As FPL Challenge launches today, we reveal the early challenges facing managers in the next three Gameweeks.
Gameweek 30: Unlimited Budget
The first challenge immediately gives managers the opportunity to build their dream squad, ignoring the usual restrictions of sticking to a £100.0m budget.
You can have a five-man midfield of Mohamed Salah (£13.1m), Kevin De Bruyne (£10.5m), Son Heung-min (£10.1m), Bukayo Saka (£9.1m) and James Maddison (£8.0m), with Erling Haaland (£14.3m) and Ollie Watkins (£9.0m) up front and not have to worry one bit about their prices.
Despite their blanks against Fulham in a somewhat disastrous Blank Gameweek 29 last time out, Tottenham Hotspur pair Son and Maddison are bound to be popular picks to bounce back at home to Luton Town.
Aston Villa's Watkins and Liverpool's Salah will also be key figures at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers and Brighton & Hove Albion respectively.
However, Arsenal's visit to Manchester City will have many thinking twice over bringing in Saka. Budget assets such as Chelsea's Cole Palmer (£5.7m) and Fulham's Rodrigo Muniz (£4.6m) may prove cannier options, with very favourable matches against Burnley and Sheffield United respectively.
Gameweek 31: Forward Focus
It will be a Gameweek to go big up front, with all forwards scoring DOUBLE points.
Meanwhile, if you choose one of your forwards as your captain, that player will score QUADRUPLE points, which lifts the appeal of a 3-4-3 formation in Gameweek 31.
As Haaland and Watkins go head-to-head at the Etihad Stadium, there'd be no real surprise if the latter was omitted from most managers' squads.
Darwin Nunez (£7.5m) is at home to Sheff Utd and is sure to be a popular pick. Elsewhere, Fulham's Muniz visits Nottingham Forest and Wolves' Matheus Cunha (£5.5m) can also profit against Burnley, should he have recovered from injury at that point.
Gameweek 32: Red Rivalry
This focuses on Jurgen Klopp’s final visit to Old Trafford, with all players from Liverpool and Manchester United earning DOUBLE points.
Whether you'd want 10 players from that one fixture is another matter altogether, though, with Man City, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs all boasting favourable matches.
Certainly, the Reds' front three of Salah, Nunez and Luis Diaz (£7.5m) could all deliver big returns, while Trent Alexander-Arnold (£8.5m) may be worth the outlay if he is fit.
For Man Utd, Bruno Fernandes (£8.2m), Alejandro Garnacho (£4.9m), Marcus Rashford (£8.4m) and Rasmus Hojlund (£7.0m) are the likeliest to reward investors.
