BC.Game 🦁 Fantasy Premier League Pool ⚽ Discussion Thread

[casperBGD]

big news for Sorare platform, they integrated EPL into their game
what this brings is that it is now possible to play for free EPL fantasy  (SO5 and new games will be introduced) on their platform

as I already foreseen when they introduced free fantasy for top4 leagues, except for EPL, now they added EPL to the show, and this could influence FPL next season as well

but on a serious note, what would you do with someone from the Championship who has yet to kick a ball in a struggling Everton? Let's see how your scouting venture goes.
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Gyokeres is actually playing almost as good as Mitrovic in Championship, and Mitrovic proved that scoring goals in Championship could be almost replicated in EPL
but, so far, nothing from his transfer, Dyche confirmed as new Everton coach, but have 36 hours to sign someone (2 players have approved, if agreed with other clubs)

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[buwaytress]

Ah damn, should have read older posts, so it's double game week confirmed, no wonder the Rashford love. Still plenty of time to switch around, and I'm happy to take a few points off to bring in another midfielder. Or Nunez back (haha).

Maddisson still too risky? He's been in training already. Sure, not sharp, but all we need from him is a couple freekick goals.

My FPL is currently the definition of fantasy (players I believe will turn a corner in a big way).

[Trofo]

This guy used to be my favorite asset in the game last year, not sure what happened between him and Pep...

It was really strange thing to happen and I am thinking maybe Cancelo said after the World Cup that he wants to leave. That in turn caused Pep to do what he did and now Cancelo is going away. Problem is not matter what Pep says, he doesn't have a better full back at the club.

Martinelli to ODe/Saka is a no-brainer, I must need three Arsenal players for DGW23, so I'll probably do Almiron to Saka or Mitovic to Nketieh. What are your thoughts, man?

For short term I rate Arsenal assets as follows: Nketiah, Odegaard, Saka, Gabriel, Martinelli, Gabriel, Saliba, White. But any three of those is good enough and I wouldn't spend transfer on removing Martinelli.

Maddisson still too risky? He's been in training already. Sure, not sharp, but all we need from him is a couple freekick goals.

Not just in training. He played last game and immediately Leicester looked much more dangerous going forward. He is a class player but I simply don't see a way you can fit him in the squad when one space is reserved for Rashford, and then you have all those cheap Arsenal and Brighton midfielders plus one from City. Simply no space in the midfield for differentials.

[Harkorede]

If you still own Cancelo, you should think about transferring him out. Your squad value will take a hit as his price will drop today, tomorrow, and the next day, his ownership is nearly 40% atm.

source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1620032704560644096

FC Bayern are closing in on deal to sign João Cancelo from Manchester City on loan, as first called by @David_Ornstein
 — agreement at final stages between the two clubs! 🚨🔴 #FCBayern

This guy used to be my favorite asset in the game last year, not sure what happened between him and Pep...

Cancelo move to Bayern Munich is 100% official+ €70m buy clause at the end of the season..... Nah no one saw it coming. I'm sure Pep and Cancelo relationship got broken.

I literally knew there was trouble in paradise, and I was expecting a number of moves away from the club, including Cancelo quite frankly, I was still having a conversation last week with a friend about Cancelo era at the club coming to an end, but what I didn't see coming is anyone leaving this early. If Guardiola stays on at the end of this season, you could expect a couple of more people heading out come the end of the season, Foden is my pick of the next player on the list of imminent departure.

[Smartvirus]

With Haaland and Kane proving to be FPL goldmines, owning both could be the key to success in the second half of the season. However, given their high prices, managers will need to find some cost-effective alternatives to make room for them. Nketiah, Weghorst, and Ferguson are all excellent options, with double gameweeks and strong recent form that make them valuable additions to any roster. Furthermore, Ferguson's low cost allows managers to switch to a 3-5-2 formation, which could give them an advantage over competitors.

Weghorst, for real? I get it his a good player but, his not kicking in the EPL just yet. His only goal for Manchester United so far has been in the FA Cup and I hope this opens him to much scoring but, his hardly a good investment at this point.
Nketiah has been finding his feet and he seems to have got a hang on it, missing several chances before he eventually nets one or two and perhaps gets an assist all thanks to his positioning when Arsenal is attacking within the box. I can't can't much for Ferguson, haven't gotten enough of him just yet.

Cancelo move to Bayern Munich is 100% official+ €70m buy clause at the end of the season..... Nah no one saw it coming. I'm sure Pep and Cancelo relationship got broken.

Wow! What's he still doing on my team... I was looking forward to getting him out for Trippier perhaps but, without any free transfer at the moment, would FPL give this a free move? Can't be loosing any valuable points at the time.

[Igebotz]

This guy used to be my favorite asset in the game last year, not sure what happened between him and Pep...

It was really strange thing to happen and I am thinking maybe Cancelo said after the World Cup that he wants to leave. That in turn caused Pep to do what he did and now Cancelo is going away. Problem is not matter what Pep says, he doesn't have a better full back at the club.

Pep only likes you when you are doing well, and if you want to survive under Pep, you must be extremely patient. Stone and Aker were backups to Diaz and Laporte, but now they are the first choice. When you are on Pep's team, your position is not guaranteed even if you are at the top of your game; he is ruthless because he has the resources to replace anyone. B.Silva and Foden are up next.

Martinelli to ODe/Saka is a no-brainer, I must need three Arsenal players for DGW23, so I'll probably do Almiron to Saka or Mitovic to Nketieh. What are your thoughts, man?

For short term I rate Arsenal assets as follows: Nketiah, Odegaard, Saka, Gabriel, Martinelli, Gabriel, Saliba, White. But any three of those is good enough and I wouldn't spend transfer on removing Martinelli.

i already have Saliba and Martenelli. Saliba is untouchable .

Cancelo move to Bayern Munich is 100% official+ €70m buy clause at the end of the season..... Nah no one saw it coming. I'm sure Pep and Cancelo relationship got broken.

Wow! What's he still doing on my team... I was looking forward to getting him out for Trippier perhaps but, without any free transfer at the moment, would FPL give this a free move? Can't be loosing any valuable points at the time.

I've asked such question in the past i guess i didn't get an answer.

[Harkorede]

Cancelo move to Bayern Munich is 100% official+ €70m buy clause at the end of the season..... Nah no one saw it coming. I'm sure Pep and Cancelo relationship got broken.

Wow! What's he still doing on my team... I was looking forward to getting him out for Trippier perhaps but, without any free transfer at the moment, would FPL give this a free move? Can't be loosing any valuable points at the time.

I've asked such question in the past i guess i didn't get an answer.

Unfortunately you don't get any free transfer in cases of moves like that of Cancelo or even any kind of move from one club to another, it happens every year in the FPL. They don't even remove the player from the game until the end of the season.

I'm glad I no longer have him from a couple of weeks back having discovered he's too value to be sitting on my bench, it would have been a big blow for me, having already taken 8 points hit to then discover a few days to the game week that I'd be taking another mandatory point hit because of such transfer  

[Igebotz]

Hey guys, things are happening. It would be unwise to make any transfers now because players' futures are not guaranteed until after today's deadline. With the way the market is moving, I wouldn't be surprised if I woke up in the morning and saw Halaand in Real Madrid jersey

Jorginho and Tottenham Doehty have moved on to a new club. Jorginho, who has 5 months left on his contract, is a good profit for us because the team was not going to extend his contract and he was going to leave as a free agent at the end of the season. I like Jorginho, but he's not the perfect DM, and I hope Arteta plans to use him in other areas of the game. What would happen to Saka now that they have a true PK taker on the team?

[Trofo]

Jorginho and Tottenham Doehty have moved on to a new club. Jorginho, who has 5 months left on his contract, is a good profit for us because the team was not going to extend his contract and he was going to leave as a free agent at the end of the season. I like Jorginho, but he's not the perfect DM, and I hope Arteta plans to use him in other areas of the game. What would happen to Saka now that they have a true PK taker on the team?

I don't think Saka will lose penalties unless he misses a few. He is their kid and club future while Jorginho is a player at the end of career brought in for cheap to provide rotation and a bit of experience.

But we can't be sure about that stuff so my favorite 3 Arsenal players are Nketiah, Odegaard and Gabriel. Will take Nketiah this week or next, Odegaard is already in my team and I have White so I am not making transfer to Gabriel unless White looses his postioon to Tomiyasu.

[buwaytress]

^ Saka doesn't lose his spot, if I know Arteta well. It took time and patience to exorcise Saka's misery at Euro (in fact, I think Arteta brought up the miss a couple of times already so we know he worked specifically on that) and you don't want to ruin a good thing.

That said, he's only had 1 pen this season...

Maddisson still too risky? He's been in training already. Sure, not sharp, but all we need from him is a couple freekick goals.

Not just in training. He played last game and immediately Leicester looked much more dangerous going forward. He is a class player but I simply don't see a way you can fit him in the squad when one space is reserved for Rashford, and then you have all those cheap Arsenal and Brighton midfielders plus one from City. Simply no space in the midfield for differentials.

How did I miss that? Oh yeah, too depressed to watch games these days, but damn, I'm going to have to try fit him in at some point when others drop off (like Almiron already has).

[casperBGD]

so Almiron is heading towards bench or out in most teams?
have to think a bit what to do, one free transfer is not enough to change attackers, and I want to include third MU player in my team, will have to think it through (chasing DGW brings you to eventually using -4 or -8 points transfers at some point)

hopefully Everton will solve that for me, bringing Richarlison back, since Gyokeres is now out, but all that will be cleared today

[Trofo]

hopefully Everton will solve that for me, bringing Richarlison back, since Gyokeres is now out, but all that will be cleared today

Why would Spurs let Richarlison go? He was quite important for them and had good World Cup.

It is nice to support clubs like Everton but I will never let that influence my betting decisions or FPL squad. Everton is a place to be avoided this season in FPL, nothing more to add

What happened with DCL? He was very promising and then this season nothing. I know he has some injuries but even when he played he looked very poor.

[Igebotz]

Jorginho and Tottenham Doehty have moved on to a new club. Jorginho, who has 5 months left on his contract, is a good profit for us because the team was not going to extend his contract and he was going to leave as a free agent at the end of the season. I like Jorginho, but he's not the perfect DM, and I hope Arteta plans to use him in other areas of the game. What would happen to Saka now that they have a true PK taker on the team?

I don't think Saka will lose penalties unless he misses a few. He is their kid and club future while Jorginho is a player at the end of career brought in for cheap to provide rotation and a bit of experience.

J5 will perform well in a possessive team like Arsenal, I'm sure we didn't see his best at Chelsea, he didn't play half of what he did at Napoli under Sarri. I'm looking forward to the transfer, but if we don't get Enzo, we're in big trouble.

^ Saka doesn't lose his spot, if I know Arteta well. It took time and patience to exorcise Saka's misery at Euro (in fact, I think Arteta brought up the miss a couple of times already so we know he worked specifically on that) and you don't want to ruin a good thing.

That said, he's only had 1 pen this season....

Personally, I would not assign Saka to PK if J5 was on the pitch; however, this is just my opinion.

[casperBGD]

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I will never let that influence my betting decisions or FPL squad. Everton is a place to be avoided this season in FPL, nothing more to add

with DCL and some other players, IMO, there were in, what I would call, not a good relationship with Lampard

and regarding betting and FPL, you are taking betting more serious, I am usually betting for fun, on beer money (and never on teams that support)
FPL is also an entertainment, although I am trying to improve in second half of the season, and playing more serious, but then again, if I miss Everton players (have one on a bench), that I support, what is a pleasure there, almost a job

[Trofo]

and regarding betting and FPL, you are taking betting more serious, I am usually betting for fun, on beer money (and never on teams that support)
FPL is also an entertainment, although I am trying to improve in second half of the season, and playing more serious, but then again, if I miss Everton players (have one on a bench), that I support, what is a pleasure there, almost a job

I have worked hard to remove emotions from betting so now it is second nature. Only way I can be in the green sometimes.

Anyway, United made a great move in last moments of transfer window, they loaned Sabitzer until season end. He will come real handy now when Eriksen got injured for long term and Van Der Beek is also out until next season. This double GW maybe comes to soon but I am thinking Sabitzer could easy find spot in my team if he gets nice price.

[Harkorede]

Anyway, United made a great move in last moments of transfer window, they loaned Sabitzer until season end. He will come real handy now when Eriksen got injured for long term and Van Der Beek is also out until next season. This double GW maybe comes to soon but I am thinking Sabitzer could easy find spot in my team if he gets nice price.

That's another player with a guaranteed playing time at Man United, I'd probably expect him to kickoff at that 5.5m threshold or at most not more than 6m. but for 6m, I don't think I'll be able to afford bringing in another Man United player especially at midfield position, reason being they don't score well enough amount of goals for me to want to risk having two outfield players from Man United at the cost of my team fluidity, if not I might have to revert back to the having just 1 premium, a mid priced and a 4-4.5m range forward players in my team, with the latter being my bench player.

[casperBGD]

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That's another player with a guaranteed playing time at Man United, I'd probably expect him to kickoff at that 5.5m threshold or at most not more than 6m.

it is 5m, several new players joined FPL, and most are below or at 5m (Enzo Fernandez as well)
still thinking it through should I chase new-joiners for first round, or wait to see will they get a chance from the start (Joao Felix, looking at you)

in the end, all my stories about Everton signings come to end, and we are only club from lower half that didn't sign anyone during transfer window, relegation at 68%, highest from all clubs

[Trofo]

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That's another player with a guaranteed playing time at Man United, I'd probably expect him to kickoff at that 5.5m threshold or at most not more than 6m.

it is 5m, several new players joined FPL, and most are below or at 5m (Enzo Fernandez as well)
still thinking it through should I chase new-joiners for first round, or wait to see will they get a chance from the start (Joao Felix, looking at you)

in the end, all my stories about Everton signings come to end, and we are only club from lower half that didn't sign anyone during transfer window, relegation at 68%, highest from all clubs

Generally it is always better to wait when unsure in this game. Nothing worse then jumping on player just to remove him a week or two later. Better wait and miss one haul then risk it and miss. Problem is out of 10 new players one will hit the ground flying while more than half will not even play and remainder will give you 2 pointers maximum.

That being said I went a bit crazy and decided to go -8 this week to get my dream team

[casperBGD]

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That being said I went a bit crazy and decided to go -8 this week to get my dream team

I have one free transfer, but basically not sure who to bring in (although I do know who will be out in that case)
overall, chased DGW for Chelsea, that didn't brought in anything particular, but have two Chelsea players, and almost certain that I do not want to have any

but they are playing Fulham at home, clean sheet should be regular thing, not some masterpiece play for Chelsea, as it looks at the moment

[Harkorede]

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That being said I went a bit crazy and decided to go -8 this week to get my dream team

I have one free transfer, but basically not sure who to bring in (although I do know who will be out in that case)
overall, chased DGW for Chelsea, that didn't brought in anything particular, but have two Chelsea players, and almost certain that I do not want to have any

but they are playing Fulham at home, clean sheet should be regular thing, not some masterpiece play for Chelsea, as it looks at the moment

I don't think Chelsea players are such terrible invest especially Kepa and a couple of guys from their defense line, cheap and their run of fixtures looks pretty good, but it's something I'd lose any transfer right now, but If I had one Chelsea defender and/or Kepa right now, I definitely wouldn't be transfering them out except they are not getting playing time, especially Kepa, he would fit in just perfectly as the Pope alternative for me while not breaking the bank, and I'll easily be able to choose between either of them depending on their fixture for the particular gameweek, and Chelsea doesn't have a blank fixture ahead yet, so they are good options to own right now., although I'll avoid their midfielders and forwards like a plague for the time being.

I'm not so confident with my team, honestly I could still use a couple of changes more, but I'm not looking forward to provoke lady luck and just stick with the cheapest way out, so it's going to a potential minus -4 points for the next couple gameweek for me, but that'd be solely depending how I perform in the previous week, If I'm able to cover the deficit of the points hit with my new selection over what the players I transfered then, I'll take the hit going into the other week until I get to reach my dream too.