Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Our FPL expert offers up some draft teams to guide you through your final decisions ahead of the new season.

Five more days - at the time of writing, that's all we have left before the start of another Fantasy Premier League season.

Just five more days to figure out whether we want Erling Haaland, whether Dominic Solanke will start straight away for Spurs, and to answer a hundred other tiny questions that will determine whether our FPL seasons are successes or failures.

As 3 Added Minutes' resident FPL expert (fresh off last season's Top 2,000 finish), I've already written a string of pieces which guide players through the process of building a team, suggest some possible bargain buys and identify a few traps, and even looked at what lessons we've learned from pre-season, but now it's time to practice what I've preached and build some actual teams.

Today, I'm going to offer up five templates that I've been working on to give you some inspiration ahead of Friday's deadline.

They aren't intended to be final teams but starting points to work with, so you can compare different basic builds with and without players like Mohamed Salah and the aforementioned Norwegian death robot.

You'll notice a lot of the same players across these drafts.

That's partly a reflection of the players I'm leaning towards but more about having placeholders so you can see how PS4.

5m defenders fit into things, for instance.

Should you decide you'd rather have Mark Flekken than Jordan Pickford, you can just add half a million to a different position.

It's all extremely modular by nature, but hopefully these give you some blueprints to work with.

1.

Haaland and Alexander-ArnoldWhile Haaland is arguably the single biggest 'yes or no' decision that managers have to make this year, I'd say another big call is whether to splash PS7.

0m on Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold.

He's coming off an indifferent season (from an FPL perspective, at least) but has a huge ceiling and the potential to heavily outscore every other defender in the game.

Like Haaland, there will be times you feel very foolish for leaving him out if you go down that road.

Anyway, the team below packs both of the big hitters in but inevitably looks rather thin elsewhere.

My biggest gripe with this set-up is that it's impossible to upgrade Jacob Murphy or Morgan Rogers (PS5.

5m and PS5.

0m respectively) into a safe PS7.

5m midfielder without making a huge compromise elsewhere.

The absolute best possible team may well look a bit like this, but it's unlikely that I've guessed right first time.

This could be a good template for players who want to gamble on Chelsea's Christopher Nkunku, by the way - just switch Alexander Isak and Murphy for Dominic Solanke and the Frenchman.

If Nkunku does go well, that team looks very nice indeed, but it's definitely one for the gamblers.

2.

Haaland but no Alexander-ArnoldThis is a slightly more well-rounded team without Trent, but I do have some qualms about it.

If you're looking to maximise players who offer up safe points, why have a PS6.

5m midfielder (all of whom have issues) instead of the Liverpool man? But it does load up more points up top, and the balance of the team is better for a 3-4-3 which doesn't expect to play five midfielders very often.

You'll notice I've got two PS4.

0m defenders in most of my teams in the shape of Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Valentin Barco.

The latter is a bit of a gamble but will get some games, while the former will likely play every week.

I think both have just about enough upside to be rotated in for PS4.

5m players when needed, and to me that extra bit of cash to spend elsewhere is more valuable than a slightly safer defender, but you can always just downgrade Pickford if needs be.

3.

Salah and Alexander-ArnoldMoving on to some Haaland-free builds now, this team moves away from Manchester City players to bring Mohamed Salah in.

Although the Egyptian may be getting on a little bit, he's still a hugely productive player, passed 200 points last year and is playing for a team who have some good early fixtures and come into the season off the back of some promising performances in the friendlies.

My biggest issue with this is that personally, I'm fairly convinced that spending PS5.

0m on Pickford is absolutely worth it over buying a PS4.

5m, at least until West Ham and Wolves' fixtures ease off a little, and I don't like any of the compromises required to find that extra PS0.

5m in this team.

4.

Salah but no Alexander-ArnoldThis build drops the pricey Trent and brings back Pickford and Kevin de Bruyne, which should insulate us very slightly against some big Manchester City wins.

I'm pretty high on the Belgian this year - his low score last season was largely a result of injury and game for game, he was on track for 200 points.

I suspect he'll score something similar to players like Phil Foden, Bukayo Saka and Cole Palmer while being as cheap or cheaper than all of them.

I think this a well-rounded, safe team which looks good for early fixtures and the long term, but you really need to get the right PS4.

5m defenders to get good returns here.

You're leaning hard on the midfield and attack to do the job going down this road, but I think the value in spending more on defenders is generally very low save for Trent.

5.

No Haaland or SalahFinally, the radical option - dropping both of the big names entirely in order to have as much points-scoring potential as possible in every position.

Alexander-Arnold is back in and you have seven midfielders and forwards who should score regularly and heavily.

It's unlikely that a team with no Haaland or Salah is the highest-scoring configuration but this is surely a safe bet for getting plenty of points until you know who the good cheap assets are to accommodate them - so conversely, this may actually be the best team for players who don't want to gamble, especially if they're happy to go early with their wildcard.

FPLAs for which of these five teams is best? Well, there won't be a definitive answer to that for 10 months, but instinct tells me that a team with Haaland in is the best possible build, and that he will likely be the highest scoring player.

However, a team with the Manchester City man in it requires some very good early guesswork on who the top-scoring cheap assets will be, and it may well be safer in the long run to go without and have more premium players in different positions.

Then again, he's going to score five against Ipswich Town in week two, isn't he?.