General chat 23/24

Hopefully it is 13.0 or 13.5.

Have to take into account his record, ownership, nailedness and the team he plays for!

I'd guess it would be more 13.0 than 13.5 because mids score more than forwards so that was a factor in Salah's pricing.

I do hope it's higher as owning Haaland became boring this year. You would hope that it becomes a choice. Do I want Haaland + one other or do I want just Haaland?

Doesn’t really matter everyone will just start with him. For those complaining it’s boring you don’t need to buy him if you don’t want to -

most people complaining probably had a template team for most of the season, if anything it’s what makes a draft so good -

Of course I get that - but chances are most would still get him. For as great as Haaland was surpriseingly to me Kane was only 9 points behind him - how many are advocating for Kane to be 14m next season?

I don’t think I’d go with Haaland at 15 based on the pricing structures from the years before the one gone by which was overly generous.

But as mentioned by Mark it will depend on how affordable they make everyone else. If everyone else is priced like last season, where you could afford a team exclusively from top 6 key players, then yeah, you don’t have to sacrifice much to have him.

There are always teams/players who you don’t expect to perform, and then do, who create value in doing so.

You expect that, but I felt that the prices were way too low from the get go which made that value created later even more pronounced.

The quality of the team we could afford by the end of the season became insane, and meant things were far more templatey than anyone is likely to enjoy.

I think there is a lot of results based thinking going on here, at start of season there were lads raving over Chelsea players - James/Sterling for example - but between injures and no form - they drifted away - similarly to TAA, he didn't do a pile this season, and opinion moved away from him being a season keepers to his ownership falling through the roof, but might have picked up towards the end.

Son, Kdb, Salah, Vardy, Ronaldo, Darwin, Cancelo, Chilwell, James, Sterling - the list of high priced players who were popular at the start - how many of them were in teams towards the ends of the season. most of them were fit but likely not have been in any teams, bar Salah.

Looking ahead to next season - what do they price the Chelsea lads at - what do you think would be fair value to be placed on Sterling for instance - 8m? What about Son, his first poor season - are you saying 9m?

You see next season you could end up with Sterling Son in your team quiet cheaply and people saying they were underpriced this and that - but you had to price them somehow.

Perriera was a €4.5 MUFC midfielder unlikely to play much more than a bit-part, so I think the price was pretty fair. Just unfortunate really that he got his move to the ideal club/situation after the price was set. Jesus transferred City to Arsenal July 4th, so might be a similar situation. Not sure exactly when the game opened. But his price could have been set based on his irregular starts at his then club City.

Personally I think it would be reasonable for them to reset the price of such players after the move if there's more than a week left to the first deadline, but it does raise issues for those who've already selected him.

Don’t think that will happen

Haha started mine tonight before I read this

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There's a website that does this I think. I'll try dig it out. But it would be up until the game goes down for maintenance ahead of launch

Edit www.livefpl.net/save

It depends on price points but I get the impression they did under perform in the league the season just gone and have potential to do better next season. They have at times being very good at the counter attack so Bowen could run up some good scores if they find form.

Thanks for sharing, I’ll be hitting the spreadsheet later 😂

I hate the staggered gw1. First week and last week all the games should start at 3pm.

4 away games in a row? Are they doing something to their ground?

I've had a look, and it looks like Luton actually have the easiest first ten fixtures, and Sheffield United have the hardest. It's a bit tricky this year, as I would usually use last years home and away form, but there was quite a lot of untypical behaviour last year. Like Chelsea were 15th in home form last season, but last season was an utter mess, and I don't think they'll be anywhere near that bad this year with a good manager like Poch.

Absolutely take this with a pinch of salt, but this is the top 5 teams with the easiest first 10 fixtures:

1: Luton; home to Spurs and away to Villa will be their most difficult matches.

2: Liverpool; Away to Newcastle and away to Spurs will be their trickiest

3: Arsenal; Home to City, Spurs, United and Fulham (6th in the away league last year) but easier games against Forest, Everton and Sheffield

4: Chelsea; Home to Arsenal and Liverpool, Villa and Brentford

5: Villa; Toughest games are away to Liverpool & Newcastle, home to Brighton

Then the 3 with the worst first ten games are:

1: Sheffield United; Home to City, Newcastle & United, Away to Arsenal and Spurs

2: Brighton; Away to City, United & Villa, home to Newcastle, Liverpool and Fulham

3: Wolves; Away to United, home to Brighton, City, Newcastle and Liverpool

(I'm laid up in bed with tendonitis and this is stopping me going mad btw)

But mount hasn’t so fed for United yet… in fact because of that he’ll likely be cheaper than if he was a United player

First price reveals;

Odeagaard mid ARS 8.5

Fernandes mid MAN 8.5

Mitoma mid BHA 6.5

Watkins fwd AVL 8.0

Morris fwd LUT 5.5

Ndiaye fwd SHU 5.5

Kluivert mid BOU 5.0

Nkunku fwd CHE 7.5

Mbeumo mid BRE 5.0

Eze mid CRY 6.5

Son is three mill cheaper (and a year younger).

My first thought on Trippier at 6.5 is nope, and second thought is TAA will be 7.5.

Son at 9.0 is very interesting. Spurs new manager is known for his attacking style of play.

Bring on the enablers.