Rate My Team Thread

You seem to know what you want so I won’t wreck your head.

It’s good to see something different.

I don’t feel like I’m seeing the savings made in defence in the rest of your team.

The only note I’d give is that I don’t fancy Fulham this year so I’d try and find someone else. Henry comes to mind.

Onana

Gabriel Chilwell Estupinan Stones

Salah Rashford Saka Mitoma Mbeumo

Haaland

Bit of a tried-and-tested XI, bar Onana who always impressed me and is a cheap Top 4 keeper.

Not ecstatic about having two dud strikers on the bench but there's really nobody else I fancy up front. Mitoma/Mbuemo is a bit light but both have ovely fixtures to start.

I reckon with Haaland, Salah, Saka and Rashford I have the main goal threat for each of the Top 4 teams.

Who's your bench and other defender?

I don't mind that team at all although I'm personally not a fan of Mitoma (I know many fancy him) but that could easily be Eze or similar.

It's a very nice looking team overall - have you any worry of trying to get to a second striker if someone does start well? I wanted to start with Jesus and not convinced by anyone else just yet. Feel I'm starting with 2 strikers for the sake of it - Watkins in latest draft and have had Jackson previously.

Tried a no Haaland draft

Nobody of note on bench 4m def and 4.5m fwds

yeah traditionally I’d take a second striker but this year I like Haaland, Kane, Watkins and Wilson and that’s it, nobody at all I think is worth a shot, someone will rise but look at the scores from last year, the FWDs totally underperformed other positions.

Yourself and @Benimar both make the same point about the surprise benching/injury for Haaland, I might go 2 up top eventually hit right now I feel playing for “what ifs” is like the lads you see with 5m defenders on the bench or a strong front 8, seems a wasted use of funds. Makes more sense later in the year IMO

I’d love to go without Haaland too but I just don’t think I’m a good enough player or certainly not dedicated enough.

The fact that he is captained nearly every week just further adds to the potential damage.

It may be a bit cowardly but I’d rather just pick the 14 players that go with him.

If I didn’t mind burning my team after 5-6 weeks, if Haaland scored heavy, then I’d do it but I’m in for the long haul. Unfortunately.

My first draft.

Happy enough with the back five bar Lamptey because I'm not sure how much he'll feature but he'll do until a cheap guy starts to stand out. Maybe I'll switch Martinez to Saliba though. Was staying away from City defenders because I'm not sure who actually plays now they've that many.

Midfield? Good to have Grealish and Salah. Gross has great fixtures and scored well last year so hoping for a fast start from him. Jones is there for the first few games but I think Klopp is going to play him an awful lot this season so I'll re-evaluate him in a few weeks. Tielmans is a bit of a gamble, I'm hoping his form last year was a bit of a blip and we'll see him up the effort massively this season.

Don't need to say anything about the two chaps up front. If Kane goes then I'll swap a few things around and beef up midfield or move for Son or Jota and upgrade Balogan.

Obviously I like being different for the sake of it in FPL, fancy play syndrome is a good term I heard on twitter but that’s whats enjoyable. And obviously its confirmation bias but I can definitely make a case for not having Haaland but then everyone skipping over him is the same but opposite, literally not one thing I have listened to has suggested going without, its just skipped over. So either a no brainer or massive group think.

At £14m you could argue Haaland is overpriced, he needs to score over 300 points for that to be an accurate price for him and I don’t think a striker can make that, Salah is the only player to ever do it, Suarez went close, both got CS points. Haaland hits 40 goals this year he still doesn’t make 300. 

I don’t like many teams for clean sheets, looking at last years top performers

Manchester United 17 - New sweeper keeper, its going to take time to get used to this IMO

Liverpool 14 - Losing Fab and Henderson can't be good for them

Newcastle United 13 - I expect to see a regression to Eddie Howe's norm plus a tough start

Arsenal 13 - Probably around the same

Wolverhampton Wanderers 11 - these lads have brought in Doherty and are sacking their manager

Aston Villa 11 - I'd expect them to improve on this

Brentford 11 - I think Brentford will be back a long way this year, second season syndrome in their third season, Toney and Raya gone is massive

Manchester City 11 - I think this can be closer to 18

Chelsea 9 - who f**king knows

The City triple up should mean I have at least two playing every week with hopefully three, Pep didn’t do much defensive rotation at the start of last year. So in the case where City win 2-0 and Haaland scores both I would consider that a breakeven. Obviously where City win 4-1 I’m fucked

Turner gone to Forest 🤔

Currently on Pickford and Areola....Turner could replace either of them I guess

Thoughts on this? Going for a strong 15 rather than the weak bench.

Asking for trouble with double Everton DF IMO. Better 4.5 DF's out there.

Gakpo could be a great option at a great price, toying with him myself - minutes the issue but could be a great differential. Surely starts over Darwin?

As far as the teams go - Man U scored 58 goals last season and finished 3rd. Spurs scored 70 goals and finished 8th.

Spurs now have a very very attacking manager. Let’s win by 6 if we can.

I think United’s manager is a tad more reserved. Let’s just win.

I’m not sure how cogent that is but in fairness I didn’t try very hard.

Are you forgetting whose managing Everton now? They had six clean sheets between February and the end of last season. Now Dyche has had a full preseason with them.

Burnley were up near the top of the league in clean sheets every year under him.

Everton have a nice run of fixtures to start the season.

They've had cleans sheets in the last four preseason games. It hasn't been great opposition outside of Sporting but they are already showing what you get with Dyche.

I'm having the same thoughts around 2nd FWD now too.

I had Jesus but then went off him, so switched to Darwin, when turned to Gakpo who is in a bit of a flip-flop with Jackson (mainly as I wanted some Liverpool attacker as the goals are flowing this pre-seaoson). But Villa do have a decent first 12 weeks or so, which more than covers the first WC, and Watkins is interesting there.

Watkins / Gakpo / Jackson and they have varying degrees of proof behind them. I don't want to book in ore than 1 transfer for the first few weeks either. As I write this, I am kinda siding towards and order of 1.Gakpo 2.Jackson 3.Watkins because Liverpools attack / Chelsea have strong short term fixtures / Villa's fixtures are more long terms fixtures and can be kicked down the road a bit to GW8 and we don't know how they will rotate with Europe.

All of the above is dependent on not going with Salah, of course.

I think if there is any time to go without Haaland it is for the games between GW9 & GW14 and the potential rotation. But other than that, he could be a must own.

That run of games goes like this;

• 9 - Brighton- h
• CL GW 3
• 10 - man united - a
• 11 -bournemouth - h
• CL GW 4
• 12 - chelsea - a
• 13 - Liverpool -h
• CL GW 5
• 14 - Spurs - h

But we didn't see much rotation last year with Haaland in the first half of the season, and those CL games could be against the weaker seeds too!

Richarlison isn't nailed as far as I can see. Son- Kane - Madison up front

I often had Tarkowski and Heaton/Pope and sometimes Mee. It almost always worked out well.

In the first eight weeks a Sean Dyche team has home games against Fulham, Wolves, Luton and Bournemouth. They are away to Sheffield United as well.

Their other fixtures are away to Villa and Brentford, we'll see how Brentford do without Toney, and then home to Arsenal who funnily enough they beat 1-0 at home late last season.

This isn't a season long hold on Everton players, after eight weeks there's a decision to be made. If they manage to have three or more clean sheets then it'll be hard to drop them but if they have less than that they are gone.

Anyway the gameweeks you'd consider them for are 1, 3, 4, 7 and 8. You have Forest to rotate for weeks 2 and 5 and then Luton or Crystal Palace for gameweek 6.

After week 8 you have to start finding other teams to rotate at cheap prices.

You could rotate Everton with Burnley from week 9 on, 9 would be a tough week but they work well together from there until week 15.

Burnley, Dyche's former team funnily enough, are going under the radar as a defensive team. They had the best defensive record in the Championship last season conceding 35 goals in 46 games. They have a manager in Vincent Kompany who knows a thing or two about a good defense. Imo the best 4.0m defender in FPL this year is Jordan Beyer.

Whats the thinking with Pedro? he going to start over Ferguson?

Spurs have accepted Bayerns offer for Kane this morning.

Who are you bringing in for James after his GW4 injury?