He does look good so far this season, but in the interest of balance:

• He's got GWG in 2/4 league games this season, which obviously boosts his score nicely
• Sevilla haven't had the toughest of starts so will be interesting to see what he posts against Real Madrid in a few days, though judging from their start he shouldn't struggle!
• Tonight he did score 178 without scoring or assisting or finishing the game. However, they were playing a (Qara)bag of shite team. 2 of his team mates in MF significantly outscored him. They played longer and 1 scored and the other assisted I know, but I think that shows how dominant as a team they were.

Summary: I'm not quite ready to get too carried away, but he's on my list. This game against RM will be a big deciding factor for me.

@Dan-The-Man said in [Erling Braut Haland.]
‘ Kondogbia played for France, now he plays for Africa’

Are you free to join my pub quiz team on a Wednesday evening? Our geography guy can’t make it anymore and you’ve got the detailed knowledge we’ve been looking for.

I read on another thread that he's just come back from injury. If that is the case I would be patient, everyone on here seems to like him.

Giovanni di Lorenzo - 54p - Napoli RB - 1 goal and 1 assist already this season. Plenty of winnable games in the next month if IPD is your game. Good for the season if not

@FairlyNewUser

I still don't understand why him being the USA poster boy has any relevance to the English media. If anything, his being American is a negative because as a nation we still have a condescending attitude towards US football. He'll rocket if he plays well, but that's true of any big signing to one of the top 6.

Has anybody seen anyone actually buying him? Or is this just people delisting?

I'm going to get 20 x a 50p player and do my own "£10 - £1,000,000 by Christmas" challenge. I'm purposefully not stating which Christmas. There's a few interesting names down there: Kenedy; Jordan Ayew; Choupo-Moting; Moutinho; Ronaldo Vieira. Spoilt for choice!

@Wotabeast

Yes that's what I'm saying. They can't afford for all the MB money to disappear but they must be rubbing their hands together with all the commission from IPDs. Personally I think it will be tough to maintain both sides of the coin, short term IPD flipping and MB hoarding, but if I had to predict it I would say that the lure of more IPD short term money will win out.

@Stevo

I don't think anyone in this thread is moaning. I'm certainly not. We're discussing where we think FI is at the moment. You've just come in and added nothing to a conversation.

IPD flipping vs long term MB holding is the key battleground at the moment and represents an important decision for FI. They are currently making a mint off IPD flipping while nobody is flipping MB stalwarts so they are naturally favouring IPDs (introducing them for Euro quals for example). However, there is so much money tied up in MB players by big investors. If FI continue to favour IPDs without increasing MB divs will these guys and gals move their money from MB players to play the IPD market? I don't think they will, so they'll just take the money out and leave the platform. FI surely don't want this either so they have to find a balance.