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A common template this season seems to involve a lot of premium defenders, but I am too greedy elsewhere to go for that, at least not at the start till viable budget options further forwards make themselves apparent.

I still cant afford to get Son on top of another 2 premiums though, I can only currently stretch as far as Sterlings 10 million price for that slot instead. But I dont know how much my team will yet change in the weeks before launch.
 
Lord Camomile said:
Early days, but Haaland currently winning the selection battle.

64.4% with Haaland, 60.6% have Salah.

TAA very close behind with 57.6%, while interestingly Perisic is owned by almost half the game at 49.4%.

Cancelo, James and Jesus also owned by 40%+ teams in the league at this point.

Lot more variance in the goalkeepers, with Mendy top at 22.2%.
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Bit of change up at the top, with Jesus now taking top spot, even selected by 2.3% more managers than Haaland was when the game laumched!

Jesus: 66.7%
Haaland: 57.3%
Salah: 56.2%
TAA: 54.4%

Cancelo (45.6%) and James (40.4%) the only other two players above even 30%.

So is it sort of "template premium with lots of differentials beyond"?
 
Right now in my team I've decided to take loads of risks in defence, and throw away the popular idea of putting a bunch of premiums in those positions. But since I'm greedy I've currently pushed that idea to its extreme. I'll probably stick with this idea at its most extreme unless I cant find a single 8.0 midfield option that I want to try in week 1, in which case I'll go for a slightly milder version of it, but still a pretty risky version.

Well when I say extreme, I've still got TAA in defence.
 
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Lord Camomile said:
Why can't I just have all the players I want??! :( :(
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If the likes of Darwin turn out to make a no Salah team viable this season, then I probably can have nearly everyone I want at the same time.

The only thing that is preventing me from being 100% satisfied with my gameweek 1 team, and indulging in excessive tinkering as we approach the deadline, is Spurs first fixture. If I could convince myself that Kulusevski and Perisic combined could make up for a lack of Son or Kane, then I'd be able to take a Darwin punt right from the start without having to go without Salah. But I dont seem to be able to convince myself of that, so I'll have wait till at least the second gameweek before jumping on Darwin.
 
Pre-season panic as per. Have shoehorned Salah, Son, Haaland and Jesus into my team with defenders from Citeh, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal. So starting lineup is great but I only have two viable midfielders :D

ETA much as I like Haaland, who I think will have a great career at Man City, I'm not going to have him as he's not likely to make up for points I can get with a more expensive midfield. Plus I don't like the idea of being pleased when our main rivals score!
 
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starfish said:
Almost settled on my squad but cant help thinking i might need more City players.
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It's hard with them because of Pep's rotation obsession, and I'm still trying to work out if the five subs rule will help or hinder that. Ederson is pretty much the only City player guaranteed to play. Strongly tempted by Walker but his attacking stats are shite.
 
Steel Icarus said:
It's hard with them because of Pep's rotation obsession, and I'm still trying to work out if the five subs rule will help or hinder that. Ederson is pretty much the only City player guaranteed to play. Strongly tempted by Walker but his attacking stats are shite.
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Yeah, I've been very hesitant about City players for exactly that reason, incl. Haaland (also for the "I could probably get more points per £ spreading it elsewhere" reasons you mentioned).

Thought Cucurella might be a cheeky, cheap way into having a City defender without paying a premium, but the bastard's gone and signed for Chelsea instead! :rolleyes: :mad:
 
Lord Camomile said:
Yeah, I've been very hesitant about City players for exactly that reason, incl. Haaland (also for the "I could probably get more points per £ spreading it elsewhere" reasons you mentioned).

Thought Cucurella might be a cheeky, cheap way into having a City defender without paying a premium, but the bastard's gone and signed for Chelsea instead! :rolleyes: :mad:
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Might make Walker more of a certainty. Rodri might be a bit of a bargain at 6.0, plays most games and got 7 goals last season.
 
You think I have £6.0 to spend on a defender with my current collection of trend-following, no-plan, "expensive = good" picks in the rest of my squad?! :rolleyes: :( :(

(Fuck me, for the past two weeks I've been telling myself I'm going to take a proper look at everything and actually attempt a plan, but suddenly the deadline is tomorrow and when exactly do you think you're going to do that, eh??! :facepalm: :D )
 
Lord Camomile said:
You think I have £6.0 to spend on a defender with my current collection of trend-following, no-plan, "expensive = good" picks in the rest of my squad?! :rolleyes: :( :(

(Fuck me, for the past two weeks I've been telling myself I'm going to take a proper look at everything and actually attempt a plan, but suddenly the deadline is tomorrow and when exactly do you think you're going to do that, eh??! :facepalm: :D )
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Ah, soz, Rodri is a midfielder. Who are your most expensive picks?
 
Steel Icarus said:
Ah, soz, Rodri is a midfielder. Who are your most expensive picks?
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Oh aye, sorry. I was still thinking in defender mode.

Honestly can't remember what draft I left my team in, but struggling to decide who, if anyone, I could leave out from TAA, Salah, Son, Jesus, and Haaland.

They're my big premiums (Jesus = "premium"? :hmm: ), but there's also the £8m mids like Saka and Diaz who I'd like to squeeze in too.

So yeah, my defense and subs are taking a bit of a kicking :oops: :D

It's all good, part of the game, just haven't done the homework to make confident choices.
 
I'm still toying with the idea of Kulusevski instead of Son as his record since joining Spurs was excellent and he's 4m cheaper - that's enough to get a couple of top tier defenders in for you, and a non-budget striker in for me to go alongside the ubiquitous Jesus.
 
Yeah, Kulusevski did occur to me as an option.

It's totally sentimental with Son, after I abandoned him last season and he went on that absolute tear for a few gameweeks. I've always liked him, both in real life and as an FPL asset, so I'm finding it hard not to keep him this time round.
 
It's hard not to have what you think of players influence your picks. I really dislike Zaha but IMO he's a bargain. But I'm blowed if I can stand to have him in my team lol!
 
I may as well start off extreme by taking advantage of the £4.0 Leicester goalkeepers and other bargains. Currently got four £4.0 players in my team as a result, a £4.5 midfielder, £5.0 midfielder and £5.5 million midfielder, and more money in defence than I was originally planning but still no Cancelo or Robertson.

Its bound to go wrong but then I can say that about my starting team most years, and this is my idea of fun at this stage of the season.
 
I have a good team, its been a joy picking it for once and looking
for at least a top 30 plus position good luck everyone :)
 
The site has been crawling for me so I can't be arsed to do any changes. Might as well get the excuses in early. I went for Haaland on the basis of his performance for me in FM2021 (for moneybags Man Utd) about 18 months ago. 97 goals in 84 games. Whether 4-1-2-1-2, leaving training to assistants, and spacebarspacebarspacebarspacebar would work as well for Pep remains to be seen.
 
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rekil said:
The site has been crawling for me so I can't be arsed to do any changes. Might as well get the excuses in early. I went for Haaland on the basis of his performance for me in FM2021 (for moneybags Man Utd) about 18 months ago. 97 goals in 84 games. Whether 4-1-2-1-2, leaving training to assistants, and spacebarspacebarspacebarspacebar would work as well for Pep remains to be seen.
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Feels really wrong to go against Haaland, he was straight into my first few drafts. Just a liiiiiiitle hesitant on how he'll start, Pep roulette, plus not having him frees up funds to improve multiple other positions.

Random thought: in terms of falling foul of price changes, would I be right in thinking the prices of the most owned players will actually fluctuate less wildly? i.e. it takes more buys/sells to impact their price because they're already owned by so many? Just thinking that might also justify not going all in on premiums straight away, as even if there's a bandwagon it'll move slower than on a less-owned player.

Have I got that all wrong? :hmm: :confused:
 
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