Which FPL players are on international duty ahead of Gameweek 9?

Jota is my worst pick, owned him for 6 weeks, averaged 2.5ppm or something and rinsed 0.4 from my budget. Don't regret it though.

De Gea - for multiple reasons - mainly picked him at the start because I had a spare £1m to spend on keepers and thought United's fixtures were good enough to get at least 3/4 CS from the first few games (kept him on GW5-6 wildcard for this reason too). And he's tying up budget that would be far better used elsewhere.

Still stinking up the gaff in my side but he's toast very soon.

Honourable mentions for PVA, Sanchez & Eriksen.

Zaha because I haven't had an opportunity to sell him. Stuck with him for at least 1 more week

Smalling. Brought in Mendy in gwk5 wildcard squad only for him to disappear for a few weeks. Punted on Smalling who picked up 4pts vs Wolves (h), Hammers (a), Newcastle (h). FOH Chris. Donkey.

mendy, brought in for -4pts few weeks back, 0.2 down and no points yet...

Pedro, Walcott ... both stopped scoring after i bought them

DDG - same reason as FPLGraham above

Mkhitaryan, worst pick...had him for 4 GW's for a total of 4 points.

Regret taking a punt on Sanchez instead of Hazard from start of the season...sold him after 3 GW, brought in Hazard 2 weeks after that.

Lowton, Sanchez, Coleman for me...

Walcott in for Richarlison instead of Maddison. Has cost me points and £. Also Luiz instead of Robbo at start of season.Thought Chelsea would be more solid at the back...

Lucas Moura.
Transferred him out after GW1..

Jota. But I shipped him after one week. My GW 1 team was a horrendous mess this year. Contributed to my early wildcard.

I had: Jota, Tosun, Gunnarsson, Peltier, Cairney, Bailly in at the start. *shudders*

Although I let myself off the hook a bit, because I didn't know whether I cared enough to play for real this season, but then my mates and work league pulled me in and now I'm here more than ever.

I think my goalkeepers have probably been my worst picks and my biggest regret is not just getting Patricio and Hennessey on my wildcard because I didn’t want to double up on those defences, that has cost me a LOT of points!

Not giving Aguero the captaincy in GW2 or getting Hazard on my GW5 wildcard stung pretty badly too!

Lukaku. Got him in after his 3 braces in a row for club and country. Got me 12 points last 4 game weeks. Gone now thank god

Start of the season - milivojevic. Recently - holebass

Got (K)aned - Aguero to Kane, I would have C'd Hazard, so missed more than 20 points.

Fabianski Foster GK due from the start has not really delivered as I benched Fabianski when he got 11pts against Chelsea

Just a couple - like you, I had Cedric at the start of the season when it was 50/50 between him and Holebas. I can't say I considered Jonny or Doherty then.

More recently, at the last international break I bought Pereyra when I really wanted Fraser, but was put off by the fact that Fraser apparently hadn't shaken off his knock by the time the press conferences came. Fraser outscored Pereyra 27-8 while the latter was in my team.

Bringing Kane (C) in last week due to fear of missing out. Pre-planned transfer was Bernardo Silva to Hazard (C). Bottled it and it cost me 27 points. A harsh lesson.

Worst pick was Townsend. Was sure he would do well!
Biggest regret is Mitrovic and Boly. I identified both in preseason as really good assets, but did get any of them in from the start.

No majorly bad picks, although had a lot of blanks from Bernardo Silva until his haul in GW6.

Had Pereira for one week, but quickly swapped for Alonso so no real damage.

Cairney was pretty poor, but sat on the bench anyway.

Biggest regret is probably keeping Mane and Salah and only getting Hazard in last week. Should have swapped Mane to Hazard much sooner.

Got demerai gray in to enable hazard a while ago but he's done nothing should got somebody else

Picking Moura over Richarlison for GW1 and 2 (in which Rich scored 3), then making the switch to Richarlison for GW3 (red card and Moura brace).

Not bringing in Hazard and Doherty the week Haz scored three. Had planned to do it all that week but when crunch time came i decided to hold as it meant losing Salah. That cost a load of points 🙁

my worst pick is chilwell. i should have known with morgan playing theres no chance leicester would keep a cs

Bringing in Ben Mee over Doherty to target the Cardiff and Huddersfield fixtures! 1 point v Cardiff and 2 v Hud!

Biggest regret was taking some notice of that Guardian article and not captaining Kun vs Hudds.

Worst pick was easily De Gea

Getting Pedro on my GW 5 wildcard.
Lost 0.3M value on him because I stuck with him through his injury as I had other problems to sort out, and because I was convinced that Sarri preferred him to Willian.
Not only that but I decided to start him instead of Wilson this week since the fixture looked much easier on paper.
The annoying thing is that I could have got Maddison instead of Pedro back then, when they were near the same price.

I'm probably going to take my first hit of the season by next GW to get rid of Pedro for bench fodder so I can upgrade AWB to Robertson. Enough is enough. 🙂

I bought Holebas in place of Tomkins in GW 5 and had Mahrez at the start. Rest all were excellent.

Seamus Coleman managed to define my season. I received all 5 of his points in the first 4 gameweeks, before his injury helped force my early wildcard.

Cedric (4.4) over Doherty (4.4) on GW5 wildcard as I didn't want to double up on Wolves defence. Cost me a lot of points.

Captained Auba from GW1. Sold him last week for Lacazette and put the armband on Hazard instead.

Worst Pick: Starting the season for 3 weeks with Aubemayang over Aguero. 6 points instead of 24, and thats not even taking Captaincy into account. Also was a negative swing of 0.3 in TV between the 2 before I got Aguero in.

Biggest regret: Being a week late getting Hazard in and also missing his 20 pointer.

2 decisions which have cost me 40-80 points. Which is a shame as I feel my management of the rest of my squad has been pretty good. Its a cruel game sometimes!

My biggest regret was having Mendy and Robertson all pre season and then dumping them both the Thursday before the GW1 deadline.

My worst pick was Auba from the start who I dumped GW5.

Worst:
1) Mahrez GW1
Honorary Mention: Will Hughes, because he never came off my bench for the 5GWs I owned him, so I wasted money on him.

Biggest regrets are:
1) Captaining Alonso (2) instead of Hazard (20) in GW5
2) Selling Lacazette for Aguero in GW3
3) Benching Mendy (15) and AWB (12) in GW1

Mikhy

Biggest regret - putting Fraser second on the bench behind Jorginho in GW5 because of reports that his injury was more serious than it turned out, thus missing out on his 18 point haul. If I hadn't done that I would still be in the top thousand.

Worst pick - Holebas, who scored zero for me when I started him in GW5 ahead of AWB, whose 9 points remained on my bench.

In the opening team it was Sanchez (who became Richarlison in GW 3) Cairney and Aubameyang although at least he has left my team on a high in GW 8 with his 15 points cameo.

GW 7 I had the option between Knockaert and Gudmundsson and went for the former thinking long term even though I was going to play my wildcard in the international break. The difference between the two is about 16 points for the two GWs. Add that to not owning Aguero for his hattrick and not acting on the option to bring in Hazard before bournemouth. Totals to about 80 points which would have me near 50k rather than 1mn.

Not making the salah > hazard move has killed me. A gamble I shouldn't have taken. I've now done that move on WC

Pickford to start with was a horrific pick.

Aubameyang! The week I sell he goes and has a 15 pointer! 🙁

My worst pick has been Mkhitaryan, whom I brought in for 2 cameos the following weeks.

My biggest regret is to not get Hazard in.

Keeper: DDG instead of...well, most teams.
Defenders: Definitely went for the wrong 4.5m options. Lost 0.2m on Kiko Femina, had Tomkins who did heehaw for me, and totally missed Wolves’ options.

Steve Cook. I wildcarded him into my squad in GW3 after he scored 6 and 14 points. His scores since have been 1, 1, 1, 0, 2, 6. I have played him in GWs 3-6 when he has posted his four lowest figures.

My entire midfield except for salah. Started season with KBD, Mahrez, Eriksen. Unlucky but plenty of game weeks to go !

Worst pick: Selecting the Everton GK's at the start of the season
Biggest regret: Dropping Fraser on my WC for Gray because of his false flag just before the 18 point GW

Walcott in when Rich got suspended. Didn't deliver much, and I'm stuck with him. Didn't wanted to take a hit to get Maddison or rich back. Now I can't get those.

DDG - what a waste of £.

But last GW I benched 27points through Fraser, Bennett & Wilson.

Little did I know Augero has never scored agaisnt Liverpool at home and laid faith in Salah finding something and AWB keeping out the tremendous Wolves.

Worst Picks - Is started the season with GroB/KDB over Mane/Richarlson. I learnt my lesson and swapped the two of them to Hazard/Maddison by GW2. I seem to have nailed every transfer so far.

Biggest regret - Not going with Aguero as captain when he hauled.

Honestly dont feel like I've made to many mistakes this season. Could be moaning about selecting VVD over Rob, but thats just being on the wrong end of a difficult selection. My worst pick has to be Mkhi. He was just ticking to many boxes at that pricepoint, but ultimately commited the sin of picking a player with low assurances of starting.

Van dijk instead of Robertson .

Mahrez without a shadow of a doubt. I've whinged about him on here recently but I had him from GW1 - GW4 for a total of 5 points and a 0.3 value loss. Finally shipped him for Pedro before his 12 point haul. Pedro promptly got himself injured.

Worst pick - probably Mkhi
Biggest regret - that’s easy, taking the captaincy off Aguero 2 minutes before the deadline due to “Click Bait” Jackson’s tweet

Worst pick is Stephens as 5th mid, multiple 1 points hauls and now injured, luckily haven't needed 5th mid more than once yet. Biggest regret was removing Fraser for Neves when he was "injured" and not only played but hauled a massive 18 points

Worst pick: Townsend for GW1. Thankfully, able to trade up to Hazard for GW4.
Biggest regret: My ongoing inability to name the best bench and captain. I realize the amount of randomness and luck involved, but thru 8 GW's I've lost 62 points due to naming the wrong players to my bench and 40 points due to naming the wrong captain. If I could have cut those figures even in half, I could have improved my OR by 9K.

Damarai Gray didn't go well bit prioritising Alonso over Hazard in gameweek 5 was a nightmare. Missed out on 30 points and several price rises and haven't gained any extra points from having Alonso over David Luiz.

Did captain hazard last week so it's not all bad I guess.

Worst pick maybe foster.. been really happy with my team gw1 my team had a combined score of 133 points.. 34 of those on the bench!

Getting in Kane last week didn't work out but since aguero scored same points not a huge issue.

Worst transfer: Alonso in GW5

Biggest regret: Still no Hazard (thankfully great differential picks have kept me at 170k though)

Bavies from the start wasn't great, thought I was getting one over all Trippier pickers. Very bad decision in hindsight and lost 0.2. Not starting with rich/maddison and going for Mili instead. Luckily got rid before he dropped.

Couple of hours before the GW1 deadline. Pep announces KDB is fit. I decided to sell Mane for KDB who didn't play GW1 and became injured for GW2. If I had held tight, I would have been top 5k after a few weeks and would have been able to jump on the likes of Alonso much quicker than I did.

Worst pick:

Cairney as 5th mid. Totally against my normal template of a 4.5m 5th mid (unless 352). That half mil would have come in very handy

Biggest regret:

Never capping Hazard, even though I sold Mane to get Haz early in GW4. I had the confidence to get him early, but bottled the captaincy each time.

Tough one. Really regret not wildcarding early. Apart from that been pretty safe. Maybe Bednarek (still have him)

Alexis had him from gameweek 1-4 also captained him gameweek 1 and lost 0.2 mill on him

50/50 between De Gea and Ederson. Ended up with De Gea (still have him).
50/50 between Dunk and Duffy, ended up with Dunk (still have him).
50/50 between Zaha and Arnautovic, ended up with Zaha (still have him).

I did however go with Mendy and not Bailly, because i went with De Gea. That 50/50 decision might not have been that different.

However i'm really hesistant on selling De Gea because i was in a very similar situation a couple of years ago. I started with Courtois the first 10 gameweeks and he gave me only one or two clean sheets. I transferred him out for Cech (who had a lot of clean sheets up until GW10). From that moment on, Courtois went on a row of 5+ clean sheets. Cech conceded in every match.

Lindelof has been my worst pick without a doubt. I even benched him when he got his one and only clean sheet. Glad I got rid before the own goal though 😆

Worst pick, Auba. Since he took most of the budget and restricted me to invest in midfield
Biggest Regret, Not captaining Aguero for GW2 because of the rumors of him not starting

Going for Aubameyang as my big hitting forward over Aguero at start of the season. Corrected after a few weeks but missed the Aguero hattrick.

So many of these responses fall into the "what you didn't do" category. It's easy to point out the players you should have bought after they have scored loads.

If you SOLD a player who went on to haul, that's a different matter

KdB