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Trofo, I may require your unexpected help.- Salah or Solanke, who's band on?
Captain pick? It must be Salah, I mean Solanke is good but he is nowhere near Salah level and he is attacker. Midfielders get more points for goal, more bonus points and point for clean sheet, it isn't even a contest in my opinion. Yeah we could have a freak GW and Solanke outscores Salah but I would say 8/10 times this goes to Salah side comfortably.

I did Haaland captain, Watkins vice-captain.

Burnley have some kind of purple patch these last few weeks, but I fully expect the robot to outscore everybody else if he is fit. If not, well we all know Watkins' goal record away from home, against ManU of all teams, so that's a plus.

I also own Salah and TAA.

PS @Igebotz @Hhampuz give me your bitcoin addresses.
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Kudos to Palmer and Jackson for the 1 point apiece and to Jackson again for missing more than 4 big chances in the game. This would've been the week I win the free bet but I'll keep pushing.

what did they miss, it is really unbelievable
but also Liverpool missed chance 5-on-1, my twitter is full of those two images from both matches

since my Christmas is in two weeks, I will try to see some changes to the team today, after yet another lousy week
Doucoure is out for some time, but I will probably not sell him, can't see much price pressure on him, and we have City this week, not sure that clean sheet is an option here

Nothing much except for the disappointing display from Sterling, Palmer and Jackson. But it's all in the past now although I'm still pissed because I had high hopes for the trio in gw18.

~Snipped.

Two things;

1. I don't plan on using my second WC anytime sooner than game week 28-32, so I've got to be very smart with my transfer, and I wouldn't be taking any points hit so far I have the necesarry amount of starters fit for a game week, even if my entire bench is out injured or suspended.

2. I'm already mapping out how to transition Son, and Salah out of my team, and you know that will sure bring about a potential defensive or attacking upgrade, and you literally need to transfer to make a midfield to a defensive, or forward uprgade, so for Son, Salah and Mitoma, to get a Midfield, Defensive and Forward upgrade the least you'd need is 4 transfers. so, If needs be and Mitoma isn't heading anywhere I could possible have him on the bench for a week or two until I have a free transfer to be rid of him.

When the Afcon and Asian cup starts, it'd definitely going to be chaotic but as someone that has taken one too many negative points hits due to too much transfers and used my WC too early, I'll skip using my WC too early even in those circumstances. My priority f9r the second half of the season is to cover more ground and move towards am upONLY mode moving forward.
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Trofo, I may require your unexpected help.- Salah or Solanke, who's band on?
Captain pick? It must be Salah, I mean Solanke is good but he is nowhere near Salah level and he is attacker. Midfielders get more points for goal, more bonus points and point for clean sheet, it isn't even a contest in my opinion. Yeah we could have a freak GW and Solanke outscores Salah but I would say 8/10 times this goes to Salah side comfortably.
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Classic FPL ending to GW with both Palmer and Sterling getting yellow cards to pile up the pressure for the upcoming GW. Should be some problems especially for those that have Tsimikas as well.

Yep, frustrating end to yesterday's game considering that I've got both of them in my team.
I'm left with 12 available players, and with Haaland and Romero doubtful, and most of my players having away games. Looks like a shitty week, I'm even considering to use a Free hit.

And to think they were both close to having an assist (Sterling) and a goal (from Palmer) points early in the first half if Sterling had a basic understanding of football.

Halaand is back in full training condition and will most likely start tomorrow. ( back to my team)

Trofo, I may require your unexpected help.- Salah or Solanke, who's band on?
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Those should be used in empty gameweeks though, right?
There is all kinds of strategies associated with free hits but easiest one to pull off is blank GW. There will be one for sure when FA cup semi finals get scheduled. Those 4 teams will miss out for sure and that means maybe even 4 fixtures postponed.

There are also some people that like to use it in double GW since ceiling is much higher then. For instance if City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea get in semi final, you have to target other teams in the blank GW. Who are you gonna target in teams like Burnley or Sheffield? You are quite limited. But then all those 4 teams have double GW and you have plenty of great options.

Basically it is all very team and season dependent. I have almost always used it in blank GW since you can't use bench boost in combination with it and I try to use bench boost in big double game weeks.
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I assume that I could use my second wildcard early after the African Nations Cup starts to remove Salah from my squad. I'm not contented with some of the players in my squad now. However I'm not ready to spend any points to change them. For example Hwang Hee-chan's performance isn't good at all in the recent times. I want to get Gordon instead of him.
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Mitoma has supposedly picked up an ankle injury, if his prospective timeline for recovery is between middle way or after the early stages of the Asian Cup, will he be able to participate in the EPL ?

It depends. My take on the matter is thar if his injury is more severe, he would likely be left out of the Japan squad. Why are you bothered about Mitoma anyway? His returns in last 7-8 gameweeks are mid at best.

Two things;

1. I don't plan on using my second WC anytime sooner than game week 28-32, so I've got to be very smart with my transfer, and I wouldn't be taking any points hit so far I have the necesarry amount of starters fit for a game week, even if my entire bench is out injured or suspended.

2. I'm already mapping out how to transition Son, and Salah out of my team, and you know that will sure bring about a potential defensive or attacking upgrade, and you literally need to transfer to make a midfield to a defensive, or forward uprgade, so for Son, Salah and Mitoma, to get a Midfield, Defensive and Forward upgrade the least you'd need is 4 transfers. so, If needs be and Mitoma isn't heading anywhere I could possible have him on the bench for a week or two until I have a free transfer to be rid of him.
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Classic FPL ending to GW with both Palmer and Sterling getting yellow cards to pile up the pressure for the upcoming GW. Should be some problems especially for those that have Tsimikas as well.

Yep, frustrating end to yesterday's game considering that I've got both of them in my team.
I'm left with 12 available players, and with Haaland and Romero doubtful, and most of my players having away games. Looks like a shitty week, I'm even considering to use a Free hit.

Those should be used in empty gameweeks though, right?
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Ratcliffe's a done deal so yeah, Erik's got his job secure, it'd be cruel to get the sack in this period. I still have 2 more games for him to try and plumb deeper depths, so it's not over but I'll PM you for an address on 1 Jan...

P.S. Do any of you feel like you've posted but don't see your posts? I know if it's deleted you get a notification but I feel like it's happening every few days now. I know I didn't imagine posting, I wrote to Igebotz about my sidebet, I said sunnat about Solanke but it's not in my draft -- am I going mad?

The Glazers still own 75% of the club and have veto power, so I don't think Rat owning 25% changes anything about ETH staying or not. It is generally known that sacking ETH would not solve anything; instead, spend Smart 

Man, did you overdo it on the alcohol? Your posts are still in the thread; what are you looking for in your draft?
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Ah damn, it's the free hit I used and not wild card (!!). I'm so drunk in FPL seriously.

Edit: found it

@Igebotz shitty odds from a book I'll never use but happy to put down a 1mbtc sidebet on ETH sack before 1 Jan. It means nothing but one United manager oversaw their last games as defeats to Klopp's Liverpool.Hate the stat but Klopp has done this to at least 5 managers already in 7 EPL seasons. Tough!

Ratcliffe's a done deal so yeah, Erik's got his job secure, it'd be cruel to get the sack in this period. I still have 2 more games for him to try and plumb deeper depths, so it's not over but I'll PM you for an address on 1 Jan...

P.S. Do any of you feel like you've posted but don't see your posts? I know if it's deleted you get a notification but I feel like it's happening every few days now. I know I didn't imagine posting, I wrote to Igebotz about my sidebet, I said sunnat about Solanke but it's not in my draft -- am I going mad?
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Kudos to Palmer and Jackson for the 1 point apiece and to Jackson again for missing more than 4 big chances in the game. This would've been the week I win the free bet but I'll keep pushing.

what did they miss, it is really unbelievable
but also Liverpool missed chance 5-on-1, my twitter is full of those two images from both matches

since my Christmas is in two weeks, I will try to see some changes to the team today, after yet another lousy week
Doucoure is out for some time, but I will probably not sell him, can't see much price pressure on him, and we have City this week, not sure that clean sheet is an option here
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I have exactly 3 players suspended and injured for next week (Tsimikas, Palmer and Sterling). On top of that I have only 1 free transfer right. As I think that Chelsea will start rising by the effect of their easy fixture as well I decided to have 3 Chelsea players in my team. However this made me drop down in the leaderboard. Nkunku scored a goal today. Maybe from now on Jackson's place is also not guaranteed that much.
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Having a wild card right now would have come in very handy and valuable for me, but I've wasted it way long ago already.


Well, you're in luck. According to the the FPL help page:

Mitoma has supposedly picked up an ankle injury, if his prospective timeline for recovery is between middle way or after the early stages of the Asian Cup, will he be able to participate in the EPL ?

It depends. My take on the matter is thar if his injury is more severe, he would likely be left out of the Japan squad. Why are you bothered about Mitoma anyway? His returns in last 7-8 gameweeks are mid at best.



Kudos to Palmer and Jackson for the 1 point apiece and to Jackson again for missing more than 4 big chances in the game. This would've been the week I win the free bet but I'll keep pushing.
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Classic FPL ending to GW with both Palmer and Sterling getting yellow cards to pile up the pressure for the upcoming GW. Should be some problems especially for those that have Tsimikas as well.


I'm also having that minimum available players in quintuples, Ben Mee suspended until Jan 21st, Matty Cash and Cole Palmer to miss the next game week, Mitoma and Tsimikas both out injured, and I have only two free transfers, also planning for players leaving the EPL for international duties probably after the next game week.

Having a wild card right now would have come in very handy and valuable for me, but I've wasted it way long ago already.

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Mitoma has supposedly picked up an ankle injury, if his prospective timeline for recovery is between middle way or after the early stages of the Asian Cup, will he be able to participate in the EPL ?
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Classic FPL ending to GW with both Palmer and Sterling getting yellow cards to pile up the pressure for the upcoming GW. Should be some problems especially for those that have Tsimikas as well.



Those problems did not touch our GW winner Brahim012. Gabriel 10 pointer and Areola in the team were the players that brought this success for him. Congratulations man.
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Seems to me Arsenal got lucky today. Did not watch whole game but parts i have seen, Liverpool was a much better side. Can't believe how they did not score when they were running with 5-6 players on Rice & Raya Smiley

Freak injury for Tsimikas as well, you don't see player injured that often after colliding with his own manager.

Yup, and a silly VAR decision that went againt us again.
Saka should have been redcarded and we deserved a win - which TAA should have secured.

Your Salah choice is already paying dividends right ?

He's been good for me the whole season, I'll rarely replace him. He wins points through a lot of things, which Haaland does not.

Bowen, what a revelation huh?

Yup, he's playing upfront now. Will be must have for me in that period without Salah and Son.
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@igebotz Is there a possibility of Nkunku starting ahead of Nickolas Jackson?

Nkunku isn't a replacement for Nicola Jackson, he's rather a player that'd perfectly complement Nicolas Jackson, If the preseason matches are anything to go by and what Poch's ideology was during those games were. Nkunku would player rightly behind Jackson as a Second Striker or an AMF, if he chooses to play a 4-2-3-1 formation, it's only to be figured out whose position in the midfield would be sacrificed, Enzo, Caceido or is it going be Gallagher ?

That said, Poch could already have a completely different approach and play Nkunku as the Centre Forward in place of Jackson, I really just don't see that as the best decision from my POV.
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Tough week for me. After letting emotions get the best of me and making one too many transfers, I ended up giving Watkins my captain instead of Salah, Son or Solanke. I would've been higher in the league if I just took a chill pill and let things be as is.

I still have 2 more players for Chelsea's game. I hope Jackson and Palmer can do enough to give me some much needed points ro to boost my stats.

@igebotz Is there a possibility of Nkunku starting ahead of Nickolas Jackson?
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Liverpool have been dominant in this second half, I might put a few bucks on them to win this despite being just 16 minutes left to for in the game, Arsenal are looking rather very unsettled and that's always a recipe for disaster if you're playing againt Liverpool.

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Lucky escape for Arsenal with that missed sitter from Trent Arnold, not something you'll see often, given how clinical he's been in front of goal lately.
Seems to me Arsenal got lucky today. Did not watch whole game but parts i have seen, Liverpool was a much better side. Can't believe how they did not score when they were running with 5-6 players on Rice & Raya Smiley

Free injury for Tsimikas as well, you don't see player injured that often after colliding with his own manager.

I have to agree on that, Liverpool were the better team but that was in the second half imo, so overall it was a close one, and the draw only seem if the entire game is put into consideration, Arsenal were very bright in the first half and could have had a 2-3 goals in the first instead of just that 1, after the break was when they became completely disorganized in attack and defensively, Bukayo Saka looks to me like nothing more than just someone who had the ball being passed to alot, asides that it was just a completely off day for him.
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You can be damned sure I’m beating myself for not paying any attention to my team in the on going GW. I apparently would have had to make some good chances that I knew could have helped and all I can do now is just look my team without any objectivism about it. In fact, my bench seems to be having more points than my on pitch players and Solanke with a hat trick today while on my bench as a 2nd Sub, that’s just awful.

Don't beat yourself shit happens. I captained Watkins instead of Solanke.

@Igebotz do I remember correctly I already have this precise sidebet with you? I guess I'll have to open my wallet. No amount of losing can dislodge him it seems (I like that personally, just thought United would revert to new-manager mode).

Yeah, I guess our sidebet ended after the Bayern Munich game, can't remember how much was our deal. Gotta go through bunch of my post to check. I love eating your money.

Edit: found it

@Igebotz shitty odds from a book I'll never use but happy to put down a 1mbtc sidebet on ETH sack before 1 Jan. It means nothing but one United manager oversaw their last games as defeats to Klopp's Liverpool.Hate the stat but Klopp has done this to at least 5 managers already in 7 EPL seasons. Tough!
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