Used the first wildcard this week, decided to get in some season keepers, Salah, Raya, Palmer, Diaz, Haaland - give or take fixtures, injuries and depending on value they will be mainstays. Probably be the last week i could afford them all without compromises elsewhere, the way prices are going.
Backing, Mintah, ESR and Pedro to be good scoring enablers.
While Robertson will hold for good fixtures and at some stage ill flip to Arsenal at a nice run, budget full backs - see value in Mazraoui and Robinson, wanted Davies but was ..1 short so have Myko - we have a good run after today and with Branthwaite to come back we will keep clean sheets at some stage. Greaves is in there as Ipswich have good fixtures and think they will be better then the 4.0's at Southampton. Chiwome - bench fodder.
Decision i wrestled with was Saka + Havertz for Salah - was originally going to go witht the two Arsenal lads but Odegarrds injury will probably see Havertz drop back and they have a couple of tough fixtures - ill have a look again in a few weeks and if Salah does well hes likely to increase. At that stage Palmers fixtures could turn.
The other decision was Robertson + Raya VS TAA and a 4.5 keeper. Went for the former - have a feeling the BP changes suits a sweeper keeper this year and its a year for premium keepers in my opinion. Not convinced a 4.5 mill keeper and TAA cover the spread of Raya and Robertson. While TAA i dont think will be that far ahead of Robinson so two better then the one and a compromise is the call i made.
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Wildcard Team:
