General chat 24/25

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.

I don't think there's any guarantees that Rogers and Nkunku will start for their respective clubs. I'd rather take a chance on Delap over a guy that spent last year out on loan. Yoro is an unknown quantity, I'd rather wait and watch before pulling the trigger on a move for him.

Ramsey is definitely pre season bandwagon material.

3 goals and an assist in 2 preseason games.

Showed glimpses of his talent and potential as a FF asset towards the end of last season

Plus Luiz and Diaby have moved on (although Onana and Ross Barkley have be signed).

Good 5m bench option.

@Green&Red are you running the champions league again this season ?

My cheap defence, premium attack 1st draft.

I didn't think it wad possible but you've managed it.

The thing is, even if the punts on Nkunku and Pedro don't work out, there are lots of viable alternatives in the same price range.

Son is 10m which means you can go to Saka easy enough if he go nuts early on but with Foden at the same price and Palmer at 10.5 you would have to sell Son and downgrade elsewhere to get them in but you have little or no wiggle room to downgrade elsewhere without affecting your premiums.

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.

This is my current team.

Before this, I had Trippier, Foden & Pickford in there instead of Livramento, Salah & Flekken.

2nd version with Salah etc is much better… at least until the 1st international break by which time we should know the lay of the land a bit better in terms of players like livermento and Martinez who could be great picks if they start but if they don't you could struggle to field 11 starters.

Watkins to one of the many 7.5m options would allow you to beef up defense option a bit but sometimes you just have to back yourself, I think your draft is definitely worth a gamble

Bergvall is on my shortlist. I'm a slurs fan and I'll be watching closely. He picked up an injury in the 2nd pre season friendly which is disappointing because some of the other young talent have taken their chances in preseason and might make the spurs bench in the early weeks.