1) Admittedly it's been a strange season so far, but I've a lot of expert bad advice too such as tripling up on Chelsea assets including Pulisic?? giving up on Spurs after one game, W/C in GW3 with no logical reasons? & advice to triple up on wolves, the buy Podence bandwagon etc
2) And now after one clean sheet in 10 games I am hearing the experts saying everybody should BUY TWO LIVERPOOL DEFENDERS for combined £14.5 million. Despite the emergence of James, Dallas, Mitchell, Tariq, Castagne, Ayling, Gomez etc etc all offering brilliant alternatives.
3) All I would say is have a good think first here are some of my observations.
Regardless of the handball farce we are going to be getting about 20% more penalties than 2019 (25% if handball rules stay) ergo 20-25% less clean sheets due to a more aggressive implementation of VAR
4) Added to that we will see any increase of 20%-25% in attacking returns given to a select few players BASICALLY the penalty takers and those that assist them (such as Lamptey/Barnes etc). This is my first point I would make before considering to go BIG AT THE BACK.
5) Across 2 & a bit seasons Robbo averages a TOTAL of 1 att return per 3.5 games (TOTAL 42 att points 2019). Last season Danny Ings averaged 2 ATT returns every 3 games (TOTAL 94 att points 2019) for 1M less! AND allows you to play a budget 4.5/5 def such as Lamptey/Dallas/James
6) whilst you'll never find similar value if you choose Robbo/Trent and one similarly priced mids/attackers, think Dale Stephens and Kung Fu Bissouma, or 4.5 Davis at Villa they are good for third place on your bench only.
7) This year 7m Calvert Lewin will be on course for 100 points in attacking returns alone compared to last year's 42 Attacking points for Robertson
Even Barnes at Leicester made 60 attacking points in 2019
Traore at 5.5m in between 3 dislocated shoulders made 50 attacking points.
8) Since empty grounds Liverpool have kept 1 clean sheet in 10 League games (against 10 men)
If Liverpools current trend of continues Robbo & TAA will collect another 3 clean sheets this season, and that's not even considering the extra penaltys situation hampering them further
9) Mane has been on fire and Liverpool play through him alot especially since teams have targeted Trent (except Arsenal!). If you already have Salah but don't want to switch but want to play Mane + Salah as I did often on my way to OR22 last year with TAA & Robbo you simply can't
10) Big vs small at the back.
Inc keepers BIG costs £39 MILLION (half your budget almost!!) small costs £31.5 million
Look at it this way the difference in that 7.5 million is Zaha to Sadio Mane AND Jimenez to Sergio Aguero
Or this way
Foden to KDB AND Chris Woods to Richarlison
11) Finally Wolves Leicester Brighton Chelsea Tottenham Arsenal Leeds are all beginning to emulate Liverpool by playing extremely attacking full backs or changing to wingbacks.
Lamptey, Dallas, Justin, Ayling, James, AMN Semedo, Castagne all come in at 2 million less then Trent
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