So the first thing in any fantasy football manager’s in-tray this week is what to do with your Aston Villa and Newcastle assets and, when I looked on Wednesday morning, that was quite a lot of you….It’s quite conceivable you’ve got Emi Martinez, Jack Grealish and one of Ollie Watkins or Callum Wilson in your squad because of an enticing set of fixtures for both clubs before the Christmas schedule.We’ll have to wait and see what the Covid-19 situation means for Newcastle’s next game at home to West Brom, but Aston Villa will be back in action away to Wolves in gameweek 12 so, depending on the make-up of your squad, you might just be able to leave a Villa player or two on the bench this week without it having to affect your transfer plans or forcing you to use the free hit chip. Try and keep the chips for when you really need them if you can. Personally, I’ve decided to sell Martinez, partly because Villa’s number two Jed Steer is my back-up, which would then see me without a keeper for gameweek 11, and partly because Villa have conceded 11 goals in their past five games, with Martinez only saving four of the past 12 shots on target he has faced. I didn’t quite have the budget to stretch to Edouard Mendy, who’s gone up to £5.2m this week, or Lukasz Fabianski at £5.1m, so I have plumped for Southampton’s Alex M… Click below to read the full story from BBC Sport
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