| WE ARE READY FOR THE OFF |
All the player auctions are out of the way and we have 40 Nightmare Squads ready for the kick off at 8pm UK time Friday night. Line-ups for Arsenal v Coventry will be publicly available 75 minutes before it starts. You won't be able to make any changes to your Nightmare Squad until Match Week 1 is under way, but you can make last minute changes to your Team for this Match Week. So if, for example, that Coventry defender you picked as Captain is on the bench, you might want to consider an armband change...
Good luck to everyone - first team updates and league tables should be online late Friday night. |
| A FEW STATS |
Weirdly the biggest signing of the season is Bournemouth's Alex Toth who Alan Walker bought for a massive £15m, despite a minimum bid of £2.1m and the Hungarian having made just two starts last season following his arrival in January. Not sure what Alan's aim is for his team this season, I have him down as an early favourite for relegation from League One. Kepa and Dovin the keepers - neither are going to play. £10m for Gabriel? And too many players who aren't likely starters.
Among us more astute bidders, the highest spend was £14m from Liam Oliver for Coventry defender Jay Dasilva - Liam will be hoping Dasilva gets LOliver XI off to a big start tonight. Carl Rushworth was picked up for £11.1m, Kjell Scherpen £10.9, Sander Berge £10.6m. That's the biggest spend from Chris Bounds - you can alays rely on Chris for a good team name and I'm loving this season's Cheese Berge.
Coventry are the most popular team with 61 appearances in our Nightmare Squads in total, Hull 52, Ipswich and Sunderland both 45 then Palace on 43. Interestingly Man United are least popular with just 13, Chelsea 14, Liverpool 18, Man City 19, Villa 22 and champions Arsenal in sixth with 24 picks, just a couple less than Brentford.
Meanwhile four managers already have a player each that's no longer in the Premier League so will need to make at least one early transfer... |
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