I now have four players (Saliba, Vinagre, Stephens at Brighton, some shit striker) on my bench who haven’t played. The latter two were write-offs so I needed the first two to be rotation options/ start at least ever other game.
Impulsively took out Ings and put in Jimminez. Might swap Delle Alli for Everton James soon (I want his hair really badly, I'm jealous of his hair and I have hair of my own fyi lol).
He was benched. Wolves kept a cleansheet without him, and Numo isn't exactly famous for rotation.
Lampard unleashing the inner Pep.
What is the thinking behind getting players like this?
There are no strikers at £4.5m with even remote chance of playing. They start at £5.5m with Bamford and even then I’m not convinced he will be starting once Rodrigo is settled, plus that would require me to make two sacrifices elsewhere as I don’t have funds. He will literally be the last guy on the bench every single week.
Isn't Bamford and 4.5 defender the better option?
Bamford who will seldom get into my first XI and downgrade Tierney or Castagne to a Justin or Lamptey who will have to play a lot more because I got to have at least 3 defenders and I already have Dallas and Mitchell? Don’t think I’m going to be favorable on that. None of those 4.5 defenders are really that appealing when you consider Vinagre didn’t even play today and Justin will go to bench the minute Pereira returns. Taylor and two Leeds guys are appealing.
I am tempted to bring in Martial too. Although Palace is no easy game. Might not be ideal for him. Mourinho side at the moment look decent for a striker.
Most of the first team haven’t played any kind of pre season. We struggled against Palace a few months ago. Is that enough?
I swapped him out for Ben Davies! Ah the joys of Fantasy Football.
There is always someone you had or had in your plans that will mess with you outside your team.
The cheapies aren't all about your starting 11. There will be times when someone from you main 11 doesn't play, like Pulisic today. That's when you need your bench players coming in. Although if you want to put Brewster at the 3rd sub spot, I guess that's not too bad but his 4.5 price tag gives you no wiggle room. At least with Bamford, moving up to a 6.5 Wilson or 6 Watkins is quite easy. Brewster will give you no options.
Oh for sure. It always stings a little more when you had them for ages only to swap them out on game day for someone that does nothing, while original plan A goes on to score. Particularly a defender!
I was not sure about Reece James starting so didn't consider him much. Although put Vinagre in who didn't play. I guess I didn't follow my own principles with that one.
Palace are ridiculously defensive against the bigger clubs and will look to play purely on the break.
Remember, it's highly unlikely that Spurs will carry on playing like that. It could happen, of course it can but I doubt it and wouldn't start ditching these guys in a hurry. Maybe transfer them out slowly. They have Southampton next and can easily bounce back. Also, Everton were immense and had a spring in their step due to James signing whilst Southampton have Romeu.
Ye I'm sure he will but I planned to dump him GW2 anyway for United/City player as difficult fixture
Of course - anymore than a -8 is unlikely to pay off.Making some transfers, 32 points hit, should I use my wildcard?
. Think that's 81 I've finished on, probably my best gameweek 1 everMy bench will be an issue for a while but I will sort it out later. I’ve decided to get a fodder in there just so I don’t have to overthink it and can get anyone I fancy in other positions. My midfield is sorted out right now, I’ll be playing 5 every single week bar none, DCL will be a lock up front regardless of fixture and I’ll have Castagne, Tierney (moves to a Wolves defender after next GW) and Digne most weeks. So it’s about one of Dallas, Mitchell and Watkins for the final spot. The only problem is Mitchell will soon go back to bench, at which point it will probably be better to drop Auba, KDB or Bruno and improve both Brewster and Mitchell. At that point I will know better which of below £10m players are worth it. Eg Auba to Rashford would allow me to get a pretty good forward for Brewster and have money left to upgrade Mitchell to a £4.5m defender.
So after saying this weeks ago while building my team, I changed my team and added Werner, now Fernandes and De Bruyne are going to rise in price tonight and I didn’t leave enough money in the bank for a straight swap so I’d have to take a hit
Is Taylor first choice?
