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
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Hey everyone!
Who would you rather have – Dele, Toney, Sarr, Benrahma, Buendia (based on the rest of my team)?
Is Digne worth it? Better to go with Cresswell/Coufal instead? Or someone else?
Cheers!
I really like the Alli pick …he’s on my watch list….but if you were to go with Toney then you could get a pretty much nailed mid as opposed to Davis, so suppose it depends on how reliant you want to be with your bench.
I also think Toney could have a higher ceiling and be nailed ….only thing that worries me is if he blanks his price could drop dramatically!
I’ve had Digne since 1st draft but after seeing the 4-0 thrashing I’ve dropped him for Coufal ….don’t think much separates them apart from the 0.5m saving
Thanks Red Kev!
Hello good people, any suggestions before tomorrow’s deadline.
If you’ve got tsimikas you may as well start him?
Thanks Webstar, what of the rest of the team.
I like the captain serious differential.
Maybe play Tsimikas over Coufal/Targett
Thanks Little Red.
Play Coufal or Tsimikas? Have TAA.
Don’t Coufail when you can make Tsimikas I always say
Tsimikas.
Wilson has a knack of scoring in GW1, and taking the hammer to West Ham.
Big Rom now available for the low price of 11.5M.
Something to think about next week.
Still got him in his Unted kit!
yes, I saw that.
My stress levels did not need that. Was hoping for 10.5m
Silly price
Called it though
But how much is Adam Armstrong? (probably 8.0 at this rate…)
He’s already been added at 6.0m!
Ooooooh, thank you good sir
Have we collectively settled on Watkins over Ings for GW1 then lads?
Oops, I am still on Ingsy.
I’m on Ings as well
I’ve collectively stuck with Ings, but then I’ve collectively stuck with my side over the last 48 hours or so, mainly out of fatigue. I’m happy to be starting with Ings. He’s been very reliable in the past.
Where would you scrape 0.5 from here?
Banjo, Dallas instead of Harrison.
Lukaku (C)
It would be tempting, but I’ll probably stay safe with Salah. Haven’t actually managed to squeeze rom in yet. I was hoping he’d be 11, and I was gonna go Vardy week one then switch. Now I’ve gotta raise 0.5 from elsewhere if I want him… hmmm.
I’m not sure I fancy Dallas as a mid. If it’s Harrison getting chopped I’d probably go ESR.
Well, I am gonna have to see if he will be entering my team but not moving the armband from Bruno
Scmeichel the most obvious one.
Yea that was my first thought. Who’s the best 4.5 set and forget? Sanchez?
Yep Sanchez. Looks like a decent team Banjo.
Cheers Horse. How’s yours coming along?
Erm, remove Rom…?
Ha, that’s the simple option! I’m still not set on starting with him, but want a simple path to bringing him in when he starts firing. Vardy is still there at the moment.
Yeah, that’s sensible. For me I guess I never viewed him as someone I needed in my team when he was last in the league. Can’t say my feelings have changed, and definitely not at that price!
It’s good thanks
Love that team.
You can kick back and focus on Crewe.
Gundy to Barnes or Schmeical to Sánchez
Cheers Kev. Sanchez move is most likely at the moment I think.
If going Sánchez, you could have Gundy for gw2 then swap to Barnes for gw3 taking advantage of the Norwich fixtures….I’m likely doing the same but with Mahrez
Salah to Mané?
Schmeichel to Sanchez/Bachmann?