Wildcards discussion during FPL 23'/24'

Despite our different views most weeks that team is very similar to my current.

i think Jackson at his price point and fixtures is worth having and scored at the weekend. I also squeezed Son in there too, but given he’ll be gone in January probably no need to have him

Just keeping the cash to get Haaland after you sell Salah might be optimum. Would leave you with a cracking team until 25 and worry about Son and Salah then

So I made a mistake in my dates, thought the WC had to be played for 19 when it's actually 20.

Anyway, I've come around to this. Banking on Haaland missing 19 and 20 at least. That means Im banking the cash I need for the Haaland transfer in a defender, selling Salah will allow me get to him.

25 is a long way away. I'm a -4 from anyone so I won't worry about that, a bit of planning should solve that.

What's your thoughts on Dubravka? Will they buy? Leno, Neto, Pickford are all options.

I'm tied in with Gordon, have him at 5.5m, so unless his leg falls off I'll keep him

I'm not sold on Foden, could be punishd for that penalty. I am Bruno curious, terrible form but great fixtures

Bentley is there on the hope Sa is out for a while. Other cheap options are all dodgy too imo

Love the team you ended up on with the exception of the keepers. Well Bentley anyway but know you’re not bothered. I would have gambled on Areola getting his place back.

I’m assuming you’ll sell Salah for Haaland but you may actually struggle to want both of them because of the balance of your team and the options you have.

Salah might come back from Egypt all depressed again and off kilter.

So I don't have to use my wildcard this week ? I can save it for 20

Started messing about there with a draft or two

Gonna keep Salah for one more game...will take a hit if needs be to get Haaland back at some stage

Watkins is joint top scorer with Haaland among forwards. It'd be crazy to dump him over two poor games.

You should be dumping one of your other forwards if you fancy bringing someone new in.

He's tied third on form currently. Only Solanke and Wood have better form figures.

Two of those five games were against City and Arsenal.

He has a very nice run of fixtures over the next eight gameweeks.

Who are you getting in, Wood or Solanke?

Can you tell me why you are going to keep players who've scored less and are in worse form?

Cheers...Odegaard has turned into Bowen, and Gabriel into Estupinian.

Will probably sell Salah then for an Arsenal mid

If Estupinian is fit to start he’s great buy especially if they keep some CS

For sure. I'd wait until after the West Ham game though. Two reasons, first to see if he starts and West Ham have only blanked once since October and are in great form.

Fair enough but it's likely you'd have .2 or so more to play with if you dropped him. . He's dropped .1 already and there'll be mass hysteria amongst the casual fpl players when he doesn't play this weekend. It might even happen before then if they read he's not playing.

I'm on my wildcard and I have gone for the Areola/Fabianski combo. Both cheap and you can set and forget.

My team now looks like ::

Areola Fabianski

Saliba TAA Porro Estu Doughty

Saka Bowen Palmer Foden Sarr

Solanke Watkins Alvarez

Have serious Salah fear this week but I wanted to be fully set up for the next 4-5 weeks and so I can be reactionary to any injuries or news on haaland returning. Have loads of money in the bank to get him back easily

With a headline that Haaland is not even in the squad for the FA cup game and lots of other flagged players that mean I'm unlikely to have a full team available for next game week I'm thinking of playing the second wildcard with the following changes giving me a 0.9mill in the bank after bringing in Porro, Emerson, Estupinan, Doughty, Douglas Luiz and Gross for Gabriel, Senesi, Robinson, Maguire, Olise, and Garnacho. Lets me feel a bit safer leaving Haaland and Salah on the bench if they are unavailable and I can downgrade a striker if I want to get Son back again. I know its playing the second wildcard early but it is a long way to a double game week to target and I think my current team is in trouble for a few weeks without playing it. Any advice appreciated.

Edit: always liked to play an early wildcard so pushed the button and gone for Gusto and Richarlison instead of Emerson and Gross in the list of changes above. Could still go for Diaz instead of Richarlison and have nothing left in the bank but will leave it a while now before making any final changes.

Haven’t had much time to look at it or think about it but what you’ve laid out looks very appealing.

The most obv question based on the players you have is who do you bench in GW25? - assuming you’re playing those with DGWs?

Chances are you won’t want to bench Arsenal assets against Burnley?

I'm looking at:

Kaminski/Flekken

VVD, Gabriel, Pau, Reguillon, Doughty

KDB, Foden, Jota, Barkley, Douglas Luiz

Darwin, Toney, Haaland.

Opens up a possibility of a GW25 BB.

Jota, Darwin to Solanke, Bowen in 26

Foden to Son in 27

Virgil to Udogie in 28

Would give me 12 DGWers in GW25, 11 in GW26, 4 Doublers in GW28 and 11 in GW29

My team is "alright", bar a disastrous gw this weekend, mainly down to poor captain pick.

Looking at this for my wildcard:

Leno Pickford

Branthwaite Bradley TAA Doughty Trippier

Bailey KDB Foden Palmer Jota

Adebayo Toney EBH

That is potentially 9 dgw players for dgw 25, though I have concern with Pep Roulette, how Bradley recovers, and TAA being taken off after 45 today.

for Blank GW26, I'll have 9, no hits.

Pickford

Trippier Branthwaite (Transfer in another def)

Bailey KDB Foden

Haaland Toney

I'll use the free hit chip for blank gw29

Thoughts?

Edit: Wrong thread

Dunno why you can't just have both based on the price of certain players like Palmer/Luiz - dont' really need a very pricy 5th midfielder

Watkins is the highest scoring player in the game and is guaranteed to play 90mins and play every game. KDB is neither of those things and an injury risk. Pretty straight forward decision if you ask me