For any Fantasy Premier League managers that had been about to proper the season off given their early struggles, your luck may very well be about to vary!
FPL have confirmed a brand new chip might be accessible to gamers in 2025 – and relaxation assured some assistance is on the way in which should you had been nearly to delete the app for good.
There are three “chips” at the moment accessible to anybody who performs the sport, which embrace a free hit of limitless transfers that resets after one week, a wildcard to utterly revamp your squad for the longer term and a bench increase which permits the factors from gamers not within the beginning 11 to depend in the direction of the weekly complete.
Now, in case your season actually has been THAT dangerous, you might have doubtless used all of them by now in a determined try to interrupt the 50-point barrier for the primary time, however you may take some consolation from the very fact assist from the specialists is on the way in which.
It was confirmed previous to the 2024/25 season starting {that a} “mystery chip” can be launched midway via the season and the main points of this addition have now been confirmed.
Gamers will now be given an assistant supervisor, which permits them to choose one of many 20 managers within the Premier League to assist them earn factors.
A press release launched by Fantasy Premier League confirmed the total particulars of the brand new facet to the sport, which learn:
“The chip will be available from Gameweek 24 in January and can be played at any point thereafter in 2024/25.
“If you activate the chip and select your Assistant Supervisor, you’ll rating factors for his or her membership’s outcomes for 3 Gameweeks in a row.
“Once the chip is activated, choosing your Assistant Manager does not cost a “free switch”. However if you wish to change your supervisor throughout this three-Gameweek interval it would price a switch in precisely the identical manner as gamers.
“Remember, you can only play one chip in a Gameweek. So if you activate the Assistant Manager chip in Gameweek 24, you won’t be able to use another chip until Gameweek 27.
“If a supervisor leaves their membership, Fantasy managers who personal or usher in that Assistant Supervisor will nonetheless rating based mostly on the unique membership’s efficiency.”