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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Hey guys. Made some changes. How does it look? Have 1m itb. Any news on Kane?
Team.
Martial! That’s a first I’ve seen. That’s a bold move.
Not heard anything on Kane.
Not a bad squad Constantine.
Cheers GP. just taking a punt on him. Any ideas on how I could use the extra 1m. Or should I wait for kane to get in and spend in him later?
You could do Sarr to Barnes
Morning gang. Final draft (he says) have Dias and Reguilon to cover good potential of cleansheets from gameweek 2. ESR and White would be benched. Gundo for city coverage. What do you think gang?
A bit different but the midfield is awesome.
I like your forward planning there.
Cheers GP. How are you buddy? Is your team sorted?
Kind of!
Nelios – finally some City coverage!!
Think Gundagon is on the cards?
Hey M&B, i think so. No Foden for a while and Kdb might be out too, so i fancy him to start. Dias is for week onwards as i see clean sheets. Hoping the same for Reguilon too and Spurs. How’s your team looking?
Plus he’s probably on pens, hence why he’s in my team too…
Hey Banjo! How’s your team looking ?
Hey Neilos, how’s things? I think I’ll be going with this. It leaves me with 1.0 ITB to do Vardy to Lukaku as soon as he’s playing.
Hey Banjo i like that alot and great plan. I did have stones but went for Dias as was worried about rotation. Surely him signing that extension should guarantee him being nailed on no?
That midfield is awesome and not to bad with the rest. I like it
Straight shootout: Toney vs Barnes vs Maddison – whose scores the most points in next 4 GWs?
I’d say Barnes. Tried and trusted
Barnes. But it’s not a straight shoot because Toney gives you an extra 0.5.
Yeah the .5 is negligible as I’m not using it for anything exciting other than cash reserves. 2 for Barnes so far.
Barnes
3 for Barnes. Becoming a landslide.
probably barnes
Hi All, hope everyone is doing well
So here’s where I sit. 95% sure on most places, I have .5 left over and just have an issue on 2 positions.
Jimmy: his 1st 3 games are so so, next 4 class. So should I start with someone different and just sub him in?
Dose Lukaku start gw1?
I’d start Antonio/Ings/Wilson in the first 3 and go to Jimmy afterwards. That’s my plan for Ings anyway.
Cheers tornado. Very good plan
Lukaku unlikely to start GW1. I put Vardy as a placeholder.
Jimenez comeback after long injury and tough fixtures. Can wait till gw4. Antonio Ings Watkins Wilson all options at that price
Morning all,
Any thoughts on my team? Have 1m saved to bring in Luka for Vardy next week.
Any obvious errors that I’ve missed?
I don’t like Xhaka in there. He is a card magnet and doesn’t bring too much in attack. Apart from him you look all set, I think.
play toney instead of xhaka.
dont like really like xhaka- keeps getting yc & sometimes red cards. Torres could work if he starts.
Thanks Tornado & Reg, any other suggestions in place of Xhaka? Struggling to find the .5 to upgrade.
If you can’t find the extra 0.5, you might as well go to 4.5 Gilmour and play Toney. You will do that most weeks anyway.
Good morning!
I am down to this. The circled players are the ones that keep changing. Can I find a better way to fill those spots? I had Barnes, Sarr, Coufal/Cresswell, Ayling, Dier, Buendia, Benrahma, Son, Mahrez, etc in the my previous drafts.
Ta
Not sold on Dele and I don’t think Amartey is as attractive with Vestegaard coming in. Other then that I like it!
Thanks Goldilocks! I guess I can go back to Barnes instead of Dele/ESR and downgrade Digne or Dele/ESR. Just can’t find something that I really like. Any suggestions?