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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Morning all! I’ve narrowed it down to 3 template teams! One with Lukaku, one with a budget forward line and one with Vardy and a stronger midfield bit would have to go Sancho instead of Fernandes. Which do you prefer, A, B or C?
C
I prefer Team B. However, each team has too much money sitting on the bench with Armstrong as a sub.
Are there any 4.5 forwards guaranteed to play?
No, but still is a lot to sit on the bench each week, you will end up needing the extra funds at some point.
I’d imagine Armstrong will play most weeks and he does have the liverpool 4m in there. Basically bench is 4.5’s and 4m
Morning guys! The new season is finally here
Please rate my team! Pretty template team to start the season with! Everyone is nailed on apart from the Gundo spot – tempted to replace with Greenwood/Pogba – open to other suggestions. 0.5itb! Thanks
Solid team, 0.5 ITB will give you some flexibility later.
Solid choices. Very nice.
Here we go again. Am going to try a few different formations this year rather than the usual 343, so starting with 532 Sanchez
Tsimikas/TAA/Shaw/White/Stones
Salah/Bruno/Barnes
Ings/Antonio
Subs Steele/Dallas/Bissouma/Toney
GW2 433 White off Toney on
GW3 343 Tsimikas off Dallas on
Have kept !m itb in case I have to rip it all up.
Good luck all.
Are going to happy to rotate like this for a good part of the season?
1. Is Lukaku likely to start GW1?
2. If not, I got Vardy as a placeholder. Who for a 1 GW punt- Vardy or Martial? Martial likely to start
Vardy may well be the safer option for a week.
Def Vardy for me!
Hi all
Sort of happy with my team but seems too much of a template? Any suggestions?
Don’t panic about being template. It’s only what you’re seeing on twitter and on here. It’s not the majority of the players playing.
Great squad.
Cheers GP, best of luck.
hi guys rmt plz
foster bachmann
shaw coufal white veltman livramento
salah bruno torres havertz brownhill
ings antonio toney
my plan is havertz or torres and ings> lukaku and a cheaper midfilder for next gw.
any advices plz?
Strong squad nauj
thanks i changed livramento>tsimikas lately