times to put them (Ronnie) in but 2 x 11.5m strikers with no alternatives I think is a bad strategy.
At least with midfielders you can jump between a few options very swiftly
if you want to go with one go with Kane. We don’t know how Haaland will far on the bps & while he might score, KdB could easily be outscoring him regularly with goals/assists & bps.
Go Son/Haaland or KdB/Kane would be my advice.
Rashford has looked atrocious for so long (a good 18 months) that most fans I know have totally written him off. Maybe a full pre-season and a new manager can help him recover, but I wouldn't bank on it - especially because I don't think he has looked much better than last season in the pre season games. For me he is one to keep an eye on but stay away from early. His terrible decision making will always put a ceiling on his capabilities.
Sancho is one I would have in my team if I could fit him in. If He had occasional flashes of good play last season (which is more than the rest of them) and has been excellent in the friendlies - one of our best players. Him and Dalot have struck up a very good partnership on the right (which is another reason I like Dalot a lot). I think he will have an excellent season. He thrived in a very specific system at Dortmund with lots of instruction and was bought by Ole who sent his players out with minimal instruction - being back under a proper system manager should do him the world of good.
