FPL - The Salah / Haaland Conundrum

[Dave]

FPL have done it. After making everybody feel cheap last year to appeal to casual players, and then lose those casual players after they lose transfers. They've upped the amount of transfers you can save to try and retain players whilst making the selection process more difficult for those more engaged players.

Salah has the better fixtures, Haaland has had a summer to reboot. Salah is the best captain for gameweek 1 whilst Haaland is the best captain for gameweek 2. But putting them  both in the same team causes a lot of sacrifices elsewhere.

I think we will see a lot of differing strategies early on.

[Stan]

Haaland. 

[Happy Blue]

Won my league 2 years running with Haaland captain every game he played

[Dan+]

Salah always starts well and his fixtures are great. They've priced them correctly though as you have a fair case for all four outcomes.

I'm holding off Palmer early doors. Not convinced he'll be quite as good under Maresca.

[LFCMike]

I feel like you have to have both

[Dan+]

Honestly couldn't have done much worse this season. I've never seen such abysmal luck in my life. I've literally missed every Haaland goal and caught every blank.

I generally play it properly but honestly I've had so much go against me already it feels like pissing in the wind this season.

[RandoEFC+]

I had a great start but the last two weeks have been naff for me. I wasn't expecting much from this weekend because my Arsenal and City players were all playing away games, Palmer was at Liverpool and my cheap Everton and Ipswich options were facing each other which is always awkward. 

[Whiskey]

I think I'm officially done with FF, both Madison and João Pedro on my bench which means I've got fuck all again. My luck has been atrocious all season. 

My bench have been bringing in some serious points out of absolutely nowhere whilst my XI do the square root of fuck all.

[Stan]

Shoe-horned both in to my team before the internationals after using my wildcard. Seems to have paid off as Salah mainly has bagged plenty of points. 

Also have Fernandes as my other big player likely to get points. 

Mbuemo, Porro and Strand Larsen as other cheaper picks. 

[MUFC]

Put Haaland on the bench for the Liverpool game.