Rate my team 22/23

Everytime I see a nicely balanced team like this I wonder how they've achieved it....then I see no Salah! I'd personally never go without Salah but as Salah-less teams go, this is a nice team. I see no point in two 4.5 keepers, it's a headache rotating both of them. I see people picking Meslier but again I think it's madness. Ward could even get minutes, so maybe bring him in as your 4m GK.

Is Kane worth having if you won’t captain him at home to Southampton? Captaincy is probably the biggest reason to spend 10 mill plus on a player.

I think looking at it over the course of one weekend doesn’t really sum it up that well.

Kane is actually a great example, because he pretty much averages to around 200 over the course of a season. This is a good score. But at 11.5 million, having him aswell as 2 similarly priced players takes a huge amount of flexibility out of the rest of your budget.

Those 150-200 point players are massively valuable. Having like 7-8 of those and 2 premiums, feels like a much better way to maximise points expectations across the team than having 4-5 of them and 3 premiums (especially when you’re not specifically playing to double the points expectation of one of those 3)

This becomes less the case over the course of the season as cheap guys start to show they can perform closer to 200 and are demonstrably hugely underpriced. Whereas the cheap guys we’re going with at the moment are essentially somewhat educated punts that we’re hoping will do that.

How many points higher do we project Kane to score higher than Jesus for example? We really think we can’t find that point difference with change of 3.5 million to bulk up with. Especially since if Jesus doesn’t end up being the 170 point guy, you can just switch with one transfer to the guy who is looking like that.

Trying to think outside the box and thinking of going big 3 big hitters in midfield, a very strong back line and going light(ish) up top.

(I plan to wc in week 4 or 5)

Downgrade Bruno to sancho . You have some cash to spend elsewhere

Sancho hasn't started the last couple, not sure if it's illness or what.

Sorry but....why in the bejaysus have you Tielemans in your team?! Was sh1te last season, might be transferred out, might not even play. All for 6.5m.

Is Luiz nailed o for Villa

I'm starting Bailey, great pre season that will be hard to ignore for Gerrard not to start/play him. Worth the risk at 5.0 I think and Andreas rotates well him at the start.

Re Ben White, I'm not sure he's nailed. Saliba and Gabriel might be first choice for the new season. Maybe White starts at RB while Tomiyasu is injured but not sure at CB.

Tierney hasn't featured in pre-season so Zinchenko should start ahead of him. Don't see the appeal of Watkins when you can get Jesus for 0.5 more. No Liverpool or City defender is an issue.

Nice, not seeing many drafts with Son in them. Don’t understand it, he was on fire last season and they have great opening fixtures.

Chilwell barely featured pre-season. Good option when fit but James probably safer bet to start off with.

I’d imagine it comes down to Son, Kane or Haaland.

Starting with Kane or Haaland allows you to easily swap to the other in one transfer. I suspect many will start Kane and swap to Haaland in GW2. Plus both are 0.5 cheaper than Son.

Starting with Son, it’ll take 2 transfers to swap to Haaland if he starts on fire.

I’ve tried fitting Son, Haaland and Salah - it’s a good looking team but overall team is a bit weaker. Not sold on it yet.

Ownership too plays a big part. Haaland is massively owned already, more than twice Son (I think) so if he starts on fire it’ll affect OR if you don’t have him.

Cucurella now linked to Chelsea which you’d imagine will have an effect on Chilwell’s minutes.