how did Maresca do with rotating players at Chelsea? There’s some bargains in there if one can be assured of starts
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Kusi-Asare might get some but I wouldn't be banking on it being a lot. 7 sub apperances while on loan last season worth a whopping 6 points, signed permanently by Fulham now and Raul Jimenez has left too. There's still Muniz, but they haven't bought anyone at all yet. If things don't change there would think his minutes might step up a notch but I'd be keeping an eye on things. They apparently tried to sign Garcia from Real Madrid and were rebuked so they very well might land someone.
Hull's 2 at that price were both shipped out on loan last season, Burstow all season long, Destan in January. They did have appearances before that but it's not looking great for them.
Furo at Brentford could step up a bit but there's Igor Thiago in the way. Played in their first behind-closed-doors friendly against Wimbledon recently. They have signed Callum Wilson too.
Mateo Joseph at Leeds played a fair bit in their promotion campaign but got homesick and wanted to feck off back to Spain. Played plenty on loan for Mallorca with Leeds not wanting to sell at the time before doing his cruciate ligaments in back in April. Is somewhat surprisingly training again already though and talking about a new positive attitude he has. Don't know if he can get back in and there is a link with Elche.
Then there's whatever you make of Obi at United.
Think that could be about it. Slim pickings as always.
Edit: Walle Egeli (Ipswich) - 28 appearances in the Championship last season. He might actually be the best bet. A striker in FPL and they have signed a couple already but he played on the right wing for them. Cost them a fair bit too as far as Championship signings go so might want to continue his development. They have a friendly tonight against Osasuna, lets see if he plays and/or continues to play in pre-season?
Wouldn't think Neave, Scarlett, Mheuka or Danns (injured) will do much at all.
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Had a habit of making big changes when they had fixture congestion a couple of times.
Pedro in December last season, and there was a memorable one when he started Jorgensen in goal and Nkunku up front at the same time of year away to Southampton the season before.
Not too bad though apart from that.
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Gabriel Gvardiol Williams
Cunha Mbeumo Foden Szoboszlai
Haaland Pedro Jesus
Dubravka Jacquet Shepherd Thomas
Lammens
Gabriel Gvardiol Williams
Cunha Mbeumo Foden Szoboszlai
Haaland Pedro Jesus
Dubravka Jacquet Shepherd Thomas
Cheers. Sounds alright for the first part of the season before champions league kicks in
I’m going without Haaland. Is this madness?
Yes
I mean there's really no need to but it's entirely up to you. I always feel at the start of the season don't really need any silly risks. It's feasible you could skip him until gw3 and jump ahead though if you pick correctly.
I just dislike him so much…
Think Fatawu was bought to play right wing
Wilson/Tavernier/Fernandes (the Spurs one)… 440 points last season
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Semenyo/Hughes/McGinn… 350 points last season
Which threesome tickles your fancy?
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Semenyo/Hughes/McGinn… 350 points last season
Which threesome tickles your fancy?
First draft, wanted to do away with Haaland and Bruno (it backfired last season and played my wildcard early on) and instead build a solid squad throughout and mostly leave it alone/let it cook.
Donnarumma, Petrovic
Mosquera, Guehi, Kerkez, Shaw, Mitchell
Rogers, Szoboszlai, Semenyo, Mbeumo, Gibbs-White
Isak, Pedro, Gyokeres
Wanted to have Kroupi until he got injured. May swap Cunha in for Mbeumo, Thiago for Gyokeres.
Still have £1.0 in the bank- could spend another £0.5 on Verbruggen and/or use it to upgrade defenders.
Thoughts welcome.
Donnarumma, Petrovic
Mosquera, Guehi, Kerkez, Shaw, Mitchell
Rogers, Szoboszlai, Semenyo, Mbeumo, Gibbs-White
Isak, Pedro, Gyokeres
Wanted to have Kroupi until he got injured. May swap Cunha in for Mbeumo, Thiago for Gyokeres.
Still have £1.0 in the bank- could spend another £0.5 on Verbruggen and/or use it to upgrade defenders.
Thoughts welcome.
The former.
Probably good for GW1 BB, but after that you're going to have a lot of points sat on the bench each week.
It’s a choice (no Bruno or Haaland) and you should have a decent XI every week, but the flip is what Pnut said… you have money on the bench, which is not ideal.
If this was years ago, less chip options, may have more merit but personally, wouldn’t go this way.
Also with the ownership of Haaland and Bruno, when they score a couple, you’ll lose out to A LOT of teams.
Ah you're right, missed him somehow. Emmerson signed as a striker and technically Akpom too although he was already there on loan last year. Maeda who they bought can play centrally as well, bor from the left.
This Walle Egeli guy vs Kasey McAteer as second string then out on the right? Looking at last night's friendly Walle Egelli came on as a sub, think he might have played at the number 10 position when he did but it's hard to tell with early pre-season matches when there's mass substitutions and just going off match reports not having watched it. Listed as coming on for Mehmeti who is an attacking mid. Could be another path to some minutes if that's correct bit wouldn't have thought it would be a regular position for him based on where he played last season. Teams will often just chuck random players on to play anywhere at this stage of the pre-season to get some minutes into their legs.
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Gonzalo Garcia to Fulham looks like it is happening now after reports a few days ago saying it was unlikely. Kusi-Asare becomes a worse 4.5m pick to try and squeeze some minutes out of.
He surely comes in as penalty taker too. That’s a really interesting one.
Not had a proper look yet but depending on how pre-season goes, Palmer and Isak seems a better option than Bruno and say a Rogers or Wirtz ?
Plenty of options about which seems good.
Plenty of options about which seems good.
I'm pretty set on Rogers, even though I don't rate him that highly. He should be nailed in that Chelsea side, and if they play a 343 will be closer to goal than he was for Villa. Chelsea with 1 game a week means minimal rotation risk as well.
Isak I can't fit in as I've gone for a lot of the high value midfielders besides Bruno, although with Ekitike being out until January he's a solid pick.
My example was all wrong
Should have said a 7.5 or below striker instead of another midfielder with Bruno.
I agree with Rogers, but i'm not sure I can have 3 Chelsea players in Rogers, Palmer and Pedro
I’ve gone no Haaland. He’ll score big no doubt but I’d rather have a more rounded team.
No Fernandes as if I did, then I would be the sole reason he has a shit year. Same reasoning for Sesko. I think he’ll score but I don’t want to jinx him.
Debating putting Isak in. It’ll be up to him to score a lot of Liverpool’s goals but he looked so far off the pace last year that it concerns me.
Palmer makes it in. I’m hoping he’ll be back to his best after a rest and maybe a point to prove.
Debating Gibbs-White but can’t see him producing another season like last year without Anderson in the team.
No Fernandes as if I did, then I would be the sole reason he has a shit year. Same reasoning for Sesko. I think he’ll score but I don’t want to jinx him.
Debating putting Isak in. It’ll be up to him to score a lot of Liverpool’s goals but he looked so far off the pace last year that it concerns me.
Palmer makes it in. I’m hoping he’ll be back to his best after a rest and maybe a point to prove.
Debating Gibbs-White but can’t see him producing another season like last year without Anderson in the team.
Good luck…
Thanks. I’m not in any leagues with money on the line so nothing lost.
I'm heavily debating Sesko, feel like he could either explode this season or struggle. Hard to get him in though as Pedro and Gyokeres seem really good and there's no way I'm dropping Haaland
I'd have a punt on him if I was sure he'd start. Worried that Cunha might continue playing up top though. One to watch in the next few weeks maybe.
Still feels like he’ll have some rotation - second season, young, lots of games this season (hopefully!)?
A differential but I tend to go safer early doors.
Baldest of frauds. Pep towards the end of his tenure was quite reasonable. Maresca does completely random shit like rotating GKs, CBs and whatever other nonsense. Not touching anyone apart from Haaland there until I learn more.
Let's watch the friendlies. I'm quite interested too even if it's just for the first 4 games.
Hmm he is Pep’s apprentice after all.
With Rodri out, maybe Anderson is the safest. Will he get defcons in this system tho? I have no idea, but isn’t Maresca a bit more gung ho than Pep’s controlled system? Or maybe it just was because he had another mix of players at Chelsea?
Why the love for Gyokeres? Isnt he sharing minutes with Havertz?
Sesko’s in my team currently too with JP and Haaland. No world cup for him, so if he gets match fitness in pre season, he’s in my team. I want to get in on United’s first two matches. Shaw’s a cheap pick for that too.
Just feel Arsenal are primed to start the season well, and he seemed to pick up momentum towards the end of the season. Didn't consider the Havertz minutes share though. There isn't really a striker that plays 90s every week except Haaland I don't think. Most teams will sub a striker throughout the 90.
A. Robertson to start?
Think he’s cover/rotation
Anyone else eyeing up a potential BB in gw2? Coventry v Hull looks a decent shout to play some bench fodder and get it out of the way.
I was thinking this. I did early BB last season and it made a lot of sense.
This season however I am less sure. Perhaps we find value picks with a lot of change as season progresses to easily field a BB squad with quality.
For example post GW4 we may transfer Bruno out and free up a lot more money.
Im still a bit torn but puttting conviction on Coventry is a bit punty. Hull may surprise us.
If Ndiaye stays at Everton surely at 6.0 he becomes a must have.
Did very little for pretty much the whole second half of last season
Just picked my provisional team
GKs
Trafford (moving to Leeds)
Kinksy (Spurs)
DEFs
Munoz (Palace)
Gabriel (Arsenal)
Lacroix (Chelsea)
Truffert (Bournemouth)
Hall (Newcastle)
MIDs
Bruno (MUFC)
Gibbs White (Notts F)
Semenyo (City)
Geldhart (Leeds)
Sarr (Palace)
FORs
Sesko (MUFC)
Thiago (Brentford)
Wright (Cov)
Pretty happy with the balance - no guarantees really. No doubt will need revising. Hoping Geldhart goes back to Hull
GKs
Trafford (moving to Leeds)
Kinksy (Spurs)
DEFs
Munoz (Palace)
Gabriel (Arsenal)
Lacroix (Chelsea)
Truffert (Bournemouth)
Hall (Newcastle)
MIDs
Bruno (MUFC)
Gibbs White (Notts F)
Semenyo (City)
Geldhart (Leeds)
Sarr (Palace)
FORs
Sesko (MUFC)
Thiago (Brentford)
Wright (Cov)
Pretty happy with the balance - no guarantees really. No doubt will need revising. Hoping Geldhart goes back to Hull
I’d say more worth it if he leaves. Everton look like they’ll have a tough season… a lot of clubs around them have strengthened.. don’t think they have that much.