Topic: Push Square Premier League Fantasy Football (soccer) 23/24 season.... and ongoing

@JohnnyShoulder Almost had me there Johnny, would have been too late for a sub too! Good luck folks, enjoy the weekend and obviously the football

Only took 2 weeks for the not picking Haaland gamble to fail spectacularly lol 😂

Not sure where Foden was today, is he injured?

@MatthewJP said he had illness so probably flu or the runs

@QualityGeezer Must had a dodgy pizza at the PFA's in the week!

@JohnnyShoulder Slow Sports News caught out too many people this week!

@nessisonett 😂 I wasn't sure whether to post it or not, as I didn't know if the deadline had passed or not for this gameweek!

@JohnnyShoulder I’m pretty sure my season’s as good as over already since I went for the wide approach with expensive midfielders over Haaland! Not my fault Foden apparently got the runs after celebrating at a curry joint!

Wasn't sure where else to post this but shout out to Sven, RIP, seemed a really decent bloke all round, also a note for the touch of class by Liverpool FC (I'm a Utd fan) who let him manage their recent legends team as a life long Liverpool fan.

@nessisonett Don't worry, After this disastrous week for me I got Haaland now so expect he'll perform worse starting from next week!

@Khwarezm89 I couldn’t afford him without shuffling my whole team around so I chucked Foden and got Son, which I expect to be a disaster of a decision 😂

@Khwarezm89 @nessisonett I've relented and got Haaland in. I had to use my wildcard and swap 8 players around to afford it though. It was mostly fine as I wanted rid of most of them anyway. Only swap I made that I didn't want to take out was Gordon. I had to do that though as I realised I only had about 5 million per player left after adding Haaland 😄.

@BearsEatBeets that's an early wildcard considering you're only 10 points from the top. I'm going to leave it a couple more games to settle down a bit, see if Foden starts playing and if Chelsea decide on a starting 11...

I think the fact you can now bank 5 transfers is transformative. It's essentially a mini wildcard every 5 weeks

@MatthewJP True but it's pretty common for me. I don't think there have been many, if any seasons where I don't use one in the first 3/4 weeks. I tend to think the start of the season is the most probable time your team can be most wrong if players/team don't start this season on the form of the last. It's also possible all the players I dumped go on and have a good gameweek now though 😁. Captaining Palmer saved me from another poor week though.
@QualityGeezer yeah I think that will be a big deal this season along with it not wiping how many you have banked even if you use a free hit or Wildcard. Curious to discover what possible things the mystery chip does. I have to assume it's one of a few possible things otherwise someone could just make a second team and use it week one to see what it does.

Well I've also used a wildcard already. And I had Haaland! Mainly due to a few decidedly meh start to the season from a few who I was expecting to fly out of the blocks... I'd gambled on Mateta and Muniz starting the season like they ended the last one. I also had a feeling Newcastle were going have a good start... Wrong, wrong, wrong.
So I now have a new plan. I wonder if this approach will work.
And I had no idea about the banking 5 transfers thing so thanks for that.

@QualityGeezer That is a bit of a game changer, I hadn't noticed that - nice one!

Oh my Lord, definitely glad I didn’t stick O’Riley in now even knowing how class he is. What a horrid challenge, not even a booking.