Fantasy Premier League 2024/25

2mufc0 said:
Any news on how long Konate will be out for? Looking for a cheap defender and was thinking about Joe Gomez, won't keep him long term but just for 3/4 game weeks, or is Konate back soon?
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It's supposed to be a little while longer, but who knows? Apparently he posted a picture of himself doing some gym work today.

Looking at Gomez too, was slightly worried over Quansah possibly being ahead of him due to the order of substitutions they made against Newcastle. Gomez starting tonight confirms that it's not the case.

Suppose the problem in taking someone who is only playing due to an injured teammate is that the first choice fella could suddenly reappear in his team without anyone saying a thing. You can get that week where your guy is benched again before you sell him and you get 0 points. Luckily Slot seems fairly straightforward in letting people know about that kind of thing so far.

Got a bit of nightmare at the back now. Timber not training today as well as Gabriel, Lewis suspended, Greaves wasn't in Ipswich's squad at the weekend and I'm not sure why. Might have Hall on his own. :lol: Lewis > Gomez seems to be the play for me, even for a -4.
 
Wood to isak
Wissa to joao pedro
Hall to taa
Smith rowe to enzo

Have 3 free transfers

Cunha isak joao pedro
Saka enzo salah palmer
Timber mazroui taa
Verbruggen/flekken

Could to Jackson instead of Jaoa pedro but I’d have nothing in the bank
 
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If you’ve held onto Haaland for this long I’m not sure I see the point in getting rid of him when he’s got a nice run of fixtures

United Home
Villa Away
Everton Home
Leicester Away
West Ham Home
Brentford Away
Ipswich Away

He’s the one player whose pretty much guaranteed to start every game over the Christmas period.

Looking at Liverpools fixtures over the busy Xmas period:
Spurs - Away
Leicester - Home
West Ham - Away
Man Utd - Home

I could see Slot taking a risk and resting Salah vs Leicester.
 
LukeTheRed said:
If you’ve held onto Haaland for this long I’m not sure I see the point in getting rid of him when he’s got a nice run of fixtures

United Home
Villa Away
Everton Home
Leicester Away
West Ham Home
Brentford Away
Ipswich Away

He’s the one player whose pretty much guaranteed to start every game over the Christmas period.

Looking at Liverpools fixtures over the busy Xmas period:
Spurs - Away
Leicester - Home
West Ham - Away
Man Utd - Home

I could see Slot taking a risk and resting Salah vs Leicester.
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Totally agree. Haaland owners must sit tight.

My team right now:

Fabianski (Flekken)
Kerkez, Hall, Dalot (SvdB , Faes)
Salah, Saka, Palmer(C), Rogers (Amad)
Haaland, Pedro, Larsen

0,0 ITB, 1 FT

I'm considering going Dalot -> Munoz this week to free up funds to go Faes (Who's not on RVN's favourite list) -> Emerson next week.
Then I could sit tight for some weeks bar injuries.

Thoughts anyone?
 
El-Manos said:
Wood to isak
Wissa to joao pedro
Hall to taa
Smith rowe to enzo

Have 3 free transfers

Cunha isak joao pedro
Saka enzo salah palmer
Timber mazroui taa
Verbruggen/flekken

Could to Jackson instead of Jaoa pedro but I’d have nothing in the bank
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The bank can't score points for you. At least, that was my justification for swapping Pedro for Isak, having already had Jackson.
 
didz said:
The bank can't score points for you. At least, that was my justification for swapping Pedro for Isak, having already had Jackson.
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Very true. Is Jackson that much better/ more guaranteed to bring in points we think?
 
El-Manos said:
Very true. Is Jackson that much better/ more guaranteed to bring in points we think?
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I thought he was a must have ahead of the Southampton game but he obviously didn't get on the pitch for it. Still got good fixtures and I'm pretty sure he's gonna start every weekend game, with Nkunku doing Tuesday-Thursdays whether they're league or cup. It's also worth remembering that another yellow gets Jackson a suspension, so there's an element of risk to backing him.

But if you've had Palmer for long enough to be annoyed when Chelsea score a few goals without him getting any returns, then you might be like me and feel a need for Jackson, just to make sure you reap the rewards over their next 7 easy games.

Meanwhile, I couldn't tell you when Pedro might get returns. I mean I know he'll score against us because he always does, but aside from that I wouldn't bother trying to guess. Brought him in on a whim close to a deadline and he's now as likely to be on the bench doing me no favours as anything else.
 
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paulscholes18 said:
That assistant manager chip seems quiet confusing.
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Seems pretty clear to me? Pick a manager and they get points for wins, draws, CS and goals scored.

If it's against a team 5 places or more above your manager's team, you get +10 for the wins and +5 for the draws.
 
RobinLFC said:
Seems pretty clear to me? Pick a manager and they get points for wins, draws, CS and goals scored.

If it's against a team 5 places or more above your manager's team, you get +10 for the wins and +5 for the draws.
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it's confusing because "5 places or more" is decided when, before the start of the GW? they didn't clarify that, we can only assume.
and then, it's active for "three successive GWs" - what if there's a DGW there? should we also take that into account, and the managers will score for each game they played?
not to mention it only adds variance to a game that's already way too much variance dependant. it's a terrible idea and more of a mess than fun.
 
Red Star One said:
it's confusing because "5 places or more" is decided when, before the start of the GW? they didn't clarify that, we can only assume.
and then, it's active for "three successive GWs" - what if there's a DGW there? should we also take that into account, and the managers will score for each game they played?
not to mention it only adds variance to a game that's already way too much variance dependant. it's a terrible idea and more of a mess than fun.
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also it's active for 3 GWs and you can't activate any other chip during those 3GWs - stupid really
 
Red Star One said:
it's confusing because "5 places or more" is decided when, before the start of the GW? they didn't clarify that, we can only assume.
and then, it's active for "three successive GWs" - what if there's a DGW there? should we also take that into account, and the managers will score for each game they played?
not to mention it only adds variance to a game that's already way too much variance dependant. it's a terrible idea and more of a mess than fun.
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Plus the fact that you can transfer the manager, so to use it 'optimally', you might have to figure out different clubs that have double gameweeks within three gameweeks of each other etc and save free transfers to change manager between them...

Seems like far too much arsing around.
 
V.O. said:
Plus the fact that you can transfer the manager, so to use it 'optimally', you might have to figure out different clubs that have double gameweeks within three gameweeks of each other etc and save free transfers to change manager between them...

Seems like far too much arsing around.
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yeah and then again you want to leave the juicy DGWs for chips like TC and BB... it's really unnecessary
 
It also just generally seems a bit overpowered. You're probably happy enough if you get 15 points from a bench boost or TC... yet they've worked out as an example that picking Glasner during Palace's run of form last season would have given you 67 points.
 
LukeTheRed said:
If you’ve held onto Haaland for this long I’m not sure I see the point in getting rid of him when he’s got a nice run of fixtures

United Home
Villa Away
Everton Home
Leicester Away
West Ham Home
Brentford Away
Ipswich Away

He’s the one player whose pretty much guaranteed to start every game over the Christmas period.

Looking at Liverpools fixtures over the busy Xmas period:
Spurs - Away
Leicester - Home
West Ham - Away
Man Utd - Home

I could see Slot taking a risk and resting Salah vs Leicester.
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He might rest him, but even with just 10-20 minutes as a sub Salah has shown big numbers before. Who knows, a boxing day match is always special
 
RobinLFC said:
Seems pretty clear to me? Pick a manager and they get points for wins, draws, CS and goals scored.

If it's against a team 5 places or more above your manager's team, you get +10 for the wins and +5 for the draws.
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The confusing part is going to be working out when to use it as well as your other chips. TC Salah on a double is out now if you want Slot for it. Early Haaland TCers blowing their load so soon have been rewarded
 
V.O. said:
It also just generally seems a bit overpowered. You're probably happy enough if you get 15 points from a bench boost or TC... yet they've worked out as an example that picking Glasner during Palace's run of form last season would have given you 67 points.
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Blimey. Yeah not a fan of this. Massive get out of jail card for everyone who wasted their TC chip already as well.
 
Is Trent worth it ? Or just get Van Dijk instead

Also have cunha, tempted to swap for joao pedro
 
I think some of the people in charge used their Triple Captain early in the season..

This just seems like a load of nonsense
 
The confusing part is the price where it says that "each manager has a set price between .5 and 1.5 million". So, if I'm understanding it, you'd have to at least have .5 million ITB to even play the chip and up to 1.5 mil to have your choice of ANY manager over the 3 gameweeks.

So let's say, just in theory - that Dyche, Glasner and McNeil were all .5
Amorim, Big Mate Ange and Unai Emory are 1 M
Pep , Slot and Arteta are 1.5 M

Well, first of all, you'd have to pull at least .5 up to 1.5 out of your team value I guess. So this is favouring anyone with a huge team value, in some ways. So you're going to have transfer out players before the chip to have money ITB, if you arent carrying a balance of at least .5?.

If you go for Pep, Slot and Arteta, you'll never hit any bonuses, because there probably aren't 5 teams above City, Arse and 'Pool - but you could play it "very safe" if you had a run of Pool, City and Arsenal against promoted teams 3 weeks in a row.

However, (hypothetically...) if you can find a way to bet on Everton, Palace and Wolves to hit 3 weeks in a row, you're golden at .5 with bonuses.

It also doesn't specify if you get the money back after 3 weeks, I guess you do.

But with double game weeks it makes things more difficult. Could you conceivably get 4 GWs of Asst. Manager over the course of 3 (real-time) GWs because you have a double? Or does a double mean your Assistant Manager only lasts 2 GWs (in real time GWs?). My guess is it must be the latter. If you choose a manager that doubles it only lasts 2 GWs if that manager had a SGW followed by a DGW or vice versa.

This really seems to screw everyone like me, who went with the 4 premium approach. Pulling even .5 out of my team would be tough. Let's say in my team I'd have to drop Henderson from 4.4 to 3.9 GK and go with Fabianski for 3 weeks to get the .5 assistant manager. That's rough, because you'd have to balance that out over 3 weeks, and almost anyone who is playing assistant manager has to make sure they are NOT bench boosting around those weeks unless you have incredible team value. I guess you need to WC either going into the Assistant Manager Chip (to have money ITB) or coming out (to rebuild your team, although I guess you could rack up FTs during those 2-3 GWs?).

So, I suppose this really means everyone who plans on playing the chip has to figure how to get at a minimum .5 ITB before you throw down the chip and have 3 fixtures targeted.
 
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Interesting chip. The problem is if you use this chip, for the next 3 weeks you can’t use another chip meaning if there is a double gameweek you can’t use both the Assistant manager chip and double captain chip.
 
More points there to be won sounds good to me. I could kind of use them.
 
Well that's a wild one!

First thoughts reading it was it sounded rubbish, just pick the guy with easy fixtures. The bonus points for picking one with more difficult games didn't sound worth it.

Reading more, the stuff about having to pay for the assistant, double gameweek eligibility, not being able to use another chip at the same time, and being able to use a transfer to swap your assistant manager part-way through makes it a lot juicier but also insanely difficult to wrap my head around.

This is going to be carnage, trying to work out best stategy for this vs when to play free hit vs bench boost vs triple cap for those who still have that left and manipulating your squad into the best position to take advantage of all these.
 
So basically you want to use this chip on a 0.5m bottom half manager once you can see they are running into a bit of form?
 
RaddyRed said:
So basically you want to use this chip on a 0.5m bottom half manager once you can see they are running into a bit of form?
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Not really, I think. You can transfer the manager during the 3 weeks, but we need to see what that means. So for example this:

You have:
Week 1: You spend 1M and have Amorim vs a team +5 place above United - you go for the bonus that week. (You can't have triple United that week, so say you only have Amad + Amorim)
Week 2: You use your FT for Slot AND use up an additional .5 from your ITB to upgrade him and go for a Liverpool double GW but get no bonuses. But you can't have triple 'Pool that week (You could only have TAA, Salah and Slot that week). You invested 1M in Amorim and you need an additional .5 for Slot.
Week 3: You use your FT and for Glasner at .5 Mil vs a team 5 places above Palace and you'd get 1 ITB back. (You'd sell Slot 1.5 Mil for Glasner .5 Mil and get 1M back). You also could only have 2 Palace players plus Glasner.
Week 4: Your Assistant Manager is over and you get .5 back and you can start using chips again. (You'd get the .5 mil you spent on Glasner back)

I think that's how it would work.

So your assistant manager is basically like a 12th player with potentially massive bonuses over 3 weeks who costs you anywhere from .5 to 1.5 mil, but you have to pull that money out of your existing players and possibly use your FTs on changing that 12th player over the course of 3 weeks.

The rather unfortunate part about all of this is, in all reality, the content creators will process this info and figure this all out very soon and there will be a template and a plan once fixtures get sorted. Everyone will bandwagon on the same plan like: You have to play the card in something like week 31 and have at least 1 Million ITB and at least 2 FTs and then switching from Ange to Slot to Frank for example over those 3 weeks (totally hypothetical scenario - but you can understand what I'm talking about), and transferring some midfielder out in week 2 to upgrade your assistant to get .5 mil. It'll just end up being a rather complicated bandwagon.
 
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FortunaUtd said:
So you need to create the funds by transfering onto a 0.5-1.5m cheaper squad beforehand before you can use the chip. At least I need to as I'm usually at the limit.
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That’s what’s I meant. You have to use the budget you already have. There isn’t an extra budget for the AM. I’m having problems as it is with my current squad. I could do maybe 0.5 for a AM.
 
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