General chat 24/25

Looking like it's better to go cheap on defense with the new system. Nearly impossible for a defender to get bonus points.

I'm deffo happier to go with three of Son, Saka, Palmer and Foden in midfield and Watkins, Isaak and somebody else like Havertz or Solanke up too than have either or both of Salah and EBH.

Any good tips from the newly promoted teams?

Having Leicester back is like the old days! Half tempted to stick vardy in for the LOLs

I only have BB, TC & Mystery Chip. FH gone?

Vardy doesn't start every game and could be phased out this season. There's not many attacking options I like from Leicester, maybe Mavadidi.

Conor Chaplin is one I'd be looking at from Ipswich, he had a fair few goals and assists last season. He's a midfielder at 5.5. Leif Davis topped league 1 in assists the season before last and topped the championship last season. He's a defender at 4.5.

I'll be watching who Ipswich bring in, there could be another bargain to be had.

Southampton's best last season were pretty average in the Premier league so I wouldn't be gone on any of them.

Just to confirm, fpl is uneffect by the global I.T. outage.

Yeah. You’re correct.

I suppose I was thinking that he may be very highly owned and therefore highly captained.

If Salah was gone then it feels more like a decision has to be made about owning Haaland. Salah might feel like an affordable safety net for most.

It would also hopefully mean that we would have more of a spread of captains.

I also don’t like Salah much.

Was listening to an fpl podcast this morning in the gym and it's changed my mind on a few things..

… was all set to go Haaland-less this season but they made thr good point about the amount of players who didn't feature in the euros or copa America that should hit the ground running after a full preseason versus those that are still on their holidays. Haaland, Salah, Son, even defenders like porro who wasn't in the Spain squad.

They also mentioned some Davies chap that plays left back for Ipswich. 18 assists last season and is 4.5m

I had no Liverpool player in my draft but with Ipswich in gw1, that has to change.

Harry Winks = the new "two points Tom Carroll."

Listening to FF scout podcast in the gym this morning. They had some Ed fella who's a Newcastle fan on doing his team reveal.

I wasn't given it my full attention as I was doing cardio but a few points of interest.

He reckons Burn is not nailed on as a starter. He might start the 1st couple of games but Newcastle will sign a new CB and at left back they have Hall, livermento and even Tripper (if he stays)

Rumours are that tripper has taken his kids our of school in Newcastle, put house up for sale and has some private issues going on in the back ground.

Bruno could be a good buy as he is the most fouled player in the league and their are new bps for played who get fouled. As Bruno pretty much always gets away a successful pass or get fouled he should be a bps magnet.

One point on Gordon... most of his FF points (goals, assists) where picked up in the home fixtures last season ans Newcastle have 3 away fixtures in the first 4 GWs

Winks and Tom Carroll are both ex spurs. Both similar ham and egg midfielders. Has anyone ever seen both of them at the same time? Definitely grounds for a good conspiracy theory there somewhere.

One correction to this post.

The fella in the podcast said Newcastle had 3 away games in the first 4 games. They don't. The have 3 away in the first 5 gws. (as do half of all teams) and 3 of them 3 are decent - wolves and Bournemouth I think.

And his battle for starts is with Rogers who is a very popular pick.

I don't know if it's the boards mobile app or what, but that team layout just gave me cancer. Any chance of a few screen shots.