Help please

[manic nova]

Hi i am contemplating using a wild card this week and could use a few suggestions.

The pictures represent the before and after team. Can someone please suggests any transfers or any improvements please. Also should i wildcard?

[opaque dock]

Really dislike Pickford as a wc pick

But your current team does need quite a bit of work I’d say so potentially wildcard is the best option

Think you’ve got too many starting players though, you could save money by downgrading chillwell and maybe upgrading Neto, idk

[manic nova]

Who do i downgrade chillwell to?

[manic nova]

Yeah i have no money so im tryna work it, any other choices

[manic nova]

Thats the thing

[manic nova]

Thing is that chelsea has pretty easy games that could result in chill attacking possibilities

[opaque dock]

Yeah not really sure 😅 most people selling him but he’s probably still a keep player imo

[manic nova]

Fair 😅🥲

Man i really dont know what to do

For some reason random players score

[manic nova]

So who to downgrade him to? Suggestions?

[opaque dock]

That’s what is making fpl fun for me this year

[manic nova]

Ong man ong

I mean

[opaque dock]

Well who would you be benching?

In your wc team

[manic nova]

Idk honestly

Archer maybe

Maybe udogie

Areola and maybe madison

[opaque dock]

Doesn’t Pickford have Brentford?

Seems wrong to wildcard in maddison and bench him

You could maybe get away with not wildcarding if you really wanted to save it

[manic nova]

He has ars tho 😭

[manic nova]

How so?

[manic nova]

Yeah but rn i got ramsdale and arelo

Areola*

[opaque dock]

I know, but it just seems like an expensive player to bring in just to bench for a week

[opaque dock]

Areola is so much better than Pickford in any fixture I’d say

[manic nova]

Fr

[opaque dock]

Not sure 😂

[manic nova]

Same dillema im goin thru

Can i see ur team?

[opaque dock]

Lost patience and went early with my transfers last night

Did chilwell to Schar and Diaby to Doku (just for 2 weeks)

[manic nova]

Doku is a good choice

[grizzled whale]

I would do
FWDs: Haaland Archer XXX
Diaby Salah Maddison XXX XXX
Botman Udogie 4.0m XXX XXX
Leno Areola

I’d do this

[manic nova]

But when grealish is back he may have less play time

[grizzled whale]

Rotation risk

And Foden

And when silva and KDB are back Foden can go LW

[manic nova]

What does the xxxx stand for?

[grizzled whale]

Put whatever player you want there

[manic nova]

Oh

[grizzled whale]

But the rest imo is like a cemented great team

[manic nova]

Diaby is a bold choice ngl

I may consider him

[grizzled whale]

One sec

Fixtures

[manic nova]

Udogue tho is playing ars

Im worried for that

[manic nova]

Has pretty decent ones

Im sure chelsea shouldnt be a problem

[grizzled whale]

The 2 other XXX defenders could play instead of him

[opaque dock]

That’s why I’m getting him out for next two and bringing him back in after… although he’s also in Europe so will need to see how that plays out

[grizzled whale]

He could feast vs both

Brighton will probably be a big goal scoring game

[manic nova]

Could be

[grizzled whale]

Like if Villa lose 4-2 to Brighton but Diaby scores twice that’s a good thing

[manic nova]

But also it could result in nothing

[manic nova]

True

[grizzled whale]

That could be said about any player though

Diaby is a cheap midfielder that plays as a striker for a decent team

Everyone is clambering over Son for playing number 9

[manic nova]

Yeah you convinced me

For diaby

[grizzled whale]

Diaby plays in a ST like role 🤷‍♂️

[manic nova]

Ill work on getting hime

But should i wc?

Based on the pic i sent earlier?

[grizzled whale]

Udogie for me despite having arsenal next is just good cus, LB for a defensive good team, lots of playing time and he’s like 4.5M

[grizzled whale]

I would say yes

[manic nova]

Fair

[manic nova]

Alr alr

Ill try make the money transfers

[grizzled whale]

You also have to decide do you want Haaland + balanced team
Or Haaland + Salah with a bit of a cheap team

[manic nova]

Idm salah and haaland

Ill work on it

Thanks @opaque dock @grizzled whale

[grizzled whale]

No problem

[opaque dock]

Son on left, Diaby on right… basically the same player but one is 2.5m cheaper

[grizzled whale]

Exactly

Diaby is a steal

[opaque dock]

Haaland + Salah + plus balance team is fairly easy imo

[grizzled whale]

Yeah In 3w when I bring salah in my team w prob b
Flekken Areola
Udogie Botman Tavares Andersen Dias
Diaby JWP Madds Saka Salah
Haaland Watkins Archer

Which i think is p good

[opaque dock]

Watkins over Alvarez? Thinking rotation risk?
Like the midfield though, eyeing up JWP soon too

[opaque dock]

Imma have haaland, Salah and son and still think my team will be quite balanced

[grizzled whale]

Yeah I’m not listening to the buzz around Alvarez, I’m sure he’ll be good but my gut says go w Watkins for now, then -> Awoniyi

[grizzled whale]

& Diaby?

That’s 4 STs holy shit

😂

I didn’t get Son cus I think 9M is too much for rotation risk or just being played on the left

Doesn’t help that richarlison has turned up finally too

[opaque dock]

Not sure he’s turned up yet 😅 but I’ve got 2 weeks to monitor before bringing in son

[opaque dock]

Yessir

[grizzled whale]

Fair but 1G 1A off the bench to win the game has to impact something

[opaque dock]

Yeah very true

[grizzled whale]

Nice that could be super effective

I just don’t trust son rn

[opaque dock]

Mbeumo too is quite striker-esque

[grizzled whale]

I had a big debate on whether I wanted JWP or Eze but Eze hasn’t shown he has consistentcy over multiple seasons, and WP has set pieces with the huge WH players

[grizzled whale]

Yeah I didn’t go for Mbeumo, idk if it’s even worth it to get him rn

[opaque dock]

Potentially not, not even looked at his future fixtures when planning 😂

[opaque dock]

JWP plus his fixtures is very very tempting

[grizzled whale]

Mbeum Fixtures are completely a mixed bag till gw 33-37

When Toney will be back

But someone might’ve bought him Alr

[grizzled whale]

yeah and even for a shitty Southampton team he gets 15+ G/A every season anyway playing every game

So fixtures and team performance aren’t really a worry

[opaque dock]

Not entirely sure how I’d get him in my team tbh, so might have to just pray he doesn’t do well… I do have him in my draft though

[opaque dock]

What’s your team like right now?

[grizzled whale]

Chilwell -> Andersen
Bruno F -> JWP
Foden -> Salah