Holland really made the first few rounds boring: the only success was whether you picked him or not.
We all have to just suck it up and get Haaland, then we have rest of team to do as we please. Nobody will win our mini league because of Haaland captain, you can loose it but you can't win it on that pick. Win will come for getting the rest of it right like Sanches and Gabriel in this round.Also Haaland damage is psychological more than anything. If I asked you to tell me how much points lead he has on other players what would be your answer?
It is actually 9 points, and before this last GW he and Salah were both on 41. And nobody was that afraid of Salah. It is just best to get him and give him captain band almost every week than to ruin the FPL experience for yourself.
Captain's armband + tripling made the difference in the first rounds. It's not just few points (but i understand that you tell about Salah) I just bought Haaland and unfortunately he only made a double. Yes, I consciously played against him in the first rounds and my bet did not play, that's normal.
Now I'll have to come up with new risky tricks to try to compensate for the damage that's already been done.
The problem is the generally the other players you have to put up with, I didn't have Haaland until this game week and it's not as terrible for me, what Trofo is saying is that just count Haaland as default pick for every player then try to beat others with the rest of your squad rather than trying thinking every game week on how to minimize the Haaland's effect or finding potential captain that could possibly outshine him, while Sallah was able to save my arse for the first 3 weeks, it would have been an horrendous outing if I had not brought in Haaland this week.
