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I've solved this problem by filling up my whole squad with "essential" players, so now I've got all of them in my squad bar Haaland.

Saka, Son, Bowen, Foden, TAA, Gabriel, Solanke, Virgil, etc (would be Saliba but I already have Raya).

Only other person missing is Watkins and I just got him back in.

It might have been because my squad value is 102.6m excluding funds ITB, but even from next season, when we start with 100m, it seems to be affordable if you switch Salah with some 8.0 mid (assuming he goes to Saudi), and use whatever is remaining to get a back four of TAA - VVD - Gabirel - Saliba - some 4.0 DEF and then cheap out at GK.

Haaland is not really essential nowadays, his FPL points can be covered by Alvarez and 1-2 premium DEFs.

According to the latest I read, Solanke is already in training and he has traveled with the team. Considering how important he is for the team I sort of expect him to pay this GW as well.

So far so good, all my players with the returns. Probably gonna be a some disappointments tomorrow. Like united beating City 1:0 and Arsenal conceding a goal to rub in points Areola got on my bench.

Captaining Watkins in recent few games is what's still keeping me alive. It remains to be seen what Haaland will do tomorrow though, I do expect a good game from him.

Team full of injuries again, the main question for the next GW will be Solanke's fitness. Salah should be at least on the bench.

The Robertson change was what gave klopp the three points from that very tough game for Liverpool. Nunez for me would have scored more points had he come on earlier, because in the few minutes he played for Liverpool from the 60th minute, he was able to make his presence felt, and was more effective than Robertson. I was able to just get Five points from him, would have been more. It was a crucial goal Nunez scored to keep Liverpool's hope alive of winning the premier league.

I still can't believe Robertson's leaving the game right after getting a yellow card in the 59th minute. It made me sad to collect 0 points from him in a match Liverpool didn't concede a goal. It is also an unlucky incident for me that Areola collected 13 points by saving a penalty on a week that I left him on the bench. If it goes on like this I won't be able to take my place in top 5 at the end of the season.

Yeah, it's really a mind game where FOMO tends to be the order of the day, and it's not as though those quick buys are always bad moves, it just often ends up badly just the like WC is for most people, their team then became shitty after around 2 games of using the wild card whereby they'd need to take several points hit in order to field a 11 squad.


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I really just can't help but that wonder how significant those points for 5 Haaland goals and multiple KDB assists would have been for me, especially coupled with the fact that I had my triple captain chip on Haaland, damn!

It is so very team and manager dependent. Problem is you don't often have the right info. Rule of thumb for me is player price. If somebody as expensive as Salah is out for long time I will sell him and redistribute the funds throughout the team. If it is someone like Hee Chan this week with price of 5.5 I am happy to let him sit on bench until wildcard.

By the way guys this is the week when rankings will be made or lost. I don't mean just this week but the plan for whole season. This is the one when you should plot out your plan for the rest of the season. We now know who blanks in gw29 and your plan when to free hit/wildcard will should be the driving force behind all transfers.

Unfortunately I don't have as much time as I would like to plan that so probably just a rough plan and some sure thing transfer like Son in.

And yet if you keep injured people like Solanke, Estu, TAA, Salah in your squad all season along with people like Alvarez, Watkins, Salah, Son, Foden, Gabriel, Saliba, and Pickford, you can actually have a pretty sick rank in the top 10K and floor this ML. (note: No Haaland)

It is a crazy stat I saw in r/fantasyPL more than once.

I have to say, people who madly sell and buy players every week in FPL are kinda like bald frauds.

So I will keep Solanke even though I know he blanks in GW29.

Should not have used my free hit so early...

I read some news like Solanke got injured. This is quite bad news for me. He couldn't play in the FA Cup match last night as well. When it comes to the FA Cup KDB played for 90 minutes last night. I still don't understand why Pep doesn't give him a chance in the league. By the way no matter what I'm thinking of using a free hit on gw29.

Shit hahah, my intelligence is hitting an ATL here
I'll learn so much in this season, in the next one I'll wipe your asses for real.

I assemble fantasy team every season, but have never actually played properly. I have to admit I'm having a ton of fun with it.

You are forgetting their opponents have to be out of the FA cup as well 

Spurs play Fulham so you are ok there, but Arsenal plays Chelsea meaning you are hoping Chelsea looses to Leeds tonight.

I have 3 Arsenal so that game is actually the decider if I am free hitting GW29 or not.

This is why you are leading I guess. Didn't even consider that we'll have blanks in W29.
Anyway - I'm fed up with City assets so I'll get rid of them anyway. I feel there's way more value elsewhere, that's why I replaced them early.

I went for Saka and Son - they are out of the FA cup so no way they are blanking I guess.

Will double check when I get home and make it official. Have all the bookmarks there. All free bets are paid on Monday so I am a bit lazy to pronounce in GWs where we have games mid week. When we have end on Sunday I make sure to do it immediately so free bet is not late because of me.

KDB and Haaland show at it's best. Why couldn't they do that in DGW? To be fair Luton played terrible defence yesterday. City could have scored way more and some goals Haaland scored should have been easy job for the keeper.

You see what the combo of KDB and E. Haaland has done in this FA fixtures, same EPL clubs and you wonder what’s the hold up in the EPL. Why aren’t we seeing the same aggression and not just a dominant performance but one that is full of Manchester City’s goal scoring ability.
The injury of KDB that kept him off the pitch through more than half of the season might have made Pep to be playing really safe, having him come off the bench but, we need to be seeing these two on the starting line up more often for great games from Manchester City. Pep doesn’t have to be bringing him in as finisher or a helper when the team needs that break but, have him create the breaks and leave the pitch early enough to rest. It might be a prey on the already exhausted opposition strategy but, just look at the score line with Luton, goal scorer and who is producing the assist.

It’s just awful that, he @Haaland wasted my captaincy for 2 consecutive GWs, even a DGW by not netting above a goal and here he is with all the goals you could possibly ask for in 3 GWs.
I wouldn’t even trust him when they face off Manchester United, it’s still a risky game but, with his recent count on goal and the fact that Manchester City would be playing from a home side, I’ll like to believe they would improve on there EPL goal scoring.

I brought in Neto with hopes that he would create something with Wolves but, nothing. Even the infamous Hee Chan that was almost a favorite for the GW when looking out for a player from Wolves.
Good enough I had Bowen to compensate on all my hopes.

Speaking of rules and what permutations need be considered @Trofo @Icopress, who won the GW26? I bagged it right? 

Halaad at this point is a risky asset to own especially that he hasn't got his confidence back in the EPL and this is usually what happens after a player gets a knock...but with that 5 goals on his tab, it will be interesting to see how the next games go, and Manchester United are next in line and I fear for them for what's to come

Btw, I think missing  out on best points using the freehit is better than missing out on maximising on getting more points after many team managers  used the triple captain which didn't get the best results..but the next games will be interesting for this lad.

Fuck you Haaland, i play the freehit when you play against Luton for Premeir LEague and you do nothing, and now for FA you score 5!!!!!! goals, incredible.

It is the same for weekly prize. Quoted from OP

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Bowen stole the show yesterday, really did not expect West H to win that easy.

Some place I would rather wish to be, lol…

I already felt I had made a bad bad mistake with Watkins. Couldn’t stop beating myself after the Manchester City game where E. Haaland couldn’t get a goal. I literally had to do a H2H check on Manchester City games and Bournemouth to see what past fixtures had been like and it was filled with goals. This prompt me to switch my captaincy choice from Watkins to Haaland and he could score a single goal. Felt really bad but,

Jarrod Bowen did me good this time, a hat trick to push me to the top, that’s more than I would have hoped for. Need to break the top 10 once more.

Thanks for your response man. Although I was asking in the context of the weekly prize if the negative points deduction gets factored in but it doesn't matter anymore now that Bowen has handed @SmartVirus (congrats, btw ) the boost he needed to get weekly prize thanks to that hattrick.

If there's ever a good time to get breach the gap with differential, tonight was the night with Bowen as his ownership % dried up after a run of tiny returns.

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This week, I'm planning to drop some of my City players. Last week, I had one of the lowest returns from City assets and I think it's time to diversify.

Man, I was a hair's length from restoring Bowen into my squad, but opted to save 2 points -- then he goes and does a brace within 8 minutes. Then again, it's not like I'm chasing down any other spots, so not sure why I feel bad about it.

Edit: Hattrick. Takes FPL flail and self-flagellates...

I'm keeping KdB though, spent enough to bring him on, and I know he's not 100% but he doesn't really need to be. Bonus? If City and him keep stumbling, I win elsewhere. How's that for a hedge, universe?