Captaincy options for Gameweek 12: Bruno Fernandes and Mohamed Salah lead nominees

IT'S erstwhile again clip for Dream Team managers to prime their skipper (and vice captain) for the Gameweek ahead.

Gameweek 12 is acceptable to diagnostic a afloat circular of Premier League fixtures arsenic good arsenic the continuation of the European competitions successful midweek, meaning treble headers for Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Manchester United, Tottenham and Chelsea.

We beardown counsel gaffers to prime a skipper who is apt to play doubly - let's tally done the strongest candidates.

Dream Team bosses who person opted to treble Mohamed Salah's (£7.3m) points successful caller weeks person gained crushed connected those who person remained loyal to Erling Haaland (£8.6m).

Liverpool's main antheral has matched oregon bettered the Norwegian poacher's people for 4 consecutive Gameweeks.

And there's each accidental he'll widen that streak to 5 with Arne Slot's broadside owed to look 20th-placed Southampton this weekend.

The Reds volition past invited Real Madrid to Anfield successful midweek.

Los Blancos are the kings of the Champions League arsenic 15-time winners but they've already been beaten by Lille and Milan successful this season's contention - a travel to Merseyside comes astatine a atrocious clip for Jude Bellingham and company.

As for Haaland, he's owed to look Spurs and Feyenoord and could easy plunder plentiful points, particularly with the North Londoners missing cardinal defenders done injury.

But it's simply existent that Pep Guardiola's broadside are successful a atrocious infinitesimal having mislaid 4 games connected the spin.

Salah is seemingly the logical prime for Gameweek 12.

Elsewhere, galore gaffers volition beryllium tempted to instrumentality the armband connected Bruno Fernandes (£6.1m).

The Red Devils' skipper is some Dream Team's astir in-form subordinate close present and the astir fashionable enlistee up of Gameweek 12's deadline.

Ruben Amorim's archetypal crippled successful complaint of Man United comes distant to Ipswich, rapidly followed by a Europa League gathering with plucky Norwegian outfit Bodo/Glimt astatine Old Trafford.

All things considered, that's a favourable treble header for the erstwhile Sporting tactician and truthful there's each accidental Fernandes continues his good form.

The 30-year-old notched much points than immoderate different subordinate successful Gameweek 11 and that unsocial makes him a viable captaincy option.

Some gaffers volition beryllium tempted to skipper Cole Palmer (£6.2m) present the Chelsea talisman is expected to beryllium disposable for the Blues' travel to Leicester connected Saturday.

However, delight beryllium alert that the reigning PFA Young Player of the Year volition not diagnostic against Heidenheim connected Thursday nighttime due to the fact that helium is not portion of Chelsea's Conference League for the league phase.

In fact, Enzo Maresca tends to rotate beauteous overmuch his full starting line-up for European games.

That's not to accidental Palmer isn't susceptible of a large double-digit haul against the Foxes, he's produced respective specified performances successful the past year, but gaffers aiming to play the likelihood by targeting 2 fixtures successful Gameweek 12 volition person to look elsewhere.

Bukayo Saka (£6.6m) is usually a comparative fashionable skipper but Arsenal's No7 is an availability uncertainty astatine this stage.

Plus, high-flying Nottingham Forest and Sporting CP is simply a deceptively tricky treble header connected existent form.

Other nominees to see see Alejandro Garnacho (£4.1m), Luis Diaz (£4.6m) and Dominic Solanke (£4.3m) but it looks to beryllium betwixt Salah, Fernandes and Haaland for skipper this clip around.

Elect your skipper for Gameweek 12 earlier Saturday's 11:30am deadline.