We have ten months:
(The weeks with just the one date will obviously have a spread of dates once the televised fixtures are assigned to Friday/Sunday/Monday slots, etc.)
GAMEMONTH ONE: AUGUST
GW1: 5 AUG - 7 AUG
GW2: 13 AUG
GW3: 20 AUG
GW4: 27 AUG
GW5: 30 AUG - 31 AUG
GAMEMONTH TWO: SEPTEMBER
GW6: SEPT 3
GW7: SEPT 10
GW8: SEPT 17
GAMEMONTH THREE: OCTOBER
GW9: OCT 1 (Saturday - so a Friday game would move this to the month of SEPTEMBER)
GW10: OCT 8
GW11: OCT 15
GW12: OCT 18 - OCT 19
GW13: OCT 22
GW14: OCT 29
GAMEMONTH FOUR: NOVEMBER
GW15: NOV 5
GW16: NOV 12
GAMEMONTH FIVE: DECEMBER
GW17: DEC 26
GW18: DEC 31
GAMEMONTH SIX: JANUARY
GW19: JAN 2 ( - is a Monday)
GW20: JAN 14
GW21: JAN 21
GAMEMONTH SEVEN: FEBRUARY
GW22: FEB 4
GW23: FEB 11
GW24: FEB 18
GW25: FEB 25
GAMEMONTH EIGHT: MARCH
GW26: MAR 4
GW27: MAR 11
GW28: MAR 18
GAMEMONTH NINE: APRIL
GW29: APR 1 (Saturday, so a Friday game would move this one to MARCH)
GW30: APR 8
GW31: APR 15
GW32: APR 22
GW33: APR 25
GW34: APR 29
GAMEWEEK TEN: MAY
GW35: MAY 6
GW36: MAY 13
GW37: MAY 20
GW38: MAY 28
Initial Thoughts
The first half of the season doesn't look too bad for me. I'm not so keen on the second half however. It's going to be a struggle to negotiate chips and blank gameweeks when you see it on paper like this.
I think I'll most definitely be Bench Boosting in GW1 - I mean Gamemonth One. It'll simplify things straight off the bat. Especially when I'm going to have to pick a playing squad that'll last me to at least GW6.
Looking at the specific fixtures teams have I think I'll most definitely have to have Salah. I was hoping that maybe I could avoid having him to save cash, but that doesn't look an option at first glance. The City fixtures look decent too. As with Salah I was hoping it would be possible to avoid the rush and clamour for Haaland as well, but it's not looking good.
Son has very decent fixtures on top of this, so given I have to have 15 playing players in my squad I think my first eleven will suffer heavily in comparison to what other people have. Still though, it's hard to really judge until the game updates and we get to play around with what's available.
Whichever week I choose to make changes in Gamemonth September I'm guessing I'll be using the first wildcard. This is assuming there aren't any major changes to chips, etc when the game does update of course. Perhaps there'll be some surprises.
