Good day. That’s right, today is our first edition of the Free Transfer FPL Edition, helping you use those Free Transfers wisely.

FPL GW3 🦁 

🎯 Best fixtures to target

🤕 Player availability updates

📈 Potential price changes (and recent ones)

🔄 Transfers market news that could affect the FPL

🔢 “Wildcard” team for GW3

FPL GW3 🦁 

Welcome to the first FPL Edition of the Free Transfer. We will be bringing this to you every Thursday in preparation for the matches ahead, to mix in with the daily newsletters.

We’ll leave a quick poll at the end for you to tell us if you liked it. 👍️👎️ 

🎯 Best fixtures to target

Best offensive fixtures ⏩️ 

Manchester City away to Sheffield United

• No need for explanation here— could be our annual 9-0 PL match

Arsenal at home against Fulham

• Arsenal love to score at home (second most home goals last season behind Man City)

• Willian a doubt, Mitrovic sold to Saudi Arabia, Tim Ream ©️ suspended (Bassey will replace), Palhinha will be in the matchday squad “at least”

• Not as easy as City’s fixture, but a great one nonetheless

Tottenham away to Bournemouth

• Spurs look like a team looking to embody this motto form Unai Emery

• And as long as you only own Spurs attackers & midfielders, that’s music to your ears 🎶 

• Bournemouth’s defense hasn’t looked very secure through the first two games of the season…

Brighton at home against West Ham

• If you needed more convincing, West Ham haven’t looked like a team serious about keeping a clean sheet through the first two GWs

Best defensive fixtures ⏪️ 

Manchester City away to Sheffield United

• Refer to the previous section ^

Arsenal at home against Fulham

• With Gabriel & Saliba back to full health, along with the addition of Declan Rice to the team, Arsenal look like one of the best defensive sides in the league thus far.

• Without Mitrovic (sold) & potentially Willian (injured), Fulham look fairly toothless in attack.

The best of the rest

Brentford at home against Crystal Palace

• Brentford aren’t known to concede many goals (especially at home) with their defensive setup.

• Palace have had a hard time scoring many (only goal of the season came against Sheffield).

  • Verdict: Brentford have another easy fixture next week (Bournemouth at home), so it could be a good time to invest

Manchester United at home against Nottingham Forest

• We wouldn’t have mentioned this one except for the fact that Mount is injured, so there is a chance McTominay starts in a double pivot with Casemiro. That would bring much more sturdiness to their defense.

• Forest have scored 1 goal vs. Arsenal away & 2 at home vs. Sheffield. If Eriksen starts in midfield for Mount, expect a Forest goal.

  • Verdict: Choose United defenders at your own risk!

Everton at home against Wolves

1. Wolves’ toothlessness in attack

2. Sean Dyche’s formation that includes 7 defense-minded players + Pickford, at home

   • Verdict: It’s really not much deeper than these 2 points— your gamble to make

🤕 Player availability updates

We’re only going to cover players who could be relevant to FPL. Not your benchwarmers for Sheffield or Luton.

Players out ❌ 

• Tomiyasu (1 game suspension)

• Curtis Jones (ankle, out this weekend)

• Enciso (knee injury, unknown return date)

• Stones (hamstring, out until international break)

• Calvert-Lewin (facial injury, out this weekend)

• Chukwuemeka (knee, unknown return date)

• Chalobah (hamstring, unknown return date)

• Lavia (not match fit, out this weekend)

• Mudryk (knock, out this weekend)

• Jack Harrison (not match fit, out this weekend)

• Iwobi (hamstring, out until international break)

• Mount (knee, out for a few weeks)

• Reece James (hamstring, out for a few weeks)

• Aguerd (suspended 1 match)

• Alex Moreno (hamstring, likely back next week)

Coin flips 🪙 

• Hojlund (back, unlikely to make matchday squad this week)

• Gabriel Jesus (knee, unlikely to feature this week)

• Maddison (knock, unconfirmed if he will/won’t feature)

• Joelinton (knock, should be in the 18-man squad this week)

• Bernardo (illness, should be in the 18-man squad this week)

• Baldock (calf, may be in the 18-man squad)

Players back available ✅