Fantasy Premier League 2015-16 Pre-Season Round up
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Hello. Happy Summer everyone and welcome to your Pre-Season Article. The article is intended as a ‘work-in-progress’ and a workspace where we can keep each other up to date with all the latest line-up and substitution news for all twenty of this season’s Premier League teams ahead of our final selection of our fantasy squads.
We should also record the scoreline particulars including the all-important scorers, assisters and ‘nearly men’. Any salient information such as a defender on penalty kicks duties, a midfielder playing striker or Asmir Begovic playing some part in a Chelsea match to let him think he has a chance of playing this season, can be found here.
Of course, if you are lucky enough to witness any of the action, your opinion is valued too so let us know who impresses and doesn’t impress during these games.
Now you may have noticed the cunning use of “your”, “we”, and “each other” above. This is not a one-man band, because I’m useless musically and I’m not on at all hours (as much as I would like to be), so please do get involved – get the line-ups ‘up’ and the opinions flowing.
The Fixtures
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Arsenal
15th July
Singapore XI v Arsenal
18th July
Everton v Arsenal
25th July
Arsenal v Lyon
26th July
Arsenal v Wolfsburg
Community Shield
2nd August
Chelsea v Arsenal
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Aston Villa
11th July
Fulham v Aston Villa
17th July
SC Braga v Aston Villa
21st July
Swindon Town v Aston Villa
25th July
Walsall v Aston Villa
28th July
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Aston Villa
1st August
Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa
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Bournemouth
14th July
Philadelphia Union 1-4 Bournemouth
18th July
Exeter City v Bournemouth
25th July
Nantes v Bournemouth
28th July
Yeovil Town v Bournemouth
31st July
Bournemouth v Cardiff City
1st August
Hoffenheim v Bournemouth
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Chelsea
22nd July
New York Red Bulls v Chelsea
25th July
Paris St Germain v Chelsea
28th July
Barcelona v Chelsea
5th August
Chelsea v Fiorentina
Community Shield
2nd August
Chelsea v Arsenal
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Crystal Palace
11th July
Barnet v Crystal Palace
18th July
Union Berlin v Crystal Palace
1st August
Fulham v Crystal Palace
3rd August
Dagenham & Redbridge v Crystal Palace
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Everton
11th July
Swindon Town v Everton
15th July
Stoke City v Everton
18th July
Everton v Arsenal
26th July
Heart of Midlothian v Everton
28th July
Dundee v Everton
1st August
Leeds United v Everton
2nd August
Everton v Villarreal (Testimonial Match)
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Leicester City
21st July
Lincoln City v Leicester City
25th July
Mansfield Town v Leicester City
28th July
Burton Albion v Leicester City
29th July
Rotherham United v Leicester City
1st August
Birmingham City v Leicester City
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Liverpool
14th July
Thailand XI v Liverpool
17th July
Brisbane Roar v Liverpool
20th July
Adelaide United v Liverpool
24th July
Malaysia XI v Liverpool
1st August
HJK Helsinki v Liverpool
2nd August
Swindon Town v Liverpool
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Manchester City
15th July
Adelaide United v Manchester City
18th July
Melbourne City v Manchester City
21st July
Roma v Manchester City
24th July
Manchester City v Real Madrid
27th July
Vietnam v Manchester City
1st August
Stuttgart v Manchester City
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Manchester United
17th July
Club America v Manchester United
21st July
San Jose Earthquakes v Manchester United
25th July
Barcelona v Manchester United
29th July
Paris St Germain v Manchester United
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Newcastle United
10th July
Gateshead v Newcastle United
14th July
Atlas v Newcastle United
18th July
Sacramento Republic v Newcastle United
21st July
Portland Timbers ‘2’ v Newcastle United
26th July
Sheffield United v Newcastle United
29th July
York City v Newcastle United
1st August
Newcastle United v Borussia Moenchengladbach
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Norwich City
11th July
Gorleston v Norwich City
14th July
Hithcin Town v Norwich City
17th July
Cambridge United v Norwich City
18th July
Maccabi Haifa v Norwich City
25th July
Augsburg v Norwich City
28th July
Norwich City v West Ham United
1st August
Norwich City v Brentford
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Southampton
8th July
Leipzig v Southampton
11th July
Valencia v Southampton
Red Bull Salzburg v Southampton
18th July
Groningen v Southampton
21st July
Quick ‘20 v Southampton
23rd July
Feyenoord v Southampton
2nd August
Southampton v Espanyol
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Stoke City
15th July
Stoke City v Everton
18th July
Singapore XI v Stoke City
22nd July
Wrexham v Stoke City
25th July
Brentford v Stoke City
1st August
Cologne v Stoke City
2nd August
Porto v Stoke City
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Sunderland
9th July
Darlington v Sunderland
14th July
Sacramento Republic v Sunderland
17th July
Pachuca v Sunderland
22nd July
Toronto v Sunderland
29th July
Doncaster Rovers v Sunderland
1st August
Hannover v Sunderland
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Swansea City
15th July
Borussia Moenchengladbach v Swansea City
18th July
1860 Munich v Swansea City
24th July
Reading v Swansea City
25th July
Nottingham Forest v Swansea City
1st August
Swansea City v Deportivo La Coruna
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Tottenham Hotspur
29th July
MLS All-Stars v Tottenham Hotspur
4th August
Real Madrid v Tottenham Hotpsur
5th August
Tottenham Hotspur v Milan or Bayern Munich
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Watford
8th July
St Albans City v Watford
11th July
Wimbledon v Watford
15th July
Verl v Watford
17th July
Eintracht Braunschweig v Watford
19th July
Paderborn v Watford
25th July
Dundee v Watford
28th July
Cardiff City v Watford
1st August
Watford v Sevilla
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West Bromwich Albion
8th July
Red Bull Salzburg v West Bromwich Albion
17th July
Charleston Battery v West Bromwich Albion
19th July
Richmond Kickers v West Bromwich Albion
25th July
Swindon Town v West Bromwich Albion
28th July
Walsall v West Bromwich Albion
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West Ham United
11th July
Peterborough United v West Ham United
18th July
Southend United v West Ham United
21st July
Colchester United v West Ham United
25th July
Charlton Athletic v West Ham United
28th July
Norwich City v West Ham United
2nd August
West Ham United v Werder Bremen
Europa League
2nd July
West Ham United v Lusitanos
9th July
Lusitanos v West Ham United
16th July
West Ham United v Birkirkara
23rd July
Birkirkara v West Ham United
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Currently happy with this team. Just like a few opinions?
Fabianski
Koscielny-Cedric-Richards
Hazard-Cazorla-Yaya-Milner-Ritchie
Costa-Rodriguez
Rudd, Berahino, O’Shea, Muniesa
Nothing in the bank. Thoughts?
Hey Tom if you are going with 1 GK I would rather someone from top 4 clubs but it could work solid team Swa , not sure if Yaya will turn up this season I also wouldn’t have Berahino just yet tough fixtures all good otherwise
Thats it, Im getting rid of Benteke… Cant have a Liverpool striker upfront, any suggestions on how to overhaul this without another Liverpool player. Henderson is the only exception
A fellow Saffa!! but pitty about being an Arsenal fan…. 😉
Downgrade your 5th mid maybe and do Sanchez to another Arsenal mid (since he will miss the 1st 3 weeks I think).
Use the cash to improve our defence.
Maybe look at JRod in for Benteke?
That whole team needs scrapping
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Herrera probably wont get a sniff now.
Your defence is very very weak.
Starting without Aguero and Sanchez could start you on a really bad week.
But on the bright side you do have Benteke who i think will do great at Liverpool now.
Agreed, i would scrap the lot also. The defence is hanging together and midfield is way too expensive.
Hey Slow players to get rid of Sanchez , Berahino , Herrea , Hoban & Ward put Wally in place of Sanchez which will give you 2m to play about with to change some of the others 😉
Thanks guys, I shall play around and overhaul this team
Hi Fellas,
Its a pleasure to join you boys on 247. i am pool fanatic and love my fpl, managed to finish 1026 last season on fantasy, hope everyone has been enjoying the open and the ashes.
heres my team so far
A
Butland/ruddy
Azpi/morgan/cedric/ toby/ oshea
Ozil/Walcott/Fabregas/ richie/ yaya
rooney/ lukaku/ sakho
1.5mill in the bank.
B
Butland/ruddy
azpi/ / Cedric/sakho/lescott/ Francis
Fab/ Wally/ Chadli/ yaya/ abdi
benteke/ Rooney/ gomis
love some opinions? plan is to wildcard in gw4 and get aguero. going bold without costa and aguero as well
thanks all
Hi tekkers, welcome to the site. Looks like you got overlooked in the clamour to welcome Patrick!
I like the first team better I think. I wouldn’t go double Arsenal in mid though but it could work if they click. Lukaku is a tough one. Better season expected from them and him but those opening fixtures are awful after the first game.
As for Kun, GW4 sounds about right. I’m sure you can plan ahead knowing you’ll do that without having to use a WC but may be a good time anyway depending on how things are looking and which players are showing themselves.
I’ve pondered over Costa and can’t decide in all honesty. Hazard is the one who stands out more who could hurt you.
thanks inittowinit, haha i know. ye i was thinking this, but then thought i could drop one for mata, depay or di maria when i know he is most nailed on. also will be interesting on theos game time. ye thinking tekkers for lukaku now, but if i have no transfers to do i may go lukaku as i can see him killing watford… cheers for the advice mate and good to be on board…
Good reasoning for sure. Play both first week with a favourable opening game and then see how the land lies over at United, I like it. Lukaku feels like a 1 weeker to me too. If you can do that with a view to moving him along then I think its worth it.
Hey, Tekkers welcome to the site. Think team B for me although wouldn’t have those 3 defenders, Sahko, Lescott and Francis. In team A wouldn’t have 2 Arse mids either. E-mail me and i’ll get you in the FF247 Regulars League.
E-mail address, Elleffcee@fantasyfootball247.co.uk
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Init, the more the merrier for me. Theres a lot of regulars not in.
thanks Elleffcee, great to be here! ye i agree on lescott and francis, but thought sahko could be a decent pick at 5 mill with pool fixtures… great will do mate. thanks for tips
I wouldn’t go near the Liverpool defence for the first few games!
I feel like we should have a Glen Johnson song. I really miss him on that Liverpool defence. :sad-face:
ye kop warrior probably very wise, but a decent start for us and also think sakho at 5 mill is good value, some rumours he maybe going lazio though, love the big man. also how have you linked your team to your name?
haha mito21 i feel sorry for stoke, could be open game with donkey glen at right back
If you click on the help tab above you’ll get the instructions there. It’s very easy, even I mansged it
Kop, I wouldn’t speak too soon. I got news for you…. Unless you emigrated and changed identities drastically this is you at the moment! :hippo:
Hi Tekkers!
Welcome aboard. I’ve used all my energy in typing my welcome to Patrick_YMCA, so this will have to be a shorter one. Sorry about that. Please don’t be offended.
I will say though, that the user name you’ve chosen does carry quite a bit of weight around here. – One of our regular posters “Tekno”, likes to be called Tekkers, so don’t be alarmed if others start sending you abusive messages. – They were probably meant for him, not you.
Re. your teams…. I think Everton tend to be slow starters (i haven’t checked the fixtures) and so i’d maybe not go for Lukaku.
Double Arsenal with those two might work if Ozil gets the number 10 role and Wally plays up top. Might want to wait and see how preseason develops on that one though.
Cedric whilst cheap(ish) is a bit of a yellow card magnet. I see lots with him in their teams though.
Just my early thoughts / ramblings. – I tend to not start picking my team until the 24 hours before the start of the season so feel free to ignore me.
And.. Welcome! In case i didn’t already say that!
thanks chins, i am mighty impressed by the welcomes even if they dont quite compare to patricks! good to join you lads on 247. haha noted, should of done probably done my research on names before… to be honest everton fixtures get off to a stinker apart from the first game home against watford, plan was to get tekkers after that. but maybe worth just starting with tekkers away to stoke then with pool if deal goes through, which looks likely.
ye good advice, just wanted to see who would be more effective of the two and cant choose right now and undecided on man u attack….
ye heard this, heard he also gets assists to make up for this? matty targett is tempting while berty is out and only 4 mill.
haha no some very good advice from you chins.
thanks again for the humbling welcome and great to be here!
Afternoon guys (and girls if there are any)
Was just wondering, with the first wildcard to be played before December 28th, how do you guys plan on using this?
Will you save it in case if injuries or bad performance or do you have a planned week to use it?
Last season I set my original team to maximise my points for the first 3 weeks (defense was solely based on first 3 games) and then planned to wildcard going into gameweek 4. After GW3 I was in 500th position and actually felt my team was so good I didn’t need to wildcard.
I feel like I might try the same tactic this year and set up for the first 3 weeks. Saving the wildcard just doesn’t sound useful for the first half of the season.
Thoughts?
Late November/Early December is when i had eyed up to use it. If it’s necessary before hand then fair enough, it’ll have to be done. Once it’s not played willy-nilly then it shouldn’t matter as our 2nd one is for the whole 2nd half of the season.
Thanks for the explanations fellas.
My first thought is to use one December, sort of like what NIN said.
The top of the table at Christmas tends to win the league, and so by then we’ll have a good indication as to where teams will finish and which players are going to perform/keep on performing.
Sounds like a good time to change up the front and backlines especially, depending on who are contenders for GoldenBoot and which team seems to keep a clean sheet every week!
How does this wildcard work?
In the FPL game, scroll up until you see the “Help” tab. Click on that and all the rules are in there. It’s definitely worth reading them all before the season starts.
Fair enough haha. I should have done that to begin with. Thing is, I should be doing homework
Also, I’m undecided as to which 2 strikers I should have with Deeney/Ulloa out of Rooney, Costa and Kane. I’m thinking Kane and Rooney, even if it’s just because I don’t like Costa
Definitely. I’ve been playing FF for years now and every season, without fail, the first thing done is to reread the rules, in full, in case of changes/new features. There’s a lot to know but it wont take long to get on top of it. The reason i’m suggesting this and not directly answering the question is because it’s basic, so that says to me that there’s a boat load going on int the game that you’re unaware of, being a new player. Best to familiarize yourself with it and then move on to picking a squad :thumbup:
As for the striker debacle, i’d suggest Costa and Rooney to start (even though i’m very unsure of Rooney). Could easily move Rooney out for Kane if he’s crap, banking £1m in the process, which will come in handy for when the King (Sergio Aguero) returns to full fitness.
This year we get one wildcard for the first half of the season and one for the second half. When you use it you’ll get unlimited transfers until the next game week deadline, just like you have now.
You get 2 wildcards per season where you can make wholesale changes to your team and the transfers won’t cost you any points.
Good to use when planning for a big double gameweek or if you have a lot of injuries / suspensions at the same time.
Your basically on a wild card now pat, it gives you the ability to make as many transfers as you want in any given gw, if you make more than 1 transfer in a GW the game starts deducting points from you, you can use this WC at any time you want until the end of the year as we get another one then.
If my pics for the first weeks is way off and i need to do to many hits i will use my wc early i think
draft #2592
any thoughts?
speroni / schmeic
cedric / darmian / richards / mings / ward
haz / santi / depay / milner / dyer
kun / J Rod / Sakho
Double Palace defence, Richards and Sakho stand out to me as concerns. Not sure which Dyer that is in midfield, if it’s the Swansea one, then that’s another issue i think.
cheers Nin,
not a fan of Sakho then or just don’t see West Ham doing well?
It is the Swansea one but i’ve changed him out to Anja now to get a bit more money lol
photek – I just think they’ve made a big mistake in changing manager and letting Downing go. I don’t rate Bilic as a manager and actually think he’ll be sacked pretty quickly. He/they could do well but i’m not confident of it.
Does anyone think itd a good idea starting with Aguero and benching him, or is that a waste of money.? He could be out for the first few weeks… Is that right?.
Probably out, i think i will start with costa or rooney and bring kun in for gw 4 ….
Personally, i cant see any benefit of having a £13m player on the bench. He might be out for a bit but it’s still very unclear.
You can’t bench that much money for 3 weeks! Do as Wafflez said.
I actually think he’ll play GW 1 this year unless Pellegrini has stated otherwise, GW 2 looks to important for Citeh to be Kun-less with their match up with Chelski, I actually don’t think Elle Pelle will be given much time at the start of the season if results don’t go City’s way.
Of course if he doesn’t look likely to play then no way could he be afforded on the subs bench.