Fantasy Premier League 2024/25

73 points. Season was over when I dropped from 250k to 800k last night. But 48 points from my United trio takes me to 130k.

Gotten away with murder not owning Salah at all. Still not sure if or when I should make the switch from the malfunctioning robot.
 
I think i will bring in Bruno for Mbeumo for next GW. Am 0.1 clear now so lets hope Bruno doesn't go up twice during the break.
 
Garbage GW! Tempted to make my changes right now and be done with it until after the international break. Not the smartest idea but I’m sick of the sight of some of these players! :lol:
 
Brought Delap in for Vardy in GW8, got outscored by Vardy for 3 weeks running so I took him out for Strand Larsen this week. 11 pointer today. Beautiful. Had a similar thing with Smith Rowe and Brennan Johnson.
 
Glad no-one on my work league reads this thread as can't see anyone brought Bruno in. :cool:

12th before this game week, well up after. And can leave it alone for 2 weeks, even better!
 
Fabianski has been given an extra bonus point from somewhere. Makes it a 71 point week, happy enough with that.

Waiting on TAA (owned) and Saka (target) injury news over the international break before deciding what to do next.
 
A few blanks, a couple of disappointing performances in light of holding off on using transfers that would have paid off, and Haaland still in a bit of a rot. None of this matters, because this weekend I had two defenders come back with clean sheet bonuses! They're real!

Got 2 free transfers, 0.4m in the bank, and a Gabriel problem to solve still. I should've went with my first instinct and got Bruno in for the GW gone, but hey ho. I'll wait for the break to come towards an end, but I'm thinking a Brighton player needs to be coming in for their run to the new year, while Cunha along with Fernandes remain targets.

Seems like a sensible time to sell Wood with Forest's upcoming fixtures, so that could get Cunha in while keeping the Norwegian albatross. Or go with the budget forwards and juice the midfield.

Got a few options for Brighton. A defender would make sense while shifting Gabriel, with Veltman and Estupian standing out, but I've liked the look of Rutter plus there's always the João Pedro trap to fall into again.
 
Pretty bad week from me. 62 (-4). Trust Spurs to Spurs it all up.

Am considering jumping off Wood now with his fixtures coming up (although that Ipswich one after Arsenal is annoying). Wood and Johnson to Bruno and Jao Pedro is very tempting. Don't think Bruno can be ignored if he's going to be so involved in our attack with those fixtures and the new manager bounce coming in. Garnacho is not nailed, Rashford is a wash and Amad whilst great is not so good an fpl assett. Lewis also needs to go as well.

Or I could just bring in Smith Rowe for Johnson with no hit. Bound to return against Wolves and everyone else seem to have him (bench Wood). Then get Pedro the week after if he's getting minutes (for Strand Larsen) and then the week after that get Cunha in for Wood who is the player I should have got in the first place.
 
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Does the potential formation change not put people off bringing Bruno in?
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Yeah that's the trouble isn't it. This was the last Ruud game and we still don't know what Amorin wants from his attack and who he wants. Can't see Bruno not being involved but it still might be wise to wait and see. Sensible thing for me would just be to bring in ESR or Semenyo and wait to see how we look first but being sensible often = missed opportunities. United only have 2 more plum fixtures before it gets tougher again.
 
Henderson
Aina - Gabriel - Hall
Johnson - Salah - Palmer - Mbuemo - Semenyo
Haaland - Cunha

I have to get rid of either Gabriel or Haaland to get in Bruno. I am thinking of binning Gabriel to a 4.5m and upgrading Johnson to Bruno? What say you caftards?
 
89, chuffed with that week - the sacking off of the Everton duo in McNeil and DCL for Evanilson and Bruno did me wonders.

Just shows how a couple of gameweeks can ramp you up the league.
I was ~2,026,000 after gameweek 9.
Then went down to ~844k after 10.
Then down again to ~200k after this gameweek.
 
Hernandez - BFA said:
89, chuffed with that week - the sacking off of the Everton duo in McNeil and DCL for Evanilson and Bruno did me wonders.

Just shows how a couple of gameweeks can ramp you up the league.
I was ~2,026,000 after gameweek 9.
Then went down to ~844k after 10.
Then down again to ~200k after this gameweek.
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Ehhh hummm… @Dirty Schwein what do we do with braggers and the top 100-200k in this thread again?
 
Hernandez - BFA said:
89, chuffed with that week - the sacking off of the Everton duo in McNeil and DCL for Evanilson and Bruno did me wonders.

Just shows how a couple of gameweeks can ramp you up the league.
I was ~2,026,000 after gameweek 9.
Then went down to ~844k after 10.
Then down again to ~200k after this gameweek.
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After GW4 I was something like 4.6 millionth, which maybe isn't even too bad for a filthy casual who never even bought Haaland because it was more fun to build a team without him. But then Haaland stopped scoring and...

 
Looking at if I want Bruno, and I've ended up having doubts over continuing with Palmer now. Think I need a degree in advanced statistics to figure things out. :lol:

0.7 xGI per 90 for Palmer. Huge.Take out the Brighton game and it would be 0.44.

He did have that game so you can't ignore it, but at the same time it's an outlier. Not just a xG / xA thing, 4 of his actual 7 goals came in that one. You can't take any one game away from Salah, Saka or Haaland and turn them from elite numbers to merely good ones in quite the same way.

Brain fried.
 
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Looking at if I want Bruno, and I've ended up having doubts over continuing with Palmer now. Think I need a degree in advanced statistics to figure things out. :lol:

0.7 xGI per 90 for Palmer. Huge.Take out the Brighton game and it would be 0.44.

He did have that game so you can't ignore it, but at the same time it's an outlier. Not just a xG / xA thing, 4 of his actual 7 goals came in that one. You can't take any one game away from Salah, Saka or Haaland and turn them from elite numbers to merely good ones in quite the same way.

Brain fried.
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I think the argument for Palmer is that he's a flat track bully, it's one of the reasons I didn't buy him when everyone rushed to. The hard fixtures are now overso if you have him he's a keep. I'm looking for a way to bring him in now, but yeah if he continues to blank then get rid.
 
I could do Lewis to Bednarek and then Rogers to Bruno for -4 with nothing in the bank.

Thoughts?
 
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I could do Lewis to Bednarek and then Rogers to Bruno for -4 with nothing in the bank.

Thoughts?
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Tricky one. Bruno over Rogers all day long. I'm on a downer too over Lewis right now, what's the rest of your defence like and what role did you see him having moving forward?

As much as City's defence stinks right now, as much as he's a bit of a rotation risk, and as much as clean sheets have been unpredicatble so far for everyone this season City look like a half decent bet to land a few from weeks 14-20 if anyone is. This past GW showed Wolves can keep a cleanie if they get to play Southampton, West Ham can if they get to play Everton and they've both been bad at the back so far.

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Chipper said:
Tricky one. Bruno over Rogers all day long. I'm on a downer too over Lewis right now, what's the rest of your defence like and what role did you see him having moving forward?

As much as City's defence stinks right now, as much as he's a bit of a rotation risk, and as much as clean sheets have been unpredicatble so far for everyone this season City look like a half decent bet to land a few from weeks 14-20 if anyone is. This past GW showed Wolves can keep a cleanie if they get to play Southampton, West Ham can if they get to play Everton and they've both been bad at the back so far.

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Can’t afford now as Bruno has risen.

Would have to be Bruno and £3.9m now.

The rest of the defence is Ait Nouri, Dalot and Mykolenko with Greaves as the sub.

It would mean I’d have:

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Dalot Ait-Nouri Mykolenko
Salah Palmer Bruno Mbeumo Semenyo
Haaland Cunha
 
BenitoSTARR said:
Can’t afford now as Bruno has risen.

Would have to be Bruno and £3.9m now.

The rest of the defence is Ait Nouri, Dalot and Mykolenko with Greaves as the sub.

It would mean I’d have:

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Dalot Ait-Nouri Mykolenko
Salah Palmer Bruno Mbeumo Semenyo
Haaland Cunha
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At least Greaves should be back imminently if you did that.

Can't see any other routes to him that look appealing. Everyone else class or has great fixtures.

Dalot is the best I can come up with on the flimsy excuse that we don't know who Amorim is going to pick. Those next 2 fixtures look great though and would guess he's going to start so would want to keep.

Not even sure what your sell price would be if you did that and who you'd be able to afford? 4.4 for Hall, Konsa or Kerkez? Andersen at 4.3? Then it's back to those around 4.0 again.

Shame that Quansah might be behind Joe Gomez now too of the 3.9 players or he'd be the obvious choice if taking that particular option. Gomez with 45 minutes v Brighton a couple of games ago. Not a certainty though, Quansah was subbed on ahead of him for 2 minutes in the CL after that. Don't even know who's regularly on the bench of the others.
 
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Chipper said:
Looking at if I want Bruno, and I've ended up having doubts over continuing with Palmer now. Think I need a degree in advanced statistics to figure things out. :lol:

0.7 xGI per 90 for Palmer. Huge.Take out the Brighton game and it would be 0.44.

He did have that game so you can't ignore it, but at the same time it's an outlier. Not just a xG / xA thing, 4 of his actual 7 goals came in that one. You can't take any one game away from Salah, Saka or Haaland and turn them from elite numbers to merely good ones in quite the same way.

Brain fried.
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Dont take Palmer out - keep him for the rest of the season imo. Everything goes through him, so it’s only natural he can have 1 game that’s a statisical outlier. Only player along with Salah, Saka and Haaland that are reliable against anyone imo.
 
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Dont take Palmer out - keep him for the rest of the season imo. Everything goes through him, so it’s only natural he can have 1 game that’s a statisical outlier. Only player along with Salah, Saka and Haaland that are reliable against anyone imo.
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2mufc0 said:
I think the argument for Palmer is that he's a flat track bully, it's one of the reasons I didn't buy him when everyone rushed to. The hard fixtures are now overso if you have him he's a keep. I'm looking for a way to bring him in now, but yeah if he continues to blank then get rid.
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Yeah, I didn't have Palmer for much of last season. Was very late to the party there and a little bit again this season. Still I know he can haul at any time, especially against some of the smaller teams and his fixtures are now good for a long time.

I like mouthing off random ideas in this thread, not necessarily setting down solid plans. Stream of consciousness stuff.

Was on Saka at first this season, bringing in Palmer after Saka was out injured v Bournemouth the other week only for him to come right back in again vs Liverpool when I made the switch. Sold Haaland since then, becoming a Salah-led team and I've been eyeing up having Palmer, Saka and Salah. All the Bruno talk then started and I was looking over his xG, xA etc. and comparing it to other big midfielders when I noticed that about Palmer and just had to type it out on here. :lol:

Can't really see myself selling him if truth be told.
 
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