Site Team Gameweek 1
Hello and welcome to Site Team Gameweek 1. Seeing as FPL opened about 4 months ago, you would think we would have spent hours formulating our plans for the team, endlessly researching the stats and pre-season appearances of the players and balancing our budget to accommodate the must haves and the dark horses.
No. We all forgot about it until the Taskmaster that is Mito, clipped us round the ear and made us do stuff. Well, even then it was just to say if we liked ‘his’ team that he had created for us.
( …and even still we have our suspicions that The Legend played Twitter roulette and copied the first template he found).
But guess what? We all, in the main, loved the draft. A little tweak here and there to justify our enormous salaries but by and large we felt great and FPL could start in five minutes time if it liked.
Then Watkins came off injured.
Then Robertson did his ankle.
Then Toney had a knock.
Then Watkins was OK again.
And going to be playing in the middle!
It’s great to be back!
The Squad
OK so we know what you’re thinking and yes, we have taken the plunge on Tsimikas. His three assists and nice fixtures have us on the end of the line. We double him up with Trent and the obvious Mohamed Salah pick rounds off our maximum Liverpool exposure. Curiously Jota wasn’t given any thought so we must all be happy without him.
We don’t want to be faffing about with goalkeeper transfers at any stage (except maybe the wildcard(s)) so we’ll spend just £8.5mln and go all in on Watford with Bachmann and Foster offering an assured goalkeeper each week (don’t mention the ‘C’ word).
Joining the Liverpool lads in defence then are Luke Shaw, Luke Ayling and Ben White – who really should have been called Luke by his parents. We will likely use 3 defenders most weeks at the start and those will likely be our Liverpool two and Shaw but incase we don’t and/or we need a sub we are nicely covered.
Bruno is in and it shouldn’t take that much explaining and we have Raphinha and Harvey Barnes rounding off the spots in there. We usually always like the look of Leeds’ and Leicester’s attack and these two seem quite assured there and each for a favourable price as well. Burnley’s Josh Brownhill is the back up.
Our attackers are Danny Ings Ollie Watkins, Michail Antonio and Ivan Toney in what will now be known as the *drumroll*
‘AN-TONEY-KINS’
… we’ll work on that and come back to you …
There you have it. We have no plans to play early chips or wildcards and will see where the game takes us this season.
Captain
I don’t think this one needs any explaining, nor does the vice.
The Site Team
The Site Team of 2021/22 is made up of:
Inittowinit
Kop Warrior
Mito
Floydeth
Gallant Pioneer
Rosco
TheSwirly
Summary
We are all hoping for a more normal season than last when it seemed that the virus was strangling not only FPL but football itself and the return of supporters and normal match schedules are hopefully also back for good.
Good luck to absolutely everyone from us all at FF247 Site Team.
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With Lukaku finally in the game, I can happily I’ve made up my mind with my team and narrowed it down to two options lol. Better than infinite I guess.
Can I get some opinions on the two teams I’ve settled on please? They’re basically life with and without Lukaku.
I’m a Chelsea fan and my support for the team blinds me and gets me in trouble every season in fpl so looking for some clear eyes!
Side a looks better balanced.
The three premiums – and you can only captain one – make side b an unbalanced side. It’s not a terrible side by any means but it’s a bit under-cooked and over-reliant on cheapish players who’ve yet to strut their stuff.
I’d honestly park Lukaku until we know how the land lies, who the in-form early cheapos are etc.
Yeah that’s the most rational way of looking at lukaku. Thanks for the clarity!
Option 1 for me too. I’d start Coufal rather than Chambers.
Yes do agree on that, thanks!
Essentially, it comes down to Lukakuk & Benrahma or Mahrez & Watkins. Wheres the latter combo looks better (on paper) for the first few GWs, I’d prefer the former long-term.
Yeah to start for sure. I thought so too I just needed convincing. Cheers!!
Firstly I’d suggest Chambers to White whichever draft you go for.
Really like both teams …personally I’d start with the 1st one but with Amartey in place of Coufal. Play Toney instead of Arsenal defence in gw2 and then after Mahrez has played Norwich you’ll have 2 free transfers and correct funds to do Mahrez/Watkins to Benrahma/Lukaku! Suits the fixtures as well as the players setting in or coming back from injury etc
This is actually an amazing plan. Thanks mate I’ll be doing this for sure!
Unfortunately that isn’t enough funds for move down the track. It’s only 10.5 with Mahrez/Watkins + the extra 1mil from Amartey
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What’s wrong with this one then?
Nothing.
Que Sera, Sera.
Used to tinker with the team alot before the first deadline. This year i’m so unprepared. The team feels ok so lets hope for the best…
Vice Captain on a player who’s not flagged, perhaps?
You might be on to something there!
Good luck everyone.
Good luck Terminator
Dcl a concern, would go ings instead
Evening all
I’m done, unless we hear any news.
Thoughts?
Think I’m settled on this. Was really tempted with Barnes but Rodgers comments about his fitness has put me off. Gone for greenwood for now who could become grealish bit hopefully will work out.
Do you have a link for the Rodgers’ comments on Barnes? I’ve got him in my squad and thought he’d be starting.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.101greatgoals.com/news/fpl-ramifications-brendan-rodgers-provides-latest-on-castagne-barnes-ahead-of-wolves/amp/