The last time i was invited to the telegraph game by someone i didnt know they used a similar, if harder sales pitch. They turned out to be abysmal and i won their 160 team league by over 100 points.

If you are looking to sell it, it's most effective to tell everyone how good you are and how shit everyone else is in a vague way lol. Nothing gets to a competitive fantasy players ego like that. Unless ur FISO affiliated, then its much easier to accept ur likely much better and they are much shitter if they had any humility and sense. There are elite fantasy players then there are ELITE.

In all seriousness though for the first season in 5 im not bothering with the telegraph. The game is broken with people entering 100s of teams each. Its near impossible to win the whole thing if the top guys have block defences covering each premier league team 30 times over. The top 100 tends to be farcical, its just the same names over and over. Its like fighting the bots for IPO's, the mathematical chances of you winning is super low to 0.

I love the game and its been hella profitable for me over the last few years, but until they fix that issue sorry bud, im out.

@Black-wolf there are 4 players there. if you play a 433 then you need at least 6 in the squad. i cant speak for brewsters versatility even though i have him on FI. But Greenwood can play all across the front 3 and hes very 2 footed. CHO can also play in 2 positions too and has already been called up and started for england without hardly playing a game for Chelsea.

One thing is for sure tho, the offensive young talent coming through in england is absolutely filthy, we are the envy of most nations in that respect atm. The competition for places is incredible which will drive them on to improve even further at international level. And it will keep sterling and kane on their toes.

People keep talking like find another player X and another player Y. We havnt produced a batch of young attacking players like this at once in my lifetime. Most if not all of europes top teams would happily take CHO, foden. greenwood, brewster, sancho and rashford if they could imo. The fact bayern wanted CHO to replace one of the best wingers of a generation having hardly played a game for chelsea says everything.

I have only 3 doubts over him.

Injury

Lukaku staying.

Reservations that ole uses him and martial in the same front 3. He seems to want us to press sides like liverpool did a couple of years back. I dont think that comes naturally to greenwood or martial like it does lingard, rashford, Sanchez and james.

@MickTurbo As a united fan iv been excited about this kid since january. You watch him play once and you just know if he can stay injury free hes going to be a very very good player. He made skriniar look amateurish earlier. https://www.balls.ie/football/mason-greenwood-414413

There is a gaping hole on the right of that united team and the manager clearly wants his wide players to be inverted so the full backs can go on the outside. he is the only one of our forwards who can use his left peg ( apart from chong who hes miles ahead of despite being nearly 3 years younger and mata who has no place in the front 3), if hes fit hes getting at least 25-30 starts this year. If he plays 25-30 games anything is possible, every time he plays he looks a real threat.

@MickTurbo Imagine if he hits a brace vs the Norwegian side? Then brewster bags one off the bench vs norwich. Its not beyond the realms of possibility he could have overtaken Sancho as the highest value english player by the time that chelsea game comes about on sunday.

Hes made 1 first team start, its totally bonkers. Somebody asked on slack earlier if it would be a shock if greenwood was the first player to hit £10. I thought it was standard it would be pogba or neymar. If greenwood starts the season well though and things align after todays rise i dont think it would be a shock at all.

loving this as a greenwood holder but 44p in 24 hours looks a bit much surely? could he be £5 before the season starts? united have a norwegian minnow in their final pre season game. If he bags a couple there and starts and bags vs chelsea whats his price then? I love the guy, i think there is potentially excellent player in there but that price is extremely high for such an unproven, if spectacular talent. Hes now 40p more expensive than rashford, hows that work?

One thing is for sure, Brewster and Greenwood are like the tethered in jordan peels film US atm. Whenever one bags and rises you can be pretty sure within the next couple of hours the other will rise too regardless of whether they have played or not.

Edit: he is still rising like crazy. Its like the IPO's all over again.

@Webbinho snap £25ish down on around £10,700k

Most sides, especially ones with small squads like wolves tend to go backwards if they have a europa campaign. i see them finishing in 9th or 10th behind leicester, everton and possibly west ham.

@Jonah haha because @JoshAF91 asked for pb players, i have a few non pb lumps of turd in my port too who i fancy to gain traction. Havnt a clue whos gonna rise the most so went with all of them. The people i feel will rise well before the new season i dont consider pb players even if their underlying averages are good (bernardo, robertson (lumps of turd)).

Sorry this is a shameless pump of my pb port.

£0.69 : Lukas Klostermann
£1.22 : Miralem Pjanić
£1.51 : Jonathan Tah
£1.73 : Aymeric Laporte
£0.85 : Marco Verratti
£1.52 : Toni Kroos
£0.82 : Marcel Halstenberg
£1.79 : Julian Brandt
£0.85 : Jordi Alba
£0.92 : Milan Skriniar
£1.43 : Marquinhos
£2.50 : Kevin De Bruyne
£2.21 : Thiago Alcántara
£2.98 : Trent Alexander-Arnold
£2.54 : Sadio Mane
£5.85 : Kylian Mbappé
£2.86 : James Maddison
£4.90 : Mohamed Salah
£1.42 : Roberto Firmino
£1.46 : Sergio Aguero
£4.94 : Raheem Sterling
£1.77 : Houssem Aouar
£0.52 : Gerard Piqué
£4.70 : Harry Kane
£2.74 : Joshua Kimmich
£2.98 : Virgil van Dijk
£4.81 : Lionel Messi
£0.94 : Maxime Lopez