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I have taken another points hit for this week, I guess it was coming all along, I really didn't not have choice with this one I guess, Winks getting injured forced my hands although it's not as if he's of any importance on my team to begin with, I just had to bringing in Saka and go with the majority of pool here as well, If I had brought in Saka last week instead of Palmer I most likely would not have made any transfer with Chelsea playing Villa and Palmer not looking his best, I needed another captain option aside Salah or Haaland. I'm sure Haaland hattrick might be on the horizon now that he's out of my team, he's not going to be for too long though, once I stack up my transfer and I likely will bring him back in, perhaps more cheaper by then.

My defence is terrible but I checked next 5 GW's and if no injuries or suspensions hit me, I'll be able to field a decent 3 every GW.
I feel stupid not fixing it with 4 mil left in the bank, but nobody other than Liverpool is keeping clean sheets and it just seems like a waste of transfers.

I did my research and picked Havertz last GW - now I did it again and I realize I should have gone with Pedro or Cunha. Pedro looks especially good considering his fixtures but I need to stack on transfers again to be able to put LFC players into the team soon.

Salah is going to come up against Gvardiol; more reasons for me to keep Gvardiol out of my team selection for this GW. I can't trust Manchester City to keep a clean sheet.

I was considering Manchester United players, but I am not sure of Amorim yet, and the upcoming fixtures for Manchester United are not easy games.

Slight scare on Gabriel for Arsenal, but I am sure it is nothing too serious, even though Arteta has not given a clear update on his situation.

Well i made my decision, i hope to be in the correct guess.

I also changed one player who give me a good amount of points in the alst round, but i dont know if he can give me more in this one.

Lot of hard games between top teams, so hard to fin clear paths.

Several gameweeks ago I forgot to switch captaincy back to Haaland and paid for it. I'm never changing it, not for the next 10 games. It's not crazy. This man is on a mission to secure Magi's future. He wants the big bucks and he will do everything he can and some things he shouldn't to get there.

I'm waiting one more GW to get Palmer. Have a feeling Villa could be shutting the doors at Stamford Bridge.


He is already on track to beat his previous records with goal involvements... his outside of foot delivery is getting better and better (so good he actually used it and missed the penalty two nights ago heh). It's personally satisfying too as that's how I cross when I used to play and people kept telling me to stop doing it haha (foot injury, I had to adapt).

I don't think the defensive problems will go away. City have struggled to maintain clean sheets all season, and I don't think they will start against Liverpool. If Salah doesn't get a goal, he will have an assist. He is still a good choice to captain.

I think Arsenal will have an easier game against West Ham than Chelsea against Aston Villa and Liverpool certainly.

I don’t know if the Palmer bubble is also bursting as well but I’m sure we’ll see in due time, with how Man City have been conceding goals home and abroad, would it be crazy to actually consider keeping Mo’ Salah as captain for the next round ?

Absolutely the same for me. In the past 4 gameweeks I missed making changes twice! Have to really admit that I got saved by pure luck, Gabriel in my defence has popped up, Porro was my saviour last week with 14 points, and he was actually subbed in because Konsa was injured -- to be fair, I would have made the sub myself had I remembered, but might have sold Konsa. Now I have the opportunity to see if he recovers.

Still, I would have brought Pedro and Saka in, so I might have had 15-20 extra points had I not been so careless.

Salah captaincy keeping me in the wings as usual.

As to what the hell the rest of you are doing, beats me haha. I think I had a really good squad right from the beginning. Bit my lips and took in both Haaland and Salah, and then only switched people out as they got injured or suspended. If I recall, the only person I let go because I didn't like him was Nkunku. DCL is going to be my next sacking. I love the guy and he's actually getting a lot of chances but FPL doesn't really reward industry on/off the ball if there's no end product.

Bruno was a distant consideration for me. But after seeing the shit he did with ETH -- pretending to be sorry and calling up the guy after he got sacked means nothing when you could clearly see him playing with much less than 100% -- I wonder if his best days are behind him. I would keep Palmer as captain if I had him and not Salah...

Perfect showing of how strange this season has been so far  I was happy with my week, -8 in transfers and still didn't fall down the ranks. Should have taken -16 since my next 2 targets were Joa Pedro and Saka 

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GW12 winner is Cls63. Just what you want when playing your wildcard chip. To work well immediately. Even had Joao Pedro on the bench

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Next round is not gonna be easy to pick the captain as well.

Salah is gonna have a very tough game against Manchester CIty who cant give any point. Im gonna still with him maybe, but im looking to other options also. The best looking one can be Palmer but they dont ahve an easy game.

Holy shit man, you're actually doing well? I was shocked to see that hahah, with all the blunders you wrote about here.
What the hell are the rest of us doing then?

Mediocre round for me, captains are my Achilles heel. I was choosing between Palmer and Isak - both ended with 2 points.
I'm captaining Bruno next, to hell with it. I know I'm a dumbass but it seems like a decent gamble.

Thanks Trofo for the answer which proved to be accurate, and, surprisingly, made sure I didn't fall but actually gained 1 position (with my handsome buddy on same points behind me). Which brings me to the next question: we're tied on points, but I'm above him, what's the tiebreaker rule here? I'm assuming least amount of transfers which was what I recall was the rule several years ago when I first played.

Now I've got 4 free transfers. Konsa, Semenyo are for sure out as they either injured or suspended. I'll take Saka back in, delayed that for so long. Pedro for sure for me, was my favourite for ages. Time to let go of DCL sadly...

West Ham chose this game to fix the defensive issues that they have been having all season. The international break favored them. Isak started all hot; it looked like it was just a matter of time before he scored; he didn't. West Ham scored two and defeated Newcaste at home.

The fourth win in this league for Julen Lopetegui with West Ham. I hope they don't play this way in their next game against Arsenal.

My week couldn’t have been more disastrous, I would have said Salah saved the day but given that he’s owned by everyone and captained by everyone as well (except cryptofrka of course) so he doesn’t really count. The week ahead doesn’t look even brighter from far ahead to be honest because Salah and Haaland face each other canceling any potential captaincy from them and I don’t think I want to trust Palmer with that responsibility just yet.

I think he was resting, he played in Germany national team 120 mins(total) and last Germany's game was 19.11.

Auto subs are made at the end of the game week. Meaning, Porro will come in for you sometime after Newcastle finishes tonight. You will have his points before league updates for sure.

Captain points are same as if you multiply with 2. So if the player you captained gets -2 points it will be -4 for you.

Hey guys, quickfire questions. Now have to remember to make my transfers. Of course, Pedro and Saka will probably not give me anything if I bring them back hahaha.

First question: I was sure my sub would be made now but I guess it just waits for all the games to be played? My Porro will save me from a bad week but I still see his points not counted in my total.

Second question: if you use captain or triple captain and the player gets a negative, will that total also double/triple? Curious, and I know I should look it up but since this pool is full of experts...

I wouldn't mind the decision to go with Havertz instead of Cunha if I was sure Kai will continue to play the full 90 minutes.

He played almost all minutes for Arsenal so staying on the bench was weird to see.
If he gets the minutes again he will get decent returns, but if he sits out the next game as well I will have to make an unplanned transfer.

One game still to be played, but overall a very good round for me.

I really want to sell Haaland, since i brought him he give me nothings, but i cant made that move i cant risk a wake up from him and scoring again a poker, i dont think that is gonna happen in thsi week because they play against Liverpool, but after that.....