FPL Hedgehog

Silver linings - if you’re going to pick up a ~6-8 week injury, just before the October international break isn’t a bad time to do it…

Waiting a week might be the best choice regardless, but just wanted to say that the calculation isn’t quite that simple because you are effectively ‘buying’ a transfer with your 4 points.

So you get the Arsenal player this week, but can also use the transfer on something else in future.

How much do you have in total for the 3 positions?

Better than Tsushima?

Villa, Spurs, City away and Brighton at home in the first 5 last season!

Lovely stuff - great work!

I think it was probably also ‘fine’ to say Almiron and Lingard were the best players in the league for their purple patches

I think Semenyo is a lot better than both FWIW.

Yeah the point is that he’s getting these shouts off the back of a similar hot streak to those two.

I rate Semenyo! Is he the best player in the league? Not even remotely close.

I think he’s comfortably better than both of those players but it’s amazing what a hot finishing streak can do for your rep

He’s the best player in the league in the same way Jesse Lingard and Miguel Almiron were previously the best players in the league

In fairness, it has taken him 3 full seasons and the worst spell of his managerial career to start doing that

Spurs with the ‘Champions of Europe’ chant.

Says a lot

And in the case of Fulham and West Ham the season before as well in fairness.

Yeah sorry I was just looking at the 4 in the OP.

Agree our expectations should be high for the next 6. I just find it really strange how our fans still put Liverpool and City on a pedestal. City have lost at home to spurs and away to Brighton already this season. Liverpool just lost 2 in a row.

Nobody should expect that tbh

As an example - have a look at those exact fixtures last season for Liverpool and City

Puts them in a probable scrap for top 8 and makes it less likely they can rest and rotate too much

Who plays up front when Isak breaks down?

Arsenal fan piping up here - but also see Saliba foul on Pedro at BHA away last year. Goes for a header, touches the ball, pen anyway. No overturn.

Expecting Webb on TV telling us VAR shouldn’t be getting involved

THE FUCKING ARSENAL

Wildcard!

Agree Max might be a special case, but he does have our very best player in front of him at present.

I’m always a little torn when it comes to the likes of Ethan, MLS, soon to be Max because they’re obviously getting minutes and are going to get minutes with us but competition is so fierce.

Being around the squad is obviously massive for them in itself, but what’s your take on loans for them?

Get Saka off right now that’s enough

I’d say if the game is tied/close after 70ish minutes it could be a pretty big deal. Not sure Isak has more than that in him yet

Absolutely fucking bizarre take

I would love to see what people said about City/Arsenal if we went to the Etihad, got a lead, and defended for our lives for 80 mins whilst taking all our attackers off for defenders.

Wait, we did it with 10 men for 45 last season and got slated for it. Oh well.

This is so, so good. Can identify with every word. Media and fan narratives are insane at present.

Perhaps the most exasperating part of Michael Cox's latest yelling at clouds is its conclusion praising Liverpool, in whose most recent match relevant to the context of his discussion put up 9 shots for 0.5 xG at home against an opponent missing several key players.

Relative to previous seasons (especially last season) our ability to finish games strong is the thing I’m most excited about in this one.

We were 1-0 down vs PSG last year and our attacking bench options were Nwaneri, Kabia, Sterling, and *checks notes* Kieran Tierney 🤣

I do think there is some mileage in the thought that some players are better than others at cashing in a ‘freshness’ advantage. Martinelli comes to mind very quickly.

Foden off for Ake and Haaland off for Nico Gonzalez the end is surely nigh