BBC Sport's Fantasy Premier League expert FPL Heisenberg gives his answers to some of the biggest dilemmas facing managers heading into gameweek 10. Despite performing so well in recent weeks - helping Arsenal to three clean sheets in three Premier League games - for me defender Ezri Konsa (£4.8m) is not a buy this week. After the midweek Champions League game, Mikel Arteta mentioned him having some knee problems, which led to his early substitution.
William Saliba is now fit and was even in the squad, so anyone bringing Konsa in now is looking at a sell as early as gameweek 11. However, for owners he is not an automatic sell either. There is still a chance he starts Hull at home.
I am hoping he either starts or he isn't in the squad. As an owner I am hoping he is fit enough to start, and then in gameweek 11 or 12 I will look to move him on to a defender with strong defensive-contribution potential - someone like Brighton's Luka Vuskovic (£5.2m), Liverpool's Jeremy Jacquet (£5.1m) or Leeds' Tarik Muharemovic (£5.1m). We are in a period of the game where defenders look very strong - they offer goal threat, defensive contributions and play for sides with real defensive strength.
The days of starting five midfielders feel in the past for now. The meta is closer to four defenders, three or four midfielders, and two or three strikers. Things can shift quickly in FPL, but that is the landscape right now.
If you have midfielders you are not happy with, the answer may not always be to sell them. It can be to bench them some weeks and only play them in the better fixtures. In isolation, Nottingham Forest's Morgan Gibbs-White (£7.8m) is still a reasonable pick.
He is on penalties, he is the talisman for Forest even when the goals have been scarce, and he plays 90 minutes. Bryan Mbeumo (£7.9m) is involved in a lot of chances and goals for a Manchester United side that is struggling. He was unlucky not to return against Chelsea.
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