General chat 23/24

I think its normal that people's opinion will vary depending on how this news affects their FPL rank, but I would say that ultimately there was no justice or injustice in either outcome here. If they give everyone the points, then the people who don't own Solanke will feel hard done by, and if they void it, those who do are feeling hard done by, unless they've subs to cover the points.

What I think is the most obvious thing from it, is that abandoned games is definitely something FPL should have had in their rulebook. It shouldn't have been a 5 day conversation of 'what are they going to do here?'. We should have known what was coming, and the only thing to be left waiting on was to establish whether the game was going to be considered or completed. We can talk all day about how you don't expect a player to collapse on the pitch, but a) its happened numerous times before in football and b) its far from the only reason for a game to be abandoned, its probably not even the most likely reason for a game to be abandoned.

We know now at least.

The point is more that we didn’t know what was going to happen in the event of each of the various possible Premier League decisions.

People acted like they did, and those who speculated that the points would be cancelled out got their confirmation bias to be able to act like they knew all along, but the truth is that nobody really knew for sure, and that’s a problem for me.

Ah for the love of Jesus....I think Ill give up.

There's a game tonight!!!

With me sobbing away and complaining from last week, finishing up work, the school run(As I finished early) and doctor's visit...wasn't expecting another kick in the Nut$ this week....😟

If anyone is interested, my VC is still Mitoma !!

Captain is Solake...At least a bit rested, but if he does score big, it's not great for Forest!!!

except in the match day thread his captain is Watkins…

Am I the only one considering leaving Salah and Son on the bench til they get back from international games ?

Other players haven’t dropped significantly in price although I’m no price expert. I’m really basing that on how many sold Haaland yet he went down only 0.1m.

I’m having a horrific season but I’m really enjoying how hard it is. There seems to be so so many options. I’m not getting to watch any games and I think that’s killing my rank as that’s how I’ve always picked my players.

I think its a bad idea, 20% of your budget just sat there. Even if you're losing value I think you'd be losing too many points

i would also be inclined to keep them until see what's available really. I've kept Haaland all this time and don't think it's worked out too bad.

However haven't said that not have TAA is going to cost you as those who do get rid of Salah/Son will probably look at getting TAA -

Think you have to really, the same logic you'd have kept Haaland, whch has the double whammy of not buying Solanke (so missing points there) and not having the funds to spend on Trent (losing points again there). Even selling one allows someone like Saka and a load of cash for elsewhere.

Some amount of love for Saka on this site - a lad with one goal in last 10 games.

Bowen and Ricky both have decent form. There are plenty of players with better form than Saka but for someone unknown reason many just can’t see past his poor run for his price tag. TAA is cheaper and has outscored Saka over last ten games 73v45 I think yet how many say that can’t afford him while sticking with Saka? . I think Foden has better form and he’s in/out of that city team.

Even looking at more expensive defenders, VVD is on decent run and has goal threat

you don’t have to spend the cash you could just bench the players. They could miss one or two GWs not as if it will be 5/6.

Saka could score two this GW but it still doesn’t negate that he’s on poor form for his price tag - was it fitz that benched him this week. How often do people bench 9m players?

Yeah already have Bowen, feels like we’ve been here a lot with Richarlison but he always disappoints. And they’re losing Son so their attack weakens.

I realise Saka isn’t scoring plentiful but even without his price tag, he’s a guaranteed starter, in a team that scores, and has a history to score in the past.

i could save money but it’s not an issue in Jan

He only got 4 points

Are there minutes concerns there though at some point? Phillips, JWP, Soucek, Alvarez, Paqueta all do their best work centrally.

Is Paqueta not their best player? You’d be likely to play him in his best position. Defo don’t expect JWP to become a benchwarmer, but reduced minutes may be a possibility, even in the games he starts.

So it's Jür-Gone Klopp

What a pity I'm not a Pool fan but I love Klopp

Will we see Salah next season in FF?

You were doing okay until you compared him to Shankly.

Wasnt sure where to put this but what are peoples thoughts on chip strategy going forward or plans?

I'm fairly certain I'm going to use my free hit for the double coming up as the only Liverpool player I currently own is Salah and the fixtures are so good.

I also don't want Liverpool players after given they have a blank, potential another and man city in the next 4 gws.

Haaland treble captain was also on my mind but I also haven't brought him back in yet as I wanted to see what his minutes were like.

No plan for my wildcard just yet.

Had a long hard look at gw 29 alright so much depends on the fa cup results obviously, but you'd imagine whatever way it shakes up it'll probably be a low scoring week so the average will probably be low. So it's hard to get too hurt. Plus plenty of gws to plan for it.

I've deffo decided on the fh next week. Could be a huge scoring week outside of the Liverpool city double, arsenal, Brighton and united all have great fixtures and I'd prefer to use the chip trying to hit a huge score. For my team at least it makes sense and not having to transfer out Liverpool players coming into potentially two blanks they will also have loads of games still being in 3 cups so could have rotation problems or just be a tired team over the next 6 weeks

Made a somewhat defensive transfer and brought in jota just for some Liverpool coverage for Burnley and forest though so hedging my bets slightly.

Social media plays a big part I think. All the various FPL influencer accounts have taken a lot of the hard work out of it. Everyone just seems to copy what the main accounts do, ranging from captaincy calls to who to transfer in on any given week.

And there's a lot more people playing the game now too. Back in the 19/20 season there were over 6 million teams registered for GW1. This season that went to over 8 million.

With KdB getting a hattrick of assits

Now 5 for Haaland.

I don't mind the Haaland goals but the quad of KDB assists is severely annoying after the last few weeks owning him

Ah stop DGW TC - would have made serious inroads on a rival who forgot the play the TC. That coupled with KdB. It would be even more epic than that time Aguero got 5 goals and this place was bouncing - some guys were only seeing he scored a third, when he was on 4 and then of 5 goals. Peak FPL moment.