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4 August 2025 177 comments
FPL Marc FPL Marc
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The latest batch of noteworthy Fantasy Premier League (FPL) friendlies saw Granit Xhaka (£5.0m) make his return to English football and more fuel get added to the Donyell Malen (£5.5m) bandwagon.

Alongside these Aston Villa and Sunderland outings was a secret Manchester City runout versus Preston North End.

Below, you can also read some takeaways from other recent friendlies:


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Nashville SC 2-2 Aston Villa

FPL notes: Watkins misfires, Sessegnon subbed + Tielemans stars 1

  • Goals: Ollie Watkins, Donyell Malen
  • Assists: Lucas Digne, Jamaldeen Jimoh

It’s still a surprise to see Ollie Watkins (£9.0m) in just 13.0% of current FPL squads, considering Villa’s great early fixtures and the reliability that comes with 50 goals and 34 assists over three seasons.

Soon after curling wide from a tricky angle, Watkins netted for the third time in this tour of America.

His glancing header into the far corner came from Lucas Digne‘s (£4.5m) perfect left-sided cross.

Yet of even more interest to FPL managers could be Donyell Malen‘s (£5.5m) form. Although not in the initial starting XI, he came on at half-time, just like Morgan Rogers (£7.0m), John McGinn (£5.5m), Youri Tielemans (£6.0m) and Ezri Konsa (£4.5m).

The latter put one chance wide, before Tielemans pounced upon a loose defensive pass and played in Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba (£4.5m). The 18-year-old fed Malen, who cut inside and scored. Following three assists, it’s the January arrival’s first summer goal.

In fact, with Jhon Duran and Marcus Rashford not around, Malen could be Watkins’ only competition up front. But it’s also possible that cheap midfielder Malen plays on the right, while Watkins gets a free run at Brentford, Everton, Sunderland and Burnley by Gameweek 7.

Once Unai Emery replaced his whole XI, the Tennessee-based Major League Soccer outfit fought back to 2-2.

Aston Villa first half XI: Martinez; Cash, Bogarde, Pau, Digne; Kamara, Onana; Bailey, Buendia, Ramsey; Watkins

Aston Villa second half XI: Martinez (Gauci 64); Bogarde (Rowe 64), Konsa, Mings, Maatsen (Patterson 80); Tielemans, McGinn; Bailey (Iling-Junior 64), Rogers, Jimoh; Malen


Manchester City 1-0 Preston North End

  • Goal: Rico Lewis
  • Assist: Oscar Bobb

Meanwhile, Man City’s first pre-season match took place behind closed doors at the City Football Academy.

Very little is known about their first sighting since the Club World Cup, but we know the goalscorer, assist-maker and several participants.

Hopefully, Saturday’s clash with Palermo in Sicily can offer more clues on Pep Guardiola’s mindset. Does he trust Phil Foden (£8.0m) to return to his 2023/24 best? Could James Trafford (£5.0m) be his number one goalkeeper?

And will Rayan Ait-Nouri (£6.0m) start against former club Wolverhampton Wanderers in Gameweek 1?


Sunderland 0-1 Real Betis

FPL new signings: Xhaka to Sunderland + Elanga replacement Ndoye 1

Newly-promoted Sunderland faced their second Seville-based opponent of recent weeks but, in front of several thousand at the Stadium of Light, Saturday’s loss to Real Betis was their fourth consecutive defeat.

Enzo Le Fee (£5.0m) was restricted to a cameo appearance this time, with no minutes for Patrick Roberts (£5.5m) or Dan Neil (£5.0m). Instead, debuts happened for Xhaka, goalkeeper Robin Roefs (£4.5m) and experienced left-back Reinildo Mandava (£4.0m).

Of Sunderland’s £4.0m defenders, he’s very likely got the best chance of not just starting in Gameweek 1 but keeping his place thereafter.

The Mackems’ best moments derived from Xhaka. It was the 32-year-old’s pass that set up an offside Simon Adingra (£5.5m) strike, before Aitor Ruibal’s header won it for the Conference League finalists. Xhaka was on set pieces, too.

Eliezer Mayenda (£5.5m) stated again and will likely lead the line come Gameweek 1 – Wilson Isidor (£5.5m) was absent again through injury – but the Spain Under-21 forward failed to make an impact. The imminent addition of Marc Guiu (£4.5m) adds further line-up uncertainty in the medium term.

Sunderland XI: Roefs; Hume, Ballard, H Jones, Reinildo (Le Fee 61); Diarra (Huggins 61), Sadiki, Xhaka; Talbi, Mayenda, Adingra

FPL Marc <p>Broadcaster, writer and overthinker. Hoping that ‘differential potential’ will catch on.</p>

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  1. Jrot94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    7 hours, 18 mins ago

    Ooh top comment, PLEASE provide thoughts

    Sanchez
    Virgil / Neco / Tottenham 4.5
    Salah / Palmer / Wirtz / Rogers
    Wood / Welbeck / Piroe

    4.0 Semenyo Truffert Esteve

    Little unbalanced with no big strikers, but I like Piroe as my 9th attacker at ATM, surprised he's not getting more love
    any thoughts/advice?

    1. DavvaMC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      7 hours, 17 mins ago

      Not bad, not liking the forwards though.

      1. Jrot94
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        7 hours, 12 mins ago

        thank you for the comment. Agree that the strikers are weak at this point

        Part of it is I like Piroe better than the cheap MFs people are tossing around (the Everton guy, Kudus, etc.). Look forward to someone answering the question right below as well

  2. Philosopher's Stones
    • 5 Years
    7 hours, 15 mins ago

    Leeds enthusiasts: is Piroe nailed?

    1. Kingy109
      • 4 Years
      5 hours, 24 mins ago

      Leeds are looking for a striker and that would put Piroe at significant risk I believe

  3. DavvaMC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    7 hours, 15 mins ago

    Thoughts on the below please.

    Sanchez
    Van De Ven / Williams / Ait-Nouri
    Salah / Palmer / Wirtz / Rogers / Reijinders
    Watkins / Mateta

    Dubravka / Guiu / Richards / Esteve

    Thanks

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 7 Years
      7 hours, 8 mins ago

      Looks good to me. I've got 7/11 starters in my draft atm.

      1. DavvaMC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 4 Years
        7 hours, 6 mins ago

        I think City set up with Ait-Nouri and Reijinders, or that could be my blind optimism 🙂

        1. Bobby Digital
          • 7 Years
          6 hours, 59 mins ago

          Really tempted by Reijnders myself... I have Ndiaye as a placeholder atm.

    2. Jrot94
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      7 hours, 5 mins ago

      We have similar teams...

      You went Watkins/Reijinders (14.5) and I went Semenyo/Welbeck (15.5) and I spent another 1.0 on Piroe vs Giui. If Reijinders is the real deal, obviously yours is better.

    3. Snoopydog
        6 hours, 42 mins ago

        Have 12/15 of these, so like it. Can't decide on Mateta bs Wood - and hoping Dubravka might open up BB opportunity in GW2.

      • The Wanton Trader
        • 7 Years
        6 hours, 42 mins ago

        Should do well with that team. GL

        1. DavvaMC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 4 Years
          6 hours, 37 mins ago

          Thanks, still tinkering to be had 🙂

      • AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        6 hours, 36 mins ago

        Decent

        What's the attraction in Sanchez? He tends to let a goal in most league games.

        1. DavvaMC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 4 Years
          5 hours, 38 mins ago

          Who would you go for Sels, or rotate, Kelleher and Petrovic?

        2. jayzico
          • 14 Years
          5 hours, 25 mins ago

          AC/DC almost every post I've read from you in the last two days is your dislike for Sanchez haha. Why? You prefer Sels?

          Sanchez, Cucurella and Palmer nailed in my team since day 1.

    4. ZlatNight Rises
      • 8 Years
      7 hours, 8 mins ago

      Evening everyone, so this is my current draft, and if I'm being honest looks pretty set, would love to hear some feedback,

      Kelleher
      Vvd, AWB, colwill
      Malen, Salah, mbeumo, Palmer
      Bowen, beto, Gyökeres

      Bench,

      1. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        7 hours, 7 mins ago

        mmh who is on the bench? not sure about beto and malen in starting 11.

      2. The Bandit
        • 14 Years
        6 hours, 58 mins ago

        Boomo looked very rusty yesterday. I prefer Cunha at that price, but wouldn’t start with either initially.

        1. Snoopydog
            6 hours, 41 mins ago

            This

        2. jayzico
          • 14 Years
          5 hours, 23 mins ago

          I wouldn't bet on beto

      3. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        7 hours, 8 mins ago

        is minteh the best brighton mid? looking very short term for bb gw1

        1. Lanley Staurel
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          6 hours, 59 mins ago

          Surely its Mitoma

        2. jayzico
          • 14 Years
          5 hours, 20 mins ago

          Mitoma.

          A nice rule of thumb is the general consensus from googling 'golden boot scorer prediction 25/26'.

          I do admit some are pish and rate JP and Delap. Bizarre. And obviously they don't take assists into consideration - so don't be fooled going Haaland over Salah!

          I'm sure you know this already dude.

      4. ZlatNight Rises
        • 8 Years
        7 hours, 8 mins ago

        Sorry bench is petrovic, adingra, Konsa, dorgu

        1. Ajax Hamsterdam
          • 11 Years
          7 hours, 6 mins ago

          bb gw1?

      5. Moneymar
        • 3 Years
        6 hours, 52 mins ago

        Which one?

        1. Joao Pedro and Cunha
        2. Kudus and Watkins

        1. Ajax Hamsterdam
          • 11 Years
          6 hours, 48 mins ago

          2

        2. The Wanton Trader
          • 7 Years
          6 hours, 41 mins ago

          2 from those options

        3. Snoopydog
            6 hours, 41 mins ago

            2

          • Tonyawesome69
            • 6 Years
            6 hours, 23 mins ago

            6.5m MID + Watkins

        4. AC Fierce Deity
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          6 hours, 51 mins ago

          How confident are we that Solanke starts GW1 with this niggling injury?

          1. The Wanton Trader
            • 7 Years
            6 hours, 39 mins ago

            Just the fact he’s got a niggle is enough to put me off.
            Even if he starts GW1, there’s always that doubt in the back of my mind that it may reoccur…

          2. Tonyawesome69
            • 6 Years
            6 hours, 24 mins ago

            Spurs have another friendly and the Super Cup before GW1 for more info

        5. TheBiffas
          • 4 Years
          6 hours, 47 mins ago

          Reijnders was supposed to stay differential 🙁

          1. AC/DC AFC
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            6 hours, 39 mins ago

            Reinildo Mandava (£4.0m)?

            A few touting Tijjani Reijnders, arriving late in the box for a goal 15-18% of games.

            Without lots of minutes you'll need to be patient.

        6. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          6 hours, 45 mins ago

          The Man City line up, formation unkown for those without X

          1. AC/DC AFC
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            6 hours, 44 mins ago

            Rico Lewis (goal), Ruben Dias, Manuel Akanji, John Stones, Nico O'Reilly, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Nico, Ilkay Gundogan, Bernardo Silva, Rayan Cherki, Oscar Bobb, Savinho, Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland.

            1. The Wanton Trader
              • 7 Years
              6 hours, 37 mins ago

              Still no Rodri then…
              That’s a shame, because I really think he’s going to be a decent pick this season.

              1. AC/DC AFC
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 9 Years
                6 hours, 35 mins ago

                Start with Rice or Szoboszlai and move across?

                Szoboszlai will play gw1 with Grav suspended.

                Or Ndi

              2. Men in green tights
                • 6 Years
                6 hours, 20 mins ago

                If no rodri , I'll give Haaland a miss then

                1. AC/DC AFC
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 9 Years
                  6 hours, 10 mins ago

                  Man City are 12 days away from kicking off the season.

        7. The Wanton Trader
          • 7 Years
          6 hours, 43 mins ago

          How’s this…?

          Kelleher
          WanB / VDV / DeCuyper
          Salah / BrunoF / Rogers / Kudus / Rice
          Haaland / JPedro

          Vald / Agbadou / Reinildo / Guiu

          1. AC/DC AFC
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            6 hours, 38 mins ago

            Decent

            Maybe swap out Pedro for Wood?

            1. The Wanton Trader
              • 7 Years
              6 hours, 33 mins ago

              I could do, but having no Palmer and I like Chelsea’s fixtures. Cheers

          2. Obi 1 Kenobi 0
              6 hours, 31 mins ago

              I like Pedro up top, I think Chelsea will have a good go at the league this year (not saying they’ll win it but I think they’ll be in the mix)
              I also like Rice this year with the new DefCon system, looks good mate

              1. The Wanton Trader
                • 7 Years
                6 hours, 23 mins ago

                Thanks a lot.
                I think I’m in quite a good place considering I have both Haaland and Salah.
                Obviously no premium defenders in there, but I’m happy to steer clear from the get go and see how this DC stuff works out.

          3. Obi 1 Kenobi 0
              6 hours, 37 mins ago

              Afternoon all,
              Onto draft 274 and any feedback much appreciated. Looking to BB week 1 and toying with triple cpt on Haaland away at wolves, thoughts?

              Verbruggen
              Colwill, VVD, Gvardiol, Wan Bissaka
              Wirtz, Palmer, Anderson
              Haaland, Bowen, Joao Pedro

              Kelleher, Le Fee, Rice, Rodon

              1. AC/DC AFC
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 9 Years
                6 hours, 33 mins ago

                I'm not sure about the Bowen pick. Mateta or Wood might be better.

                Also, see if VVD is fit for the community shield, he's amongst a few Liverpool players not fit to be considered for the 8pm game tonight.

                I think Haaland is the way to go.

                1. No Kane No Gain
                  • 6 Years
                  6 hours, 30 mins ago

                  Bowen has had a good pre season and plays Sunderland 1st

                  1. AC/DC AFC
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 9 Years
                    6 hours, 12 mins ago

                    I just think you need to pick a squad beyond gw1 fixtures ...

                    1. No Kane No Gain
                      • 6 Years
                      6 hours, 7 mins ago

                      What makes you think Bowen is not a good pick? His end of season form was great and his pre season form is good, his fixtures are ok with a great 1st one.

                      1. AC/DC AFC
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 9 Years
                        5 hours, 59 mins ago

                        Bowen is a great player, a little streaky but he's better with midfield points for goals etc.

                        I just think there's others at £7.5m and he may well play out towards the right wing in the Salah position too.

                2. Obi 1 Kenobi 0
                    6 hours, 30 mins ago

                    Yeah I’ve been back and forward on Bowen, I just get the feeling he’ll leave me kicking myself if I take him out

                  • Sterops
                    • 6 Years
                    5 hours, 45 mins ago

                    Van Dijk's absence is apparently due to an illness rather than an injury...

                3. The Wanton Trader
                  • 7 Years
                  6 hours, 30 mins ago

                  274….Slacker!! 🙂
                  I don’t mind this… GL

              2. Geriatric Unathletic
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 14 Years
                6 hours, 26 mins ago

                WTF have they done to the season ticker in the members area!!! Absolutely hate it.what a joke!!! You used to be able to quickly slide a team up or down, now you have to click on an arrow to move 1 space at a time. The colours for difficulty are now feinter and a real pain to see clearly easily without having to change manually... Never paying again for this.

                1. Geriatric Unathletic
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 14 Years
                  6 hours, 25 mins ago

                  Was possibly the only thing i regularly used :(.

                2. RUUD!
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 13 Years
                  6 hours, 15 mins ago

                  I hear you Abe, I can’t select a certain number of game weeks it’s a real issue

                  1. BC1
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 15 Years
                    5 hours, 43 mins ago

                    Of course you can.

                    1. Herger
                      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                      • 3 Years
                      5 hours, 38 mins ago

                      Seems unlikely he would be making it up. Maybe you’re using different devices/browsers?

                      1. BC1
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 15 Years
                        5 hours, 30 mins ago

                        No, there's literally an "x" at the top of the GW number (to get rid of that specific) and an option bottom right of the ticker to select range of GW's.
                        Am using Android mobile phone.

                        1. Herger
                          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                          • 3 Years
                          5 hours, 25 mins ago

                          For you there is, yes. Maybe because you’re using a different device/browser. Not everyone is on an android mobile phone.

                          1. BC1
                            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                            • 15 Years
                            5 hours, 16 mins ago

                            Sound.

                3. BC1
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 15 Years
                  5 hours, 48 mins ago

                  🙂

                4. BC1
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 15 Years
                  5 hours, 42 mins ago

                  Ah come on, just click instead of sliding! Plus you've colour definitions to choose from! :p

                  1. have you seen cyan
                    • 6 Years
                    5 hours, 27 mins ago

                    Stop defending bad changes, they made it worse by the sounds of things. They also made it so that non-members can no longer use it for free.

                    Just changes to make the site worse.

                    If the membership tactic is try and force people to sign up, then that says a lot.

                    1. BC1
                      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                      • 15 Years
                      5 hours, 17 mins ago

                      But I thought it was a good change.
                      Genuinely don't think it was changed to force people to sign up either.

                      1. BC1
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 15 Years
                        5 hours, 14 mins ago

                        Or to make the site worse.
                        Anyways, watching the Liverpool match now, nice goal by Salah by the way. 1-0.
                        Good luck to your season 🙂

                        1. have you seen cyan
                          • 6 Years
                          4 hours, 39 mins ago

                          You used to be able to drag the teams around on the fixture tracker right here without even logging in or having a membership. You can no longer do that without a paid membership. And even if you do pay for membership, you cant drag anymore, so yes they made it worse and to try and force more memberships.

                          Apparently its the year for the rise of terrible web developers and decision making in FPL.

                          Thanks, best of luck to you too.

                  2. Geriatric Unathletic
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 14 Years
                    4 hours, 8 mins ago

                    The click is ONE space at a time. Fine perhaps for ONE team, but if like me you want to drag up 3/4/5 teams to the top for a rotation or the like, or block of fixtures, is a real pain in the a...!

                    1. BC1
                      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                      • 15 Years
                      3 hours, 24 mins ago

                      I get ya. I've asked FFS to rechange this.

                      1. Herger
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 3 Years
                        3 hours, 19 mins ago

                        So you’re connected to the site? That’s not a great look given you were trying to tell us it was fine when we were telling you it is not

                        1. BC1
                          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                          • 15 Years
                          3 hours, 16 mins ago

                          Ah man, no way am I connected to the site! I literally flagged it to FFS that it was better when you could just drag teams up and down the ticker as you liked.

                          1. Herger
                            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                            • 3 Years
                            3 hours, 15 mins ago

                            Ah fair enough, cheers

                            1. BC1
                              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                              • 15 Years
                              3 hours, 15 mins ago

                              Sound man.

              3. Snoopydog
                  6 hours, 26 mins ago

                  Liverpool: Mamardashvili, Endo, Konate, Kerkez, Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Salah, Gakpo, Ekitike, Frimpong, Gravenberch.

                  Subs: Pecsi, Chiesa, Nallo, Morrison, Davidson, Wright.

                  (Sorry if already posted)

                  1. AC/DC AFC
                    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                    • 9 Years
                    6 hours, 14 mins ago

                    Cheers

                • FDMS All Starz
                  • 9 Years
                  6 hours, 26 mins ago

                  Thoughts?

                  Sanchez
                  Virgil Tarkowski VDV
                  Salah Palmer Ndiye Anderson
                  Watkins Mateta Solanke

                  Darlow Caicedo Richards Esteve

                • SomeoneKnows
                  • 9 Years
                  6 hours, 21 mins ago

                  Thoughts of the following first draft?

                  Kelleher
                  VVD, Murillo, Van de Ven
                  Salah, Palmer, Kudus, Rogers
                  Wood, Welbeck, Watkins

                  (Petrovic, Le Fee, Konsa, Esteve)

                  1. Obi 1 Kenobi 0
                      6 hours, 15 mins ago

                      I like Le Fee as a budget mid, should see him back in no 10 role this year, has an eye for a pass and on set pieces, could be a good differential

                  2. The Bandit
                    • 14 Years
                    6 hours, 20 mins ago

                    Just looking at last season comparison on Sky, and Sesko’s stats aren’t much better than Hojlund’s, in a weaker league.

                    1. Tonyawesome69
                      • 6 Years
                      6 hours, 17 mins ago

                      Leipzig had a poor 24/25 eason which probably negatively impacted Sesko stats

                      1. The Bandit
                        • 14 Years
                        6 hours, 14 mins ago

                        And Utd didn’t? 😉

                        1. Tonyawesome69
                          • 6 Years
                          6 hours, 3 mins ago

                          Haha

                          What stats were you looking at?

                          Sesko v Hojlund 24/25 season comparison:
                          https://datamb.football/striker/

                          1. The Bandit
                            • 14 Years
                            5 hours, 59 mins ago

                            The link says file not found. They were on SSN.

                            1. Tonyawesome69
                              • 6 Years
                              5 hours, 51 mins ago

                              Strange. Try the link below, add Sesko and Hojlund 24/25 season

                              https://datamb.football/strikers/

                  3. SomeoneKnows
                    • 9 Years
                    6 hours, 17 mins ago

                    Best 6.5 midfielder to own that isn't Kudus?

                    1. AC/DC AFC
                      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                      • 9 Years
                      6 hours, 15 mins ago

                      There's loads.

                      Possibly Rice if Murphy isn't in the Newcastle team.

                      Or Sarr at Palace.

                      Or a punt on Rodri or Szoboszlai for the bold.

                    2. Tonyawesome69
                      • 6 Years
                      6 hours, 13 mins ago

                      I would consider Sarr and Ndiaye

                    3. Obi 1 Kenobi 0
                        6 hours, 12 mins ago

                        I plumped for rice, gets both ends of the pitch and defcon system could work in his favour

                        1. AC/DC AFC
                          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                          • 9 Years
                          6 hours, 5 mins ago

                          He needs to step up his goal involvement again, which he may well do.

                          Last season he got 4 goals and 7 assists in 33 starts (2,800 mins).

                          His previous season at West Ham he had 16 goal involvements from similar xG.

                          1. Obi 1 Kenobi 0
                              5 hours, 54 mins ago

                              I hear you, I’m hoping the addition of a proper CF in gyokeres will lend itself to him picking up more assists

                      • AC/DC AFC
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 9 Years
                        6 hours, 8 mins ago

                        Anyone been following Elanga's progress?

                        Is he worth a slot in the FPL squad...

                        1. Hairy Potter
                          • 10 Years
                          5 hours, 11 mins ago

                          He's looked okay in preseason. Appearing in the middle at times rather than keeping wide right.

                          Howe can sometimes slowly integrate players into the first team, so possible that Murphy starts GW1. Then again Elanga might suit countering against Villa better.

                          Newcastle have friendlies on Friday and Saturday and we can expect a mix and match teams. IIRC, Howe has played his preferred front 3 together the last two years we've had these back to back friendlies. Whoever starts up front with Gordon could be in the front line for GW1.

                          1. Hairy Potter
                            • 10 Years
                            5 hours, 10 mins ago

                            Not sure I'd go for Newcastle players at the start of the season, given Isak and fixtures. We're hoping for a big season from Gordon. He might start as striker with Barnes on the left.

                      • BC1
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 15 Years
                        6 hours, 2 mins ago

                        Love the updated fixture ticker in the members area! Nice one.

                      • AC/DC AFC
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 9 Years
                        6 hours, 2 mins ago

                        I can afford Hugo Ekitiké with Watkins and a 4.5m forward line.

                        What's he like?

                        Worth a pick?

                        1. AC/DC AFC
                          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                          • 9 Years
                          5 hours, 56 mins ago

                          Career stats of 50 goals in 151 games looks like decent potential.

                          Liverpool clearly think so.

                        2. x.jim.x
                          • 10 Years
                          5 hours, 25 mins ago

                          He’s so good they tried to spend £120m on another striker almost the day after he signed

                          1. The Bandit
                            • 14 Years
                            5 hours, 17 mins ago

                            😆

                      • Meta12345
                        • 1 Year
                        5 hours, 53 mins ago

                        For bb gw1:
                        A) vicario and romero
                        B) sanchez and colwill

                        1. Tonyawesome69
                          • 6 Years
                          5 hours, 46 mins ago

                          Vicario may not be the #1 GK

                      • AD105
                        • 9 Years
                        5 hours, 46 mins ago

                        How’s it look lads?

                        Sanchez
                        Tark N.Williams Diouf
                        Salah Palmer Bruno Ndiaye Anderson
                        Watkins Bowen

                        4.0 Anderson Esteve Guiu

                        1. AD105
                          • 9 Years
                          5 hours, 46 mins ago

                          Tark > Munoz in a few weeks time when Palace fixtures turn

                      • FHRITP
                        • 1 Year
                        5 hours, 45 mins ago

                        Why is nobody talking about Amad? Extrapolate his points from last season to 38 games and he's second only to Salah.

                        I assume the issue is game time? Won't start a lot?

                        1. The Bandit
                          • 14 Years
                          5 hours, 42 mins ago

                          I think he will start most games, but fixtures are not great initially.

                        2. Qaiss
                          • 9 Years
                          5 hours, 39 mins ago

                          15th place. Awful fixtures. Better options in the team he plays in

                        3. x.jim.x
                          • 10 Years
                          5 hours, 22 mins ago

                          What maths have you done there? There are 10 players not named Salah with a better PPM than him

                          1. FHRITP
                            • 1 Year
                            5 hours, 16 mins ago

                            Realised as soon as I said it I had not considered extrapolating others. Rookie error. Though I'm guessing some of those PPM played 4 games or something

                            1. x.jim.x
                              • 10 Years
                              5 hours, 14 mins ago

                              Salah, Mbeumo, Isak, Palmer, Haaland, Bowen, Wood, Cunha, Wissa, Saka, Diaz

                              In good company tbf

                      • sirmorbach
                        • 9 Years
                        5 hours, 43 mins ago

                        Sels
                        Mykolenko, De Cuyper, Konsa, __________
                        Salah, Palmer, Wirtz, Anderson, __________
                        Gyokeres, Wood, __________

                        A. 3-5-2: Virgil, Rogers, Anderson / Konsa first sub, fodder
                        B. 3-4-3: 4.0, Malen, Bowen / Anderson first sub

                        1. The Bandit
                          • 14 Years
                          5 hours, 40 mins ago

                          You are missing a fwd in A

                          1. The Bandit
                            • 14 Years
                            5 hours, 37 mins ago

                            Oh, that’s the fodder right? Then B

                      • BobB
                        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                        • 15 Years
                        5 hours, 42 mins ago

                        Sort by rotation has disappeared from the new version of the season ticker.

                      • ZlatNight Rises
                        • 8 Years
                        5 hours, 39 mins ago

                        Oscar bobb anyone?

                      • No Kane No Gain
                        • 6 Years
                        5 hours, 38 mins ago

                        Is Diouf for West Ham risky or do we think he starts?! Only heard of him today and I like what I see. I’ve had AWB ahead of him but I like having differentials (that play).

                      • ZlatNight Rises
                        • 8 Years
                        5 hours, 36 mins ago

                        Any 4.5 playing strikers?

                        1. The Bandit
                          • 14 Years
                          5 hours, 35 mins ago

                          Possibly Guiu.

                      • ZlatNight Rises
                        • 8 Years
                        5 hours, 35 mins ago

                        Chelsea? Really?

                        1. Cunha think of a name
                            5 hours, 29 mins ago

                            He is going on loan to Sunderland

                            1. ZlatNight Rises
                              • 8 Years
                              5 hours, 21 mins ago

                              That's could be good