what do you think? any thoughts on defence pls.. (@matti)

[vocal mantle]

2 FT. 0.3m itb.
Dead ending GW18 and WCing in 19.
GW18 will remove Haaland and spread the funds around a one week punt.

Solanke and Watkins I’m keeping through to the WC in 19 at least. Same for Gordon, Salah, Saka and Palmer.

Considering taking JWP down to bench fodder to use up transfer and free up funds (down to chuk gets me £2.2 itb).

In defence. I play a back 3. Tripp plays GWs 161718. Saliba plays GWs 1617. Tsimi only GW16. The other two can go whenever.

I like the look of Shaw for GW16 and to a lesser extent GW18. And Porro for GW17 and GW18. So I could bring in Shaw this week for a FT and Porro next week for a FT.

Both shaw and porro have chances at clean sheets and more importantly have chances of attacking returns and take some set pieces.

Then I’d play a back three of GW16 - Tripp, Tsimi and Shaw; GW17 - Tripp, Porro, Saliba; GW18 - Tripp: Porro; Shaw.

GW19 onwards doesn’t matter because of the WC.

What do you think?

[crystal wigeon]

I got the same plan with wc19. Looks good. All I’m thinking is, you don’t really need 5 valid defenders. Could it not be more interesting to get a 5th decent mid?

[vocal mantle]

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll have a play with what I can do it mid to have a viable 5th option.

If I go for just one of Shaw or Porro and take the other def to a bench fodder then I have 6.5m to replace JWP.

So looking at perhaps hee chan, doucoure or trossard punts.

[crystal wigeon]

Chan has been performing steadily. But don’t know his fix out of my head.

[vocal mantle]

So I can do JWP and Guehi to Shaw and Chan. Play them both this week (over Saliba away v Villa and Gordon away v Spurs).

Then next week I can take a view on either Tsimi or Saliba out to a spurs def if I still want.

More upside to this isn’t there…