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Tinker, Tailor, Solskjær & I

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With less than 2 weeks to the 2019/20 season curtain raiser at Anfield, we ask is it time to start ramping down that tinkering with your draft & ramping up your strategy tailored to your opening play and/or season long objectives?  Ole Gunnar Solskjær  (more on him later) and I have our own details to work on prior to that opening weekend of games. No disrespect meant to OGS but I believe I have the harder task at hand J , after all I am up against millions and Ole only has 19 other Managers to compete against. These final two weeks are probably the most interesting of the season, all the permutations, the transfer additions etc but equally it is probably where the greatest level of self-doubt emerges. So if it helps here is how I manage the doubting season and make sure my decisions are rational with a long term approach. There is nothing more frustrating than investing in all that “tinkering time” only to rip it up and start again in GW3 . ⚽ RMT, hell no...

The "ITB Strategy" – Draft 1 & 2

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What have I achieved w.r.t my “ Pre player prices musings” in terms of team structure now that the player prices are available, and with my 4-4-3 (SIC) in mind? ·          3 x LIV - X ·          2 x MCI - √ ·          6 from ARS, BOU, CHE, EVE, MUN, TOT, WHU, WOL - √ ·          Exception - Milivojevic for VAR – X My FPL 2019/20 reasoning for this draft (at the current time of writing) are as follows; My budget of £97.5M constrained that for a start, I had no idea prior to taking up this strategy that trying to get a team while keeping £2.5M ITB would be SO difficult. As a Salah owner for all of last season I do believe he will haul again this year but not so sure that it will be to the extent of the previous 2 seasons. The stats show that Salah is on a decline FPL points wise (303 v’s 259) and Mane i...