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I'm guessing the legend Uriah Rennie was the other?

 

Looking at our fantasy group... larger than last year! Nice. Our top 14 all scored higher than average. I'm 15th and exactly average for the whole site.

Favorite names:

Gangsters Allardyce
100 Decs
Pride and Bajcetic
Trippier Self Up

19 of the 20 us have Haaland and 16 of us captained him.

 

There's chatter that De Bruyne is going to have surgery to solve a longstanding issue. If one team can cope without a player like De Bruyne, it's City.

 

Welp. Assuming Eze is impossible to sign now.

 

Not great for Palace that. He'd go for way more on the open market.

 

Truly do not understand how Chelsea are still buying players.

 

Barcelona are so weird. Turned down money from FC Porto to sign Dest, only to now consider just terminating his contract for a loss. Looks like Lenglet is off to Saudi Arabia. Arsenal might be the team bidding for Ansu Fati. Villa are trying for Ferran, but their first bid was too low to cover what we still owe City. Speaking of City, Cancelo might be coming in on loan with an obligatory 60m purchase next summer.

 

Have a little guess who number 20 was.

 

Are you going to Wildcard to repair your team? Feel for you that it went so wrong!

 

With Chelsea signing a billion midfielders, I wonder if Spurs go back in for Gallagher. I highly doubt Eze is available now. Ange reportedly wants Gallagher. He’s expendable to Chelsea now. I wouldn’t hate it.

 

When I saw your team and remembered the post you made, I felt really bad about it, haha

 

"Sergio Ramos wants to come to Sevilla? I want a plane, give it to me".

- Sevilla's president.

Can't blame him, like.

 

Yeah, I've deployed it already.

Haha. I wouldn't feel bad about it. I think it's quite funny. I set up my team and joined the league ages ago and then left it to the last minute to sort it out properly. I'm basically playing as Luton (or maybe Forest last year is the better analogy...).

 

You like my name more than I do. I had about ten minutes at 6pm on Friday to come up with something, and Pride and Bajcetic was as good as it got.

 

Ever since Caicedo, I swear Brighton have just been signing FM wonderkids.

 

If it ain't broke.

 

stop the count

 

Is 75 pts good?

 

Depends. Some weeks, 75 points is a miracle, whilst some it is disappointing.

I tend to look at it in a sense of how sustainable is it? So, if your points came from something weird like a defender scoring a rare goal, that isn’t sustainable. But it’s just first week, you probably need 3-4 to get a good idea.

 

Also looks like I captained Erling and Rodri

 

I wonder how much money Fabrizio gets paid to write drivel like this:


“Neymar Jr makes history once again as he signs for Al Hilal on two year deal with the biggest salary ever

◉ The contract will be valid until June 2025, no option to extend — Neymar will be free agent in two years and able to decide if he wants to extend, return to Barça or try new chapter.

◉ Fixed salary will be $300m package in two years — up to $400m with add-ons and huge commercial deals.

◉ Deal was completed by team leading Neymar’s career, his father and super agent Pini Zahavi who took care of the Brazilian star since he was 17.

◉ Pini Zahavi and Neymar Pai started to explore market for Ney after feeling was time to leave PSG for reasons not linked to sport but just to internal issues.

◉ Barcelona president Laporta wanted Neymar at all costs — he also met with PSG president Al Khelaifi but despite financial solution found, Ney made clear he’s never going to join Barça as long as Xavi is the manager.

◉ Sources say Neymar’s dream to play again for Barça remains as priority since long time… but not with Xavi.

◉ Neymar, very happy with his decision after serious and deep thoughts with his team and family.

◉ After making history with the biggest transfer fee ever in 2017, Neymar does it again and joins Al Hilal.”

 

I bit the bullet and did a few transfers to balance out my team. No clue if doing it early it smart or not lol but I like my team a lot better now.

Haaland as my every week striker. Rotate Isak and Watkins depending on the matchup.

 

KDB going to need surgery and be out for a while. Yeah early season struggles incoming I think. Though I guess just hoofing long to Haaland is not a bad plan b as shown last Saturday.

 

It'll be like getting a free transfer in January